If they're setting the cast without at least a story outline, this could be very fun

Is it a failing of the film that Trey thought it was anti-horror movie, while the creators seem to think it's a fun pro-horror movie? Fans making something they want to see, a call for more horror films like we used to get?

Wayne and Shuster. They did a series of CBC specials for decades, watched by those of us in the border states. It was always fun because the first half hour would be sketches, with the second half hour one long parody of some genre.

I listened to the Cinefantastique podcast on the movie, and at the very least it sounds like a good adaptation of an un-filmable book. The story there was told out of order, and you jumped from time period to time period with no idea of where you were until you figured it out from context. The only real complaint was the movie cut between segments too fast, that there was no time to laugh at a joke or cry at a scene because you're sent to another story with a different mood before you could really react (this came from the one reviewer who had read the book)

It was fun, in the olden days, where you literally didn't know a movie existed until it showed up. Oh, you MIGHT see a trailer, but only if you happened to go to the theater the week it was running.

Trek was never good at selling toys

Actually, now that I think about it, given how merchandized Star Wars already is, if anything that aspect can be discounted. The toys WILL sell, regardless, at least to start. Given that, they'll actually have remarkable freedom.

Tagline for future DIF promos:

"When shit goes down, go Down in Front"

To be fair, I can't see where there's much of a change. There's so much Star Wars now, it's no different than Star Trek. We're not talking one person's creative vision here. This is a far different beast than when Disney got ahold of the Muppets.

On the downside, yes, Trey had better finish and upload everything fast, or contact Lucas directly and get some legal cover.

That works too One of the best panels at any convention involving writers is the one on how NOT to get published, all the mistakes you SHOULD make so the authors in the room don't have any more competition.

And that's before you get into the entire idea of doing a Final Fantasy movie that has no relation to any of the games. Now, yes, none of the games at the time had any relation to the previous releases story or character wise, but you had similar fantasy worlds, mixed in with high tech stuff. This, from memory, was straight SF.

You guys couldn't think of any more "guy sleeps through the apocalypse" stories. Day of the Triffids comes to mind, with a guy in the hospital with his eyes bandaged who wakes up to find the rest of the world blind. The 80's movie Night of the Comet has a similar plot, with only those who slept instead of going out to look at the sky surviving. I'll even toss in the Twilight Zone episode where the guy goes into the bank vault to read, and ends up being the only survivor of World War III. Actually, in a way the H.G. Wells story The Time Machine has a similar plot, except the guy jumps ahead in time to after the bad stuff instead of sleeping through it.

It's the same with animation, although in the US most animation has been limited in genre.