Stranded on Earth

Early praise for STRANDED ON EARTH:

"Max Evry's Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. dives headfirst down the rabbit hole, and doesn't look back. The book features brand-new interviews with a plethora of primary sources who were present for the development of both pictures, and ultimately serves as a fascinating and thoroughly exhaustive exploration into one of the greatest what-if stories to ever come out of Hollywood. Warts and all!"
— SyFy

"For a sci-fi/horror movies that never was, Night Skies holds quite a story, and Stranded on Earth is here to tell it. [Author Max Evry] covers every aspect of the failed project, from creative to business. Overflowing with information, this hardcover tome is genre filmmaking geekdom at its finest."
— Rue Morgue

"Hollywood is full of ‘what if’ scenarios—actors who famously turned down projects (like Will Smith and The Matrix) or directors who didn’t get to make the movie they dreamed about (see: Jodorowsky’s Dune). But sometimes, a scuttled project turns around and makes another one possible, and a cinematic classic emerges."
— Gizmodo/io9

"Trust me, you’re gonna want to read this. Not only is it heavily researched about its title topic, it also paints a very detailed and—dare I say—grounded and maybe unflinchingly accurate portrayal of what Steven Spielberg’s early career as a filmmaker looked like, and where his compulsion to dive into alien stories came from. It’s fascinating." — Eric Vespe (The Spiel)

Acclaim for Max Evry's previous book A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY: DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE:

"Five stars. This hefty volume looks at the film in granular detail… It’s hard to imagine a more definitive examination of such a singular and strange film."
— SFX

"The (fittingly behemothian) oral history of David Lynch’s doomed 1984 Dune. It’s hugely enjoyable to sift through the sands of this comprehensive chronicle. 4/4 stars."
—Empire

"Disarray is an accounting of one of the wildest boondoggles ever committed to celluloid. The finished product was a legendary mess of a picture that threatened to undermine the director’s career before it had achieved liftoff, but the behind-the-camera story is a pleasure to follow: Mr. Evry delivers the spoiled goods with aplomb."
— The Wall Street Journal

"Wonderfully detailed…extensive new interviews with principals and players, stuffed to the gills with facts and figures and tasty gossip."
— Kurt Loder (MTV, Rolling Stone)

"From the quality and quantity of interviews to organization and montage-style curation, A Masterpiece in Disarray is a model for oral history accounts of filmmaking."
— Mise-en-Scène: The Journal of Film and Visual Narration

"A treasure trove for Dune and David Lynch aficionados. Author Max Evry spoke with dozens of actors and production personnel, and their conversations cover every possible aspect of the creative process, leaving no sandworm unturned."
— Library Journal (starred review)