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Was there every any doubt he would?
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On March 1, the history books get a lot more interesting...
Aztec vampires gorge themselves on a small Mexican village. A masked hero of the 1940s stumbles onto a town that time forgot. A gunslinging exorcist works to save a boy from demonic possession. These are the stories of the American West your history teacher never told you about... because she was scared!
Edited by Russ Anderson and published by Pulpwork Press (www.pulpworkpress.com), HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is an anthology featuring nine original, genre-mashing stories of cowboys, Indians, aliens, exorcists, and tentacled horrors from other worlds... all wrapped in an original cover by Jim Rugg (STREET ANGEL, AFRODISIAC).
Those stories? Glad you asked, pardner.
Camazotz, by Josh Reynolds (available as a free preview at the Pulpwork Press website)
Wyrm Over Diablo, by Joel Jenkins
Space Miners, by Ian Taylor
Don Cuevo's Curative, by Thomas Deja
The Town With No Name, by Mike McGee and Chris Munn
Sins of the Past, by Barry Reese
You Need to Know What's Coming, by Ian Mileham
Of All the Plagues a Lover Bears, by Derrick Ferguson
Out South of Borachon Creek, by Bill Kte'pi
Cover price is $11.95 - that's peanuts for this kind of entertainin'.
HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD will be available for order on Pulpwork and Amazon on March 1. But if you'd like to get a jump on everyone else, it's available for pre-order right now on the Pulpwork Press website. Order before March 1 and get free shipping in the US!
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It's Day Five of our blog-tour celebrating the release of Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell, and that means that it's Russ Anderson's (How The West Was Weird) turn at bat! Head over to his blog and check out his detailed look at Dillon's creation and first novel outing.
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Three Questions With Derrick Ferguson: http://www.joeljenkins.com/
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Today's stop on the DILLON AND THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BELL blog tour is courtesy of Percival Constantine aka Dino Pollard. Go. Read. Enjoy.
http://percivalconstantine.blogspot.com/2010/02/sound-of-golden-bell.html
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The first stop on our Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell blog tour is Joel Jenkins' blog-The Vaults of Caladrex! Head over there now!
The second stop on our blog-tour is at Joshua Reynolds' blog-Hunting Monsters! Josh is examining secret papers related to the man called DILLON!
http://joshuamreynolds.blogspot.com/2010/02/dillon-and-long-road.html
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Just tried to grab it but I think I'll wait until How the West Was Weird is ready so I only pay shipping once. Psyched for it though. Voice of Odin was dope and this one seems more up my alley.
You won't have to wait long. HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD drops in a couple of weeks. I've got a Sebastian Red story in that one. It might be one you've read already, tho. And Tom has a story in there as well.
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It's here! Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell has arrived in our store and on Amazon with an e-book release to follow in February! But that's not all! Starting this week, we'll take the book on a whirlwind blog tour as we travel from the PulpWork offices to the sands of Mars and beyond. And there' s still time to get in on the act, if you're interested! Just contact us at pulpworkpress at hotmail dot com!
When old enemies and an emissary from a far country rudely interrupt Dillon's vacation, he discovers that an old friend has managed to embroil him in a brewing civil war of the island nation of Xonira. The Lord Chancellor of Xonira figures he can unite the enemy factions if he recovers the ancient artifact called the Golden Bell and so he hires Dillon and Eli to recover it from the haunted vaults of the sealed Blagdasen Citadel. But what good can come from unearthing an artifact forged in blood? And what of the ancient forces of evil guarding it? The author of THE NUCLEAR SUITCASE, Joel Jenkins, describes Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell as "James Bond meets Cthulhu" and you'll want to check out this heady mixture of the spy thriller and horror genres.
Interested in getting a preview of the book? Head over to our custom Dillon page for previews of both Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell AND the first book in the series, Dillon and the Voice of Odin (also available on Amazon!)!. And in the coming months, look for previews of the THIRD in the series (coming in 2011), DILLON AND THE PIRATES OF XONIRA!
Now for the station identification...
Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell
by Derrick Ferguson
Pulpwork Press Trade Paperback
282 pages, Retail: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1449590632, ISBN-13: 978-1449590635
Now Available at Amazon.com, PulpworkPress.com, and soon in electronic format at Fictionwise.com
If you're a book-seller interested in stocking this book in your store, please contact us at pulpworkpress at hotmail dot com. If you're interested in providing a review or otherwise helping with the promotion of this book, please contact us at the same address.
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Cool. I'm a big fan of both GUN and RED DEAD REVOLVER
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Was this filmed entirely green screen?
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read the first chapter Derrick and supremely dug it. i like the updates combined with the retro feel.
I'll be reading this and your other stuff as I've been meaning to for so long.
Glad you liked it and I hope the rest of it doesn't disappoint.
Both COTU and The Doom Patrol are supposed to be taking place in a version of the DC Universe where The Silver Age never ended which accounts for the modern updates combined with the retro.
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Rio Bravo: I could watch this movie every day. John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson. Awesome. And the disturbingly hot Angie Dickinson.
What do you think about the remake made just seven years later? EL DORADO w/ John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan. For me it's one of the rare times that a remake is just as good as the original. But I think Robert Mitchum as the drunken sheriff edges out Dean Martin slightly.
The really disturbing thing about Angie Dickinson in RIO BRAVO is the conversations she has with John Wayne. It's as if she speaks entirely in non sequeters. Even the John Wayne character looks at her in confused disbelief as she goes on and on in her increasing bizarre stream-of-consciousness ramblings.
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I don't think it's fair to judge the whole franchise based on Salvation and TSCC. Salvation's only crime was being boring, and TSCC didn't have the budget it needed.
I don't. I've seen all the TERMINATOR movies and have the first two in my movie library as I feel they told a satisfying story and there was no need to keep beating the poor dead horse into pulp. Even James Cameron turned down directing T3 as he himself thought the story he wanted to tell was done but he advised Arnold Schwarzenegger to do it for the money. As for THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, I stuck it out through the first season but it just couldn't keep my interest.
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Can't they just let this go, already? Does anybody really care about The Terminator franchise anymore? TERMINATOR: SALVATION was about as exciting as watching somebody sweep up toe nail clippings and nobody cared about THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES.
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I dunno, Michael Chiklis was a damn fine Ben, and Chris Evans was a bit rough in the first movie, but steadily improved. Plus you know, Doug Jones/Lawrence Fishburne as the Surfer. There have been way worse comic book movies.
The first movie was a television pilot on steroids but RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER was light-years ahead of the first one. It was just so refreshing to see a superhero movie where the superheroes were having fun with their powers and being superheroes. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis hit the perfect notes in the Ben/Johnny relationship. The only thing wrong with the story was plugging Doctor Doom into it. The writers shoulda had the general played by Andre Braugher steal The Surfer's power and go nutso.
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My Skype name is (surprise!) Derrick Ferguson
I'm on AIM as DerrickFerguson1
If you see me on either one feel free to holla.
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Create the character your way, if the director loves it or hates it, he'll let you know. Don't try and rewrite the script or direct the scene. You're not getting paid for that.
...Sorry, if you couldn't tell this is the kind of thing that pisses me off all the time.
Kinda pisses me off as well as comic book fans seem to think that actors should be bowing and scraping and just gosh-all-ass-kissingly-ain't-I-blessed-to-be-in-a-superhero-movie-happy and take any kind of shit the studio or directors hand out just to be able to say they were in a Marvel or DC movie. I think Mr. Townsend did the right thing for everybody by walking. I don't trust or respect anybody who doesn't look out for themselves first. If you don't look out for yourself nobody else will. No doubt Mr. Townsend will soon get another job more suited to his talent.
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Real world, though, actors on blockbuster movies are there to perform what they're asked to perform unless they are a driving factor in the film. Robert Downey Jr. should and does have input on Iron Man, but a guy who's supporting at best? No way. There's too much money involved.
Sure, Robert Downey, Jr. has all the input in the world now. But that's after the success of IRON MAN and TROPIC THUNDER. Previous to those movies Robert Downey, Jr. was busy rebuilding his career after a long period of substance abuse and rehab. There was even a couple of movies he worked on where his salary was withheld until his work was finished. Prior to IRON MAN he was billed as a Supporting Actor in most of the movies he did from 2000 on including the movie he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor: TROPIC THUNDER.
So I don't think being a supporting actor in a blockbuster movie is as trivial as some might see it. The right supporting role can open all sorts of doors and provide opportunities most actors never even come near. All the more reason for an actor to want to be sure that he's got some say so in how the role he's playing should be played.
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Ultimately, if some douchy actor playing one of the Warriors Three thought he was going to get input, he's too stupid to be on the project anyway.
Putting aside the actor's alleged douchy-ness for the time being, why shouldn't he have input into the role he's playing? An actor isn't like an assembly line worker and movies are a collaborative work after all. Presumably when an actor is picked for a role it's because the director/casting director/producer thought there was something he/she could bring to the project. So why not listen to their input?
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According to The Associated Press, Irish actor Stuart Townsend has left the production of Kenneth Branagh's Thor, in which he had been cast in the role of Fandral, one of the Warriors Three, over creative differences. He has already been replaced by virtual unknown Joshua Dallas, who recently appeared in the horror sequel The Descent: Part 2 (still unreleased in the States) and has a part in the George Lucas produced Red Tails.
The change in cast happened last week, just as the film was about to start shooting on Monday, and it's the second last minute replacement Townsend has faced, after being replaced by Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy in a similar situation.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62266
I don't get how actors can have "creative differences". They are just there to act, not write their character.
Edit: According to AICN, he was fired for being a douche and showing up 6 hours late to a screen test.
The term "creative differences" covers a multitude of sins. I look at it as movie shorthand for "whatever happened is none of your business and we're not gonna tell you what really happened so stop asking" But on occasion there are actual disagreements among actors/writers/directors/producers about the project that simply can't be resolved and somebody elects to pick up their marbles and go play somewhere else.
And I have to admit that I don't understand you saying that you don't understand how actors can have creative differences. Sure they can. Some actors see their job as just that: a job. They come in, hit their marks, say their lines and that's it. Others like to have more input into the process and that's where we get some of the finest actors working in movies today.
I've only seen Stuart Townsend in two things: the recent ABC remake of "The Night Stalker" and "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen." I liked him in both even though "The Night Stalker" was a horrible idea and should never have seen the light of day. A waste of the talents of both Townsend and Gabrielle Union. I wonder if his problems come more from him being miscast than anything else.
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Funny women get saddled with a lot of bad rumors. She's fucking awesome. And fucking hot. Who gives a shit.
Amen, brother. Amen, I says!
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10. Animaniacs
9. Darkwing Duck
8. Spiderman: The Animated Series
7. Batman: The Brave and the Bold
6. The Simpsons
5. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
4. The DCAU (1. JLU 2. BTAS 3. STAS 4. JL 5. BB)
3. Samurai Jack
2. The Venture Brothers
1. South Park
I could kick myself real hard for forgetting SAMURAI JACK. Never found anything the least bit funny about either THE VENTURE BROTHERS or AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE, tho.
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My biggest question is how in the hell is Last Call With Carson Daily still on despite all this?
Carson tests well with people who fall asleep drunk on their couches without turning the TV off.
So that's how he nailed Tara Reid...
I'm still trying to figure out how Jimmy Kimmel nailed Sarah Silverman...
24 The Movie
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I remember around the fifth or sixth season there was talk of killing off Jack Bauer and continuing '24' with another character which I actually thought would have been a pretty good way to go. After awhile one starts to wonder just how many catastrophic bad days can a guy have?