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monty_kurns t1_jdczndq wrote

Reply to comment by passwordsarehard_3 in Bruce Campbell and his kids on the set of Army of Darkness (1992) by Naweezy

I'd actually give his two memoirs a read. It gets a little into his personal life but I learned so much about his productions. You also get to know exactly how close he is with Sam Raimi and Ted Raimi. The first goes up to the late 90s when they produced Hercules and Xena while the second picks up around the time Spider-Man started production. For memoirs, they're very entertaining without him being full of himself.

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GrimlockHolmes t1_jddtfdc wrote

Learning how they built their camera “dolly” was a lesson in budget filmmaking.

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KneeDeepInTheDead t1_jddy90q wrote

Do they both cover the same ground or is one memoir more about a certain thing than the other?

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monty_kurns t1_jddyrih wrote

They cover different ground. The first was published in 1999 and covers his childhood through the ups and downs of getting into the movie business and ends at the time it was published with him having a successful career. The second came out a few years ago and picks up where the first one left off, going over things like his career stalling in the early 2000s and then picking back up with stuff like Burn Notice, the Evil Dead remake, Ash vs Evil Dead, and more.

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KneeDeepInTheDead t1_jddzec3 wrote

Ahh thank you for the breakdown! Ill probably pick up the first one first then. Thanks!

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VimesWasRight t1_jdgupju wrote

His fiction books are great too. And I think all the audio books are read by him.

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