Bogen er på engelsk og udkommer til vinter. Se forlagets omtale her. Her er Halskovs egen præsentation af bogen:
"I am approaching the finishing line.
I will send my book about Miloš Forman to the editors in September, and I have really worked hard on the book. Tucker DS Press is the publisher, and the book will be distributed by Simon & Schuster.
I started working on the book in 2022, and I have talked with more than 100 people connected to Miloš Forman. The book takes the form of an oral history, so you could think of it as a sprawling written 'conversation' between different actors and creatives about Forman, his films and the historical contexts that they were shaped by and came to reflect. The book is meant to feel almost cinematic, in the way that it cuts from person to person and takes the reader through a thrilling story with a clear trajectory and a number of fascinating moments and surprising digressions.
If you are interested in Forman and his films, this book will definitely be something for you. But it would also be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by inside stories from the film industry, people who want to know about The Czechoslovak New Wave and changes in the American society and culture from the 1960s through the early 2000s. You will hear about Milan Kundera, Václav Havel, Alexander Dubček and the Prague Spring, about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, about the terrorist attack in Munich during the Olympic Games, about the Chelsea Hotel as a hub for starving artists in the 1960s, about student and labor protests in Paris of 1968, about the counterculture in the US during the 1960s and early 1970s, about Larry Flynt and the many people who attacked the film about him - from Gloria Steinem to Harvey Weinstein - and you will hear about fierce competition, long-standing friendships, relentless ambition, changing circumstances and working conditions from the 1970s and onwards. And then you will hear about Andy Kaufman, Forman's love of Chaplin, Italian neorealism and sports, his gregarious personality and his surprisingly broad social network.
As mentioned, there are more than 100 voices in this book, including Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Cynthia Nixon, F. Murray Abraham, Courtney Love, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Treat Williams, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Ruben Östlund, Kathryn Bigelow, James Mangold, Abel Ferrara, Stephen Frears, Michael Stipe, Martina Navrátilová, Lily Tomlin, Edward Norton, Fran Drescher, Stellan Skarsgaard, Jeff Daniels, Twyla Tharp, Michael Hausman, Pavla Martinková-Novotná, Bill Hader, Martina Forman and many others.
I hope you will enjoy the book. I have tried to make it engaging, and you are bound to learn something new about Forman, his work and changes in film industry."