Monthly Archive for January, 2006

Donner’s Superman II!

Jan 31, '06  ·  13 Comments Tags: , , .

Now here’s an interesting piece of news about Superman, which aligns itself with previous rumors:

“Time Warner now owns all of the footage shot for 1978’s “Superman”, 1980’s “Superman II”, 1983’s “Superman III”, 1984’s “Supergirl”, and 1987’s “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” including distribution rights.” #

This is great news for a number of reasons, but the most important one is:

“The biggest revelation of the interview concerns plans for “Superman II”. Scenes shot by fired director Richard Donner (who directed “Superman: The Movie”), including all of Brando’s work for the second film, may finally see the light of day. “There will be a Donner cut [of “Superman II”] from what I hear,” Salkind said. “There will apparently be an original cut with the original music and more stuff.” Whether the extra footage will be presented as an alternative version of the film or included as a supplement has not yet been determined.” #

The problem with the extra Donner footage, including the Brando stuff, is:

“Obviously we will get something but sources at the studio mentioned awhile back that not everything has been accounted for and there are concerns about the quality.” #

I’ve got various bootlegs of the Superman movies, but the quality stinks as they’re old TV rips.

Incidently, the version I have, is the version which was once available for download, though sadly it’s not quite as easily obtainable any more. But I’m sure if you poke around a bit you might be able to find it.

Nonetheless, The Digital Bits (whose site is ancient and doesn’t have proper permalinks) seem to think that:

By far the best news in all this, is that it seems that Warner is FINALLY allowing Richard Donner to create his original director’s cut of Superman II! How damn cool is that?! As many of you know, Donner directed Superman: The Movie and most of Superman II back to back, but was eventually fired from the sequel. Director Richard Lester was hired to replace him, and it’s Lester’s cut of the film that we’ve seen all these years. What’s cool is that Lester’s theatrical cut of the film is being given special edition treatment as well, so you’ll be able to fully explore BOTH versions of Superman II on DVD this summer. #

This would definitely be great news if it turns out to be true.

Homeworld 2 Script

Jan 24, '06  ·  5 Comments Tags: , , .

If you’re into that kind of thing, the Homeworld 2 script is available for download. I was looking around for videos of their cutscenes, which are fucking cool, but couldn’t find them. Damn.

Update: Here they are.

Wintery Copenhagen

Jan 22, '06  ·  11 Comments Tags: , .

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I took a stroll through the HC Ørsteds park a few hundred meters from where I live, yesterday.

At Bo Shelves

Jan 21, '06  ·  12 Comments Tags: , , .

I promised I’d get some shots of our new shelves up here, and while they kinda suck, at least it’s one less promise to worry about. We still have some books, and in particular some DVD’s that don’t fit into this new system, but we wanted to refrain from filling our walls with shelves. For now anyway.

The first two are in the living room, the last in the bedroom, to the right of my ‘workstation’. Here’s how it used to look it’s hard to see on that shot, but the old shelves were keeling to the left… a lot. Which isn’t a good thing when you have a 20” cinema display to soften the fall.

Less Height = More Light

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Planet Dredd

Jan 7, '06  ·  26 Comments

My mate Poulsen, whom you’ll see throw in comments here and there, always talks of a fanedit of the original Planet of the Apes, simply named ‘Planet’, in which there are no apes. I’m looking around for a copy, because it quite sounds so damn cool, but so far no luck.

Basically, the idea is some people crash on a planet, walk around and see weird things and then come upon the statue of liberty, derelict on the beach… No apes… Sounds great to me; Tim Burton should’ve considered this for his remake.

If you happen to know anything about something like this, let me know.

Oh, and why is it so damn tough to find Alan Silvestri’s full Judge Dredd score? I’ve never seen it available for purchase, and the copy I have is really poor.

K2 Beta Two r157

Jan 2, '06  ·  32 Comments Tags: , .

Fixing the broken AJAX (file-name mismatch) and a batch of other bugs from the bug tracker, r157 is now available from the usual place.

And on a related note, Dave has updated his FlickrRSS plugin to v3.0, which K2 of course supports.

And let me again chime in with a plea: If you encounter any bugs or if you’re planning on doing something with our code and there’s some way we can help you by making changes to the core, then please, let us know. The easiest way is to file a bug report, which you can be certain we look at, and then we’ll take it from there. I’ve already helped several people who’ve requested minor changes to the code, to make it easier for them to create their custom styles. And now is the time, before we get too close to the final release.

As usual, support questions, tips and tricks, general shenanigans and the talk of fairies go in the support forum.

Update: Fixed the missing authors on entries in r157.