STARSTRUCK: MARGOT ROBBIE

She steals the show in Suicide Squad, but who was MARGOT ROBBIE before she became Harley Quinn?

Margot Robbie’s dramatic rise to fame is chronicled by New York Times best-selling author Brian J. Robb, whose previous subjects have included Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Johnny Depp.

From television exposure in Neighbours and Pan Am, Robbie rode the wave of a series of glamorous roles in The Wolf of Wall Street and Focus, as well as delivering more dramatic, yet lower-key performances in Z for Zachariah and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. She’s also played an unattainable object of desire in About Time, Jane in a revisionist Tarzan movie, and explained complex financial instrument while luxuriating in a bubble bath in The Big Short.

More than just a pretty face, Robbie is transitioning into producing her own films, beginning with noir thriller Terminal. None of this came about by accident, as Robbie set out to assault Hollywood according to a carefully worked out plan, as revealed in STARSTRUCK: MARGOT ROBBIE.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian J. Robb is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling biographer of Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. He has also written books on silent cinema, the films of Philip K. Dick, Wes Craven, and Laurel and Hardy, the Star Wars movies, Superheroes, Gangsters, and Walt Disney, as well as science fiction television series Doctor Who and Star Trek. His illustrated books include an Illustrated History of Steampunk and a guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Winner, Best Book, Tolkien Society Awards). He writes and edits the Chaplin: Film by Film centenary blog site and is co-editor of the Sci-Fi Bulletin website. He lives in Edinburgh.

Author web site: https://brianjrobb.wordpress.com/

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID: BRIAN J. ROBB

Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film (2005)

“A recommended, well-researched effort … Thoughtful, meticulous and well-composed, Counterfeit Worlds is the definitive work on its topic.” — Paul M. Sammon, author of Future Noir

‘Comprehensive… Robb has successfully reawakened an awkward, prophetic voice.’ — Tom Dewe Matthews, Sight & Sound

‘Well researched and passionately written… absorbing…’ — Total Film

‘As a collective resource, this is a valuable one.’ — Empire

‘Studiously researched and intelligently written…’ — Film Review

Steampunk: The Illustrated History (2012)

‘…pretty damn comprehensive, focusing primarily on the literary and cinematic history of steampunk … It’s a gorgeous hardback with great choices for illustrations.’ — Steampunk Scholar, Best of 2012

A Brief History of Superheroes (2014)

‘…all a comic enthusiast could want from a book that seems to have most of the useful information on comics, its creators and those who paved the way for other successful comic characters during the 80s, 90s and beyond.’ — The SF Site

A Brief History of Star Trek (2012)

‘This is a truly excellent history of Star Trek. Totally unauthorized, but author Brian J. Robb was editor of The Official Star Trek Magazine for over a decade, so he knows his stuff. Lots of facts, but also lots of thoughtful analysis. Speaking as a life-long Trek fan, this one is well worth reading.’ — SF author Robert J. Sawyer