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"Starship Troopers" CGI reel seen / "Buckaroo Banzai" series FX test images ((aka Foundation-o-Rama)) !!!
Glen here...
...with a report from the recent Shore Leave convention in Baltimore.
This report comes from Chief O'Brien, who was kind enough to take a few moments from
repairing the subcutaneous Drosophila melanogaster to file this report:
Chief O'Brien wrote:
"Over
this past weekend I was at Shore Leave, a fan-run
convention near Baltimore. Mojo, the supervising animator for Foundation Imaging,
was there. He
showed a piece of Starship Troopers which had been Fed-Exed
that morning.
The animation was clean and quite fluid and looked a lot
like Transformers:
Beast Wars. The entire sequence played out to a heavy
metal soundtrack
(which I really liked).
Fans of Heinlein's novel will be
glad to know that
the power suits are in the show - as well as dropping the
troops from orbit. Even the "Join Now" recruiting posters are there.
The
piece was only a
couple of minutes long, but it was enough to make you want
more. Mojo says
40 episodes have been ordered, and the show will have no
network attached to
it.
((Glen Note: HREF="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=3852">CLICK HERE to jump
to Coaxial's image gallery of Starship Troopers CGI pics. You can also see more
images from Starship Troopers by accessing the Foundation Imaging web site linked
below...))
If you haven't seen it already, Foundation has produced a short
trailer for
Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries.
The "Banzai March" was re-mixed with a kind of techno
edge to it (I
really wanted a copy).
The sequence opens with lightning
hitting the ground
and charging up some batteries in a potato field - which are all
connected to a
giant transmitter. The transmitter fires its visible signal into
space.
Fade to an icy
landscape (the exact same one used in the Star Trek:
Voyager episode
"Timeless"), where the Jet Car is scooting along, and then is
chased by a pair
of flying craft. The Jet Car escapes by activating its overthruster beam
and driving through
a mountain!
((Glen Note: the Overthruster portal closes immediately behind the jet car; the flying craft
smash into the mountain as they try race through the portal before it closes...))
The
last sequence has the jet car driving along a road - only to
find out that
it's a runway, and the space shuttle Atlantis is landing behind the Jet Car!
Apparently, the front
landing gear on the shuttle is in need of repair - because
the Jet Car
positions itself so that the shuttle can land right on top
of it, thus our
hero saves the day once again!
((Glen Note: this last sequence is amazing: there is a lot of detail on the shuttle, and small
things like the Jet Car's suspension lowering under the wheight of the shuttle's nose give many
shots a close to photo-realistic feel. Well, here - see for yourself!))
Images from Foundation Imaging's visual effects test reel for the proposed
Buckaroo Banzai television series. These images are swiped directly from Foundation
Imaging's web site, which you can access by HREF="http://www.foundation-i.com">CLICKING HERE!
All hail Foundation! And,
"Supersize Those Fries!" ((which is the title of the Banzai pilot episode, by the
way...))
Glen
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I read that there have been some fights with Fox who are trying to dumb the script down. Anyone have any news on this?
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I forgot to say I was talking about BB, not ST.
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I'm sure Peter
Weller is
available, but is
too old for the
role now sadly. So
who do we get to
play our favorite
musical brain
surgeon? And while
we are at it, who
would make a good
Hong Kong Cavalier? -
I broke that story earlier this week after speaking to to someone working on the show.
There are currently problems with FOX trying to dumb down the script. Basicly, the FOX suits don't "get" the show and think it's too "Dense" for the general public to understand. The rumblings within FOX are that this series, if it sees air, won't get beyond a 13 episode pickup. More as it happens. KJB http://www.backstage-pass.com -
Buckaroo Banzai was way ahead of it's time for 1983.
Now is the right time for Buckaroo--it's the perfect blend of sci-fi, action, characters, and comedy.
And these test reel pictures are absolutely incredible!
Showing the scene with the Jet Car as the Space shuttle's landing gear would get people excited and watching the show in no time! If the X-Files goes off the air after the next season...what better replacement than Buckaroo?!!! -
What show is going to replace X-Files for FOX's Sunday 9/8 Central timeslot after this upcoming season? That's a good question, actually. The network presently doesn't have anything high profile and appropriate enough to follow NFL football, the Simpsons and Futurama. However, there's speculation going around that Buffy could replace X-Files -- Yes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series is owned and produced by FOX. (It was originally greenlit for the FOX network, in fact.) And the contract for the series airing on the WB expires at the end of the coming season.
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Cool homage to the pilot episode of the "Thunderbirds". Fox better not fuck this up.
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I was there at Shore Leave, and Mojo never said the Bonzai show was anything close to a go, and that Foundation was not signed as the FX comp for it. They made their Bonzai video for fun. The alien ships chasing the truck in the snow were from right out of their Vortex clips. I hope no one thinks this is proof of a show actually in production or close to it, because it isn't according to Mojo. Just prayer and hope.
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Glen here...regarding this rumor that FOX is giving the BANZAI series some trouble. This is not the case. It *appears* that the people at Polygram Entertainment, who apparently hold the rights to BANZAI at the moment, initially felt the Earl MacRauch pilot script might have been "too dense" and needed to be streamlined somewhat before they took the project around to studios (the pilot script is VERY dense - even after the revision - so this concern is well founded). The requested streamling was done, and the project was presented to FOX - who said they'd keep it around wirth their eyes set on making BB a Mid Season Replacement
for 2000. All indications suggest the project is indeed moving rather slowly, but *not* because of any internal conflicts at Fox. Sometimes, these things take time - attention gets distracted, etc. Whether or not BANZAI will make it to the air at all has never been a certainty, although it is looking increasingly unlikely they will meet their proposed MidSeason Replacement 2000 deadline. Other than "slow going", it seems to be business as usual for BANZAI - there is no cause for alarm. When there is, you will know...**Glen** -
Someone wrote: "They made their Banzai video for fun". I'm sure it was fun, and I'm sure there was a "just ofr the hell of it" feeling somewhere in there, but as I understand it this clip WAS sent to Fox along withn various other goodies 'round the time of pilot script submission. Foundation made it in the hopes they'd get the real gig if the project came to furition...**Glen**
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Still, Foundation is not actually working on anything for BB--much as they want to. Coaxial/Glen, when did you get this anyway? Shore Leave was a week ago, and I thought Mojo was just showing stuff that you'd mentioned before. Or maybe not...I can't remember, those CGI clips were just great to watch. Although, the STARSHIP TROOPERS stuff wasn't as cool as Beast Wars. There looked to be a lot of motion capture, and the facial expressions were hidden mostly by the helmets. Its still better than Voltron, though. And Beast Wars's graphics were worse in their first year. STroopers looks like a dark show though, so if you get it on a lousy channel, it may not show up real good.
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Although a Buckaroo Banzai TV series would be cool, it just won't be the same as the movie. Replacing Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum's characters on a TV show will be impossible. I'd rather see Buckaroo Part 2.
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I hate to disagree with Glen but I've been getting reports from some of the highest sources on the BB project for quite a while now (Glen knows what I'm talking about). I can confirm that there have been a number of VERY intense conversations with FOX about the direction and content of the series. It's not so much that the series is "in trouble" as that it may not even get off the drawing board. Will something happen someday with Buckaroo Banzai? Definitely. As I said before, there are some real heavy hitters who are wanting more BB to get produced. BB is not a dead project by any means. The only doubts are about this particular project. KJB http://www.backstage-pass.com
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Any word on when the Buckaroo Banzai novels are going to ship, Glen? Any details on them would be appreciated. --Fred4Sure
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I've been a BB fan since i could remember seeing the film in the theaters when i was younger. i've read the proposed fanscript on the net of the BB2 film that won't get made. I have the same feeling about the tv show. those kind of cult favorites that are so cool and intelligent will never get on tv, not enough mass appeal even though they would do well. cult tv still exists, and thrives, x-files, xena, hercules, are perfect examples, but i'm afraid buckaroo might be to vague to put on tv. its too cool, so we probably won't see it. I truly hope i'm dead wrong.
Big McLargehuge
blue blaze irregular #48 -
Or in the first picture of the jetcar.... has the Bodywork for HB88 been dropped down to sub-compact from Truck?
-Briguy
"I made it Chip!" -
O.K. I actually can remember seeing the origional movie in the theater and waiting with great anticipation for "Buckaroo Banzaii Vs. The World Crime League" and am overjoyed beyond belief by the fact that ANYTHING is being tossed around right now. I hope if anything comes of this the studio does the right thing and lets the show find its own groove and fan base before prematurly pulling the plug on it. I sincerely hope this is the real deal and I haven't dusted off my 20th Century press kit for nothing. Thanks for the pics.
Cheers,
??Pseudo??
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Received by World Watch OnLine via secured network on 7/29/99 7:57:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time:
>>Begin Transmission
To: All Fans of B. Banzai
From: W.D. Richter
Subject: The Way Things Are
A few years ago, I overheard Dr. Banzai remark to a concerned unit of Tibetan commandos as the clock struck midnight in a particularly dark hollow of the Universe: "We -
Aug 09, 1999 11:04:43 AM CDT
Starship Tropers was a piece of shit movie that ripped off of th
by private_hudson
Hudson here.
I watched Starship Troopers last night on HBO and lemme tell you something.....I have never seen a bigger load of horse shit in MY ENTIRE LIFE! The acting was horriffic, the plot was gayass, I didn't care about the charecters and oh yeah, did I mention that the acting sucked? The only thing about Starship troopers that was A LITTLE better then aliens was the special effects. But to tell you the truth I like the robotics and pyrotechnics used in Aliens then the CGI used in Starship Troopers. So if they DO somehow release this show. Don't watch it. It sucks. I would put an axe through my TV before I watched the show. Oh yeah. Lemme give you a view reasons why Starship Troopers ripped off of aliens:
The ships in aliens:Dropships
The ships in Starship troopers:Dropships
Nicknames for aliens in aliens:Bugs
Nicknames for aliens in starship troopers:Bugs
Plot in aliens: Send squad of marines to planet to wipe out aliens.
Plot in starship troopers: Send squad of marines to planet to wipe out aliens.
Oh yeah. Isn't it quite a coincidence that the guns in Starship troopers look a lot like Pulse Rifles used in aliens?
The marines in starship troopers are pansies and they deserved to die. If you put Hicks, Hudson, Vasquez, Drake and Ripley against the top 5 marines in Starship troopers, the Aliens marines would whip their ass good. It pisses me off when Hollywood recycles ideas used from good movies of the past and reivents them into pieces of shit. Thats my opinion anyways.
Hudson out. -
I hate to break it to you, but Starship Troopers was based on a novel that was written a LONG time before the Aliens movies were.
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