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Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's The Player, and more violent than Rollerball, this is the story of the ultimate, so-insane-it-could-only-happen-in-Hollywood formula for success, a brave new way to bring the ultimate in excitement to the silver screen. Producer Val Margolian has found the motherlode of box-office gold with his new "live-death" films whose villains are extremely sophisticated, electronically controlled mechanical monsters. To give these live-action disaster films greater realism, he employs huge casts of extras, in addition to the stars. The large number of extras is important, because very few of them will survive the shoot.
It's all perfectly legal, with training for the extras and long, detailed contracts indemnifying the film company against liability for the extras' injury or death. But why would anyone be crazy enough to risk his or her life to be an extra in such a potentially deadly situation? The extras do it because if they survive they'll be paid handsomely, and they can make even more if they destroy any of the animatronic monsters trying to stomp, chew, fry, or otherwise kill them. If they earn enough, they can move out of the Zoo--the vast slum that most of L.A. has become. They're fighting for a chance at a reasonable life. But first, they have to survive . . ."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Michael Shea (1946-2014) was the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Nifft the Lean and The Growlimb. He was also the author of the authorized sequel to Jack Vance's Dying Earth book, The Eyes of the Overworld, The Color Out of Time (a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space), and the dark Hollywood satires The Extra and Assault on Sunrise.
In addition, his wrote many short stories for major fantasy and science fiction magazines, including Nebula and Hugo award nominees."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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