Last Action Hero: From the Story by Zak Penn and Adam Leff and the Screenplay by Shane Black and David Arnott [Paperback]

Steve Newman (Author), Ed Marsh (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1557041741 | ISBN-13: 978-1557041746 | Publication Date: July 1993 | Edition: Mti

Behind the scenes with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Last Action Hero. Over 40 photos in full color! Schwarzenegger is Jack Slater, the movies' greatest action hero. One day Slater's world gets shaken up when a magical ticket blasts his biggest fan,. eleven-year-old Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), out of his theater seat and right into Slater's newest movie. Teamed with his favorite action hero, Danny gets to live out his wildest fantasies, as his crashes cars, flies through windows and takes on the bad guys in a fictional world where anything is possible.

This official companion book places the reader at the heart of the action, following director John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, The Hunt for Red October), the stars, and filmmakers as they create the ultimate action adventure fantasy. The book features:

* an exclusive Q&A interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger * over 100 action-packed movie stills and drawings, over 40 in full-color * insider stories on the stunts, the explosions, the special effects, the costumes, the sets, the cast, and the entire spectacular production

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About the Author

Steve Newman (Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is the film' s marketing coordinator. Ed W. Marsh (The Making of Terminator 2, Under Pressure: Making the Abyss) is one of the film's video documentarians.

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Newmarket Press; Mti edition (July 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557041741
• ISBN-13: 978-1557041746
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Last Action Hero: From the Story by Zak Penn and Adam Leff and the Screenplay by Shane Black and David Arnott (Paperback)

last action hero is about a young little boy who just moved to nem york with his mom.he has no friends except for a movie projector man at the pandora theatre in times square.this little boy danny loves Jack slater (arnold schwarzeneigger) movies.he has seen all three of them but has seen the third one seventeen times.the night before the fourth one comes out the movie projectior man nick tells him he can go to the theatre at 12:00 that night to see the whole movie before anyone else.that night someone comes and robs his house.he goes to the police department and they called his mom.after he got done at police department he went to the movies to see the movie.nick gives him a golden ticket that houdini gave to him when he was just 8 years old.so nick tore the ticket in half and gave danny the rest of the stub.then the ticket started to glow.when danny sat down the action begins