After seeing the clip that aired at SDCC, I know in my heart that this movie is going to disappoint, but I can’t help but admire the artistry involved in pretty much all of the promotional images released so far. Damn.
If I was still 23 and single, I’d have run out and bought this GPS within minutes of seeing the ad in the weekend’s paper. A chance to practically transform my 1989 Nissan Sentra into K.I.T.T.? Hell yes, I can get behind that! And don’t lie - you would have too. Hell, this post may have just become responsible for employees bowing out for an early lunch all across the US right now.
Here’s a fun list of amazing coulda beens…which I guess makes it fun-ish since none of these ever happened and we’ve been showered with 95-98% celluloid crap for the last couple decades.
Anyways, excerpted from this equally awesome sounding book.
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune
“A lot of people have tried to film Dune. They all failed,” stated the opus’s author, Frank Herbert – after David Lynch’s noble effort reached the screen in 1984. A more promising adaptation was proposed in the mid seventies, with Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky overseeing production designs by H.R. Giger, British artist Chris Foss, and French comic book artist Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud. Among Jodorowsky’s more outlandish ideas was offering the role of Emperor Shaddam IV to Salvador Dali, at a previously unheard-of salary of $100,000 per hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly, financing on the film fizzled. However, the two extant adaptations – Lynch’s, and a successful 2000 miniseries – will be joined, in 2010, by a third, with The Kingdom director Peter Berg at the helm.
Side note: Pink Floyd was actually slated to do the music for this, which would only have made it more insane…
This morning was the first I’d heard of Fanboy and Chum Chum, but apparently the just-greenlit Nickelodeon series has been very publicly in development for quite some time. Taking a quick look through these postings detailing the show’s developmental process on the Fredrator blog, I’m immediately looking forward to it. Looks like good, clean, superhero-y fun!
Nickelodeon has ordered 26 episodes of Fanboy and Chum Chum, a new CG animated comedy series spinning off from the upcoming Nicktoons Network anthology series Random! Cartoons, it was announced today by Brown Johnson, President, Animation for Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids & Family Group. Combining classic squash and stretch animation with CG technology, Fanboy and Chum Chum centers on a fearless, comic book-loving 10-year old named Fanboy and his best friend and trusty sidekick, Chum Chum, whose wide-eyed acceptance of the bizarre is the perfect complement to his friend’s hyper imagination. For Fanboy, there is nothing more normal than living life in tights and a cape, and the concept of an ordinary day is one where anything and everything can happen.
Dark Horizons had this to say about potential Avengers casting today:
Finally, “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria was seen leaving Marvel Comics head offices on Friday carrying a copy of “The Avengers” comic which has led to speculation that she’ll play Janet Van Dyne (aka. The Wasp) a founding member and eventual wife of ‘Ant-Man’ Hank Pym.
Not a bad choice at all, really. However, KFR’s better, more perfect one? Kate Beckinsale.
If McCain would just do us all a favor and walk into a tree branch or something, this presidential campaign would officially be the most insane evar. It’s too bad he’s gone even nuttier than Saul and Palin’s more shithouse nuts than Roslin, because they’d be rolling in the scifi nerd votes otherwise.
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