Hollywood adventures
Vijaya and I spent most of last week in LA visiting the Fox and Warner Bros. studios. Vijaya snapped the picture above while we were waiting at the super cool 60′s style futuristic Encounters Bar at LAX to board our red-eye flight home to Cols.
The trip was good! We were on the Fox lot to attend a table read for a new Simpsons episode, and let me tell you, it was a blast. It was fun to see Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartright and the rest of the cast doing the voices. The show was funny, too. The Simpsons still has it after all these years!
We had two separate meetings on the Warner Bros. lot; first with Wigram Productions, who has optioned the film rights for RASL, then over to Lin Productions to meet the new studio exec. in charge of the BONE project. The BONE film has been stalled for some months now, and the new exec wanted to meet and let us know that he likes the BONE comics and wants to get the film moving again.
I think both meetings went very well!
Also, just before we left for LA, I finished issue #10 of RASL and sent it off to the printer. Should be sliding into comic book store shelves the last week of April.
Great to hear that there is still hope for those projects. After the success of intelligent, character driven films like ‘how to train you’d dragon’ & ‘rango’, the studios should wake up to the potential of the work. It just occurred to me, however that Bone would work live, though I cannot imagine it without your style. I had always assumed it would be animated. Thoughts?
Comment by jay — March 29, 2011 @ 3:20 pm
Great news Jeff, Thanks!
Comment by Steve Weiner — March 29, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
A RASL film and a BONE film! This makes my day!
Comment by Nick DeAngelo — March 29, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
Too cool. Whenever I read your stuff, it’s always been a movie in my head.
Comment by Chas Smith — March 29, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
Can hardly bare the wait for a Bone film any longer! I recall being on the old Boneville forums and reading about how the Nickelodeon film was going to come out in 2004, and I especially remember groaning about how that was so far away!
Anyway, I’m glad to hear there’s still hope, but I’m just dying to see something concrete. As long as the source material is done justice, I can learn to be patient. But man, do I ever hate it…
Speaking of the Simpsons, and the Bone movie…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZX0f4CL-T8
There! I tied it all together!
Comment by Sean — March 29, 2011 @ 9:57 pm
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Pingback by Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Linkarama@Newsarama — March 30, 2011 @ 11:22 am
Hey Jeff, who do you want to score the film?(if you had it your way)
Comment by Joe — March 30, 2011 @ 6:39 pm
Fantastic news, Jeff!
Now, if I could just get some more energy into my message board for Bone, we’ll be keeping watch for updates!
By the way, we discussed the possibility of Shawn Wallace as Phoney Bone and Christopher Lee as Rouge Ja. Inconcivable (Ha!) or not?
Comment by Katie Kunkler — March 31, 2011 @ 4:42 pm
Jeff, in all of your videos of you drawing, I can never tell what you use to draw. It looks cool. I like how it’s thin, then it gets big in the middle, and then its thin again.
I use a sharpie….
Comment by matt — April 1, 2011 @ 5:49 pm
Hey Jeff im writing an essay on you for school and was wondering what your middle name is.
Comment by shaye — April 5, 2011 @ 11:08 am
hey jeef im writing an essay on you for school and was wonderingwhat your middle name is.
Comment by shaye — April 5, 2011 @ 11:09 am
It’s Adams
Comment by Jeff — April 5, 2011 @ 12:30 pm
Jeffrey Adams Smith. That’s a cool name. The idea of a Bone movie fills me with both excitement and fear, For this (http://www.cracked.com/article_19012_5-hollywood-secrets-that-explain-why-so-many-movies-suck.html) and the fact movies based on comics can be really good or really horrible. At least their including you.
Comment by Will Kirwan — April 5, 2011 @ 9:52 pm
Great news, Jeff! Will be patiently-uhmmm- waiting for that. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Comment by Emily — April 6, 2011 @ 2:25 am
well i hope you had a great time in las vegas but im to young to rasl
Comment by Christine — April 13, 2011 @ 7:20 am
Hello MR. Smith! Well it’s great to see that the film is moving along. The ball is rolling again. I just wanted to say that I can’t wait for the movie to come out! Do you have an estimated release date? Are you doing the casting session soon, or have you already done that? I actually have never read the RASL series, because I can”t find it in stores anywhere.Is the casting session for the Bone movie just going to be in Warner Bros. Studios, or are you going to be moving around places? Well I just wanted to say good luck and I hope I might be able to get to the comic convention.
Comment by Jonah — April 13, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
When you guys start casting for the Bone movie, I think you should look to use some of the actors you picked for the Telltale games. The guy who did Phoney Bone in particular was perfect!
Comment by Guest — April 22, 2011 @ 9:04 pm
i have seen the tale tale game on youtube and i liked the ana mation but although for the voices they where mostly wrong like are the bones really going to have dark voices if yes ill watch the movie not care but i always imagined fone bone with a high voice and smiley too .PHoney bone too but not as much like just to say remember therte not 40 years old. thborn had a wierd voce grandma ben too i just want it too be out plz.
Comment by emilie — July 1, 2011 @ 9:25 am