The art & making of Hercules
By: introduction by Brett Ratner ; Esther Margolis, project director ; text by Linda Sunshine ; designed by Timothy Shaner
Contributors: Moore, Steve, 1949-2014
Series: A Newmarket pictorial movie book; Newmarket pictorial moviebook
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780062358356
Subjects: Excerpts; Hercules (Motion picture : 2014)
Other titles: Hercules
Description: With more than 200 photos and drawings, the official full-color illustrated companion book to Hercules, the live-action adventure tentpole film from MGM/Paramount starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, directed by Brett Ratner, based on the bestselling graphic novel... An epic film of gigantic scope and complexity, the film Hercules was shot live entirely on location in Budapest with locations, sets, kingdoms, battles, weapons, warriors, and horses replicating the world centuries ago. This spectacular book fully details the challenging behind-the-scenes creative accomplishment, with details on the sets, costumes, battle sequences, with storyboards, concept art, commentaries from the cast and crew, and extracts from graphic novel and comic book script.
Notes: Comic book panels from Hercules: the Thracian wars graphic novel by Steve Moore.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. My Hercules / by Brett Ratner; title: Prologues. The first superhero / by Evan Spiliotopoulos ; The setting & the story ; The players; title: Part 1. The characters' backstories; title: Part 2. Conquering the Bessi; title: Part 3. The Rhesus battle on Mount Asticus; title: Part 4. Attack at the citadel; title: Epilogue. The birth & death of Hercules in mythology; title: Afterword. Origins: the graphic novel; title: Hercules, the human warrior / by Steve Moore.