Shadow of the Colossus of the Movie

‘Shadow of the Colossus’ to become a movie

By Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit

Colo “Shadow of the Colossus” is heading to the big screen.

The colossally popular video game is being developed as a feature by producer Kevin Misher, who has set the project up at Sony; the studio’s sister division Sony Computer Entertainment is behind the video game.

Justin Marks, the go-to young scribe who’s writing “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” for McG at Disney, is attached to pen the script.

Justin Marks is the bright young lad who wrote the script for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li that made the film such a rousing success (read: flop) so this is in good hands! From the early reports of the 20,000 Leagues movie, it will be terrible as well (and a prequel!) so expect Colossus to be a colossal pile of elephant feces. Somehow Justin Marks is also penning Suicide Squad (based on the comic book) and an adaption of Hack/Slash and He-Man! Justin Marks needs to be blasted into the sun.

More accurate than anything Justin Marks will vomit onto screens

More accurate than anything Justin Marks will vomit onto screens

Asylum's THE TERMINATORS gets a trailer

And it looks like it features old-school cylons, freighters straight out of Deep Space Nine, and a battle around a space station that looks like the end of Phantom Menace meets any random DS9 station battle. Plus all the Terminator homages as cars crash into cyborgs and do no damage. I am amazed this hasn’t been sued yet, but let’s just hope the best scenes weren’t the entire trailer (as is too often the case) Am now sort of looking forward to it.

Trailer on the official site

Thanks to Avery for spotting it!
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Gehara the long haired monster

Gehara: The Dark and Long Hair Monster (Review)

Gehara: The Dark and Long Hair Monster

aka Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara aka Long-Haired Giant Monster: Gehara

2009
Directed by Kiyotaki Taguchi

Gehara is a made for TV short that is the brainchild of cult entertainer Jun Miura, who wrote the screenplay. Special effects guru Shinji Higuchi supervised production on the short film, and it was directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi (who also did the independent kaiju film G.) It aired on Japan’s NHK network in February 24th, 2009. It hit the internet thanks to a Japanese YouTube-like site, and thus TarsTarkas.NET was able to watch it.

Hideo Akihara (Ken Osawa) – Hideo Akihara is a slacker who finds new purpose in life investigating the new monster Gehara. Ken Osawa was in Samurai Fiction
Momoko Akihara (Mina Fujii) – Hideo’s sister who doesn’t have much to do, though it looks like she would have a bigger role in the sequel.
Tsuruko Akihara (Mitsuko Oka) – Matriarch of the Akihara clan and also doesn’t do much doing to the short nature of the film.
Professor Mikami (Shiro Sano) – Professor who explains technical details of the monster attack to Hideo and others. Shiro Sano was also in kaiju films Godzilla 2000, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and Godzilla Final Wars)
Gehara (???) – Gehara is very hairy. He is not only a giant monster, but a long haired ghost, thus killing two birds with one stone. Evolution may have killed its monster with Head & Shoulders, but here it would only prevent Gehara from getting dandruff!

Pictures from Robo Geisha and Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl blogged all the time

Japanese director and special effects man Yoshihiro Nishimura (responsible for such fair as Tokyo Gore Police and the effects on Machine Girl) is regularly blogging pictures from his upcoming films Robo Geisha (directed by Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi) and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, which Yoshihiro Nishimura will be directing. We had a short article about Robo Geisha, but Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl was out of the blue. Twitch has a gallery of pictures posted (mostly behind the scenes) or you can go to the blog where the giant photos are posted. If we find any more information about these two films, we will let you know.

Yoshihiro Nishimura’s blog

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The Story of Early America

It was a nice day as we strolled into the Goodwill store. It isn’t a real Goodwill store, but some other charity whose name I cannot recall. In the window is a sign about how everything is 50% off today, the sign is up 365 days a year. After rummaging though the toy bins for anything eBayable (scored a Transformer from 2001) I went over to the books like I always do on the lookout for goofy crap. Best in Children’s Books caught my eye, because there were several volumes and it looked old enough that my mom used it in school. I was right, the copyright date inside was from the 1950s, and it reprinted stuff from even earlier. One such story is our focus today, because it is always fun to see how things were like in the olden days. I’ve scanned in some of the paragraphs of The Story of Early America that would not make it into classes in this day and age, for good reason.

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This is one of those books you had in school that was made up of other, smaller books. Sort of like the Bible! These rest of the stories are not entertaining, we are only concerned about The Story of Early America.

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Copyright 1937! We’ll find out what grandpa learned about America just before he had to go kill Hitler!

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Stupid people are stupid. What of it?

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Europeans will conquer anything, and check out those naked red men run!

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The story of savages

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The book waxes philosophical about civilization all of a sudden!

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Let’s get us some jungle Negroes!

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Don’t blame the English for killing the Indians, they were just homesick

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Jungle Negroes need to go to college to work in factories

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Washington and Jefferson did not approve of slavery (yet the book fails to mention they owned them…)
And didn’t anyone tell the writer the the civil war wasn’t about slavery, it was about “State’s rights”? (the right to own slaves, that is!)

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He was out of his, going out of his mind, how could he ever be so blind?

That’s it as the Story of Early America ends at Lincoln’s death. The rest of the book is not interesting, except for this interesting picture in the Kipling story:
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Yes, that is a mandrill spanking a short-nosed Elephant.


That’s if for now, unless I find another crazy ancient book for $1 at the thrift store! With today’s economy, it might just happen.