{"id":7905,"date":"2010-04-20T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:06:01","slug":"our-last-look-at-gatchaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/our-last-look-at-gatchaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Last Look At GATCHAMAN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GatchamanPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7222\" title=\"GatchamanPoster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GatchamanPoster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GatchamanPoster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GatchamanPoster-550x815.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GatchamanPoster.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>When animation house Imagi Studios <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/15\/imagi-studios-closes-gatchman-fate-unknown\/\" target=\"_blank\">shut its US studios&#8217; doors<\/a> back in February, we were left wondering what the fate of their in production adaptation of the 80s anime series <em>Battle Of The Planets<\/em>, <strong>Gatchaman<\/strong>, would be.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we still don&#8217;t know what is going to happen with the film, Twitch was able to dig up a 2007 trailer that the studio put together to promote the film to possible distributors and exhibitors at the HK Filmart. At that point in the film&#8217;s production, Kevin Munroe, the director of Imagi&#8217;s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film <strong>TMNT<\/strong>, and writer Paul Dini were spearheading things before leaving due to the ubiquitous creative differences. If you compare the design work here, you&#8217;ll notice that it looks a little different from promotional material released later on, so this is probably not too representational of what the final film was going to look like.<\/p>\n<p>While this clip of action is certainly better than any of the bits of Imagi&#8217;s <strong>Astro Boy<\/strong> that I have seen, the trailer still doesn&#8217;t excite me all that much. The generic music, which would have undoubtedly been replaced once things progressed to the point where a composer would have been brought in to score the final film, certainly doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>While I am sure that there are some fans out there who are still hoping that Imagi will figure out its money&#8217;s woes and get the film completed, I doubt that that will be happening any time soon, if it all. I think this is the last look at a film that died before it could even reach theaters.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/ictv-cdn-hw.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4bc8cc1e76a3f\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/ictv-cdn-hw.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4bc8cc1e76a3f\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/ictv-cdn-hw.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4bc8cc1e76a3f\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" data=\"http:\/\/ictv-cdn-hw.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4bc8cc1e76a3f\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">When animation house Imagi Studios shut its US studios&#8217; doors back in February, we were left wondering what the fate of their in production adaptation of the 80s anime series Battle Of The Planets, Gatchaman, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/our-last-look-at-gatchaman\/\" title=\"Our Last Look At GATCHAMAN?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2526,2693,515],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-gatchaman","8":"tag-imagi-studios","9":"tag-trailers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}