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LEXX Unauthorized
LEXX Unauthorized: Backstage at the Dark Zone
"I am the LEXX, I am a ten mile long biomechanical dragonfly designed to blow up planets for the Divine Order. My Captain, Security Guard 4th Class Stanley Tweedle stole me, now he and his friends, Kai, a superhuman undead assassin, Zev a love slave who is half cluster lizard, and 790 a robot head, are looking for a new home...." LEXX was a groundbreaking, surreal and subversive space opera that ran four seasons from 1997 to 2002. Innovative with a unique visual sense and production design, it combined Star Trek and Star Wars with the visions of surrealists like Jodorowsky and Bunuel with a dash of Monty Python, and featured cult icons Rutger Hauer, Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell as guest stars. The story behind this Canadian/German co-production was as wild and unpredictable as anything that went up onscreen, as Indy film makers, American entertainment giants, renegade artists, supercomputers, international financing and cultural nationalism collided like pinballs to produce some of the strangest science fiction ever to reach the air. This book is the story of LEXX both onscreen and offstage, and the unique personalities that brought it into being.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2017
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March 19, 2020
LEXX was a groundbreaking surreal. subversive, anarchic space opera featuring an undead assassin, a decapitated robot head, a love slave and a security guard cruising through space on a giant dragonfly that blew up planets. The first season of four movies featured Rutger Hauer, Tim Curry, Malcolm McDowall and Barry Bostwick. It is the cultest of cult sci fi.
This isn't really a fair review, because (full disclosure) I wrote the book. Back when the series was on, I was a hardcore fan. The creators offered me a chance to write a book about it. I spent years visiting the sets, watching scenes, travelling, interviewing everyone connected with this amazing show. The book project bounced around different publishers but ultimately never happened.
The series was amazing and off the wall, on camera and backstage. And it deserved a book. So, I wrote the book anyway, I wrote it the way I wanted to, and I wrote the kind of book I wanted to read.
If you've seen LEXX, this is the book for you. If you haven't, this is still worth checking out. It's an amazing story.
This isn't really a fair review, because (full disclosure) I wrote the book. Back when the series was on, I was a hardcore fan. The creators offered me a chance to write a book about it. I spent years visiting the sets, watching scenes, travelling, interviewing everyone connected with this amazing show. The book project bounced around different publishers but ultimately never happened.
The series was amazing and off the wall, on camera and backstage. And it deserved a book. So, I wrote the book anyway, I wrote it the way I wanted to, and I wrote the kind of book I wanted to read.
If you've seen LEXX, this is the book for you. If you haven't, this is still worth checking out. It's an amazing story.
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