Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination

by Mathieu Poulin, Aleshia Jensen (Translator)

Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination is something completely different, a reimagining of Michael Bay as a cinematic genius in an action comedy of a novel that features an allstar cast (Michael Bay, Meatloaf, Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer, Plato, etc.). Zany and irreverent, it’s a satire-ridden medley of fact and fiction, an epic inside joke for those up on their ’90s pop culture and Philosophy 101.

Mathieu Poulin brings us an action comedy of a novel, starring big-budget, explosion-happy movie director Michael Bay.
What if Bad Boys was a film about decolonization? What if The Rock was about failing to be recognized by one’s peers? If Armageddon was about a post-human future and the mysteries of meaning? And Pearl Harbor a reflection on the freedom afforded an artist when transforming fact into fiction?
What if Michael Bay was, against all odds, a misunderstood cinematic genius?

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
Michael Bay • Jerry Bruckheimer
Ben Affleck • Meat Loaf
Don Simpson • Will Smith
Martin Lawrence • Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nicolas Cage • Sean Connery
Quentin Tarantino • Bruce Willis
AND SPECIAL GUEST STARS
Plato, Sartre, Kant, Derrida & Nietzsche

278 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2018