Some of you may be asking yourselves, “What’s The Guyver?” But, I suspect if you were a kid in the nineties, you know Exactly who and what The Guyver is.
When I was growing up, my parents subscribed to the Canadian version of HBO, which was called The Movie Network. The mixture of programming on the channel was eclectic, to say the least, and the blockbusters were padded out with many direct-to-video tiles, usually in the erotic thriller or action genres. Folks like Shannon Tweed, Lorenzo Lamas, and others became pretty common to see pop up on the channel. Occasionally, one of these movies would feature a bigger star and sometimes turn out to be a real gem.
With that in mind, I remember vividly as a kid tuning in to watch The Guyver because it was promoted as a superhero movie starring Mark Hamill. While that’s maybe “partly” true,...
When I was growing up, my parents subscribed to the Canadian version of HBO, which was called The Movie Network. The mixture of programming on the channel was eclectic, to say the least, and the blockbusters were padded out with many direct-to-video tiles, usually in the erotic thriller or action genres. Folks like Shannon Tweed, Lorenzo Lamas, and others became pretty common to see pop up on the channel. Occasionally, one of these movies would feature a bigger star and sometimes turn out to be a real gem.
With that in mind, I remember vividly as a kid tuning in to watch The Guyver because it was promoted as a superhero movie starring Mark Hamill. While that’s maybe “partly” true,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Ryan Lambie Aug 23, 2016
Mattel action figure and superhero Max Steel gets his first feature film this year. Here's the first trailer to prove it...
If such disparate movies as Robosapien, Battleship and Jem And The Holograms have anything in common, it's that they all prove that not every movie based on a toy or board game can be a roaring success like Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. Bay's robot action movies may be bullet-proof when it comes to reviews, but audiences don't always turn out in huge numbers to see a film based on a familiar name.
This might explain why, following a development period which began way back in 2009, the marketing for Max Steel feels rather apologetic. Based on Mattel's 90s line of action figures, the movie's an origin story about Max McGrath (Ben Winchell), a young man with extraordinary powers of speed and strength.
Through a series of...
Mattel action figure and superhero Max Steel gets his first feature film this year. Here's the first trailer to prove it...
If such disparate movies as Robosapien, Battleship and Jem And The Holograms have anything in common, it's that they all prove that not every movie based on a toy or board game can be a roaring success like Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. Bay's robot action movies may be bullet-proof when it comes to reviews, but audiences don't always turn out in huge numbers to see a film based on a familiar name.
This might explain why, following a development period which began way back in 2009, the marketing for Max Steel feels rather apologetic. Based on Mattel's 90s line of action figures, the movie's an origin story about Max McGrath (Ben Winchell), a young man with extraordinary powers of speed and strength.
Through a series of...
- 8/23/2016
- Den of Geek
We may remember Independence Day, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace. But what about these forgotten 90s sci-fi films? And are any worth seeing?
Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.
But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.
So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...
Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.
But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.
So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...
- 7/16/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
A weird truth: Even in the midst of the current comic book gold-rush, major studios can't seem to get a good anime or manga adaptation off the ground—although the influence of those works can be seen everywhere. This weekend's Big Hero 6 is based on a Marvel comic that's heavily (perhaps even problematically) inspired by anime and manga. As tangentially connected to the art form as Big Hero 6 is, could it be the harbinger of a sea change in Hollywood's approach to manga and anime? Tackling this question can be kind of tricky—after all, "anime" and "manga...
- 11/7/2014
- by Joshua Rivera
- EW - Inside Movies
Cinelinx's Victor Medina speaks with David Hayter about his new film Wolves and his prolific career!
David Hayter is known to millions as the iconic voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series, but you’ll also likely recognize his name as the screenwriter of such hit films as X-Men, X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, and Watchmen. This month, Hayter is making his directorial debut with Wolves, a werewolf horror flick now available through Video On Demand, with a theatrical release on November 14. Hayter recently sat down for an interview in which he discussed his new film, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time, and his career.
Q: There was a pre-release screening of Wolves in Manhattan during the New York Comic Con. What was the response?
Hayter: It was great. There were a lot of hard core fans of me, and they are always very nice.
David Hayter is known to millions as the iconic voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series, but you’ll also likely recognize his name as the screenwriter of such hit films as X-Men, X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, and Watchmen. This month, Hayter is making his directorial debut with Wolves, a werewolf horror flick now available through Video On Demand, with a theatrical release on November 14. Hayter recently sat down for an interview in which he discussed his new film, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time, and his career.
Q: There was a pre-release screening of Wolves in Manhattan during the New York Comic Con. What was the response?
Hayter: It was great. There were a lot of hard core fans of me, and they are always very nice.
- 10/31/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Cinelinx's Victor Medina speaks with David Hayter about his new film Wolves and his prolific career!
David Hayter is known to millions as the iconic voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series, but you’ll also likely recognize his name as the screenwriter of such hit films as X-Men, X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, and Watchmen. This month, Hayter is making his directorial debut with Wolves, a werewolf horror flick now available through Video On Demand, with a theatrical release on November 14. Hayter recently sat down for an interview in which he discussed his new film, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time, and his career.
Q: There was a pre-release screening of Wolves in Manhattan during the New York Comic Con. What was the response?
Hayter: It was great. There were a lot of hard core fans of me, and they are always very nice.
David Hayter is known to millions as the iconic voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series, but you’ll also likely recognize his name as the screenwriter of such hit films as X-Men, X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, and Watchmen. This month, Hayter is making his directorial debut with Wolves, a werewolf horror flick now available through Video On Demand, with a theatrical release on November 14. Hayter recently sat down for an interview in which he discussed his new film, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time, and his career.
Q: There was a pre-release screening of Wolves in Manhattan during the New York Comic Con. What was the response?
Hayter: It was great. There were a lot of hard core fans of me, and they are always very nice.
- 10/31/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
No one can question David Hayter's geek credentials. Not only is he the one, true voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid game series, but he also voiced Captain America in the '90s Spider-Man TV show and played the titular hero in The Guyver: Dark Hero. Hayter's not just an actor in geek-friendly properties, though. He was writing superhero movies before superhero movies were the big business they are today. Hayter's very first produced screenplay was for X-Men, which led to X-Men 2 and Watchmen. And as he revealed in our below interview, he was even attached to direct his adaptations of Watchmen and Black Widow, though neither of those projects panned out. Instead his directorial debut ended up being Wolves, starring Lucas Till as a freshly...
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- 10/17/2014
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
I remember back in the early 1990′s watching the Guyver movies and loving the fact it had lots of Martial Arts action. I just recently bought The DVD and thought i would do a feature post about The Guyver. I know it’s a little cheesy, but that’s just the time period, cant be helped.
The first movie was The Guyver “Mutronics”, loosely based on the Japanese manga series about a lad who finds an alien artifact called The Unit which changes him into an alien-hybrid called The Guyver.
Mutronics Plot:
CIA agent Max Reed (Mark Hamill) witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa—a researcher for the mysterious Kronos Corporation—being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as “the Guyver” from Kronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend’s father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver’s hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
The first movie was The Guyver “Mutronics”, loosely based on the Japanese manga series about a lad who finds an alien artifact called The Unit which changes him into an alien-hybrid called The Guyver.
Mutronics Plot:
CIA agent Max Reed (Mark Hamill) witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa—a researcher for the mysterious Kronos Corporation—being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as “the Guyver” from Kronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend’s father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver’s hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
- 12/17/2013
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Manborg was released to DVD this week by Dark Sky Films. Directed by Steven Kostanski, the movie has characters and a style straight out of a 90′s video game, and was inspired by his love of 80′s and 90′s genre films. I had a chance to interview Steven Kostanski, who told me about the challenges of getting this project finished, the movies that served as his inspiration, and his surprise that Manborg already has a cult following:
Thank you for taking the time to talk with Daily Dead. Can you tell our readers about your work in special makeup effects? Specifically, what have you done on Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, and Resident Evil: Retribution?
Steven Kostanski: I started working in prosthetic make-up effects right after graduating high school. I worked on lots of low budget horror movies and a few tv shows before moving out to Toronto where I...
Thank you for taking the time to talk with Daily Dead. Can you tell our readers about your work in special makeup effects? Specifically, what have you done on Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, and Resident Evil: Retribution?
Steven Kostanski: I started working in prosthetic make-up effects right after graduating high school. I worked on lots of low budget horror movies and a few tv shows before moving out to Toronto where I...
- 5/2/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The brainchild of 70s and 80s film fanatic Steve Kostanski, Manborg is the result of three years of committed work by a team of retro b-film enthusiasts on an eye-wateringly small budget of $1000. Following rave reviews after it premiered at this years London Sci-Fi Film Festival, creative cult classic in the making Manborg is out on DVD 7th January 2013 and thanks to Rockstone Films we have an exclusive clip from the film to share with you featuring the construction of Manborg (and a wicked 80s-style soundtrack!).
Created, according to Canadian director Kostanski, “on an almost non- existent budget… and a creative use of free stuff (in other words, digging through dumpsters)” Manborg fuses the grungy aesthetic of the classic VHS with Kostanski’s passion for sci-fi and action movies with “cool covers”.
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A man after my own heart, Kostanski lists The Eliminators, I Come In Peace, Robot Jox, Guyver 2: Dark Hero,...
Created, according to Canadian director Kostanski, “on an almost non- existent budget… and a creative use of free stuff (in other words, digging through dumpsters)” Manborg fuses the grungy aesthetic of the classic VHS with Kostanski’s passion for sci-fi and action movies with “cool covers”.
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A man after my own heart, Kostanski lists The Eliminators, I Come In Peace, Robot Jox, Guyver 2: Dark Hero,...
- 12/6/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Question: What does Metal Gear Solid's lead character Solid Snake have in common with Watchmen and the first two X-Men films? That's a real head scratcher, isn't it? The answer is David Hayter.
Not only does this renaissance man provide the distinctive voice for Solid Snake but he also wrote the screenplay for Watchmen and both X-Men films mentioned above. That alone is a pretty nice resume, considering the successes of the films and the fact that Hayter has voiced Solid Snake in about a dozen video games. However, Hayter also has a love of acting. And he'll get a chance to display his chops in the upcoming chiller The Devil's Mile.
Screenwriter Joseph O'Brien will be taking on the role of director for the film, helming his first feature. Maria Del Mar and Casey Hudecki co-star. Research has shown neither Del Mar or Hudecki have voiced any video game characters,...
Not only does this renaissance man provide the distinctive voice for Solid Snake but he also wrote the screenplay for Watchmen and both X-Men films mentioned above. That alone is a pretty nice resume, considering the successes of the films and the fact that Hayter has voiced Solid Snake in about a dozen video games. However, Hayter also has a love of acting. And he'll get a chance to display his chops in the upcoming chiller The Devil's Mile.
Screenwriter Joseph O'Brien will be taking on the role of director for the film, helming his first feature. Maria Del Mar and Casey Hudecki co-star. Research has shown neither Del Mar or Hudecki have voiced any video game characters,...
- 8/11/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
If you're looking for your next big screen fantasy fix (apart from The Hobbit of course) then look no further, because Dragonriders of Pern, the long running fantasy novel series, is now getting the Hollywood treatment thanks to Copperheart Entertainment, Dark Hero Studios and Angry Films - oh they've hired a writer too...
That's right, the scribe who brought you "X-Men", "Watchmen" and starred in "Guyver: Dark Hero" (shudder), David Hayter, has been signed to pen the script for Dragonriders of Pern.
The news comes via Deadline, who report that Entertainment One, another partner in the project, got it off the ground by aquiring distribution rights in Canada, they're also in talks to distribute the film throughout the UK and Australia.
Dragonriders of Pern takes place on Pern (duh) in what could be described as a pre-industrialised world. With as many sci-fi elements as fantasy, Pern is a world filled with lords,...
That's right, the scribe who brought you "X-Men", "Watchmen" and starred in "Guyver: Dark Hero" (shudder), David Hayter, has been signed to pen the script for Dragonriders of Pern.
The news comes via Deadline, who report that Entertainment One, another partner in the project, got it off the ground by aquiring distribution rights in Canada, they're also in talks to distribute the film throughout the UK and Australia.
Dragonriders of Pern takes place on Pern (duh) in what could be described as a pre-industrialised world. With as many sci-fi elements as fantasy, Pern is a world filled with lords,...
- 4/14/2011
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
Retro Dreams: Director Wyatt Weed ponders the state of film and how he got here. For most people, dreams don’t come true.
Sure, sometimes you marry your childhood sweetheart, or get the job that you really wanted, the one with the great benefits and the sense of security, but rarely does the childhood dream come true: astronaut, president, secret agent.
For me, the dream has come true – and it is an amazing experience to be aware of it as it happens.
When I was 5, man landed on the moon. I was enthralled, and subsequently committed to being an astronaut for at least the next 6 years – until I saw a movie called “Jaws”, that is. Jaws made me aware of movie making and movie magic, but what I gravitated toward was oceanography. I was obsessed with the study of sharks for at least the next two years of my young life.
Sure, sometimes you marry your childhood sweetheart, or get the job that you really wanted, the one with the great benefits and the sense of security, but rarely does the childhood dream come true: astronaut, president, secret agent.
For me, the dream has come true – and it is an amazing experience to be aware of it as it happens.
When I was 5, man landed on the moon. I was enthralled, and subsequently committed to being an astronaut for at least the next 6 years – until I saw a movie called “Jaws”, that is. Jaws made me aware of movie making and movie magic, but what I gravitated toward was oceanography. I was obsessed with the study of sharks for at least the next two years of my young life.
- 7/24/2009
- by Wyatt Weed
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I believe we may have done this once before, and it's a geek-friendly internet game that's been around a lot longer than Cinematical ... but hey, fun is fun, right? Plus we wanted to do something nerdish and colorful to kick off the worldwide Comic Con festivites. (Oh, it's only in San Diego? It only feels like a global event? Gotcha.) Anyway, you should know how this works: Deep within the confines of my hard drive there lies a list of over 64 Superhero Movies. But before we can truly get started we need to whittle that list down to precisely 64, at which point I'll randomize the films, bracket them accordingly, and begin the game proper.
So here's how you start: I will give you a bunch of choices. You pick which film you like more. Yes, just like on Flickchart, you addicts. The winners earn the right to make the big...
So here's how you start: I will give you a bunch of choices. You pick which film you like more. Yes, just like on Flickchart, you addicts. The winners earn the right to make the big...
- 7/23/2009
- by Scott Weinberg
- Cinematical
David Hayter, who voices Solid Snake in the Metal Gear games and has writing credits on X-Men, X2, The Scorpion King and Watchmen, is to help adapt the zombie comic book Deadworld for the big screen.
In March, he and producer Benedict Carver founded Dark Hero Studios, a company (named after Hayter's role in 1994's Guyver: Dark Hero) aiming to make horror and fantasy films, comics and video games.
Hayter and Carver have now teamed with Bill Mechanic, the former Fox chairman who heads production company Pandemonium, to breathe big-screen life into Deadworld. Mechanic most recently produced animated fantasy hit Coraline.
Hayter will write the screenplay and also design the look of the film. He said: "It's very much about the design of the Deadworld and creating cool, frightening but not necessarily gory creatures. I am a huge fan of zombie mythology."
Mechanic, who ran Fox when Hayter wrote the first X-Men film,...
In March, he and producer Benedict Carver founded Dark Hero Studios, a company (named after Hayter's role in 1994's Guyver: Dark Hero) aiming to make horror and fantasy films, comics and video games.
Hayter and Carver have now teamed with Bill Mechanic, the former Fox chairman who heads production company Pandemonium, to breathe big-screen life into Deadworld. Mechanic most recently produced animated fantasy hit Coraline.
Hayter will write the screenplay and also design the look of the film. He said: "It's very much about the design of the Deadworld and creating cool, frightening but not necessarily gory creatures. I am a huge fan of zombie mythology."
Mechanic, who ran Fox when Hayter wrote the first X-Men film,...
- 6/12/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Variety reported last night that Watchmen co-writer David Hayter is definitely filling his plate with a lot of awesome genre goodies. Not only is Hayter getting set to direct the werewolf flick Slaughter’s Road, but he’s also teamed up with producer Benedict Carver to form Dark Hero Studios, a company that will generate film, TV, Internet and video game projects in the action, sci-fi and horror genres.
Beyond Watchmen, some of Hayter’s other writing credits include X-Men, X2, and The Scorpion King. He’s also been the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video game series for 10 years now and played the character of Sean Barker in the sci-fi film Guyver: Dark Hero (which is most likely the inspiration for the new studio name).
Hayter said he hatched Slaughter's Road after he was offered a slew of werewolf movies and found enough flaws in...
Beyond Watchmen, some of Hayter’s other writing credits include X-Men, X2, and The Scorpion King. He’s also been the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video game series for 10 years now and played the character of Sean Barker in the sci-fi film Guyver: Dark Hero (which is most likely the inspiration for the new studio name).
Hayter said he hatched Slaughter's Road after he was offered a slew of werewolf movies and found enough flaws in...
- 3/16/2009
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
Having met David Hayter a few times throughout the years, we can definitely say the dude is one of us. Let the resume do the talking. His writing credits include X-Men , and it's sequel X2 , The Scorpion King and Watchmen . In front of the camera he's played the Guyver and is the voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid . Hayter is now about to make his directorial debut on a werewolf picture called Slaughter's Road . It will be produced through the newly formed Dark Hero Studios which Hayter is co-operating with producer Benedict Carver. (Is the company's moniker a reference to Hayter's past in Guyver: Dark Hero ?) The focus of the production outfit is to "generate film, TV, Internet and vidgame projects in the action, sci-fi and horror genres."...
- 3/16/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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