A thread dedicated to small facts related to /co/ media or animation.
>During a trend known as "Batmania" in Japan due to the enormous success of both the Adam West series and the Tim Burton movie, different japanese studios and creators attempted to give a try at gaining the rights for the usage of the Caped Crusadres. Two of them were Toho and Go Nagai, whom respectively proposed, a Batman vs Godzilla movie and a Batman vs Devilman feature.
>Peter Chung (Aeon Flux, Reign the Conqueror, Animatrix) was directing an american adaption of the manga franchise Cyborg 009, not much is known of it other than a concept art of the character designs (Pic related)
>Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated the trailer for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut so much that they tore the master cassette containing in half and sent it back to Paramount (the movie's distributor)
>Among projects that Quentin Tarantino was invited to direct include: Luke Cage, Iron Man (with Tom Cruise attached at the time), Star Wars Episode VII, Metal Gear Solid and Superman
>Regular Show was originally supposed to be an adult cartoon based on the short "2 AM PM" by the series creator. It was deemed to "unsafe" even for Adult Swim standards.
>Brian Michael Bendis originally wanted Ultimatum to be like a Crisis on Infinte Earths to the Ultimate Marvel universe, rebooting it with new #1 issues. Marvel hated the idea as the wanted to end the Ultimate label and followed Loeb's idea on making Ultimatum what eventually became of it. The plan backfired.
>Prior to Nintendo's announcement on working on features based on their property, two projects were being development earlier: Metroid and Pokémon
>Metroid was to be directed by famed director John Woo and had a total of 3 scripts, being respectively written by Woo, Glenn Leopold (Writer for SWATKats and Scooby-Doo in Zombie Island) and David Greenwalt (writer for Buffy), Woo instructed the two writers to have the Samus character feel like a mix between the character of Tequilla from "Hard Boiled" and Ellen Ripley from Alien. Despite Nintedo liking Woo's dedication and all three scripts, they halted film development for 2 reasons: 1) Woo wanted the movie to be R-Rated, Nintendo attempted to push for PG-13 2)They were uncomfortable with the fact that future installments and their mythology would be effected by the movie's story, in particular Metroid: Other M (in development at the time) which was meant to explore Samus' origins (which was the main focus of the flick)
>Not much is known about the Pokémon movie other than the fact that Warner Bros held the rights and Nintendo persuaded them into having Robin Williams as Professor Oak.
>Gainax once tried to buy the rights to My Life as a Teenage Robot
>When Bruce Timm was pitching for the idea of Batman Beyond, Warner tried to suggest for them to do a "Batman show like Pokémon" where "Batman could capture and collect characters like Robin and Poison Ivy"
>>83044645
>Brian Michael Bendis originally wanted Ultimatum to be like a Crisis on Infinte Earths to the Ultimate Marvel universe, rebooting it with new #1 issues
Hey Bendis had a semi good idea for once
>Beware the Batman's producers originally pitched it as a No Man's Land show that would star the Batfamily. Every executive but one was on-board, with the one executive saying it would be too dark. The second pitch was a Batman/Superman cartoon where young Bruce and Clark were friends and got an apartment together, with Batman and Superman as rivals. Again, the execs thought it wasn't "the right time" for it.
>They originally considered having villains like Mad Hatter and Nocturna. Hush was also considered, but his characterization and appearance was given to Deathstroke and Harvey Dent.
>The Creeper was considered as a special guest hero.
>Greg Weisman has pitched at least two series to Nickelodeon and Dreamworks: his original story, Rain of the Ghosts, and an Icon and Rocket series. The former's rights were bought, but they didn't do anything with them, so they were sold back so Weisman could make a book about it.
>While working at WB, Weisman and Vietti worked on two other pitches: a Space Ghost show that would incorporate other Hanna Barbera heroes like the Herculoids, and a Green Lantern series that would focus on the covert op aspect. Young Justice eventually did. The latter would've featured Charlie Vicker as the main character and GL. WB lost interest in Space Ghost and GL was given to Bruce Timm, Jim Kreig, and Giancarlo Volpe, so Weisman and Vietti worked on what would end up being YJ.
>>83044546
>Regular Show was originally supposed to be an adult cartoon based on the short "2 AM PM" by the series creator. It was deemed to "unsafe" even for Adult Swim standards.
The short was pretty safe though.
>>83050988
that's how you know that's lies. it's also something nobody ever heard for any of the years RS has been on, whereas the story would have come out by now
on the contrary, adult swim simply passed on RS, so they changed it for CN
>>83044546
>Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated the trailer for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut so much that they tore the master cassette containing in half and sent it back to Paramount (the movie's distributor)
The way I heard it (and this was from Matt Stone's own mouth in an interview) they hated the trailer but paramount wasn't going to listen to them and was going to release it anyway, so Matt Stone stole the recording and hid it so it wouldn't be released.
>>83044546
>Batman v Godzilla
>It's Godzilla saves more people than Bats the movie
Oh well you'll never see Michael Keaton ride top of Godzilla's head while they plow Gotham.
;_;
>>83049456
>a Space Ghost show that would incorporate other Hanna Barbera heroes like the Herculoids
So basically what ended up being Future Quest, but with Jonny Quest as the protag?
>Genndy Tartakovsky was originally the director for the Imagi Astro Boy movie, thinking of making the movie follow the Atlas saga. He left to work for an unproduced Dark Crystal sequel
>Mark Millar originally worked on a script called "The Rape of Wonder Woman" for DC to coincide with Knightfall and the Death of Superman. Heavy pressure surrounding people working at the DC due to its sexism made them drop the script
>Hiroyuki Imaishi (creator of KLK and Gurren Lagann) was originally supposed to be in creative control of Powerpuff Girls Z but left for unknown reasons
>Due to problems surrounding the portrayal of Gandhi in Clone High, Phil Lord and Tim Miller proposed an episode for Viacom as part of the 1st episode of the 2nd season to explain that Gandhi was actually a clone of Gary Coleman instead of the actual Gandhi. They immediately turned down the idea.
>Beetlejuice has red fingernails in the cartoon as part of an inside joke between the people working on the cartoon. It had to do with a drawing one of the staff members made of Beetlejuice fingering Lydia.
>Edgar Wright originally wanted the Scott Pilgrim movie to end by showing that the fight scenes and the league of evil exes were all a oroduct of Scott's head, and that he had actually murdered each of the evil exes out of jealousy.
>The band t.a.T.u originally had an anime movie that had the input of Shinnichiro Watanabe (creator of Cowboy Bebop) as one of the executive producers and whom was directing the opening sequence for the flick. It was cancelled for unknown reasons, but the movie's website is functional on the internet wayback machine
>>83046574
Bendis has good ideas but his execution is shit.
>>83051775
That wasn't the trailer, but rather an edited music clip of a popular pop-song at the time that was made and edited by the Paramount staff. It was a compillation of different moments from the movie and the series synched with the song's lyrics as if the characters were singing it.
>>83051931
>Batman vs Devilman
My money is more on that.
>>83052189
>"The Rape of Wonder Woman"
Isn't that also a porno comic?
>>83052189
>"I pitched this to DC for a laugh years back. The idea was that, like Death of Superman, we had Rape of Wonder Woman; a twenty-two page rape scene that opened up into a gatefold at the end just like Superman did."
>>83044645
>1) Woo wanted the movie to be R-Rated, Nintendo attempted to push for PG-13
Understandable, Metroid doesn't have M rated games
2)They were uncomfortable with the fact that future installments and their mythology would be effected by the movie's story, in particular Metroid: Other M
MOTHERFUCKER
FUCK OTHER M
>>83052721
>tfw you'll never get to see Samus with Tequilla's personality but instead you get to see a sobby bitch
>>83052721
Yeah almost guaranteed no matter how shitty the movie could have been, it would still be better than Other M
>>83044645
>>Metroid was to be directed by famed director John Woo and had a total of 3 scripts, being respectively written by Woo, Glenn Leopold (Writer for SWATKats and Scooby-Doo in Zombie Island) and David Greenwalt (writer for Buffy), Woo instructed the two writers to have the Samus character feel like a mix between the character of Tequilla from "Hard Boiled" and Ellen Ripley from Alien. Despite Nintedo liking Woo's dedication and all three scripts, they halted film development for 2 reasons: 1) Woo wanted the movie to be R-Rated, Nintendo attempted to push for PG-13 2)They were uncomfortable with the fact that future installments and their mythology would be effected by the movie's story, in particular Metroid: Other M (in development at the time) which was meant to explore Samus' origins (which was the main focus of the flick)
What the fuck, this is true?
>>83049456
>and an Icon and Rocket series
WHAT THE FUCK
>>83052909
Yep, there's even a video on IGN about the Greenwalt guy talking on his involvement.
>>83044645
>Nintendo persuaded them into having Robin Williams as Professor Oak.
Fuck this gay Earth
>>83053016
Huh, interesting.
>>83044546
>Batman vs Devilman
Would... would he finally rape the Joker?
>>83052909
EVEN NOW, OTHER M IS STILL ABLE TO FUCK US OVER
FUCK THAT GAME, AND IT'S SHITTY EXSISTANCE
>>83053145
>The IGN thing in question
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/12/28/whatever-happened-to-the-metroid-movie?
>A Page on the Metroid wiki surrounding the flick (although with little information)
http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_%28Film%29
>>83052325
Devilman would destroy batman senpai.
>>83049456
Considering how shitty YJ was that sounds like a good thing.
>>83052970
Weisman's a fan of McDuffie's work. That's why he gave roles to those two and Static in YJ.
Also, some GL:TAS trivia
>Season two would've done arcs about the Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night, with the former starting with Sinestro framing Hal for his crimes and the latter would've brought back every character that had died in the series
>John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, and Alan Scott would've guest starred. John would've chased Hal a la The Fugitive, Kyle would've been a fanboy, and Alan was hinted at in the Steam Lantern episode. Soranik Natu would've also appeared.
>there was a video game in production that would've had the Controllers as the main villains
>>83048588
Hush is unlucky when it comes to cartoons.
>>83044645
Fuck. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was GOAT-Tier
>>83052189
>Mark Millar originally worked on a script called "The Rape of Wonder Woman" for DC to coincide with Knightfall and the Death of Superman. Heavy pressure surrounding people working at the DC due to its sexism made them drop the script
>mfw I just remembered a post on tumblr where a person tried arguing that Millar is a good example of how to handle rape in comics
>>83053890
>Weisman's a fan of McDuffie's work. That's why he gave roles to those two and Static in YJ.
I didn't like YJ but I always liked their inclusion in that show. Weisman has some good tastes.
>>83044546
>Among projects that Quentin Tarantino was invited to direct include: Luke Cage
....My fucking....GOD! That would've been amazing.
>>83044645
>When Bruce Timm was pitching for the idea of Batman Beyond, Warner tried to suggest for them to do a "Batman show like Pokémon" where "Batman could capture and collect characters like Robin and Poison Ivy"
>>83056922
>....My fucking....GOD! That would've been amazing.
I'd love to see Tarantino on a cape movie. I think he'd do Superman really well. A lot of people think that Bill's speech at the end of KB Vol. 2 are his actual views on Superman, but they really aren't, but were meant to be the way that Bill, a sociopath, saw the myth of Superman.
IIRC, Tarantino has said that he finds Superman way more interesting than Batman, who he thinks is boring as hell. He's written an analysis of Superman Returns before iirc.
I think he could do Superman a lot of justice, but it'd definitely be something completely different for him.
>Lobster Johnson does not appear in Hellboy II: The Golden Army due to Mike Mignola's wish to remain true to the character's origin. Guillermo del Toro has, however, stated that Johnson may appear in Hellboy III and that he wants Bruce Campbell to play him. Johnson has a brief cameo in the second animated Hellboy film, Blood and Iron appearing during a flashback scene showing Hellboy's birth and Malcome Frost's reaction to the creature. After the credits there is a teaser for the still unproduced third film The Phantom Claw, where he will assist Hellboy and Kate Corrigan in battling the ghost of Rasputin.
>In 2007, Dark Horse produced a magnet that bore Lobster Johnson's animated design, based on his brief appearance in 'Blood and Iron.
>The Lobster appears as the secret character in Hellboy: Science of Evil and is voiced by Bruce Campbell.
>The Lobster's original novel, Lobster Johnson: The Satan Factory by Thomas E. Sniegoski was released in July 2009
>>83052189
>the T.a.t.u Paragate movie project
fuck, i had forgot about it.
i do thing the cancellation coincide with the whole "everything is an act and they are not lesbians" coming out.
I do recall Tatu was kinda popular in Japan back in the day (cause lesbian schoolgirls, you knoe)
>>83052189
>Genndy Tartakovsky was originally the director for the Imagi Astro Boy movie
you just made me SO SAD
that would have been amazing
>>83057885
i love that Del Toro has kinda married Campell to Johnson
>>83054662
That's because most Loeb stories kind of suck around the end.
>>83057913
Well the fact that it came out their producer was fucking them both while forcing them to pretend to be lesbians ruined their image and appeal pretty badly.
>>83053890
Didn't watch the show until it had finished airing. it was pretty good story wise, still not sure about the animation.
>>83054662
Good, because he's a shit character.
>>83058815
bah, i just wanted cute lesbian pop stars and some merchandise
But Russia had to fuck it up
>>83060634
>expecting Russia not to fuck up gays
wasn't there a crappy girl pop band that gained a bunch of notoriety over there cause they deigned to say that "hey maybe women and gays are people too" and they got in a lot of trouble with the government over there?
>>83060935
Pussy Riot? They're a punk band
>>83061257
not really the focal point of the statement but thanks for the correction either way
>>83044546
>designs are out of order
This triggers me so damn much. Also they're not bad, it's just hard to imagine them without an overly cartoony style. I can dig the Young Justice style it's going for. 008 and 004 need work though.
>>83061394
i need to watch/read 009 at some point
>>83061372
Oh yeah they got arrested for upping the punx and shit
>>83052189
>Genndy Tartakovsky was originally the director for the Imagi Astro Boy movie, thinking of making the movie follow the Atlas saga. He left to work for an unproduced Dark Crystal sequel
FUCK. An Astro Boy movie would've been GOAT. Although I wonder, are they talking about Manga Atlas? Because I personally liked 80s Atlas better despite how he's a mix of Blue Knight.
>>83061612
you do know there was an American produced Astro Boy Movie right?
kinda mediocre plot (they shoehorned a bad guy in there), light on the heavy elements that are usually part of Tezuka's work, but decent over all.
i felt like they could have utilized more of Tezuka's existing work on the series for characters and plot but thats just me
>>83061907
Oh I know, I thought it was decent, I just would've enjoyed Gennedy's movie so much more. I just got into the original Manga and it's amazing, but an entirely different beast from the movie, with some really heavy themes. I feel like he could've had a much more faithful movie.
>>83052189
>Genndy Tartakovsky was originally the director for the Imagi Astro Boy movie
Wasn't there also something about the movie supposedly being a mix of CG and live-action? I have this vague memory about it doing something "revolutionary" with puppetry and CG.
>>83062308
indeed, might have enve gotten a sequal, or at least saved Imagi from going under.
maybe they woulda been able to make that Gatchaman and Zelda movie
>>83053890
Can we not do plans for a future season? Because that'll both make me sad and there's a shitload to share about Spectacular Spidey.
>As production on Batman Beyond began to wind down, Bruce Timm and his team pitched an idea for a new show to the network that was promptly shut down. Described as "Batman mashed up with Power Rangers" with a slick anime style done by Adam Warren, this failed series would've been set hundreds of years into the future starring a descendant of Bruce Wayne as well as featuring a cast of futuristic analogs of Batman's allies and villains, with one notable example being Alfred, who in the show would've been depicted as a robot named "Alpha-Red". DC absolutely loved the concept, but sadly the executives at KidsWB hated it, as the show wasn't Pokemon enough, suggesting that it be about three kids competing to be Batman instead.
>>83064976
Man, executives are dumb.
>>83064976
>the executives at KidsWB hated it, as the show wasn't Pokemon enough, suggesting that it be about three kids competing to be Batman instead.
>suggesting that it be about three kids competing to be Batman instead
What in the absolute God-loving fuck were they thinking??! Was every show on that network supposed to be like Pokemon??!
>oh look, it's Bugs Bunny, but with POKEMON!!
>look, it's Legion of Super Heroes, but with EVEN MORE POKEMON!!
>check this out kids, Road Rovers sequel, this time FEATURING POKEMON!!!
>>83064976
>as the show wasn't Pokemon enough
Wut
>>83064976
>with one notable example being Alfred, who in the show would've been depicted as a robot named "Alpha-Red".
That was eventually brought over to Batman: The Brave and the Bold. The episode with Zurr-Ehn-Arr.
The live action Transformers movie series is set in the same universe as the reboot of Friday the 13th.
>>83044645
>Gainax once tried to buy the rights to My Life as a Teenage Robot
No one noticed this one yet? My dick is literally hard right now.
>>83052189
Wow Edgar, that is just messed up
