Development Hell — Mick Garris

Development Hell

by Mick Garris


Hollywood, California: the Bermuda Triangle of art, sex, and commerce. The

beautiful people make their daily deals with the devil on the sun-dappled

patio at the Ivy, not in a fiery underground cavern. Nobodies become

somebodies in the blink of an eye, but the flash of heady success can be

fleeting. The rocket that shoots you into the atmosphere can be carrying

weapons of mass destruction that can send you just as quickly and

efficiently to Hell.


And back to Heaven again.


Development Hell is a wicked Hollywood satire, disguised as an extreme

erotic horror novel. It is told knowingly from an inside perspective,

tracking the career trajectory of a young film school hotshot into the

annals of the Big Studio.


This arrogant young director leads us through his own set of unique

experiences, starting with his explosive and disastrous first Hollywood

movie; his discovery of a mutant baby in the arms of a Mexican news dealer

in downtown Los Angeles that will be his ticket back to the top of the heap;

into the arms of a re-animated glamorous star who died in the 1930s; and

body-hopping through the most glamorous sheaths of human flesh on the

planet.


It is a side of Hollywood rarely seen from beneath its unvarnished,

Botox-free, crinkling, wrinkling flesh, and features a supporting cast of

characters you will surely recognize.


Development Hell welcomes you into a behind-the-scenes peek unlike any other

you have witnessed before.