It seems TV executives impressed by the incredible interest
in the upcoming new Thunderbirds are Go series are looking to option more of
Gerry’s creations, as well as surprisingly, a proposed Catch
or Kill CGI series.
When building up reference for the new Thunderbirds series,
many of the researchers drew on material from Gerry Anderson's City Magazine
publications from the mid sixties,and in particular TV21.
Most of the researchers weren't born when the original
Thunderbirds was shown and thought that the TV21 Catch or Kill adventure strip
was based on a forgotten puppet show that Gerry had produced.
Producers soon discovered that Catch or Kill was just a
stand-alone comic strip drawn by John Burns, but were impressed by the character of futuristic
adventurer Crag Gorton and his interplanetary zoo on the island of Locus.
For those unfamiliar with the character, Crag Gorton and his
assistant, Kipper are employed to catch or kill any wild creature in the
universe, and those creatures are usually big ,deadly and lizard-like. His adventures began in issue 90 of TV21 and
proved popular with readers.
As the strip featured alien Dinosaur type creatures, and
what with current CGI technology able to recreate believable effects, producers
imagine that this could be a case of Gerry Anderson meets Jurassic Park!
Understandably very few details about the proposed series have been released apart from a working title of' 'Locus'
Nice one Scoop. Posted 1st April eh? :)
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me! Hope Kipper doesn't get smoked! ha ha
ReplyDeleteHa, ha! Can't April fool you Yorkie. Be an interesting prospect though if it were true. Woodsy would obviously plump for a Project Sword TV series!
ReplyDeleteIts a small world. I've just picked up an annual to browse [I won't say where!] and it has Catch or Kill and the Lake Monster in it! Anderdipity!
ReplyDeleteApril fool or not, you should pitch this... I think you've hit upon a really good pitch for ITV Studios "Thunderbirds meets Jurassic Park". It’s a textbook movie/TV Pitch. It is so simple, direct and "piggy backs" on to some thing that has made tons of money before. Like back in the late 1970s Dan O’Bannon’s pitch for Alien was said to be "Jaws in Space".
ReplyDeleteYou should do it before somebody else does.
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