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BE FOREWARNED - Discussion includes Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Promise (Part One), Nick.com’s “Welcome To Republic City” and Chapters 1-7 of The Legend of Korra.
Good Morning Benders and Non-Benders alike - SKKKKRRRTT! - Hello free non-benders of Republic City. Welcome to The Republic City Dispatch, a revolutionary radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series. This week on “The Aftermath,” Too long have the weak willed metal-benders under Chief Beifong held down the bending population. Too long have we falsely placed our hope in The Avatar. We promise you a new world, and Equal world, where even the most vicious benders can be met in combat by our technology. And now, the voices of the revolution, Matt, Da7e and Devindra!
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Hey! I think this is from a music video for El-P’s “Full Retard” which I’ve loved since I put it on the end of the OpKino INDIE #1 podcast.
Nothing quite says committed producer like getting smashed in the face with a whiskey bottle.
(When video drops, see also: Executive producer eating pavement while getting hit in the head with garbage.)
SO - HOW WAS THE AVENGERS? : )
This movie was absolutely amazing. Joss did an amazing job. Benefits to working at a movie theatre is seeing things first :)
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Good morning benders and non-benders alike and welcome to the Repulic City Dispatch, a radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series.
This week we’ll be covering “Welcome to Republic City” and “Leaf in The Wind,” the first two chapters from Book One: Air, which aired Saturday April 14th.
Hosted by Devindra Hardawar of the /Filmcast and Da7e and Matt Patches of Operation Kino.
Well, Time To Plan More Pilots
I wrote three pilots last year.
They have all been rejected from the only agency I applied to. Maybe they’ll be useful bypassing agencies as a whole, but if the goal is representation, never too early to plan the next batch.
Here’s where my head’s at.
WHATS WRONG WITH ALIX AND PRIX (sitcom?)
Premise: a guy and his girlfriend move into an apartment only to discover they’re next door neighbors Alix and Prix are really weird.
Hook: Alix and Prix switch bodies every time they have sex and use this “power” to manipulate those around them through subtle sexual politics.
Human Centipede Pitch: Closer (couple swapping movie) shits into Freaky Friday shits into Peep Show.
SUCK (sci-fi soap? comic book?)
Premise: In an America where Superheores have existed for about five years, a waitress in the fictional town of Diamond Falls Arizona becomes the first female with powers (the power to manipulate gravity), but has no inclination to fight crime.
Hook: Superheroes are science and the majority are misogynist psychopaths who would rather beat the shit out of people than solve real problems. So what happens when the first unexplainable super-heroine comes about?
Human Centipede Pitch: Watchmen shits into Breaking Bad shits into Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
I AM BECOME FATE (sitcom)
Premise: Josh gets dumped. Josh gets depressed. Josh gets a visit from Future Josh who tells him Josh is responsible for building the first time machine. Josh only wants Future Josh to help him with his love life.
Hook: Ever been dumped because you weren’t marriage material? How about - how often do you wish you had a time machine to save yourself money/heartache? The series expands when Future Josh’s wife also begins visiting the past.
Human Centipede Pitch: Primer shits into Looper shits into Big Bang Theory.
THE NEW GODS (procedural)
Premise: Internet has been given corporeal form, finally, and is recruited to represent The New Gods on the Council of Dividers, the meta-physical body in charge of patrolling the boarders between realms.
Hook: Everything has a God and all gods have the gift of free will, which means there has to be a policing body to make sure fantasy doesn’t mix with reality and to ensure that peace is kept between the New Gods and the Old Gods (and, yeah, there are Ancient Gods, but we get there slowly)
Human Centipede Pitch: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods shits into The West Wing shits into CSI
BEAR (animated)
Premise: A brother (12) and sister (8) bring a Teddy Bear to life by re-incarnating their dead pug on accident.
Hook: The Bear can talk, converse, and doesn’t remember it’s previous life all at once. Eventually, The Bear gains the ability to channel the siblings’ dead grandpa. This is basically a children’s cartoon about death. So, that’s the hook right there.
Human Centipede Pitch: Invader Zim shits into Calvin and Hobbes shits into Spongebob Squarepants
I’m registering all these pitches with the WGA this week, so I’m ready to hear which one sounds more interesting. I’d attempt to start that one first.
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Pooood-caaaasts!
Lot’s of damn podddddd-cassssts.
All of them in’tresting
Some of them looooonnnnngggg-
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Hi folks. I’ve been doing an unusual amount of podcasting this week, and it’s been about stuff that you - yes YOU! - can see, have opinions about and generally use to your benefit…if you should choose.
Here’s a handy guide leading up to tomorrows Indie-centric OPKINO with a whole new podcast nested inside of it.
1) Check me and Matt Patches out on The Idiot Boxers (HERE) where we talk about the first two episodes of Legend of Korra, which you can get from iTunes for FREE (HERE).
2) Check me out on the /Filmcast with Dave Chen reviewing WRATH OF THE TITANS and mistakenly calling Andrew Stanton “John Stanton” during my brief defense of John Carter. If you have the constitution of a 9 year old, maybe you’ll want to see WRATH.
3) OPKINO this week! Tomorrow specifically. And am I allowed to say that next week we’re reviewing Cabin In The Woods? (yes, Da7e, you can) How about that we’re going to have it’s director Drew Goddard on the podcast at some point as a guest? (Better not spill those beans, Da7e) Oh, well, forget that last part.
4) OPKINO INDIE! I wanted to find a way to spotlight indie film production on Operation Kino because I think it’s a whole different world of film and film production than what we usually review or talk about on the show (except for David, who has a unique combination of “attending film school” and “seeing obscure films”). I also work in production, frequently meet people in production and often have interesting conversations about what it takes to create something from nothing. I’m hoping to team up with my fellow podcast hosts and some super fun guests of the indie film world to bring you infrequent peeks into the some cool indie projects at various stages of development.
The above photo is of the beautiful and talented Brea Grant. She’s working on her directorial debut called Best Friends Forever and it seemed like a great way to kick off Opkino: Indie.
Check out this 5-minute preview of OpKino: Indie and make sure to download the podcast tomorrow at OPKINO.COM (or subscribe to us on iTunes).
DID I MENTION EVERYTHING ABOVE IS FREE?
WHY CAN’T I MONETIZE? : )
New DIRTY PROJECTORS!
“Gun Has No Trigger”
That text also looks like exactly what’s on FRINGE these days.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome trailer screened at WonderCon.
At the end of his talk, Grazier screened a trailer for the upcoming “Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome,” a two-hour television film which is set in the 10th year of the First Cylon War. Edited at rapid-cutting pace to Trent Reznor and Karen O’s cover of “Immigrant Song” for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” – which was actually quite fitting with images of ice-covered planets and (space)ships – the trailer ended with title cards flashing the words “It’s time for a SyFy game-changer.”Still no official word on what Blood and Chrome is (a TV film or a pilot)
It’s a TV Film made to be a backdoor pilot, much like the miniseries that started off Ron Moore’s re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.
It’s been sitting around undeveloped for awhile. I seem to remember first hearing about Blood & Chrome as something that spun off right about the time Caprica went into production. Don’t quote me on that timeline, but anyone who saw the first series and realized all spinoff concepts would have to be prequels knew that there was one huge event in BSG history and that would be the First Cylon War. Of course we get to see more of it.
I’m all for BSG: Blood & Chrome, even if Syfy mishandled Caprica badly, I think it’s harder to mishandle an action-focus, which seems to be the direction they’re headed in if Blood & Chrome goes to series.
I tweeted when I first saw this trailer and I still maintain the “It’s Time For A SYFY Game-Changer” titles should have been something more like: “Sometimes God Doesn’t Plan Shit.”
If they want to juice up the franchise again with new fans, they need to distance themselves from the tone BSG ended on and the somber hard science fiction of the less-successful Caprica.
“Back to blow ‘em up Space Operas” says the Blood & Chrome teaser.
“Ok,” I say.
