Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.comics,net.movies Subject: Comics-Influenced Movie News Message-ID: <2679@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 14:36:01 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2679 Posted: Fri Sep 20 14:36:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 04:48:41 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Institute for Criminal Masterminds Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.comics:2059 net.movies:7718 From the hallowed pages of The Comics Buyer's Guide: Universal and Lucasfilm are beginning filming this fall of a live-action comedy version of... Howard the Duck, one of the biggest (read, only) hits produced by Marvel Comics in the mid-seventies. It has a relatively small budget (especially for a Lucusfilm) -- $20 million -- and it has not been mentioned yet whether Howard is a guy in a duck suit, or what. Looks like a job for... Carlo Rambaldi!! Also, no comics people seem involved with the writing... Irvin Kershner, the director of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, will be directing the CBS TV pilot for Ecliple's comic series THE DNAgents. The ribald Swords & Sorcery comics GHITA, by Frank Thorne, has been optioned for motion picture. Should play well to the drive-in crowd, says I... "There they are! Dirty Towel-Heads! HEEEEEEY-OOOOH!" "What are you doing? We're on your side! We're with the U.N.!" "You-Win, huh? I'll show you what we think of you One-Worlders! Eat Lead, Bedouin Thugs!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*> Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com