The Making of Alexander: The Official Guide to the Epic Film Alexander - Softcover

Lane Fox, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0951139215 ISBN 13: 9780951139219

Publisher: R and L, 2005

Synopsis

The Making of Alexander is a unique mixture of high-class, hilarious text and stunning photography of a great film in process. Popular and provocative, it gives moviegoers a brilliant portrait of the talent the film brought together.

Fifteen years in planning, the Alexander movie is the major film epic of the decade, with a production budget of $160 million and in the United States alone, a Warner Bros. publicity campaign of $35 million. Three-time Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone has led a star cast in a spellbinding movie, premiering in the United States on November 24, 2004. Alexander sets new standards with unprecedented drama, history and emotional power.

This book, endorsed by the studios Intermedia and Warner Bros., is the only official "inside guide" to the film. The author enjoyed unique access as the film's historical adviser for two and a half years and worked very closely with the director, the script and the stars. He also served as a cavalryman on location, riding with the stars in the film's spectacular battles and charges.

Robin Lane Fox is the world's best-selling historian of Alexander. A professor at Oxford University, his own historical biography of Alexander has now sold more than a million copies and was the major source for the makers of the film.

With Warner Bros.' backing, The Making of Alexander is planned to be publicized on the Warner Bros. Alexander web sites and interactive material, for which Robin Lane Fox is a consultant and historical writer.

About this title

About the Author

World-famous biographer of Alexaner; Oxford University Professor

Reviews

As a dramatist, in the end I trust my instinct, and I feel that [Alexander] had all the demon-drives which modern people have, and these too should be presented forthrightly. So, I've told his complex life as a 'parallel' story?wherein the younger Alexander exists side by side with the older Alexander. One of the great ironies of his life is that his later actions become such haunted and tragic repercussions of his earlier ones.
To get inside a man who lived 2,300 years ago and changed the nature of the world, I had no better collaborator than Robin Lane Fox…I am deeply touched by the author's open-mindedness, and honestly surprised by his intellectual humility. I think we all had to be humbled in some profound way to understand. Alexander deserves no less, as he too, requisite to his greatness, underwent some of the greatest humiliations of all. But, as his was not a complaining nature, these secrets shall remain forever locked in his big heart. --Oliver Stone, from his foreword to The Making of Alexander, by Robin Lane Fox.

Edition details

• Publisher: R and L
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0951139215
• ISBN 13: 9780951139219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176