{"id":7810,"date":"2010-06-19T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2010-06-26T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T01:27:28","slug":"monster-vs-monster-the-asylum-is-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/19\/monster-vs-monster-the-asylum-is-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster vs Monster: the Asylum is Listening!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember The Asylum’s biggest hit ever, the internet sensation Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/a> (US-2009; dir. Ace Hannah)?<\/p>\n

Who can forget it, right? It was a splendid example of a playful, tongue-in-cheek recreation of those extravagant, delightfully absurd giant monster films we enjoy so much — they may not be Art but are crafted to entertain the folk who get the joke. And there are lots of us. Many have been screaming for a sequel. One fan is quoted as saying: “If the Asylum doesn’t do a sequel to Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/em>, and soon, I’m gonna unleash my giant robot to stomp the lot of ’em into their own celluloid compost bin!”<\/p>\n

Well, even though the Asylum on their website are acting dumb on the subject, take a look at this poster, spied by CNN in the Asylum’s booth at the recent Cannes Film Festival, and picked up by Horror-Movies.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s the sequel we’ve all wanted, Mega Shark versus Giganotosaurus<\/em> — the latter being some sort of over-sized T-Rex from the look of the poster art. [Note: we assume the name, with that Giganot<\/strong>osaurus<\/em> spelling, means that it isn’t a Gigantosaurus<\/a>, which is a real paleontological critter that doesn’t look at all like the one on the poster.]<\/p>\n

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Check out this cool picture of a GIGANTOSAURUS (not a Giganotosaurus) by Vincent Lynch (1862-1935) from Scientific American<\/em> 1914 (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Note<\/em>: I’m reliably informed by Justin M<\/a>… that Giganotosaurus is also “a real species of carnivorous dinosaur discovered in 1993 in Patagonia and is the second largest theropod dinosaur after Spinosaurus.” He adds: <\/span><\/p>\n

Giganotosaurus was featured in Jame\u2019s Gurney\u2019s second <\/span>Dinotopia <\/em><\/span>book, an episode of the BBC TV-series <\/span>Primeval<\/em>, and in the video game Dino Crisis 2<\/em>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s already hit the big time!<\/span> Check Justin’s comment below for the Wikipedia link.<\/span><\/p>\n

As yet we know nothing about the film (apart from the obvious), but Kaiju Search-Robot Avery is threatening our contacts at the Asylum even as we speak. The big question is, what major bridge will Mega Shark eat this time?<\/p>\n

While we’re at it, we noticed this:<\/p>\n

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“Man’s Most Powerful Weapon Versus the World’s Largest Creature”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, you just know a film by the Asylum based on the classic Moby Dick<\/em> tale isn’t going to relate to the book all that much, but will up the ante on exploitation excess! Moby will be CGI big and wreck a lot of stuff…<\/p>\n

Check out the CNN video report below:<\/p>\n

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