Why is Joe Dante a God' And LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION has coolness!
Published at: Oct. 28, 2002, 5:33 a.m. CST by staff
Hey folks, Harry here... Ya know, sometimes when you hear all sorts of scary things about a project, but you don't know about it personally... ya just trust in a name. When I was hearing terrible things about LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION back before it started shooting, I just sat on it because I had faith in Joe Dante. The rumors were circling that Brendan Frasier was wanting to leap off the project, that they didn't have a script a week before shooting... then there was the infamous massive commercial tie-in rumors, which turned up to be not for the film, but for parallel marketing deals. Well through it all, I placed my faith in one name... JOE DANTE.
Why? First off, Joe Dante understands Warner Brothers animated mayhem. GREMLINS, GREMLINS 2 and SMALL SOLDIERS all exhibited a finely tuned madcap mental unhinging obviously brought about by overdoses of Jones, Freleng, Clampett and Avery. Yup, ol Tex, Bob, Friz and Chuck drop anvils, cross-dress and pass out exploding cigars in Dante's soul... I just know it. And I have faith in the man, even as I have no faith in the studio.
As if to prove my faith, FANGORIA recently visited the set of Dante's latest and they got to watch the bringing to life of AREA 52 filled with replicas from world class collector Bob Burns as created by KNB (who just picked up the BEST MAKE-UP AWARD at Sitges for their work on CABIN FEVER!) In the film, Fangoria is reporting that you'll see the Metaluna Mutant, the Man From Planet X, the Robot Monster, Daleks, a Triffid, a Fiend without a face, a seed pod from... well, you know plus Kevin McCarthy too!!! And if that wasn't enough... Robby the Robot is appearing again!
