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Spider-Man director Sam Raimi is staying with comic books for his next producing gig. Raimi's Buckaroo Entertainment has signed on to produce Monster Zoo, an as-yet unpublished graphic novel by Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel, as - as they say - a major motion picture.
The book, due at the end of next month from Berkeley's Image Comics, centers around a group of teenagers trying to stop the end of the world by dealing with a zooful of escaped, mutated animals and destroying an evil icon. The movie will be a live action adaptation, and creator TenNapel will be on board as an executive producer. [Variety]
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Thank you. I have a reason to live.
Earthworm Jim will return.
Mark these words!
I also really enjoyed Creature Tech which is about a man who inherits a fantastical laboratory when he moves into a small town. I think that would make a great film as well.
@Plague: I hope so. That was the hardest game I ever loved.
Except maybe Battletoads. I loved that game too, and it kicked my ass.
Well. And Mario Lost Levels. But that's in this whole other level of hard.
I take it back. Earthworm Jim is one of several evil games I loved.
Doug TenNapel was also behind The Neverhood, a clay-animation adventure game which I've always felt was one of the more brilliant additions to the adventure game genre.
Did anybody else ever watch the Earthworm Jim animated series? So fantastic! It had an awesome theme song, as I remember. Oh how I miss the cartoons of my childhood.
needler: I agree, Creature Tech needs to be made ASAP.
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