It's not often a coffee-table book worth buying comes along,
but film enthusiast, Mark Salisbury’s, latest grandiose publication seems to
tick all the boxes required to make you shell out £24.99.
A movie event as anticipated at Ridley Scott’s return to
sci-fi was sure to attract various multi-media spin-offs, but in the hands of
Salisbury, former editor of film magazine, Empire, and author of the intensely
researched Burton on Burton, Prometheus: The Art of the Film, gets inside the
heads of silver-screen junkies and delivers everything they want and more from
a tie-in companion book.
You don’t even have to be an uber-fan to be at least
intrigued by how Ridley creates these massive, other-worldly sets and
unidentified alien cast-members. Furthermore, if you’re still not hooked by any of the above,
the photography alone is worth poring over, for all its delicious
extra-terrestrial precision and beauty.
Salisbury
is an obvious fan of the entire film-making process and he could have produced
a book of this caliber to accompany even the most pointless chick-flick,
Prometheus: The Art of the Film has the inside-track on Ridley’s creative modus
operandi, which is more than anyone eagerly awaiting the release of Prometheus
could have hoped for.
Salisbury
collaborated with Ridley Scott himself, the writers and producers of the film
to create a truly beautiful collector’s item.
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