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Dead Space animated film trailer

justingray — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:57:53 +0000

I discovered this through the Hong Kong Youtube. Having written the script last year it is nice to see progress on the actual product. What I’m very interested in seeing is how Alissa Vincent is portrayed since she was the one character I felt connected to in the creation process.

Thomas Jane as Jonah Hex?

justingray — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:43 +0000

New ways to cause accidents

justingray — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:53:27 +0000

The people at IBM are hard at work developing technology we never knew we don’t need — a steering wheel that reads your lips, responds to your facial expressions and turns into a drum machine. Tapping out a beat on the steering wheel while jamming to your favorite tunes will never be the same again.
IBM calls it “Artificial Passenger” and says touch-sensitive controls at 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock let you channel Neil Peart while creeping through traffic. If drumming ain’t your thing, you can lip-sync to your favorite tune and the steering wheel will knock out some beats based upon the movement of your lips.link to wiredblog

Cloverfailed

justingray — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:18:33 +0000

I get it…I get the subtext and so forth, BUT, personally I didn’t like it. The imagery of 911, the questions surrounding why, what, where, what for, the monster standing in as a metaphor worked in the original Godzilla. Like I said I get it for the “pointless attacks on American cities by faceless enemies” and the ground level experience of a giant monster movie makes sense. What doesn’t work is having no solution/answer/payoff even on some small human scale. The resolution of “everyone dies” is VERY difficult to pull off in a satisfying manner. It makes sense in a zombie movie because we at least can fathom the source of the horrific events.

Truth be told this is a personal reaction to a film that isn’t bad, just difficult for me to like. One reason is that I live in NY and my wife was in Manhattan when the towers fell and thousands of people died. I understand the terror aspect and the inability to contact a loved one in crisis so perhaps being so close to the event has jaded me to films about it. Not just this one but all the others as well.
This on the other hand…

Italian Spider-man

justingray — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:00:09 +0000

The inconceivable…

justingray — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:54:57 +0000

The inconceivable…a blog update!

We’ve been over this before eh? Work demands time over self-aggrandizing textual gibberish. This is to say nothing of the demands of one’s personal life, which in my case doesn’t involve space exploration or being surgically wired to advancing technology. It does however involve time management in the creative sector. Just what has kept me so busy?

Some of you may have heard I worked with Jimmy Palmiotti on the Mortal Kombat V.S. DC game. Pay no attention to the Internet gripebox; tune out the squeaky voices of insulated, basement dwelling rabble rousers. The game is fun, fun, fun and isn’t that what the definition of entertainment videogamage should be? It is a fighting game; people hit each other, break things, shit blows up and there’s even a story to excite fans of both sides of the spectrum. Jimmy is doing 99% of the press because I’m temporarily marooned in my home by realspace related circumstances.

Never satisfied to play in one sand box there’s something called Power Girl, an ongoing new series from DC Comics illustrated by Amanda Conner and written by Jimmy Palmiotti and myself.

What can I say about it? What will excite the fannation? The approach is an extended narrative, a “life” in comic format where things aren’t exactly in neat little printable chunks (trades), progression, woven story, foreshadowing, shit blows up, action, adventure, romance, horror, sci-fi, pulpy superheroics, all and more. Not just boobs! That’s right, NOT JUST BOOBS. Anyway, I’m sure that’s not as exciting as saying continuity is bloated maggot-eaten roadkill baking in the sun. Just read it with an open mind…if you can. I don’t see why you wouldn’t because she’s got that whole convoluted past so why not start fresh. I said FRESH, not OVER.

That’s not enough? What about a mini-series for WildStorm?

What about web comix?

What about moving into uncharted media territory that may change the way we view online entertainment?

How about an animated feature film?

How about a ton of creator owned material slated for next year?

How about a 300 page children’s novel?

Yea, that means less blogging.

Speed Racer Next Generation Show and DVD Images

justingray — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:23:46 +0000

I found these at reelcomix.comI was hoping that the Lucy character pictured in the second image would have a bit more style in her design but it should be interesting nonetheless.

“Dead Space” animated film heralds video game release

justingray — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:11:33 +0000

I’ve had to keep this quiet for some time now but it looks like the trusty Hollywood Reporter opened the door. Both Jimmy Palmiotti and I wrote the first two drafts of the script for this animated film.

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) – Electronic Arts and Starz Media are producing an animated prequel movie to the upcoming sci-fi horror video game “Dead Space.”The film, being developed by Starz subsidiary Film Roman, will pick up where the comic book series on which it is based ends and leads to the beginning of the game.With the game, set for a Halloween launch, Film Roman president and COO Scott Greenberg said the company is looking to release the animated film between mid-September and late October, initially as a TV special in multiple markets, followed by a home video release through Starz’s home entertainment company, Anchor Bay Entertainment.”We’re really looking for this to be an event,” Greenberg said. “We feel we’ll attract the hardcore gamer, but we’ll also get sci-fi and animation fans as well.”Greenberg said there will be two versions of the film — a softer one for TV and a harder one with more blood and coarser language for the DVD. Starz also is eyeing Web-based and wireless distribution.Film Roman has been working for several years with Electronic Arts on projects tied to EA games. “We felt this one was the best one to launch with,” noted Greenberg, whose animation company is behind “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill” and the preschool hit “Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!”

Geek Magazine

justingray — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:59:10 +0000

Geek magazine #13 features an interview Jimmy and I did with the completely awesome Blair Butler regarding Jonah Hex. I think it is last month’s issue though.

Speed Racer DVD

justingray — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:46:08 +0000

Following in the footsteps of the classic series, Speed Racer: The Next Generation, explores the passion of a teenage racer with the most powerful and stylish car on the planet. Speed arrives at The Racing Academy only to find himself immediately intimidated by his fast-paced classmates, but armed with his new friends Conor, Lucy and Conor’s robot monkey, Chim Chim, Speed quickly lives up to his name and becomes the new one to beat in the driver’s seat! Along with action-packed adventure on the racetrack, Speed and his pals work together to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance and build the ultimate racing machine – the Mach 6.Of course “Lucy’s” last name is Gray as I named the character. Wink wink. It is still hard to believe this was written over a year ago.