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BNAT1138 One Sheet Appears courtesy of Kevin Conran's Awesome Super Powers!
Hey folks, Harry here... I met Kevin Conran, the production designer on SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW when I did the big SKY CAPTAIN event screening here in Austin, where we had real P-40s buzz the movie theater, the staff all dressed in period garb and the the theater was sandbagged right out of a Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoon. Kevin came up excitedly to tell me how much he appreciated my geeky enthusiasm over his first Teaser poster for SKY CAPTAIN. And we then began talking about Industrial Age art and design, robots, rayguns, spaceships, etc. It was also around this time that he began doing some amazing art for JOHN CARTER OF MARS - during the period when Kerry was directing - and before a really stupid executive at Paramount (not there anymore) didn't extend the rights. But for the better part of a year - one of the joys of producing JOHN CARTER OF MARS came the regular amazement as I opened up art from Kevin Conran. The Barsoom that he imagined was stunning. The vision was no longer Industrial Age... it was Art Nouveau with a Barsoomian grounding that peppered my dreams over that period with such visions.
Since JOHN CARTER ceased - Kevin and I stopped chatting - and I kept holding my breath waiting to see more of his work in theaters everywhere. And while you can see some of it in MONSTERS VS ALIENS - I missed chatting with Kev - and geeking out on something shared between the two of us. I don't ask to see what he's working on, because frankly... he wouldn't show me. But when I hit on this year's theme of BNAT1138 - I thought about working with my two regular poster artists for BNAT... Gordon Jones and D. Campbell MacKinlay (Cartuna) - but decided to use the BNAT poster as an excuse to bug Kevin and see if he wanted to help me in "throwing a show!"
Kevin got into the spirit of it all very quickly. Producing lovely sketches of ideas - but then he said he had one, that was probably too goofy for BNAT. After explaining for an hour that there was no such thing as TOO GOOFY for a BNAT poster - I convinced him to share with me. It was a sketch of me, shaved bald, being carried by two THX 1138 Android Cops - and their visages were those of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts... I giggled, snorted and cackled. Andy and Don had nothing to do with BNAT - other than... who doesn't love Andy and Don? And the idea of Mayberry in the THX 1138 future... bliss.
Yesterday, Kevin finished and sent me the finished file to send off to the printers... Here it is:
The final poster will be printed up 1-sheet size for the attendees of BNAT1138 - Now - if you want to see more of Kevin Conran's work... Head over to KevinConran.com where he has many of his drawings, sketches and ideas from SKY CAPTAIN up - and a promise to show us other bits of awesome that he's been up to as he gets them cleared! Somehow an ART OF SKY CAPTAIN book never happened? Nor all the toys that every frame of the film was filled with. So for fans of SKY CAPTAIN - go and discover the mighty skills of Kevin Conran! Creator of the BNAT1138 poster!
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for the 1st time
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Nov 17, 2009 6:46:11 PM CST
I can't stop giggling! The look on Harry's face is so cute!
by dannyglovers_dickblo0d
You guys are going to have so much fun. Naturally I'm jealous. Make sure to keep us posted on all the festivities!
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And hilarious.BTW, for me, SKY CAPTAIN is the true forerunner of SIN CITY and 300.
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The Man!
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He says that "bnat emails are legion this day" could this be a hint possibly?
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that's funny
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I thought you were losing weight, Harry. How goes the progess?
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he no longer needs to be in a wheelchair to attend.
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Guess Harry didn't want to pay too much for this.
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Interesting Combo. They're both dead, right? That's why they're blue.
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It shoulda been a contender
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Can't wait to see it printed!
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I weren't still so bitter about not getting picked. Le sigh.
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That adds some sort of holy geek destiny to this year's BNAT theme.
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i was going, but i'm not so i don't.
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It's the whole reason that he picked the theme... BNAT 11 and his 38th birthday. He's mentioned it a few times.
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Just in case you're not kidding, it's Andy Griffith and Don Knotts... hence the BNAT*RFD*, as in "Mayberry RFD." Andy Griffith is still very much alive.But, maybe you were kidding. I can never tell.
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He was kidding. I know this the same way I know you weren't, and are an idiot.
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Really sad it did launch a franchise. Like The Rocketeer before it...
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Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like blondie,
Check out my chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
Like sex on the beaches,
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like blondie,
Check out my chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
What else is in the teaches of peaches?
Like sex on the beaches. huh? what?
huh? right. what? uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
SIS IUD, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like blondie,
Check out my chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time.
Like sex on the beaches.
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
huh? what? right. uhh. huh? what? right. uhh.
What else in the teaches of peaches, like sex on the beaches.
what? right. uhh.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
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Mainly because he/she is serious.
I love rappers. Great stuff. -
http://tinyurl.com/cxo6m5
For those who don't know... -
Unlucky big guy. At least you are loaded.
Fat, bald, ginger and rich. Maybe you you get some nice rims for that chair of yours. I can hook you up for $20k. -
you know the cryptic fake titles for us all to try and guess what films you lucky fucks are going to get to see
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You're right, I wasn't kidding... just trying to clarify. Notice how I wasn't a douchebag about it, though, in case he actually didn't know that was the image Andy Griffith? If that makes me an idiot, that's fine with me. I don't get my kicks from throwing out insults in TBs.
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Harry usually posts the fake BNAT lineup the night before BNAT. Fun stuff trying to figure all of that out.
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I am relieved. I'm also afraid to look at the link...
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Very film noir!
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It's just so cute.
And I promise not to do anything too disgusting to it.
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My avatar name, The Reluctant Austinite (created by Harry Knowles years ago), is based both on my pointless reluctance to move to Austin AND on Don Knotts' "The Reluctant Astronaut," because I love Don Knotts movies! This is going to be the best BNAT ever!
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I love that song, cute poster btw Harry
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if you're not actually mentally retarded, then you're retarded...
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...one episode with Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. After the first episode, which depicts Andy's marriage to Helen and their move to Raleigh, only secondary characters from The Andy Griffith show appear regularly on Mayberry R.F.D.
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I loved that film. It gets an undeservedly bad rap.
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it were completely different.
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I was telling my how much I love it and she said, "Really? People actually watched that movie?""A few of us," I said, weeping.
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... nore like...
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This was a great classic kids/adult movie from my childhood-
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I loves me some Don Knotts! I even bought a Scooby Doo Video game with Don Knotts playing a character in it. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" is one my favorite comedies, and I love "The Private Eyes", "No Deposit, No Return", "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "The Love God" (oh yeah!) and --well, you know.
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Fleischers was a dick move. The flying robots in the opening were almost a direct lift from the original Supes cartoon. These two guys seem to have a touch of "Troy Duffy Syndrome."
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um, they gave credit in every interview they gave talking about Fleischer influences.
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Wank stain
Anyone else think reminded of a Sex Offender by that poster?
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