Since they haven’t and apparantly aren’t going to release the footage to the masses (because why would they want to promote their film/develop some good buzz), a few wonderfully nerdy fans, who were among the 6,000 or so people at the Iron Man 2 panel during Comic Con, re-made the footage themselves in true swede-style.
So now you’ll at least know what the footage consisted of, even if you don’t know what it looks like.
Clocking in at a robust 45-minutes, the fan film, which is actually called The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, has a lot going for it. The flash animation film is a bit slow to start but really picks up about 5-minutes in with a party and then at 15-minutes when all hell breaks loose. How much hell?
Well let’s just say that there’s a Superhero party featuring every freakin’ superhero ever, Captain America disses Cher and teh gays and the Power Rangers’ MegaZord and Voltron combine to form an even bigger robot that fights Marvel’s planet destroyer Galactus. Batman gets dissed but Robin kicks ass and so much happens that my nerd brain overloaded.
Really, there is nothing else to say except that Holy Shit, this is awesome. Like an awesome soft taco that gets wrapped in the deep-fried cheese covered hard shell of more awesome. [via Bam Kapow]
Topless Robot examines the nine greatest fan films ever made, including some early efforts for Spider-Man and Batman. Some are downright bad. Others show the fan film artform at it’s best — creativity and ingenuity on a limited budget.
Of the nine, and to be sure they are all worth checking out for one reason or another, this Batman fan film Ashes to Ashes was my fav. One film in particular, Hardware Wars (1977), was apparantly shown on reel to reel in elementary classrooms across the country after it’s “release”; watching it though, however, it’s hard not to think of the current state of internet viral videos, memes and sweded films.
It’s impossible to think that our current cultural state didn’t begin and end with that particular fanmade movie 30-plus years ago.
After lots of anticipation, LOTR fan film The Hunt For Gollum is finally online and will probably leave you scratching your head as to how in the hell they made this film for $4,500 and change. The story was adapted from elements of the appendices of The Lord of the Rings.
The Ring of Power has been taken from Gollum by Bilbo of the Shire. The heir of Isildur sets out to find him before he falls into the hands of the enemy and reveals the location of the Ring.
Watch the 38-minute short in high definition here or here. Go here to learn more about the making-of.
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