Secrets of the Force: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars

From the authors of The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All, comes the first and only comprehensive oral history of the Star Wars movie franchise.

For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that Star Wars has, capturing the imaginations of filmgoers and filmmakers alike. Now, for the first time ever, Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, the bestselling authors of The Fifty-Year Mission, are telling the entire story of this blockbuster franchise from the very beginning in a single exhaustive volume. Featuring the commentaries of hundreds of actors and filmmakers involved with and impacted by Star Wars, as well as writers, commentators, critics, executives, authors, film historians, toy experts and many more, Secrets of the Force, will reveal all in Altman and Gross's critically acclaimed oral history format from the birth of the original film through the latest sequels and the new televisions series.

Author: Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 07/13/2021
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9781250236876


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2021
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 07/20/2021

About the Author

EDWARD GROSS has an extensive history covering film and television as a member of the editorial staff of a wide variety of magazines, including Cinescape, Starlog, Cinefantastique, SFX, Movie Magic, Sci-Fi Now and Geek. He has written or co-written over three dozen non-fiction books.

MARK A. ALTMAN is a television showrunner and motion picture writer/producer who is executive producer of the hit sci-fi series, Pandora. Previously he served as Co- Executive Producer of The Librarians, Agent X, Castle and Necessary Roughness among others. His first motion picture was the award winning, Free Enterprise, starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack, which he wrote and produced and for which he won the WGA Award for Best New Writer.

In 2019, Altman launched the Electric Surge video podcast network with producer Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate) which produces numerous podcasts spotlighting pop culture topics with notable experts in their field. The video podcasts which include The 4:30 Movie and Inglorious Treksperts, which he co-hosts, along with Best Movies Never Made as well as several others is also available on the streaming OTT platform, Electric Now, as well as through traditional podcast providers.

His bestselling two-volume book series with Edward Gross, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored, Oral History of Star Trek, was released by St. Martin's Press in 2016 in hardcover to unanimous critical acclaim including raves in The Wall Street Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Their oral history of the James Bond films, Nobody Does It Better, was released in 2020.