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From: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel)
Subject: Re: Rocket Ranger in the movies!?
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 13:13:04 GMT

In <77346@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v125lqbx@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Brian T McColpin) writes:

>In article <1991May21.184810.541@ms.uky.edu>, kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes...
>|>>
>|>>I spotted a new movie soon to be released that looks very much like
>|>>a spin-off of our beloved Rocket Ranger.  
>| 
>|>No, both of these are take-offs from the cheap sci-fi thrillers of the 30s
>|>and 40s.
>| 
>|*Sigh*.  _Rocket Ranger_ is adapted from a comic book, which in turn
>|was inspired by the serials.

>The comic book is called The Rocketeer, which is what the movie called, as
>well.  Like I'm sure you all wanted to know that.  :-)  Anyway, the point
>is that the game and the movie are both spinoffs of the comic book.

Actually, It's not a spinoff of the Rocket Ranger comic. There was a comic
called The Rocketeer (I should know, I was a production assistant at the
comic book company (now defunct) that published the color issues). The comic
was very popular, as the artist was famous (in the comic industry :-) for
his "girly" pictures. The book was supposed to be a quarterly, but actually
came out about once a year (for two years).

When I was there, three years ago as a summer job, the Rocketeer the movie
was in as a proposal to (I think) disney. I don't know who's releasing it, 
but I assume disney or a subsidary. 
I was told the movie deal would go through if Roger Rabbit was a hit, since
they're both about the same period (40's). It was.

The comic has been around about 5 years. 

Don't know whether the movie is any good, though.

Dan
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Daniel Mark Gessel
Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu