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Title: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: BUREINPARESU on June 18, 2009, 08:58:55 AM But maybe someone has already mentioned it before on here, either way, the movie I would like to talk about today is DOMINATOR - The first-ever British CGI movie. Hoo boy, this thing even has an interesting history to it (along with a few ugly details).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iBLpVSmNs See what you think for yourselves! Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: Cthulhu on June 18, 2009, 01:14:18 PM Fascinating.... :buggedout:
Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: peter johnson on June 18, 2009, 01:22:25 PM Hmm - Go back and check the archives -- I'm almost certain there was some discussion of this at some point - or maybe I'm confusing the title with something else -
oh, well -- Looks like tripe! . . . We love tripe!! peter johnson/denny crane Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: BUREINPARESU on June 18, 2009, 01:29:02 PM I searched, can't find anything except one post that didn't get any replies, unless I'm not looking hard enough.
Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: WingedSerpent on June 18, 2009, 02:16:26 PM Looks like cut scenes from a PS1.
Stiil, I'd want to see it Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: Monster Jungle X-Ray on June 18, 2009, 08:13:51 PM That is some serious badness of extraordinary magnitude... poor Doug Bradley should have known better. Still I liked it much better when it was a Severed Heads video :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkgV2uUoVIo Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: Jim H on June 19, 2009, 12:58:54 PM Wow. No wonder the character animation looks.. Like that. It was made partly in poser. :buggedout:
Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: BUREINPARESU on June 22, 2009, 03:18:08 AM I'll get round to posting about this production's actual history soon, bit busy right now.
Title: Re: I'm surprised this one has never turned up before on the site Post by: BUREINPARESU on June 24, 2009, 12:06:55 PM Bump and a double post, but here's that history I promised for all those who may be interested.
-First printed as a small comic in music magazine Metal Hammer in the late 80s, written and illustrated by artist Tony Luke. -Picked up by Japanese publishing giant Kodansha to be revamped in 1993, ran alongside the likes of Oh! My Goddess and Gunsmith Cats, even had a crossover with a series called Get a Grip! Tsuyoshi. Was written by Alan Grant and illustrated by Tony Luke. -Work begins on what was supposed to be a downloadable series made for small-budget CG in 1999/2000, adapted from the manga version of Dominator. -Project is halted when Tony Luke gets cancer, depression keeps project on hiatus for a while. -UK Sci-Fi Channel tells Tony Luke they want to turn Dominator into a film, he is given limited time and funding for voice actors (voice actors include Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth, Doug Bradley, Ingrid Pitt, Liza Goddard, Alex Cox and British Radio 1 comedy DJs Mark & Lard), old CG footage is salvaged from drafts with only a few updates able to be made. Alan Grant only has enough time to do one script revision. -Film premiered in 2002, Tony Luke survives cancer. -DVD released in 2003, word of a sequel begins to circulate. -Heavy Metal 2000 crossover occurs in 2005, sequel rumours still in circulation. -No longer a sequel but instead a bigger-budget revamp is going to happen with a manga illustrated by Masanori Shino in the works. -Various funding problems and license-holder issues means Dominator remake is canceled, only thing to come out of it was a working trailer and a pilot manga. "Somewhere along the line Tony Luke just said it was s**t and he made it for a laugh because the Sci-Fi Channel were dicks." A few random scans of the manga for anyone interested, it's insanely-obscure. http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8413/scan0006n.jpg |