{"id":300,"date":"2008-03-08T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/08\/vikings-vs-alien-monster\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T00:37:14","slug":"vikings-vs-alien-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/08\/vikings-vs-alien-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings vs Alien Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings vs an alien creature, battling it out among the fjords! How cool does this sound?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An age-old battle rages amongst the stars. Kainan\u2019s people have been fighting the Moorwen,  fierce animal-like creatures, for dominance.  When his space craft crashes into the fjords of ancient Norway, it\u2019s with dismay that Kainan realizes that he wasn\u2019t the only survivor.  A second passenger, a Moorwen, also emerges from the wreckage and into the time of the Vikings, intent on causing harm to those it perceives have wronged it.  As the Moorwen kills everything in its path, Kainan has to try and get the feuding tribes to work together long enough to destroy the beast before it destroys them all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is <strong>Outlander<\/strong>, an epic scifi fantasy directed by Howard McCain and featuring vikings, a crashed alien spaceship and a rampaging monster designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatopoulosstudios.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Tatopoulos<\/a> of <em>Godzilla<\/em>, <em>Independence Day<\/em>, <em>Pitch Black<\/em>, <em>Silent Hill<\/em> and assorted other big-budget monster design fame.<\/p>\n<p>I was naturally wondering about the monster and whether it achieved kaiju proportions. The jury&#8217;s still out, but some of these conceptual designs are suggestively positive:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen2.jpg\" title=\"Outlander Moorwen 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen2.jpg\" alt=\"Outlander Moorwen 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen_trap.jpg\" title=\"Outlander Moorwen Trap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen_trap.jpg\" alt=\"Outlander Moorwen Trap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen_statue.jpg\" title=\"Moorwen statue\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/moorwen_statue.jpg\" alt=\"Moorwen statue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/monster.jpg\" title=\"Outland monster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/monster.jpg\" alt=\"Outland monster\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And because it looks so good, here&#8217;s a shot of the prow of the viking ship:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/vikingmast.JPG\" title=\"Viking ship\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/vikingmast.JPG\" alt=\"Viking ship\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And one last image, of the alien spaceship&#8217;s arrival:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/crash_landing.jpg\" title=\"Ship crashing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/crash_landing.jpg\" alt=\"Ship crashing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You can find out lots about the film <a href=\"http:\/\/outlander.solsector.net\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings vs an alien creature, battling it out among the fjords! How cool does this sound? An age-old battle rages amongst the stars. Kainan\u2019s people have been fighting the Moorwen, fierce animal-like creatures, for dominance. 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