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An Exclusive Look At The Bride Of I, FRANKENSTEIN!
Beaks here...
When last we talked about I, FRANKENSTEIN, it was just an intriguing premise: a film noir reimagining of the Classic Monsters universe in which a more mentally developed version of Frankenstein's monster makes like a hard-boiled detective, while Dracula plays the role of a crime kingpin. Now, we're getting a look at Patrick Tatopoulos's designs for these creatures, and... well, I'm still very intrigued.
Behlod, the Bride!
I'm getting a strong METROPOLIS vibe from that image. Very cool. To get a sense of the other characters, click over to IESB.net, ShockTilYouDrop.com and Bloody-Disgusting.com for more exclusive images.
Tatopoulos is set to direct I, FRANKENSTEIN, which is based on a forthcoming graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux. Ryan "Rotten" Turek of ShockTilYouDrop.com will co-produce with Death Ray Films partners Robert Sanchez (also of IESB.net) and Chris Patton. There are some clever geek minds behind this project. I wish them the best of luck.
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That is all.
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. . . for poo-poo undies?
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wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
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should certainly be in this.
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...and Martin Lawrence, like in a Bad Boys reunion.
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Weird. I look at this and I'm not rabidly against the idea or instantly up for it - I simply don't care at all.<p>A resounding 'meh' from all here at Biggus Towers...
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Is that still happening?
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You mean the main character from Godzilla? I wonder how he feels about that?
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...chose her parts from a gym..she looks like shes been working out..
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Nov. 8th-27th, 2009 Limited engagement at the Music Box @ Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles. Mekka Lekka Hi! Mekka Hiney Ho, Bitches.
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For people learning to draw The Marvel Way! I mean come on people...she's supposed to be crude and monstrous! If she looks like she's been stitched together by the people who invented Barbie, where's the horror in that? (yeah, yeah, I know, we're still talking freakish body images, but the Bride is supposed to be a MONSTER, not a Bratz Girl). Who's gonna be the leading man in this, Brad Pitt? Feh.
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...ridiculously skinny?
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...that's what's sort of nifty about it.
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Aug. 11, 2009, 1:04 p.m. CST
Dracula as the kingpin of crime? i'm interested!
by ISleptWithKathyBatesAndAllThatIGotWasThisStupidTalkbackName
I'll have to check out the comic books before I make a final decision, but it's sounding good so far.
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in Whale's 1935 film, nothing crude or monstroud about her and she was skinny so i'm fine with this look - strikes me as more comic-book sleek though (like Catwoman) than Maria from Metropolis though. Not fussed on the project though. There's nothing wrong with these designs but they don't raise any interest in me either. Too early to say.
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I've never once thought "Wouldn't it be cool if Frankenstein's monster was Mickey Spelain?"
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A scratchy sketch does nothing for me, it looks like any figure any art student would draw. I've still got no idea what they are trying to do with the character.
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Let's try to make a rotting, stitched together skin-corpse look sexy. Good idea.
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Could that sketch be any less interesting? The original Bride of Frankenstein is about as iconic as any character in cinema history, this version just looks dull.
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The rest has some semblence of mummy-style wrappings, but the markings on her face don't make sense. This is the problem with posting sketches instead of actual photography. better to just hold onto this and put it up in comparison with the final product instead of this idiotic "gotta post it before anyone else even if nobody gives a shit or is confused by it" mentality.
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Over done lighting and bad, cliched hard boiled dialogue. <p> This film will be as "film noir" as Sin City, which means not that much. All the trappings, none of the substance or meaning. <p> Plus I think DGDB's idea (which he posted the first time we heard about this movie) about a detective story featuring Geppetto in a warped version of Pinnochio would be more interesting than this.
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is Behlod the name of the Bride? j/k.
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he will ruin it,just like he ruined Underworld.or maybe not. :P
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a: because he robbed a BLOOD BANK! yuk yuk! i'm here all week, folks... try the ham hocks.
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All of his designs are vaguely cartoonish or comic book-ish, giving them a sort of kiddie look, like they're designed to accommodate toy tie-ins. His designs for this movie are no exception.
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Gotta have the long trench coat-so cliche! And the drizzly rain, the sexy bald chick. This is the guy behind...(wait for it)...I ROBOT and RESIDENT EVIL. Now, those were some incredible monster designs...errr, maybeye not so much. What do you wanna bet this will have a ton of CGI in it? Why cant Hollywood get the Universal Monsters right? The idea should be to get down and dirty-not sleek and sexy. Ugh.
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I'm more interested in the pitch with the Universal Monsters as a rock group. Groovie Ghoulies 2.0
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...that Pinocchio idea really did have potential...at least as much as most ideas we hear about recently...
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Aug. 11, 2009, 1:54 p.m. CST
TATOPOULOS = WORST DESIGNER OF THE LAST 15 YEARS!!!FACT!!!
by CarlThorMark1978
I can always tell when this fucking hack has his hands anywhere near a movie and it’s because he has one of the most unappealing aesthetic styles I’ve ever seen. He got his break working with Roland Emmerich on StarGate/Independence Day/Godzilla and his work is so ugly and terrible on just so many levels that it pains me to see his substandard shit on the screen.<br> <br>Just take a look at the shit this asswipe has done then compare it to the absolutely beautiful work from the likes of Stan Winston, Rick Baker or Rob Bottin. Any time Tatopoulos’ has ever been featured in an article of Fangoria, that magazine is DEAD to me now, I usually skipped reading it because his “work” is always awful to look at because it completely lacks any sort of elegance while always looking chunky and badly coloured as the guy only seems to work with various shades of black, white and blue.
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wasn't he the lycan with the deep ass voice in Underworld 1 and 3? guess its fitting he's working with Tatopoulos again.
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Excellent. Like a commercial for the graphic design program at your local juco.
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Pee Wee Herman is back!!!!!
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The premise sounds cool though.
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I agree. I don't like his work. Everything that he does have the same color pattern.
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Sounds kind of similar. That was a good book the the way.
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Aug. 11, 2009, 2:18 p.m. CST
Stick to Frankenstein & Dracula and this could work.............
by crackerfarmboy
Throw in the wolfman, Jekyll/Hyde, Invisible Man, Hunchback, Mummy, etc. and this will be garbage.
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Based soley on that drawing, total unexcitement. Isn't there a I, Zombie project out there? A comic? Hmmm.
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...I need a bit more to get excited about in a re-interpretation of one of my personal favs. Not much 'concept' here in a perfectly adequate sketch, but with little... design, just lots of misleading texture work.
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was a fucking travesty of design. This dude should stick to drawing naked women to entertain himself at night...not to unleash the power of his shitty designs on an unsuspecting public.
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Frankenstein in a fedora, rolling his own cigarettes and cracking wise with some flatfoot? Shit reminds me of SNL's "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer." See, you think he's a mindless brute -- but he's really quite intelligent! Make this a comedy, because this asinine concept will never fly played straight.
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A bald lady covered in lines (maybe bandages).
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That sketch of Frankenstein certainly evokes a very Blade Runner feel. Buit as far as charcter design, compared to the Bride at least, it seems lacking, it's essentially just a noir archetype in a trench coat with some scars on his face. Hope that's not the final design. Love the Queen though
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Man I miss colour in movies.
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anatomy is off, noticably her hand, breasts are off, bad cropping of her left hand (right from viewer), and just too sketchy...I'm not against heavy linework...but here most of the lines are just useless
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Frankenstein is a PI and Dracula is a crime lord? Really???
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...she had to lumber into mine. It was a dark and stormy night. We both new fire was bad, real bad. And that blood sucker from the wrong side of the tracks had Johnny Law chasing him and every two bit hackneyed premise trying to make this lame ass story interesting.
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She could have like 20 vaginas with teeth and hidden doors.
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They just keep shitting these things out and writing them off in the end
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and the phantom of the opera is the cross dressing high school english teacher.
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It's all so stupid. It sounds like the next muppet movie or something. And i'll bet they're going to "slick" it up with fast editing and slo-mo Matrix action, thus completely destroying the characters they are propping up as the reason to see the movie in the first fucking place.
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were good, but no, he's no Baker, Winston (recently rewatched Galaxy Quest..whatta guy) or Bottin, thats for sure.
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Why is it that no one realizes that Frankenstein is the guy that created the monster?! The monster is not called Frankenstein! The monster has no name!
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... as he is sometimes referred to as, wouldn't that also make the monster a Frankestein also?
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...is about the right word. Nothing wrong with having some fun w/the classic characters. Too early to tell (obviously) if this will be imaginative and rewarding, or a train-wreck hybrid of "Van Helsing" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by way of the "Sin City" style. Just writing that sends the ICY CREEPS up my spine. Just in time for Halloween.
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....since Van Helsing.<P>....along with some of the lamest design interpretations of these characters ever.<p>Never mind this guy's 'art style', it's the fact his actual DESIGNS suck big time generally!
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It doesn't have any "noir" implications in my mind... It simply reminds me of "I, Claudius" in suggesting an autobiographical account of a story you've only heard from another's viewpoint. I suppose the detective angle allows for narration, though that seems a bit thin. I guess the premise just seems far more wild than the title suggests. Of course, I really didn't understand the title of the "I robot" movie either...
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At least it doesn't sound like an out and out remake. God bless 'em.
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Aug. 11, 2009, 5:20 p.m. CST
Chewtoy, IT'S A RIFF ON I, THE JURY BY MICKEY SPILLANE
by CarlThorMark1978
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BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR
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So they took Burlyman's "Doc Frankenstein" (written by the Wachowski Brothers), Image's "Frankenstein Mobster", and Fangoria's "Death Walks the Streets" and combined the three comics into one? It's interesting to see these guys claim originality by taking bits and pieces from here and there. My money says the "I, Frankenstein" comic never comes out. Or, they could use the following tagline if it does. "In a world where all monsters are anorexic..."
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This film will sink or swim on that role alone.
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Or the stand-in for her naked scenes either. And where the hell is Sting?
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to that rumor that Clive Owen was going to play Marlowe?
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fuck.
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It's not the best title match though... Something like "I, the Monster" would be closer and maybe suggest the Spillane connection over Graves.... Although considering that's technically the unnamed monster's name anyway, maybe that's no better.
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You guys DO realize that "I, Monster" is the name of a British film back in the 70's. They couldn't have used that name.
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The Wachowski's use Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Lester Dent's Doc Savage and the immortal Highlander who is seen in different points in history to create DOC FRANKENSTEIN. Where is the originality in that?? And how is this any better or worse??
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WORKS IN PROGRESS?? Not the final ones.
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Because with all the HATE you're slinging, it's a bet you're still living at home, with no girl friends, working a job you hate and wishing you could do what most of these film makers you say suck, are doing.
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a bald chick in bandages.. fuckit, we're ALL genius' then!
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yes thankyou we realise its a SKETCH im living in my own home with my wife...who says FUCK YOU incidentally, patronizing twat
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Beaks is a fuckwad vibe from this... Very cool!
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...successful man that really has his act together making films, tv shows and comics. And "incidentally" are you and your wife FAT by any chance?
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for years - just getting a short story published for peanuts is a frickin' nightmare. my worst ideas are better than most of the dreck that passes for film
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yes I am, and no we are not. Which makes a strike out for you dickhead...stick to that pompous outlook shithead, its SO working for you.
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till i saw the name Patrick Tatopoulos attached to the sketch. His designs have always been the same kind of visual crap.
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...speaking of which, now that alan moore is a household name, chances of a wildcats movie?
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I haven't heard anything about this movie, until now! Thanks, Harry! Al from www.statuemarvels.com
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J/K. I'll check this out on DVD.
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... for Patrick from all you wannabe concept artists out there in Limboland! Granted, this looks to be a WIP, but I thought his work on Stargate and Independence Day was pretty cool, and his creature design for Pitch Black was one of the most original to come along in years. Keep working on those portfolios, sweeties, in between waiting tables and flipping burgers...
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Come on, seriously, Stan Winston makes him look like a kid with a myspace page
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To quote another tber "I might not be a dictator or tyrant, but that doesn't mean I can't criticize Kim Jung-Il." <p> The "are you making something?" argument is a pointless one - what is next, you can only judge someone if you are equal status? So Spielberg and Scorsese are now suddenly beyond reproach?
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I don't dislike Tatties designs much as some of the posters here do. I liked his work on stargate, godzilla, pitch black. the cave creatures were great. He did however disgrace himself on balltlefield earth, though I suspect the oddball cult freako Travolta had a hand in things there. This mummy wrapped size zero posh spice design is not great. The movie premise is laughable, maybe it's a comedy?. Tattie needs to embrace colour though. Someone teach him some Photoshop.
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His Cenobites are one of the most ripped-off movie monsters of all time. Every pasty-faced critter or character with super-dark clothes owes him some royalties.<p> That even includes The Borg, Edward Scissorhands and The Matrix crew...
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I'll go see Transformers 6: Mission to Moscow before I give two fucks for this silly bullshit. 'A more mentally developed Frankenstein's Monster'...Give me strength. Have a quiet word with yourself you stupid cunt.
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They should have kept the crazy beehive in.
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Aug. 12, 2009, 6:05 a.m. CST
"a more mentally developed version of Frankenstein's monster"?
by raw_bean
As I recall from the book, the 'monster' was unnaturally intelligent.
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You have to understand that Beaks has, contrary to what he wants to make you believe, never even opened a book in his life. The guy is an illiterate hack who enjoys sentences like those because hey thinks they make him appear smart.
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Now THAT'S a series that should be re-booted. The book upon which it was base, THE HELLBOUND HEART, is very different from the Pinhead we came to know. In THE HELLBOUND HEART it is much more sexual. The people seek out the box because they have reached the point of sexual curiosity where they have done everything and nothing satisifes them anymore. The way "Frank" the original opener of the box comes back in the book is because when he first opens it and the cenobites are killing/fucking him to death he becomes so ecstatic that he jerks off onto the floor and it is from his sperm that he is able to regenerate a new body with the help of the girl murdering for him. Much more psychosexual demonic craziness than the wayy toned down version for the masses of HELLRAISER.
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i was really amped for the new hellraiser reboot when it was announced laugier was going to write and direct it. he said he was gonna do the hellbound heart.<p> so of course dimension wanted the same old shit and laugier left the project and now i dont care. <p>hellbound heart rocks. its like a holy grail that will never happen.
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Forget these monster retreads... can we please have a Doc Savage rewind, reimagining or whatever. On second thought, they'll just turn ol' Doc into some sort of bad CGI crapfest. Long live Ron Ely.
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Aug. 12, 2009, 12:17 p.m. CST
If I turned in "art" like that my ass would be fired
by alienindisguise
Did he have 10 minutes to do this???..very weak. www.myspace.com/tonytreloarlll
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have anything thing to do with the bride of frankenstein? it look like a sketch of a balb woman...
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... check out alienindisguise's link... Looks like you've just found a kid with a myspace page! Well Tony, I guess you might get fired... but then your name isn't Patrick Tatopoulos. Speaking of which... A little advice to the wise: Dude, where you're at right now, I'd really apply a little hard self-objective critique and some *serious* thought next time you decide to invoke your "myspace" page to go one-on-one with an established concept artist who has a pretty good industry track record in more than a couple of blockbuster movies. Really darlings, let's leave Staples asap and get back to those pesky drawing boards!
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It's a comic book which hasn't been finished yet, much less released, then they'll get to the screenplay, which hasn't been greenlighted. Not exactly "coming soon to a theater near you" , is it?
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People here seem to want it to be grounded somehow? That's like bitching at Evil dead becaue of the acting.
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The way that Hollywood is fucking up classic monsters is not giving me a good feeling on how this one is going to come out. Some one mentioned a twisted version of Pinocchio, as Gepeto is the dic searching for a demented Pinocchio who is a serial kille looking for a way to be a "real boy". Now that would have been interesting. This however, does not, especially with that spider-man reject looking drawing.
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