Re: William Conraddr_hermesJanuary 23 2011, 01:37:20 UTC
It is indeed. Conrad played the role on the radio version and did a great job. TV executives somehow didn't think he looked the part, though. James Arness ended up as Matt Dillon in a long-running TV GUNSMOKE.
Re: William Conradfull_metal_oxJanuary 23 2011, 02:25:30 UTC
The magic of voice acting enabled Conrad (under the pseudonym "J. Darnoc") to portray another classic Western hero in the 1980 cartoon series THE TARZAN/LONE RANGER/ZORRO ADVENTURE HOUR.
As some comic or other quipped “when we heard him on the radio we thought he was 7 feet tall, how were we to know it more like 7 feet wide?”
Which is not fair, but that’s comics for you.
By the way, while this far in advance it could easily fall though, at this time there is allegedly a Gunsmoke movie in the works for release in 2012.
Also a Man from U.N.C.L.E. film with George Clooney.
And god help us a Welcome Back Kotter movie.
Also, and this I actually like the sound of.
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At The Mountains Of Madness
About a group of explorers who go on an expedition to an uncharted region of the Arctic and discover an ancient civilization where prehistoric creatures exist.
Title: At The Mountains Of Madness Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast List: Featuring James McAvoy, Tom Cruise, Ron Perlman.
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del Toro might be about the only director who could pull this off and not make it Rambo vs Godzilla
That's a mixed bag of upcoming films. Maybe Travolta will play Kotter (that'll make him feel old).
I don't have any real support for this, but I think Clooney might bring something to the U.N.C.L.E. project, maybe some backstory about 20th Century events secretly shaped by espionage.
Years back I watched an interview with Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs on MTV. They were still showing music videos then which tells you how old this interview was.
Anyway, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs was asked about a WELCOME BACK, KOTTER TV reunion movie and he said one was in the planning stages. Even John Travolta had signed up for it. The only hold out? The guy who played Arnold Horshack. He wanted so many changes to the role that Horshack would virtually have been a brand new character with zero relationship to the character he had been on the TV show.
I've seen Ice Cube on a couple of interviews the past two or three years claiming he's playing Mr. Kotter in a theatrical feature.
You know, at first I didn't react to the idea of KOTTER reunion. But if not played entirely as a comedy, if the characters all met up again and we saw what had happened to them over the decades, it could actually be well done. Showing how the neighborhood had changed, how their dreams turned out. And a touching final scene would be them all putting on their coats and going out to lay a wreath on Horshack's grave.
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(Another example of someone whose audio and video spectacularly mismatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA )
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Which is not fair, but that’s comics for you.
By the way, while this far in advance it could easily fall though, at this time there is allegedly a Gunsmoke movie in the works for release in 2012.
Also a Man from U.N.C.L.E. film with George Clooney.
And god help us a Welcome Back Kotter movie.
Also, and this I actually like the sound of.
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At The Mountains Of Madness
About a group of explorers who go on an expedition to an uncharted region of the Arctic and discover an ancient civilization where prehistoric creatures exist.
Title: At The Mountains Of Madness
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast List: Featuring James McAvoy, Tom Cruise, Ron Perlman.
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del Toro might be about the only director who could pull this off and not make it Rambo vs Godzilla
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I don't have any real support for this, but I think Clooney might bring something to the U.N.C.L.E. project, maybe some backstory about 20th Century events secretly shaped by espionage.
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Anyway, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs was asked about a WELCOME BACK, KOTTER TV reunion movie and he said one was in the planning stages. Even John Travolta had signed up for it. The only hold out? The guy who played Arnold Horshack. He wanted so many changes to the role that Horshack would virtually have been a brand new character with zero relationship to the character he had been on the TV show.
I've seen Ice Cube on a couple of interviews the past two or three years claiming he's playing Mr. Kotter in a theatrical feature.
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