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Starz Mounting a Trip to 'Dead Space'
Filed under: Action », Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Games and Game Movies »
How do you know when an as-yet-unreleased video game is rrrreally good? When a production company gets started on the movie version -- six months before the game hits the shelves! (OK, that's not even remotely true, but it sounded like a good intro.) But I can tell you one truly promising piece of news regarding the upcoming Electronic Arts game Dead Space: It's science fiction AND horror! Yeah, just like Galaxy of Terror!Anyway, the game isn't due to hit stores until after summer, but that hasn't stopped Starz (and its Film Roman animation division) from snatching the property up and organzing all sorts of nifty little "tie-ins." For example, first will come a graphic novel from Image Comics. Then the Starz movie. And then the game. The assumption is that if you digest this media in the proper order, it will amplify your Dead Space experience tenfold. Or something. All I know it's it's full of monsters and it takes place on a deserted spaceship. Somebody sign me up.
For more on the (mostly likely Anchor Bay DVD) movie, check out the news at Variety. For more on the game, check out the official Dead Space website. For a peek at an early teaser trailer, just look below!
Don Bluth Still Wants to Make a 'Dragon's Lair' Movie
Filed under: Action », Animation », Comic/Superhero/Geek », Games and Game Movies »
If, like me, you grew up with two distinct obsessions -- movies and video games -- then you're certainly familiar with Don Bluth's classic 1983 arcade game Dragon's Lair. Produced by Bluth and his team after they left Disney to make The Secret of NIMH, but well before they collaborated with Steven Spielberg on stuff like An American Tail and The Land Before Time, Dragon's Lair was a pretty unique type of arcade game -- in that it was a cartoon. Basically you got to control Dirk the Daring as he quested through a very colorful dungeon filled with traps, creatures, spirits and (of course) a really big dragon, all in an effort to rescue the powerfully curvaceous Princess Daphne from a creepy dragon. The game, which demanded 50 cents to most games' 25, was a big hit, spawning a sci-fi "cartoon game" called Space Ace in 1984 and a sequel called Dragon's Lair 2: Timewarp in 1991.So I told you all that so I could tell you this: Mr. Bluth is still hoping to turn the original Dragon's Lair into a feature-length movie. In an interview on the recently-released Blu-Ray Dragon's Lair DVD, the producers mention that not only do they have a completed script, but also that they've taken a few meetings in recent months. (Seems like a fine idea to me. Those who know and remember the video game will undoubtedly want to see the flick, while those who don't might want to simply enjoy an animated adventure movie.) To make the news even more compelling, producer Gary Goldman insists that the Dragon's Lair movie would be done via traditional animation and not CGI. Also, it'd be a prequel that details Dirk's adventures prior to delving into the legendary "lair." Sounds good to me!
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