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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!

God I love Joe Dante! To read all the details, Click here and read Fango's Whole Report!

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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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