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Broadcast, 253. CometMits.com! Look over your shoulder, Freddy's back. CometMits.com! Hi, it's Mike Raub. This generation's biggest monster star is back in the movies again.
Where's he been, though, and what's been going on? And why isn't Robert Englund going to be Freddy Krueger anymore? Also, some of the things we begin to talk about coming up on… August 30th, 2008. CometMits News!
Even without the upcoming Watchmen, this is a unique opportunity. It's a new documentary called The Mindscape of Alan Moore, released on DVD coming up the 30th of September. It's a two-disc collector set. It's about the only documentary in which Alan Moore agreed to participate. There's a lot of extras on there, including interviews with people like Dave Givens, David Lloyd, and Kevin O'Neill. A 20-page booklet with a foreword by Michael Moorcock and a lot more.
And again, the DVD, The Mindscape of Alan Moore, will hit stores on September 30th. The senior VP at Wizards of the Coast has fired off a letter of protest to the aides and staff members of presidential candidate John McCain. You remember a few days ago, McCain said some pretty disparaging things about Dungeons & Dragons players, all in his positioning against Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The letter points out that many military personnel played D&D and enjoyed,
and in fact Wizards of the Coast has been known to send care packages of D&D gaming overseas to many of the troops stationed there. If you'd like to read the letter in its entirety, you can do so at Wizards.com. Just like in the theaters, The Incredible Hulk follows Iron Man, this time on to DVD, and into the usual packaging of both the standard and Blu-ray high-def packages. Look for The Incredible Hulk to be in stores on the 21st of October.
Now of course, like I said, there'll be a couple of different versions, but the one to keep an eye on is the special edition and the Blu-ray versions, because they have all the extra features that include things like a modern and opening, a feature on the making of the movie, a feature on becoming the Hulk as we look at Edward Norton's approach to how he took on the role, and a lot more including, and they're saying this, deleted scenes.
There's no report as to whether one of those deleted scenes will be the much rumored one that features The Hulk's meeting with Captain America. Soon as we know, we'll let you know. Some bits and pieces for the upcoming new TV season. Chuck, which is not only a TV series, but a comic as well, returns on NBC, and now NBC says they're picking up another nine episodes, which pretty much makes it a full season for Chuck.
The new season begins at 8 p.m. on September 29th. In an effort to get the public eye turned back on the show, pushing Daisies ABC is planning a publicity tour that includes a traveling bakery and a free pie to promote the series. It'll begin in the next couple of weeks, all leading up to the return of pushing Daisies on ABC at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1st. And when Fox brings back Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles,
look for the death of a major character to take place somewhere in the first three or four episodes. And speaking of TV, Aaron Sorkin is back this time with his new project. It's a film about the origins of Facebook. No production notes or casting have been announced so far, but we'll keep an eye on that. And I'm sure if you're a Facebook user, you'll see plenty of information there.
Hi, this is Rosario Dawson, and you're listening to ComicMix. ComicMix Radio! ComicMix Radio! Robert Englund has made over a hundred appearances on film and television. From TV you knew him best from the V-Series, but in movies his biggest success was Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
England followed in the footsteps of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. He became the first big solo monster star of the 1980s and 90s. And he's only one of two actors to play a horror character eight times in a row in the movies. But it's been almost a decade since the last appearance of Freddy. So where has England been?
In recent years, the last few years, I've had a great simpatico with this company, Anchor Bay, which really responds to that wonderful kind of homemade, Sam Laney, Evil Dead, horror comedy stuff. And they really know how to promote it, and they really believe in it, and they really know it's going to have shelf life. And I don't know whether it's because it's a reaction to big budget overproduced failures as opposed to big budget overproduced things that I love.
Count me in on Hellboy 2, count me in on The Dark Knight, or whether it's just that there's so much homemade great stuff on YouTube now that that folk-arty, low-budget thing now that is taken on a new sensibility for fans, and they can deal with both. They can watch a $100 million movie one day, and they can pop on a little low-budget $2 million movie that we all have fun with, like Jackbook's Monster Slayer, Zombie Stripper, or Hatchet, or Behind the Mask. These are the ones I've been involved with the last couple years that we had so much fun with.
They're all what we call, what I call, cheap thrills. But I think there's always got to be room for a cheap thrill. So have the big budgets, forest horror movies back into the shadows one more time? Also, you hit that saturation point. Whether it's too many episodes of Law and Order, or whether it's just a little too much CGI,
and you see that same marketing as Ed Cutoff, or that same bug in Starship Troopers winging it. You react like a punk rock kid reacted to bloated, balding comb-over rock stars in the 70s in Disco. And they have the Ramones, and they got punk rock, and it needs that. That may be what's saw and hostile. But I think now it's become a kind of footnote of its own.
Does Robert think this is where horror movies are headed? I mean, horror, I don't have any worries about horror. I mean, I've got to just look at the top ten every week. There's something in there. But you know, it's where it's going to go next, how it's going to change, you know. I still, you know, we saw some rather awkward attempts after Blair Witch of playing around with camcorders and stuff.
But I don't think that's been exhausted yet either. I'm going to go home and I've got a little hot film that was one of the best scripts I read a couple of years ago. And this one's starring Adrian Pazdar from Heroes that I'm going to watch that's all handicam. It's like a crazy father shooting his children over and over again at holidays. And as you, the audience, watch it, you see something wrong with the children.
I've been an Oscar voter since 1975. Now, I had a DVD for the Oscars this year, last year actually, called Look. That's all security cameras. The entire movie is security cameras. And it's starring Jezepi Anders from Detroit Rock City.
I love it. We'll talk a lot more into Robert later on in the week, including information about his newest films for Anchor Bay that include Jack Brooks' Monsterslayer and the future of Freddy Krueger without Robert Englund. All that on the way in a few days right here. ComicMix radio.
ComicMix timeline. August 30th. 1977. Over at the comic stores this week, it was Wonder Woman number 237. DC was still on their ghost and spooky gig with unexpected number 182.
Steve Ditko was cranking out Shade the Changing Man. There was again Secrets of the Haunted House, number nine. Jonah Hex, number seven. From the Shazam TV series, there was ISIS number eight. And Green Lantern hit issue number 98.
At Marvel, it was kind of a catch-up week. There was Black Panther number six with artwork by Jack Kirby. There was Red Zone, number six as well. Marvel two and one, number 33. A bunch of reprints from not that long ago in Marvel Super Heroes, number 67.
We got Godzilla, number four. And Defenders, number 53. 1977. In the news, doctors decide that David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, is mentally competent to stand trial for murder. Tropical Storm Anita headed toward New Orleans, forcing many to begin evacuation plans.
And the U.S. and British diplomats headed to Tanzania to try and bring an end to white minority rule in Rhodesia. In the movies, Richard Pryor was in Grease Lightning. There was the all-time classic Smokey and the Bandit, the first one. There was one-on-one. Star Wars was still hanging in and a James Bond flick that opened up with a song from Carly Simon.
Roger Moore played Bond in This is Why You Love Me. TV Tonight had episodes of Happy Days and Mag. There was One Day at a Time, police action with Cojack and Police Woman and Chorus Leachman in Phillips. Soon, as the far surrounding of Golden Gate simply disappeared, they'll end.
1977. On the radio, an American music group with deep roots in funk, R&B, and of course disco. They were formed in the early 70s. By the middle of the decade, they had their first triple platinum album. This was their third platinum album.
Another trip to the top for Casey and the Sunshine Band and Keep It Comin' Love. Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend. We'll be back at work next week with all the usual things. We'll kick it off with a look at the DVDs and comics. Heading into the stores for the first part of September.
Later on in the week, we talk a little more to Robert Englund. And at the end of the week, well, a surprise guest that we'll teach you a little bit about. We're back again on Tuesday. In the meantime, plenty to enjoy over at ComicMix, of course. Brand new episodes from London's Bar with the Frankenstein Monster.
Mark Wheatley cranks that out and it is a treat. We'll be back with more of the new episodes of White Viper, Hammer Of The Gods, and a lot more. And again, all free at ComicMix. Commentarian news too. Updated all the time, but you don't have to just sit and stare at your computer screen.
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