Tim Burton re-animates boy-and-dog story ‘Frankenweenie’
EW.com has a cool article about Tim Burton and his “new” stop-motion movie.
Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is shaping up to be an interesting mix of “Ewwwww!’s” as well as “Awwwww’s.”
His latest stop-motion gothic-fest (rendered in 1950s-style black-and-white as well as 3-D) tells the story of a little boy named Victor, who loves his pet dog Sparky more than anything in the world. Naturally — or rather, unnaturally — Victor decides to use his science kit to bring the pup back from the grave after an accident claims the pooch’s life.
As with Mary Shelley’s original 1818 tale of men playing god and science run amok, pandemonium follows the creation of the “monster,” who in this case is just a stitched-up, resurrected undead buddy.
Many know that Burton lost his job as an artist at The Walt Disney Co. for making this dark comedy as a live-action short in 1984, but few know the true story from Burton’s past that inspired it. As Halloween approaches, EW reveals that long-ago tale, along with first-look stills from the movie.
Well, I think I am looking very forward to this movie!
FanExpo 2011 Canada
FanExpo was a bit of a cluster fuck last year. Super long lines and way too small a space but this year promises to be different. They are now in the south building of the convention centre which is much bigger and they seem more prepared for the onslaught of people.
I went on Thursday and was impressed. I mostly go for Artist Alley but there were a ton of interesting things. I have a weekend pass so I will be going Friday, Saturday and Sunday too. Must remember not to spend too much money!
Prisoners Of Gravity Now Available Online
TVO, I love you! I remember this show from when I was a youngster. I used to watch it all the time and now it’s online for free. The other cool thing about the show is that the montage at the beginning is drawn by none other than Canada’s own Ty Templeton.
I took Ty’s class at the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop and I would highly recommend anyone that has an interest in story telling, drawing and sequential art to check it out. He is an encyclopaedia of knowledge and has a great sense of humour as well.
Prisoners of Gravity, the acclaimed comic book and science fiction news magazine series, is not television. It’s the world’s orbital oracle. It’s the future now. Trapped in geosynchronous orbit, unable to escape the planet he’s convinced is hurtling toward self-destuction, Commander Rick (Rick Green) commandeers the airwaves to transmit his weekly pirate broadcasts. Assisted by his on-board computer assistant Nan-Cy (his trusty NANo-CYbernetic 3000 computer) aboard the Reality-1 Communications Satellite, Commander Rick explores crucial issues of the late twentieth century in the language of the faithful: science fiction, comics, computers, fantasy, and horror, all respectfully recognized in the series as adult art forms. He interviews these genres’ writers, artists, and filmmakers, focusing on a different theme in each program: politics, war, fears, dreams, addictions, children, new worlds, and even the current popularity of dinosaurs.
Guest included Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, Anne Rice, Frederik Pohl, Clive Barker, David Brin, Charles de Lint, Robert J. Sawyer, Spider Robinson and Terry Pratchett, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Bob Kane, Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Scott McCloud, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Gene Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, James Cameron and David Cronenberg.
Disney’s Tangled
Well, I am off to see Disney’s Tangled this weekend. The animation style look very appealing to me. Almost like Disney tried to get the style of the computer animation to mimic the style of their traditional animation.
Once again though, I have the feeling that making this movie 3D is another waste of time. Who actually likes wearing those glasses and how many movies have you watched in 3D where it actually made a difference? I’ve seen one… Avatar.
I’m looking forward to the day 3D dies… although when that day comes, it would mean I’ll have to deal with it 20 years from now as it makes it’s way back… mid 50s, 80s, late 2000s and next stop, 2030s…
David Lynch’s SPIDER-MAN
Warren Ellis, comics writer of such things as Transmetropolitan, challenged the members of his Whitechapel community to design posters for a David Lynch film called “Spider-Man.” As Warren said, “You must design a poster for a movie called SPIDER-MAN directed by David Lynch. This is all you know. “ Check out the results! I may actually want to see some of these movies made.
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