
Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but?none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's? Blazing Saddles , as savagely dark as Robert Altman's The Player , and more violent...


The Extra is set in a future California where members of a desperate populace sign contracts to participate in reality death films, knowing that less than twenty percent of them will survive. It's a view of the future--and Hollywood--as delightfully cynical as Kurt...