Ray Harryhausen is famous to millions thanks to his peerless use of stop-motion animation. But while you may remember his skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, or Clash of the Titans’ fearsome Medusa, this book reveals that plenty of Ray’s ideas didn’t come to fruition.
In a star-studded filmmaker’s foreword, we learn that unmade films aren’t a rare occurrence. Ray himself had more than 70 unfinished films to his name. And with the help of the archive of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, this book charts the history of those projects.
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