Guy Magar Dared to Dream About a Film Career
This “dare to dream” memoir is about living the great American dream, an immigrant’s dream to make movies in Hollywood…to be a filmmaker!
Reflecting on an exciting career as a director/writer/producer in television and films, Guy Magar’s passionate and hilarious stories about the movie industry shares “the magic that permeates the air every time I call ‘Action,’ every time I’m in a film edit room, every time I’m working with a composer on a music score.
For me, there is no more magical a career endeavor than making films.”
A True Hollywood Story
With production work spanning over 100 credits from docs to shorts to TV shows to feature films, Guy’s wild and entertaining and unique behind-the-scenes stories range from:
- his first producer turning out to be a Mafia assassin
- shooting in Egypt for the original TV series Battlestar Galactica
- directing a grunting Mr. T on the hit TV show The A-Team
- almost accidentally decapitating a young Drew Barrymore
- almost derailing James Cameron’s career (or slowing it down as he proved way too talented for anyone to alter his storied destiny.)
A True Hollywood Romance
“Kiss me quick before I shoot has been my welcoming catchphrase to my wife Jacqui whenever she visited on-set, seemingly always just before I rolled cameras. And so this book is also about a deeper magic, the magic of finding a life partner. Falling in love begins when you meet a kind heart, a kind soul, and blossoms into caring for that person more than for yourself.”
Jacqui and Guy were married in a beautifully-costumed Renaissance-themed wedding. “I got to duel in a sword fight to win her hand against stuntmen friends who kidnapped her after she arrived by horse and buggy in front of 300 surprised guests” Guy recalls. “It was my Errol Flynn life moment!”
“Now, 28 years later, I am still head-over-heels in love with Jacqui. But then, suddenly, Jacqui was diagnosed with leukemia.”
And so began a medical journey to find a clinical trial to heal Jacqui. This amazing true story of a cutting-edge stem cell transplant at City of Hope will contribute to future medical healing protocols in America.
