Apocalypse on the Set - Hardcover

Taylor, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715643274 ISBN 13: 9780715643273

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

With sky-high budgets and competing egos, almost any film production has the potential for disaster. But some become full-fledged nightmares. Take "Pulgasari" - a North Korean Godzilla clone dreamed up by Kim Jong II and created by a kidnapped South 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 "Waterworld and The Crow", are just as astounding and as gripping. This is a book film fans will devour. These bizarre, often hilarious cinematic endeavours confirm that truth is stranger than fiction, reality more volatile than narratives, and fate more improbable than plots.

About this title

About the Author

Ben Taylor is a contributing writer for DamnInteresting.com, a weekly online publication with 400,000 visitors a month, and contributed to their volume, Alien Hand Syndrome. Ben has also completed course work in film production and theory at the University of Southern California while also earning a degree in English Literature at Denison University. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration. As an avid film fan he has written two feature screenplays and nearly a dozen shorts. He lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715643274
• ISBN 13: 9780715643273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272