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Published on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 6:33am |
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Why is Joe Dante a God' And LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION has coolness!
Hey folks, Harry here... Ya know, sometimes when you hear all sorts of scary things about a project, but you don't know about it personally... ya just trust in a name. When I was hearing terrible things about LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION back before it started shooting, I just sat on it because I had faith in Joe Dante. The rumors were circling that Brendan Frasier was wanting to leap off the project, that they didn't have a script a week before shooting... then there was the infamous massive commercial tie-in rumors, which turned up to be not for the film, but for parallel marketing deals. Well through it all, I placed my faith in one name... JOE DANTE.
Why? First off, Joe Dante understands Warner Brothers animated mayhem. GREMLINS, GREMLINS 2 and SMALL SOLDIERS all exhibited a finely tuned madcap mental unhinging obviously brought about by overdoses of Jones, Freleng, Clampett and Avery. Yup, ol Tex, Bob, Friz and Chuck drop anvils, cross-dress and pass out exploding cigars in Dante's soul... I just know it. And I have faith in the man, even as I have no faith in the studio.
As if to prove my faith, FANGORIA recently visited the set of Dante's latest and they got to watch the bringing to life of AREA 52 filled with replicas from world class collector Bob Burns as created by KNB (who just picked up the BEST MAKE-UP AWARD at Sitges for their work on CABIN FEVER!) In the film, Fangoria is reporting that you'll see the Metaluna Mutant, the Man From Planet X, the Robot Monster, Daleks, a Triffid, a Fiend without a face, a seed pod from... well, you know plus Kevin McCarthy too!!! And if that wasn't enough... Robby the Robot is appearing again!
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Reader Talkback
Damn right Harry, Dante's a
god. by RawShark | Oct 28th, 2002 05:40:45 AM | I have faith in Dante, but
this particular films reported
histor by Coatsy UK | Oct 28th, 2002 06:19:55 AM | HARRY! If you have faith that
a Looney Tunes film because of
Joe by chuckrussel | Oct 28th, 2002 06:42:54 AM | Paul Thomas Anderson is not
Paul Anderson. by Lujho | Oct 28th, 2002 07:31:51 AM | Clampett, Avery, Jones and
MCKIMSON. Remember HIM? by KingKarll | Oct 28th, 2002 08:08:55 AM | Don't wanna bust out and sound
like a blasphemer to the
craft, b by Terry_1978 | Oct 28th, 2002 08:57:12 AM | Remember Twilight Zone: The
Movie? by MiserableBastard | Oct 28th, 2002 08:58:01 AM | Joe Dante is a good start, but
theres another name thats
giving by Jungle-face-jake | Oct 28th, 2002 09:04:11 AM | Harry... by Bad Guy | Oct 28th, 2002 09:04:33 AM | Dante is... by Margot_Tenenbaum | Oct 28th, 2002 09:52:13 AM | Is Joe Dante the keeper of a
key to alternate dimensions? by WeedyMcSmokey | Oct 28th, 2002 10:33:24 AM | Dante's best is still
Innerspace by Osmosis Jones | Oct 28th, 2002 02:08:12 PM | You couldn't be more right,
Harry... by dbldwn | Oct 28th, 2002 02:21:35 PM | re: KingKarll by Smilin'Jack Ruby | Oct 28th, 2002 02:31:25 PM | TWILIGHT ZONE segment showed
me he had the goods, not
GREMLINS by Spacesheik | Oct 28th, 2002 02:49:07 PM | Matinee by Philmaker | Oct 28th, 2002 10:32:14 PM | Gremlins 1 & 2 were good but
the reason I'll always take
special by lymond | Oct 29th, 2002 12:03:24 AM | "Jones, Freleng, Clampett and
Avery. Yup, ol Tex, Bob, Friz
and by DukeOfSpiders | Oct 29th, 2002 07:11:48 AM | The mutaaaant from THIS ISLAND
EARTH is in this!?! by Cash Bailey | Oct 29th, 2002 04:05:54 PM | iT's aLL aBouT gReMliNs 2 by Louis P. | Oct 30th, 2002 03:15:28 AM | Just the guy for the job ! by RobinP | Oct 30th, 2002 12:19:13 PM |
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