The gasoline truck driver thrown aside by Arnold in the first Terminator movie. The old cop who slides the gun to Ed Bloom during the robbery scene in Big Fish. The woman in the red dress who’s grabbed out of a speeding train during the showdown between Doc Ock and Spidey in Spiderman 2.
Extras. Almost every movie’s got them. Extras who feature but for a brief moment in chase scenes, flashbacks, crowd shots. We see them so briefly that we often forget them as soon as they’re off the screen.
But imagine that they’re characters with full lives, backgrounds, ambitions. Extra Ordinary steps in and provides some imagined context for these minor characters. Each post is a piece of short fiction centered around an extra and their ordinary, or sometimes not so ordinary, lives.