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Championed by a few, loathed by the many,
Caligula is perhaps the most mangled, mutilated, misunderstood movie in cinema history.
That’s why we decided to write a book about it.
There are several tie-in books already,
but they don’t provide any (believable) background details about how and why the movie came to be made amidst conflict,
how and why the movie was so changed afterwards that nobody who made it could recognize it anymore,
and how and why it destroyed an Italian movie studio,
making a pauper of its once-respected producer.
So that would make for an interesting tale, yes?
We began this book in early 2006, and we’re now at last putting our finishing touches to it.
We’re almost at the end of the final chapter.
All that remains is the afterword and the polish.
We shall keep you apprised.
In the meantime, why not look at the attractive advertisement
that announced the beginning of the filming?
As with nearly every contemporary press item about Caligula,
it was a lie: |
