{"id":7129,"date":"2010-04-17T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2010-04-17T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T22:36:50","slug":"sinbad-gets-lost-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/17\/sinbad-gets-lost-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinbad Gets Lost in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Asylum’s upcoming take on the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad, The 7 Adventures of Sinbad<\/em> (US-2010; dir. Adam Silver and Ben Hayflick), Sinbad seems to have found himself in modern times, going on the poster and the pictures so far provided. Thankfully though, there’s a wide variety of monsters.
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Sinbad, the original Prince of Persia, must complete seven tasks in order to save the world from catastrophe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Memorably filmed in the Ray Harryhausen epics The 7th Voyage of Sinbad<\/em> (US-1958; dir. Nathan Juran), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad<\/em> (US-1974; dir. Gordon Hessler) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger<\/em> (US-1977; dir. Sam Wanamaker) — each of them featuring some of the greatest stop-motion animation sequences ever produced — the tale of Sinbad has been a source of cinematic inspiration of a long time.\u00a0 The earliest I’ve been able to discover (without more extensive research) is the short comedy version Sinbad, the Sailor<\/em> (US-1919; dir. Norman Dawn), followed in the 1930s by Sinbad Khalashi<\/em> [aka Sinbad the Sailor] (India-1930; dir. Ramchandra Gopal Torney) and a few cartoons — not the least of which was Dave Fleischer’s classic cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor<\/em> (US-1936), which as it happens is also set in then-contemporary times, thus allowing for the presence of Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy.<\/p>\n

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Sorry, where was I? The Asylum’s new one… Yep, this is Sinbad, as played by Patrick Muldoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once again the “shadow” production company is getting in early as a significant number of Sinbad films are currently slated for production\/release. These include (from a fairly cursory glance through the IMDb listings):<\/p>\n