Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is set to pen a memoir.
Publishing house Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced on Monday that it has acquired the rights to the filmmaker's life story, reported Entertainment Weekly.
The currently untitled book will follow Stone's early years, from being an infantry soldier during Vietnam War to his struggles in show business to overcome the "overindulgences borne of youthful success and the battles to finance, shoot, and complete an unprecedented movie such as 'Platoon'," a press release said.
Stone won his first Academy Award at the age of 32 for writing the script of "Midnight Express", then went on to direct cult films like Al Pacino-starrer "Scarface".
He rose to prominence as director-writer of the 1986 war drama "Platoon", for which he won the Best Director Oscar and the film received Best Picture Academy Award. He received his second Best Director Academy Award for his second film on Vietnam War, "Born on the Fourth of July" in 1990.
"The last few years have afforded me time to reassess a life that was sometimes lived at warp speed. Past seventy, every memory, pleasant or not, is even more cherished," the director said in a statement.
The memoir will hit the shelves in late 2020.
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