Before Turok was a video game, it was a relatively successful comic published in the 1950s. I never had the opportunity to read it, but I'm hoping that it one day gets republished, because I desperately want to.
Well, color me surprised because suddenly a trailer for what appears to be a full-length cartoon movie based on the comic has turned up on YouTube. And judging by the amount of gore in the trailer, this ain't no Disney movie:
Wikipedia reports that Turok, Son of Stone is a 70-minute straight-to-DVD feature film being produced by a company called Classic Media. What excites me about the trailer is that the movie appears to be based on the original material rather than the various video games most people are familiar with. In the comic, Turok was an American Indian who was trapped in a lost valley with his young companion Andar. The video games completely scrapped the storyline to substitute cybernetic dinosaurs and aliens, which I always thought was a poor trade-off.
Why a Turok movie now? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the highly anticipated Turok video game for the Xbox 360, hitting stores early next year. *cough* Ironically, that game also scraps the original storyline for a less-original plot about space marines and dinosaurs.
I have no information about when Turok, Son of Stone is coming out, but when I do, I'll make sure to post it.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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Wow. That had more blood spurting than most Hong Kong kung fu flicks.
Not only did they scrap the original story, the scrapped the idea of a story. If I'm not mistaken, there is absolutely no exposition at all in the first game - you're just plopped down in the middle of the jungle and the game throws gunmen, raptors, giant mantises and a rocket-launcher-equipped triceratops or two at you. Fun, and really bizarre, but the lack of plot always annoyed me.
Is there any way of getting some Turok old cartoon magazine issue? I used to read it wen I was 6 years old in 1959. Hector Amuedo (from Montevideo, Uruguay, South America)
Where did you go?
Apparently this comes out on the 5th of February ^^
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