BiggAndyy the Magazine

www.01-18-08.com - The master website of the movie.

www.jamieandteddy.com the password is jllovesth.

www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808 - Home of the HD trailer.

www.slusho.jp - Hints and clues to the plot of the movie.

www.myspace.com/robbyhawkins - From here you can explore all the myspace pages for the cast.

www.tagruato.jp - Newest site to appear for the movie.

More sites when they come available.

Yes! It is time for another update. And yes, there is some text on the back of this picture.

And translated:

Everybody, thank you for viewing! I’ll introduce this week’s delicious recipe. Please make sure to keep this one cold!

*Skinless chicken breast - 2, cut in halves
*Soumen (a kind of japanese noodle) - 10 oz.
*Watercress - 1/2 cup cut into small strips
*Turnip - 1/2 cup, thinly sliced
*Shiitake (japanese mushrooms) - 1/2 cup
*Chicken stock - 1/3 cup
*Sake (japanese rice wine) - 2 tbsp.
*Sugar - 1/2 tsp.
*Ocean-bottom crab - one

In a small saucepan, stir together 1/3 cup water, chicken stock, sake, and sugar. Chill it until it becomes cold. Grill the chicken breast on both sides for about 8 minutes, and then chill. Boil the noodles for about 3 minutes, and then run under cold water until chilled. Mix the watercress, turnips, and mushrooms into the soumen. Slice the chicken thinly and arrange on top of the soumen mix. Just before you serve, put the crab in the sauce and pour over the noodles generously.

Go go Oishii (”delicious”) Chef!”

(Thanks to cloverfield-movie.com)

Now some research.

A possible second trailer?

Lots of stuff happening. About time too.

With Sony going commercial with their first OLED Televisions this week I got to reading about Organic LED technology. This got me to thinking. What if the substrate used to help hold the organic layers in place were not plastic but human flesh?

Think of it. We already have implantable chips. We have found ways to fuse neurons with computer circuitry and pass signals back and forth. We can grow human ears of the backs of laboratory mice. We can transplant skin and organs. Why not push the envelope and see if OLED technology can fuse with true organic material like human skin?

Imagine a tattoo that can be programmed! One moment it is a wizard, the next it is a lion, the next it is the physics equations for that big exam. Mix in some extra circuitry and programming and have it connected to an implanted chip and presto! Mood Flesh! Angry? Your OLED tattoo flashes red in anger. Sad? A low pulsing blue tone. Talk about the human cuttlefish!

Just an interesting thought experiment. Do you think it is possible? Drop me a note.

Not a new website or trailer but an observation of the graphic used at the trailers.apple.com website for 01-18-08.

Usually for effect the graphic artists will shade out some areas to provide contrast or add a touch of mystery or focus to an image. But in this one I think that it is actually a silhouette of the creature or creatures.

Now, if it is just one critter then it is obviously leaving New York to head out to sea. If there are two creatures is one following the other INTO New York?

Just wondering because in the trailer the city area bursts into flames and then the head of the Statue of Liberty is tossed inland. If this is the case then did the monster transform from a human into the beast from drinking 6 slushos and then head out to sea?

The comment, “It’s alive, it’s huge” might lead one to speculate that a previously inanimate or dead thing might have been on display in New York but it wasn’t quite as dead as the people thought? Did it revive and not like finding itself in New York city?

The time is drawing closer, where are the new hints and clues?

This from the Hollywood Reporter:

TORONTO — Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct “Tron,” described as “the next chapter” of Disney’s 1982 cult classic. Sean Bailey is producing via the Live Planet banner, as is Steven Lisberger, who co-wrote and directed the original film.

Kosinski, who last month signed on to helm the remake of “Logan’s Run” for Warner Bros. Pictures, will oversee the visual development of the project and have input on the script, which is being written by “Lost” scribes Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Story details are being kept secret.

The original, about a computer programr thrust into a computer and forced to fight in games he helped create, is remembered for its sci-fi gladiator-style battles and groundbreaking special effects. It was the first movie to use computer-generated images instead of models and other optical effects in conjunction with live action. The arcade game based on the movie was so popular that it earned more than the movie.

When making the original, in order to convince the studio to take a chance on a first-time director, Lisberger shot a test reel, financed by the studio, involving the deadly Frisbee battle. In a case of historical synchronicity, sources said one of the things Kosinski will be doing is working on a sequence involving the movie’s Light Cycles to work out his vision for the movie. Sources also said visual effects personnel, for many of whom “Tron” was an inspiration to enter the business, already are jockeying for pole position to work on the sequence.

Brigham Taylor is overseeing for Disney.

Kosinski is a former architect whose specs caught the attention of director David Fincher, who convinced Kosinski to move to Los Angeles, where he joined the director at commercial house Anonymous Content. Kosinski then moved quickly up the ladder, eventually directing award-winning spots for Nike, Apple and Nintendo that gained notice for their use of computer technology that erased the lines between reality and CGI.

Kosinski is repped by Endeavor and Michael Sugar and Bard Dorros at Anonymous Content.

This is wonderful news for those of us taken in by the 1999 hoax report of Tron 2.0 being filmed at that time. Let’s hope everything pans out this time around. But did I also read mention of one of my other favorite movies… a remake of Logan’s Run?

I don’t know, I am far more tolerable with sequels as opposed to remakes. While most sequels are boring, predictable, and unfun, remakes just plain make me angry. They ALWAYS lose the director’s original vision and statement. And of course, that is the point of making a remake; to reshape the product to fit a new perspective or message.

Well, okay, now that I think about it a bit, the Ten Commandments (made and then remade by Cecil B. DeMille) and the Omega Man (Ubaldo Ragona directed Vincent Price and Boris Sagal directing Charlton Heston) might be better than their original big screen progenitors. Charlton Heston had something to do with that I think!

But look for Tron to be making another appearance, and with Disney behind it, watch for the FLOOD of pre-release marketing and merchandising. Remember the immortal words of Yogurt,

Moichandizing, moichandizing, moichandizing, where the REAL money from the movie is made.