Apocalypse on the Set Nine Disastrous Film Productions
Author(s): Taylor Benjamin
The book starts with "Pulgasari"--a North Korean "Godzilla" clone dreamed up by Kim Jong-Il and created by a kidnapped Korean director, with a budget of millions and a staff of seven hundred fed on truckloads of pheasants, wild geese, and deer. The stories behind the other eight films, from "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" to "Apocalypse Now" and "The Crow," are just as astounding and gripping--this is a book film fans will devour.
These bizarre, often hilarious cinematic endeavors confirm that truth is stranger than fiction, reality more volatile than narratives, and fate more improbable than plots.
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"Taylor details the excruciating, mind-boggling and downright insane conditions in which [these] films, both popular and obscure, were made . . . Pick this bad boy up when it hits shelves."---Cinebyte.com
General Fields
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- : Overlook Press
- : Overlook Press
- : 0.295
- : 01 February 2012
- : 229mm X 157mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Taylor Benjamin
- : Hardback
- : 212
- : 791.4301
- : 272
- : illustrations