vikings are out too, but not from interest just looking for areas not covered as much. There is, while non fantasy great comics and tv shows on vikings at this moment. for this exercise consider Europe from Norway to Greece off the list.

eddie please keep going!

"all these moments will be lost like tears in rain..."
its fitting that the last podcast was blade runner.

Ive been hearing this isn't just for the movie its for ilm sky walker sound etc is this true?

looooved it! Going again tonight this was a perfect storm for me, comic booky pulpy yet as serious as a heart attack for its concepts.

i love that star wars fans ten years later still are hurting and trying to heal the wound...
http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-e … ute-movie/

On the topic of vista vision there's a old story about how that format becoming a costly thing because of star wars and close encounters. I believe its was Richard Edlund who remembered seeing some of the old 1950s cameras at a particular camera shop as they were gearing up for episode one . When they went sure enough far in the back of the store were half a dozen units including one used as a coffee table! So he bought what at the time they could afford, two units which became the backbone of star wars effects. After all the hallaballoo over the movie gets to the point of knowing there going to make a sequel decides to buy a few more units goes back to the same shop, only now the vista visions are on velvet in the front window with each now costing double what it would have cost to have bought all of them before....ops.

i always thought once the terminator was out of JC's hands the strategy should have been "OK new guy director here's 30 mil only you go one dollar over budget we gut you like a fish, but you can do anything you want to and can have a r rating....and GO!

the episode should still be at creative screen writing podcast.

The plants were in the original book as part of the alien take over, so he had alien terra-forming in a turn of the century sci fi novel and a bacterial retaliation for his ending...
HG Wells was appalled by the British imperialism at the time and used it in reverse having England being invaded by a technically superior race who killed and converted the landscape to their needs only to be brought down by disease similar to what had happened to various British units in Africa and Asia.
I would also recommend reading the " Time machine " for the nihilistic original ending which has not been done in any of the film versions, and also the lesser know book "the sleeper awakes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes

When ever I watch "time bandits", "baron m" , "12 monkeys" and especially "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" i think of what a Terry Gilliam HP would have been like..story wise not that different but its feel would have been closer to the later movies and been a bit more over the top up front. He would have been great for the set up movie.