Gene Roddenberry's celebrated sci-fi TV series "Star Trek" debuted on September 8, 1966, and recently celebrated its 57th anniversary. Initially, "Trek" wasn't terribly popular, and only managed to make a third season thanks to a coordinated letter-writing campaign (a campaign that Roddenberry was accused of orchestrating and encouraging himself). It wouldn't be until after "Star Trek" was canceled in 1969 that its popularity would significantly begin to grow. Thanks to a sweet infinite syndication deal, "Star Trek" reruns were common, and a cult began to form. By the early 1970s, the first "Trek" conventions began to appear. Naturally, conventions were a great place for the show's stars and creators to congregate and share production stories with a rising tide of obsessives. Fans were able to talk to and get autographs from William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, George Takei, James Doohan, and Grace Lee Whitney, as...
- 9/26/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
“TekWar” was William Shatner’s ’90s sci-fi passion project. Thirty-odd years later, he’s adapting his sci-fi world into an adult animated television series.
Deadline reported on Tuesday that Shatner, best known for portraying James T. Kirk in the original “Star Trek” series, is working with Pure Imagination Studios to develop and produce the adaptation. Per Deadline, the “TekWar” novels are set in the year 2043 and follow a former detective in futuristic Los Angeles who was framed for the crime of dealing an illegal mind-altering drug in the form of a bio-digital microchip. It poses a great threat to humanity and has the potential to become a virus that will lead to an unrecoverable future.
Shatner’s nine “TekWar” novels, which were ghost-written by Ron Goulart, were published from 1989 to 1997. The “TekWar” novels were adapted into a variety of mediums, including four television movies, a two-season live-action series, as well...
Deadline reported on Tuesday that Shatner, best known for portraying James T. Kirk in the original “Star Trek” series, is working with Pure Imagination Studios to develop and produce the adaptation. Per Deadline, the “TekWar” novels are set in the year 2043 and follow a former detective in futuristic Los Angeles who was framed for the crime of dealing an illegal mind-altering drug in the form of a bio-digital microchip. It poses a great threat to humanity and has the potential to become a virus that will lead to an unrecoverable future.
Shatner’s nine “TekWar” novels, which were ghost-written by Ron Goulart, were published from 1989 to 1997. The “TekWar” novels were adapted into a variety of mediums, including four television movies, a two-season live-action series, as well...
- 9/29/2021
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
William Shatner and his Shatner Universe will team with Pure Imagination Studios to develop and produce 'a mixed-reality, adult animated series' based on Shatner's science fiction property "TekWar", that started as a bestselling futuristic detective novel, written by Ron Goulart, followed by live-action TV, a Bluewater and Marvel Comics title, a first-person shooter video game and a whole lot more:
"...in 2044, the world is consumed by 'Tek', an illegal, addictive, mind-altering digital drug in the form of a microchip, that creates a simulated reality, aka 'the matrix hyperspace'.
"'Jake Cardigan' is a former police officer framed for dealing Tek four years prior and sentenced to 15 years 'cryo-imprisonment'...
"...until released by 'Walt Bascom', the head of private investigation agency 'Cosmos', who has uncovered the framed charges and exonerates him.
"In return Jake works for Bascom as a private detective in a series of Tek-related crimes, mostly in Greater Los Angeles, aka 'Gla'.
"...in 2044, the world is consumed by 'Tek', an illegal, addictive, mind-altering digital drug in the form of a microchip, that creates a simulated reality, aka 'the matrix hyperspace'.
"'Jake Cardigan' is a former police officer framed for dealing Tek four years prior and sentenced to 15 years 'cryo-imprisonment'...
"...until released by 'Walt Bascom', the head of private investigation agency 'Cosmos', who has uncovered the framed charges and exonerates him.
"In return Jake works for Bascom as a private detective in a series of Tek-related crimes, mostly in Greater Los Angeles, aka 'Gla'.
- 9/28/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
By Giacomo Selloni
The United States of America brought to the world many amazing things. To this reviewer the top three are baseball, jazz and comic books, although I must admit I prefer comic books to jazz. Let's face facts here, whether you love, despise, or are just 'eh' about comic books they are among the very first things that children read. I loved them before I could read. Consider that a disclaimer for the review about to follow.
Anthony Desiato is a life-long (so far) comic book fan, podcaster and documentary filmmaker from Westchester County in New York. His company is called Flat Squirrel Productions. In 2017, through Kickstarter, he reached his goal of $15,000 to make the film he promised "will take you behind the scenes and capture the business, culture, and fandom of the local comic book store on a national level." He succeeded with the release of "My...
The United States of America brought to the world many amazing things. To this reviewer the top three are baseball, jazz and comic books, although I must admit I prefer comic books to jazz. Let's face facts here, whether you love, despise, or are just 'eh' about comic books they are among the very first things that children read. I loved them before I could read. Consider that a disclaimer for the review about to follow.
Anthony Desiato is a life-long (so far) comic book fan, podcaster and documentary filmmaker from Westchester County in New York. His company is called Flat Squirrel Productions. In 2017, through Kickstarter, he reached his goal of $15,000 to make the film he promised "will take you behind the scenes and capture the business, culture, and fandom of the local comic book store on a national level." He succeeded with the release of "My...
- 4/18/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
A business magazine recently featured a story about the astoundingly short average life span of today’s companies, brands and product leaders. They noted that the average life expectancy of a modern company is something like 15 years. I think about a brand like PalmPilot, where one of my college buddies made a fortune, and how that name is practically a trivia question for this year’s Mba graduates. (“Is it a helicopter operator in Palm Beach?”) Likewise, cool companies they want to work for include Google and Lululemon – brands that didn’t exist 15 years ago.
So with all that in mind, let’s explore the opposite: the challenges of working with an 80-year-old brand in such a fickle climate.
Created in 1936, Lee Falk’s The Phantom was the first costumed comic hero. Bridging the gap of the masked vigilantes of the pulps (The Shadow, The Spider, etc.) and comic book superheroes,...
So with all that in mind, let’s explore the opposite: the challenges of working with an 80-year-old brand in such a fickle climate.
Created in 1936, Lee Falk’s The Phantom was the first costumed comic hero. Bridging the gap of the masked vigilantes of the pulps (The Shadow, The Spider, etc.) and comic book superheroes,...
- 4/25/2016
- by Ed Catto
- Comicmix.com
Debuting This Week: William Shatner’s Tekwar Chronicles
The Tekwar Chronicles, a new comic book series based on William Shatner’s bestselling Tekwar novels, hits stores June 24th. It’s the first release under the creative partnership between Shatner and independent comic book publisher Bluewater Productions.
Hard-boiled Sf hero Jake Cardigan returns to the comics scene in The Tekwar Chronicles.
Shatner and veteran Bluewater writer Scott Davis penned the first issue of this monthly four-issue series, which derives from the original 1989 novel featuring Jake Cardigan, a disgraced 22nd-Century police officer who is mysteriously released from prison for a crime he is certain he didn’t commit. Lost in a world that has drastically changed since his incarceration, Cardigan tries to put his life back together, but ends up being lured back into the dark world of the digital drug known as Tek.
As fans know, Tekwar was only the beginning...
The Tekwar Chronicles, a new comic book series based on William Shatner’s bestselling Tekwar novels, hits stores June 24th. It’s the first release under the creative partnership between Shatner and independent comic book publisher Bluewater Productions.
Hard-boiled Sf hero Jake Cardigan returns to the comics scene in The Tekwar Chronicles.
Shatner and veteran Bluewater writer Scott Davis penned the first issue of this monthly four-issue series, which derives from the original 1989 novel featuring Jake Cardigan, a disgraced 22nd-Century police officer who is mysteriously released from prison for a crime he is certain he didn’t commit. Lost in a world that has drastically changed since his incarceration, Cardigan tries to put his life back together, but ends up being lured back into the dark world of the digital drug known as Tek.
As fans know, Tekwar was only the beginning...
- 6/23/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (ALLAN DART)
- Starlog
Wall Street, they tell me, is on an upturn, and the economy is well on its way to recovery. Hooray and Huzzah! But, even if all this optimism is justified (which I doubt), the rough times aren't entirely behind us and, however long they linger, certain businesses are going to suffer -- especially certain businesses that may not be fit for survival in the digital world, like publishing for the niche markets of Sf and horror.
And, even if happy days are here again, some 20th Century businesses won't be coming back, ever.
Every year, March is National Reading Month, and every year it passes by with no one noticing, except for a few librarians who have to get up on ladders to post the banners (of course, this year, no budget for banners, so there wasn't even that).
Well, this blog is going to change everything; we're going to...
And, even if happy days are here again, some 20th Century businesses won't be coming back, ever.
Every year, March is National Reading Month, and every year it passes by with no one noticing, except for a few librarians who have to get up on ladders to post the banners (of course, this year, no budget for banners, so there wasn't even that).
Well, this blog is going to change everything; we're going to...
- 6/8/2009
- by unclebob
- DreadCentral.com
Bluewater Productions has added William Shatner to their growing line of celebrity endorsed comic books. Following in the footsteps of Ray Harryhausen, Vincent Price and Roger Corman, Shatner will have comics based on his novels including Man O' War and Quest for Tomorrow. These will be published as miniseries, continuing the stories with talent yet to be announced.
His TekWar, written with Ron Goulart and an unnamed fourth title round out the commitment between the actor and the publisher. TekWar will also be a continuation. All four are scheduled to come out in the first quarter of 2009, available in comic shops as the hoopla surrounding the reboot of Star Trek edges towards its May 8 release.
The TekWar universe was adapted previously by Marvel Comics in the early 1990s and ran for 24 issues, written solely by Goulart. Darren G. Davis, president of Bluewater, has promised the ongoing series will be more...
His TekWar, written with Ron Goulart and an unnamed fourth title round out the commitment between the actor and the publisher. TekWar will also be a continuation. All four are scheduled to come out in the first quarter of 2009, available in comic shops as the hoopla surrounding the reboot of Star Trek edges towards its May 8 release.
The TekWar universe was adapted previously by Marvel Comics in the early 1990s and ran for 24 issues, written solely by Goulart. Darren G. Davis, president of Bluewater, has promised the ongoing series will be more...
- 9/16/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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