Star Vehicle (Book)

Ian Bloom wrote Star Vehicle at age 32, three days after returning to Hollywood from Zurich, Milan, Paris, London, and New York. High fashion sharpened—Rick Owens ballistic, Helmut Lang cool, and Martin Margiela final-form—Bloom returned to America—eagle-landed and drilled to the core.

Written on impulse. Self-greenlit. Before the studios could name it. Then he made the film himself.

One-man production. Dual-role performance. Painted title cards. Original end-credit song. Total authorship. Singular direction.

Star Vehicle is Bloom's debut feature film—a full-frontal monologue in motion—a minimalist cinema with maximal consequence. The dialogue is a knife fight: Glengarry Glen Ross crossed with The American Friend—hyper-aware, utterly unbothered, prophecy's gun in hand.

This is the American screenplay: commerce, culture, cinema, cosmology—collapsed into one vehicle. Brand as destiny. Myth as operating system. Hollywood as a balance sheet with a soul.

Welcome to the Canon. This is Star Vehicle.