- GREMLINS novelization by George Gipe (1st print, UK) ....here is where we find out the "origin of the species" and are also told why Gizmo is the way he is (a long story short; he's "1 in a 1,000")
- confirmation that the vintage 1984 commercial for the Hardee’s record set has been located and put into high quality suitable for DVD. It will be upped and sent to me ASAP.
So, the project moves forward again! I'm going to be compiling all the information concerning the origns, developement, production, release, reactions, tie-ins, and years since into essay form, which we will slowly but surely try to turn into a special documentary for this set. I'll try to be accurate as possible and I will be honest to mention if something is "rumored" or "part of the legend" so as not to present anything without basis as actual fact. I have some ideas at the moment about some special things I'd like to include, so I'll list them below:
1) Peter Gabriel's track OUT, OUT was definately released in the UK as a single. Can anyone out there tell me if there's a music video for this? I have his PLAY THE VIDEOS collection and he at least did not include it there if there is. Or is it possible that there's been a live performance of it? If not, I was curious if someone out there would be ambitious enough to create a music video for it? My idea would be that it would incorperate some animation aspects and clips from the movie itself.
2) GREMLINS...MEGA MADNESS was also released as a single. Same thing applies to this as what I listed above for OUT, OUT with a minor exception; it might require someone to be able to render and manipulate a CGI Gremlin (as closely believeable to the puppet design as possible). It might be TOO ambitious but a short test clip should prove if it works or not. The idea for the video itself can always be changed at any point, even if it means no CGI Gremlin.
3) Is there anyone out there good at imitating voices? You see, for the GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH novilazation the Brain Gremlin takes over for a short chapter (to coincide where the movie scene with the film breaking in the middle and Hulk Hogan threatening the Gremlins). I thought it would be cool if someone can do a good-to-great imatation of Brain Gremlin (actually voiced by Tony Randall) then we could include this as well.
4) Is there anyone out there interested in doing some handdrawn artwork? The "origin of the species" which I refer to from the novilatiztion for the first film would be great to read aloud and I thought that if there where images it would work much better.
5) As for myself, besides the "essay" I'm going to try contacting Micheal Winslow to see if he'd agree to discuss his life and career as I'd like to do a mini-documentary called THE MAN OF 1,000 NOISES which would gave fans out there a nice background of the voice of our favorite Gremlin villian, Stripe (no...Frank Welkner DID NOT voice Stripe. He did, however, voice Mohawk for the second film).
Any/all who can help would be gratiously credited and a select few of them would be among the first to sample the set. Yes, I'm including those of you who have made suggestions and provided info I did not have already (see above posts as well as the future posts below this one).
Kind Regards,
InvsibileWolfMan