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Once they left 2000ad to write for Toxic and US comics, both saw killing Alpha as necessary to prevent other writers ruining the character. Looking at what happened to Dredd, Robohunter, and Strontium Dogs in the nineties, you can see their point.

Wagner won't be allowed to kill Dredd when he hangs up his word processor, but I'm sure Rebellion are aware of the publicity and revenue which the final Dredd story by the character's creator (creators, hopefully) would generate.

Amazingly; editorial/management allowed Alpha to be offed which says either they didn't care becuase Alpha is not Dredd or a certain degree of artistic autonomy was allowed, or both.



This thread is a bit déjà vu :

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,35801.msg672051.html#msg672051


http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38000.30.html

Then again, he did kill off Johnny Alpha, and is trying to recover from that - years later, Wagner said it was a mistake.

It was Alan Grant who killed off Johnny Alpha; this was after he and John Wagner went solo and split their characters between them.

Hit me...


Ride on

[Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous]

Unfortunately this is not the sequel promised in the end-credits and is a remake (by Shane Black & Jim Uhls):

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous

Joe Soap- *Priceless*

There's definitely a price on my head.

[Net Worth]

"Net Worth"



Simon Pegg - net worth: $10 million


Jonathan Ross - net worth: $35 million


Karl Urban - net worth: $80 million

Citizen Kane - remade as Citizen Sump.

[Star Wars: Despecialized Edition]

The extraordinary lengths a group of fans -with skills- went to, to de-construct Star Wars back to its original form, and ended up doing a better job than Lucasfilm:


Star Wars: Despecialized Edition

I liked it up to the bit with the American dude with the goatee giving it all that about "left-wing shit" As a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie I have to take issue with that remark. Hopefully he doesn't make that great a contribution to this otherwise splendid endeavour. I look forward to seeing the whole thing in the very near future.

I wouldn't take it too seriously; there's both left-wing and right-wing shit and I don't care what his views are -Scott Ian has been relatively left-of-centre in any political statements he's made- but I suspect he's alluding to the violent and irreverent side of 2000AD in contrast to being preachy, P.C. or worthy.

As both Alan Grant and John Wagner have said, "the more they made Dredd a bastard, the more the fans liked him".

all the fuss over lens flare 

there was lens flare when the falcon came out of the sun to rescue luke's x-wing from vader...

I get the impression that lens flare -per se- is not the issue for most viewers; it's more the overuse of it in what could be considered the average scene. In its context your isolated example is legitimate, but in contrast, the interiors of the Death Star aren't an orgy of light-fractured beams.

[THE TRAILER]

THE TRAILER

[half a billion]

Rumour: Disney to release original cuts of Star Wars on Blu Ray:

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/31751/original-cuts-of-star-wars-reportedly-heading-to-blu-ray

Been calling it ever since the Disney buyout - would be a great bit of PR ahead of VII.

Hope this is true, and if so can't wait - will definitely be buying, hope they do a nice job on the packakging this time round - every version released in the last ten years has been hideous. I refused to buy the current Blu Rays due to all the shitty additions which I argue went - especially with the latest alterations - way beyond the cosmetic and actually render the films unwatchable.

This is complex -maybe a deal has been struck- as FOX still own the rights to all 6 Star Wars films: the rights to Empire, Jedi & the Prequels revert to Disney in 2020 but FOX own the original Star Wars * in perpetuity - because they paid for its production. Apparently it's in George Lucas' contract with FOX that they cannot release the original versions and that any existing prints held in private hands be confiscated and destroyed. This might be the stumbling block if Lucas retained this as part of his sale of Lucasfilm.

I can see Disney waiting this out until 2020 for a full release when they can benefit the most out of fully owning 8 of the proposed 9 films; they all ready cancelled the 3D cinema roll-out of the saga and they were pulling in half a billion.


*It was FOX who paid $20 million to restore A New Hope for the Special Editions and probably did it so they could secure distribution rights to the Prequels.

[1967]

Or rather Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Don't forget though, that shot at the end of the original Star Wars (fuck calling it episode 4), where the Falcon flies in to rescue Luke in the Death Star trench. That's the shot where lens flare CAME FROM, I say.

Lens flare has existed since then invention of lenses and lens flare as part of a style in Hollywood films is apparent in films shot by Haskell Wexler and Conrad Hall in the 1960's.

Cool Hand Luke (1971)

That joke isn't funny anymore - Morrissey