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At least the cover art is good
Jan. 13th, 2021 01:54 amAfter all these years, the writer of Buckaroo Banzai is putting out Buckaroo Banzai Against The World Crime League in novel form. This novel has been in the works for at least 7 years. When Moonstone did the Buckaroo Banzai comics they were ... not good. Not good in many ways. I don't know if it was due to the writer or if an editorial process was going on, but those comics had serious issues and massively retconned the film. The comics aren't popular even with most die hard fans.
Even if the novel is bad, or makes me want to throw it against the wall, I am glad to throw money at the author. He had what was basically a hit film and never saw the back end. The film's distribution was wide, but illegal. When it became available for legal sale it topped Amazon's sales chart for weeks. When the most recent TV deal happened that should have been worth millions and he didn't stand to make a cent off of it. The damn show got as far as having a writer's room open before rights problems shut it down again. For both the writer and the director, they've had to spend large parts of their lives just trying to keep on top of the film's legal issues.
The only reason I have some hope for the book is that Dark Horse is putting it out. They tend to be picky about what they publish. Moonstone is game to make money off of any IP however they can. Unless they've changed, Dark Horse wouldn't put out total garbage. On the other hand it's clear some retconning is going to happen.
But, it's got good cover art and may spark interest in the film again.
This is terrible, but I wish we were getting a TV show written by someone else than him finally putting out this book. Hopefully, I'll be eating my words in 7 months.
The film went back into rights hell after the TV deal. The book coming out may mean that the rights are clearing up? I wonder what the resolution was.
...oh hey Dark Horse isn't far from me. Maybe they will have promo posters that will need a new home at some point?
Even if the novel is bad, or makes me want to throw it against the wall, I am glad to throw money at the author. He had what was basically a hit film and never saw the back end. The film's distribution was wide, but illegal. When it became available for legal sale it topped Amazon's sales chart for weeks. When the most recent TV deal happened that should have been worth millions and he didn't stand to make a cent off of it. The damn show got as far as having a writer's room open before rights problems shut it down again. For both the writer and the director, they've had to spend large parts of their lives just trying to keep on top of the film's legal issues.
The only reason I have some hope for the book is that Dark Horse is putting it out. They tend to be picky about what they publish. Moonstone is game to make money off of any IP however they can. Unless they've changed, Dark Horse wouldn't put out total garbage. On the other hand it's clear some retconning is going to happen.
But, it's got good cover art and may spark interest in the film again.
This is terrible, but I wish we were getting a TV show written by someone else than him finally putting out this book. Hopefully, I'll be eating my words in 7 months.
The film went back into rights hell after the TV deal. The book coming out may mean that the rights are clearing up? I wonder what the resolution was.
...oh hey Dark Horse isn't far from me. Maybe they will have promo posters that will need a new home at some point?
