338 pages
Published 2024

In New York and Los Angeles, everyone has a story...

and they're all collected in two exciting new books!

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ESCAPE ARTISTS VOL. 1: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK INTERVIEWS​

& ESCAPE ARTISTS VOL. 2: ESCAPE FROM L.A. INTERVIEWS
by Andreas Johansson

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From the publisher who brought you Taking Shape and The Soul of Wes Craven comes the Escape Artists duology! Join Escape From New York and Escape From L.A. historian Andreas Johansson for an unprecedented deep dive into the making of these two John Carpenter cult classics. Exhaustively researched, these volumes contain over 120 interviews with cast and crew along with more than 130 rare photographs and illustrations, many never before seen. These are the making-of stories you’ve never heard!

The two volumes feature:

• New info on the abandoned 1987 prequel script!

• Vintage articles on the making of the films!

• A previously unpublished Kurt Russell interview!

• Scoops on deleted scenes and plots, filmed and unfilmed!

• Stories on how cast/crew got along... or didn’t get along!

• Pictures and stories of celebrity set visits!

• Exhaustive background on filming locations!

• Untold special effects tricks, techniques, and secrets!

• Casting insights including alternate actor considerations!

• Harrowing stories of stunts, crashes, and explosions!

• Tales from pre-production involving props, sets, and wardrobe!

• Insights from the film’s multiple poster artists!

• The story of one writer’s wild heist effort to pen the sequel!

• Anecdotes from parties, premieres, and promo tours!