{"id":917,"date":"2008-06-03T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/new-mermaid-island\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:16:59","slug":"new-mermaid-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/new-mermaid-island\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Mermaid Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a notice of something interesting in the pipeline, a blockbuster-style US\/China co-production fantasy called <em>Mermaid Island<\/em>, that features a mortal and his mermaid lover. There&#8217;s no real information on the film yet, except that the director will be Jean-Christophe Comar (\u201cPitof\u201d), who directed the very strange, \u00fcber-stylised French detective fantasy <em>Vidocq<\/em> [aka <em>Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq<\/em>] (2001),  Halle Berry&#8217;s 2004 <em>Catwoman<\/em>, and the upcoming <em>Fire and Ice<\/em> (TV) and <em>Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles<\/em> (2009), and was visual effects supervisor on  <em>Alien Resurrection<\/em> (1997), among other things. After <em>Catwoman<\/em>, everyone is questioning his ability to pull off a fantasy blockbuster, but, it seems to me, he can at least create some interesting imagery &#8212; going on <em>Vidocq<\/em> anyway.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fire-and-ice.jpg\" title=\"Fire and Ice\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fire-and-ice.jpg\" alt=\"Fire and Ice\" height=\"169\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is really interesting about <em>Mermaid Island<\/em> is the conceptual art that has been released, which features a couple of giant creatures amid the spectacle:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mermisleart.jpg\" title=\"Mermaid Island conceptual art\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mermisleart.jpg\" alt=\"Mermaid Island conceptual art\" height=\"225\" width=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/giantmonstersattack.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/mermaid-island.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Monsters Attack!<\/a> via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a notice of something interesting in the pipeline, a blockbuster-style US\/China co-production fantasy called Mermaid Island, that features a mortal and his mermaid lover. There&#8217;s no real information on the film yet, except that the director will be Jean-Christophe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/03\/new-mermaid-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}