Celluloid Heroes is a play by David Williamson about the Australian film industry.
It was written to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nimrod Theatre and is not one of his highly regarded plays.
[1][2] Williamson later called it: A bad play which didn't create characters that were complex enough to last the distance after interval.
I think I let my personal bile about the indignities writers suffer in the film industry, and how basically shoddy it all is, spill over into the play.
I wasn't sufficiently objective and I made the characters overly evil or two-dimensional... [it] was simply social satire dipped into crude farce.