Breakfast in Atlantis (Eckhart Screenplays Book 6)

"When a mysterious stranger returns to his home in Coney Island after many years, he unintentionally erodes the friendship of two orphaned street kids. The two boys are swept into a magical tale of good and evil, their friendship fading fast, as the stranger tries to fulfill an ancient promise." The screenplay you’re about to read was selected from thousands of scripts as a semifinalist in the most prestigious of screenwriting competitions, the Academy Nicholl Fellowships. It got me my first literary agent and helped in other ways as well. Alas, as it is with most spec scripts, it was never made. “Breakfast in Atlantis” has been on the shelf, collecting dust, for some twenty-five years. It's time for these characters to see the light of day – if not on screen, then in readers' minds.

About the Author

Daniel Martin Eckhart is the author of the novels The Champ, Barnaby Smith, Home, Tales of Wychwood and The Sweet-Maker of Connemara.Eckhart has written screenplays for more than two decades, has published several of his original screenplays in the Eckhart Screenplays series and shared his experiences about the life of a screenwriter in his book, Write, Write, Write.Before focusing on his writing career, Eckhart served in the Swiss military, guarded the Pope's life in the Vatican, worked for the United Nations, driving trucks across the Sinai Desert, delivering diplomatic mail to Damascus and driving armored limousines in Beirut. After five adventurous years in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Eckhart quit the UN to study acting in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he discovered screenwriting. He has penned several feature-length movies, worked on TV shows and has adapted novels for the small screen.Eckhart lives with his family on a 17th century farm in Switzerland.

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