The team behind the cinema podcast announce their debut book — and a pre-order incentive worth picking up.
For nearly seven years, All The Right Movies has been telling the story of Hollywood one film at a time.
Each episode of the podcast runs to around two and a half hours and up to a hundred hours of production behind the scenes, dismantling a film with the kind of research most outlets reserve for whole genres. This September, the team takes that same approach into print for the first time.
All The Right Movies: The Stories and Secrets Behind the Making of 25 Iconic Films is published by Quarto on 1 September in the US and Canada and 17 September in the UK.
Co-authored by John Barker and Luke Cardy, the book is a natural extension of what listeners have come to expect from the podcast: rigorous research, exclusive access, and great storytelling.
The book covers 25 films across five genres, with five films per genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, and Thriller. The selection is not a greatest hits list. It is a deliberate cross-section of films whose production stories carry weight, whether through cultural significance, technical ambition, or the sheer chaos of how they came to exist.
Among the 25 are significant titles like Die Hard (1988), Gladiator (2000), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Evil Dead (1981), The Thing (1982), The Blair Witch Project (1999), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Blade Runner (1982), The Godfather (1972), and Se7en (1995).
Each film is given a full chapter built across five areas: A film introduction sets out why the film matters and what makes the production story worth telling. A cast and crew overview provides the principal players. The making-of story runs as fifty researched facts, each charting the film from origin through casting, pre-production, filming, post-production, and release. Then comes an exclusive interview with someone who was actually there. And each chapter closes with a fun infographic, presenting key data from the production as a visual centrepiece.
The interview list is the part that should make any film obsessive sit up. Among those secured for the book are David Morrell (the author of First Blood), Jan de Bont (cinematographer on Die Hard, director on Speed), Roger Christian (set decorator on Star Wars and art director on Alien), David Webb Peoples (co-screenwriter of Blade Runner), Daniel Myrick (co-director of The Blair Witch Project), Tim Webber (visual effects supervisor on Gravity) and more. These are first-hand voices from the films themselves, not recycled press junket quotes.
The book is visualised with crafted layouts and movie stills throughout, designed and produced by Quarto to a standard that befits the source material. It is a film book made for people who love film books.
For anyone who pre-orders, there is an additional incentive. A bonus chapter, designed to match the pages of the book, will be sent free to every reader who orders ahead of publication.
The chapter is a full deep-dive on Monty Python’s Life of Brian, originally written for the book before being cut for length. It includes the same fifty researched facts and the same editorial treatment as the chapters in the final manuscript. It is, in every sense, an unreleased twenty-sixth chapter.
Pre-orders are open now via a dedicated page that includes links to retailers worldwide, alongside the bonus chapter download. The page is here: https://www.quarto.com/campaign/AlltheRightMoviesPreOrder
For listeners of the podcast, the book is the next chapter of a project that has built a community of more than two million lifetime downloads and over 1.2 million followers across social platforms.
For new readers, it is a way into the kind of storytelling that has made the podcast what it is, in a form designed to be held, read, and kept.
All The Right Movies has spent seven years telling the story of Hollywood one film at a time. The book is twenty-five of the best of them, in one place.
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