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<p>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 <i>The Extra</i> does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's <i>Blazing Saddles</i>, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's <i>The Player</i>, and more violent than <i>Rollerball</i>, 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.</p><p>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?</p><p>The extras

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Author

Shea, Michael

Publisher

Tor Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780765324351

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.16 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14