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Working on James Bond, Aliens, Batman and More
‘Tim Burton came in and commented, “Great, but how do they get in the car? There aren’t any doors!” Sadly, I hadn’t thought of that.’
*What do *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Great Muppet Caper have in common?
**Terry Ackland-Snow worked on them, that’s what.
In The Art of Film, Terry lifts the lid on his extraordinary career, from being held hostage by a wannabe film crew in Jamaica to forgetting to add doors to the Batmobile. It is an insight into a lifetime of working in the film industry, mixing the amusing anecdotes with revelations about just how the magic in these movies was created. With over 200 images, including set sketches and design plans, this is a book no film aficionado should be without!**
14th December, 2018 in Entertainment
It may have become as much a part of Christmas as the turkey and the tree, but It’s a Wonderful Life was deemed ‘not a good film’ when it first came out in 1947, while Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Vertigo was dismissed as ‘not an important film or even major Hitchcock’ in 1958 – o…
4th May, 2018 in Entertainment
In the month Watching Skies finally lands its mothership in a Californian forest of Star Wars and Spielberg nostalgia, author Mark O’Connell looks at the onscreen legacy of a space scoundrel and childhood icon. “Han Solo!” rejoices a hundred-year-old pirate queen upon glimpsing s…
21st September, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, Entertainment
In 1961, aged 22, Alan Tomkins had just completed a three-year apprenticeship and was happily contracted to continue in the employment of the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). However, when Tomkins heard that art director John Box, who was based over at Pinewood Stud…
