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The Unveiling of an Unpublished Ed Wood Script!
Edward Davis Wood, Jr. – A good filmmaker? No. An interesting filmmaker? Yes. Wood was a writer, producer, director, editor and last but not least – an actor! I’m not going to dig into all of his idiosyncrasies but I will tell you this… he was one interesting son of a bitch! If he was alive today, that is an individual I would love to spend the day with. The stories he could tell.
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Treking on with the Animated Star Trek Storyboards & Script
“Star Trek: The Animated Series (originally known as simply Star Trek, but also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek) is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s. The animated series was aired under the name Star Trek, but it has become widely known under this longer name (or abbreviated as ST: TAS or TAS) to differentiate it from the original live-action Star Trek. The success in syndication of the original live action series and fan pressure for a Star Trek revival led to The Animated Series from 1973–1974, as the source of new adventures of the Enterprise crew, the next being the 1979 live-action feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”
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Exclusive! Star Trek “The Cage” Unreleased Original Pilot Scripts
As any Trekkie or Trekker or anyone that has any knowledge of the ‘Star Trek’ universe knows – “The Cage” was the original unaired Pilot that started it all. This was before Kirk or McCoy entered the picture. It introduced a Captain by the name of Christopher Pike (played by Jeffrey Hunter) and a much happier Mister Spock. J.J. Abrams later recycled the Pike character for his ‘Star Trek’ reboot.
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Calvin & Hobbes vs. Some Toilet Paper
Happy Happy Joy Joy: It’s the Ren & Stimpy Storyboards
First off, let me get this out of the way…
Okay, now we can move on.
Ren & Stimpy was quite the cutting edge show of it’s time. It aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1996. But why don’t I let Wikipedia tell the story (because they do it so much better than I).
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Know It All Joe’s Screenwriting 101 – Writing Good Dialogue
Here is my Screenwriting lesson for the day.
So I have a young couple (early to mid-twenties) that lives next door to me. They’ve been yelling and arguing for weeks. Here is the argument tonight as she tried to get away from him.
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Harold Ramis and the Caddyshack Script
The Amazing Animated Spider-man Script & Writer’s Guide
Spider-man: The Animated Series that aired on Fox from 1994-1998 was the best of all the animated Spider-man programs to date. Each episode actually consisted of a story and an attempt at character development. As storytelling in live action television seems to have evolved over the years, many of these animated programs (not included the prime time ones) have de-evolved. I feel as if the newer animated programs have really been dumbed-down and their target audience seems to be aimed at five year olds (which is fine if you’re a five year old).
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How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way
I loved comic books as a kid. I still sometimes enjoy them as an adult (and I use that word loosely). I came across this fun little book a while back entitled “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.” Now it’s not so much a lesson in how to draw. It’s more of a lesson on how to draw characters in the style that Marvel does it, hence the title. No one is going to become a great comic book artist from reading this book but it is informative. It’s definitely an old one, but I think the styles probably still hold true today. But then again, what do I know. I can barely scratch two sticks together to form a stick figure.
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