chris the glut

Hi Steven. Have fun - there's nothing like reading these little treasures the first time around!

Hi newbies, welcome aboard. Haven't been around for a while myself - got sidetracked onto another site but i'm back, I think. I'm a thrall now. Fancy that! I haven't heard much about the movie in recent times either. Geez, even Superman's gonna make it to the screen before Harry. Will it ever come? Who knows! I just hope it's treated with a little respect. I wrote some time ago - in "mass debate" about botched movies of comic & book characters. I've seen nothing to change my mind. Batman Returns was crapola - no, really! Some time ago some Batman fans got together & with a budget of i believe $30,000 filmed what would be the last 5 minutes of a proposed Batman movie, and pitched it to Warner Bros. IT WAS AWESOME...5 minutes of WOW! Alas it will never see the light of day, even if it did in 5 minutes what 5 feature length movies failed to do - give us a menacing, frightening, believable Dark Knight who kicks arse! I have high expectations but low hopes for Necroscope folks! Give me some good news, please!!!!!!!!

Again, it comes down to choice. If the leech only enhances what is already there, why does it not enhance the better qualities? Survival you say? Would a community of powerful and virtually indestructible beings who cling so tenaciously to life not enjoy greater security and longevity if they were "naturally" predisposed or at least encouraged to look after each other rather than perpetually plotting to overthrow, control and destroy each other? Nice try, but no cigar. The leech and host are partners in crime, and unlike Harry most succumb quickly, because what's on offer is extremely seductive. The leech chooses hosts - or has hosts thrust upon them - and accentuates the negative whilst eliminating the positive, and the hosts don't have a problem with this! That sounds familiar...would make a catchy lyric, no!

Yes, they are. And I think Brian was alluding to this through Johnny Found. Brian could have made it so Harry would go out fighting the good fight against one last Wamphyri. Instead he was outraged and incensed by an entirely human scumbag, so much so that he was willing to risk death to track him down and dispense his eye for an eye brand of justice. Yes, his leech had something to do with his anger, but I suspect Harry would have been just as vehement in his desire to finish off Johnny had he been entirely human. The Wamphyri sometimes remind me in some ways of the bullies who are all bluff and bluster, the type that make threats but don't always act on them. You can talk your way out of a situation with these types because all they want to do is let you know they can dominate you. But Johnny Found reminds me of the quiet types who don't make public threats - they just get you, quietly, efficiently, with a minimum of fuss. And you just know they were waiting for the opportunity to do it to someone - anyone! Who's scarier?

Harry wasn't evil, true. However he was slowly but surely losing the battle to stay in control, and he knew it. This suggests that only a supreme effort of willpower can prevent one from succumbing to the needs of the leech. His son managed to keep his leech in check, and Karen was capable of behaviour which did not appear to be completely motivated by self interest. It can be argued that no one is truly altruistic - even an ostensibly selfless act is motivated by the desire to feel good about oneself for example, and in Karen's case, being Wamphyri, an act that even remotely looks to be something other than completely self serving should be regarded as nothing short of miraculous. Here are 3 Wamphyri who don't exactly fit the general mould. Are they evil? They could have acted very differently and argued their leeches were solely responsible for their actions, but they didn't. They chose to place themselves in positions of extreme danger and vulnerability and accept responsibility for their actions. Even the ascetics of Turgosheim showed it is possible to survive and prosper without letting their leeches run rampant. If Necroscope teaches us anything its that there is always a choice - it's just that sometimes the choices we are confronted with are unpalatable, and that in life not all situations can be of the win/win variety.

Nope, if it's crap I wouldn't be begging for more. To use a sports metaphor (well, everyone else does these days), my football team played in 4 losing premierships between 1989-1995. That's 4 losses, no cup since 1963 - meaning none in my lifetime. By 1995 I just couldn't stand it anymore - too many letdowns. And now they once again have a good enough squad to maybe have another crack at it in the next year or so. I'm equal parts excited and petrified. The heart can only take so much and runner up just doesn't do it for me. The last thing I want to do however is just give up on my team altogether. I've been fed scraps long enough and I just want to see some quality film making. I want it to be for the devotees who love the books and care about the characters. I know everyone has their own ideas about casting and preferred storylines etc, I do as well and that's to be expected. It doesn't have to be "perfect" in that regard. I just want a team that have read and admire the books to have a crack at putting it together with the intention of staying true to the spirit of the books. That's my number one concern. I'm just afraid that it'll be taken over by knuckleheads who just want to make a lowbrow muckmonster movie for the video market. And to hell with appealing to the general public, they neither know nor care so why pander to them. That's what they did with the first Star Trek TNG movie and it was awful. But when they made First Contact for the fans it wasn't just a good trek-style movie - it was actually a well made sci-fi movie that even non trek fans liked. IT CAN BE DONE! If you make it well, they will come! Ah, whatever!!! Let Tom Cruise play Harry. Let him play Zek, he probably thinks he could pull it off!

Okay, dragged my arse off the sofa & here's my two cents. Having thought about it for a while, I'm torn between my desire to see the movie and my fear of having it botched by the hillbillies that sign the cheques in la la land. Sin City and the Spiderman movies for example are proof positive that comics and novels can remain faithful when transferred to the screen. The Batman movies however are equal proof that they're more likely to be screwed by directors who are more concerned with their "artistic vision" and producers always thinking about maximum profits than paying respect to characters who already have a rich and complex history to draw from (60 years, about 30 of them good in the case of Batman.) Superman came from Krypton. I don't see any need to change that, no matter what a director's "artistic vision" tells him. The Joker did not die after his first encounter with Batman (neither did the Green Goblin in Spiderman, granted, but I forgive this oversight because everything else was pretty much spot on), nor should Batman be disposed to reveal his identity to every girl he falls for. This propensity to screw with the mythology of long established characters is rife, and slotting big name actors in ill-suited parts to sell tickets just pisses me off! Yes, I can hear the voice of logic saying "but if they don't, the movie won't get made, you know it's all about bums on seats etc etc etc yadda yadda yadda..." - well then, don't make the friggin' thing at all. If any of you have read Danse Macabre by Stephen King, you'll know about the longest footnote in literature (as King puts it) concerning Richard Matheson and the think tank concerning the script for the first Star Trek movie. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up. If you do know...would you really want our beloved Necroscope to be left in the hands of such morons as these? Okay, I've vented enough! Love and peace.

Hi Dave. Hi everybody. Yeah, I think i'd prefer prosthetics over CGI in the main, although CGI would (will) make sense with the transformations from human to vampire. I saw some of Battlefield Earth - awful, awful movie - but the way they made the aliens look considerably bigger than the humans worked pretty well. Were they superimposed, CGI or what? I saw it (well, some of it) a long time ago & can't really remember. Does anyone know - c'mon, i admitted to paying my $2 to see it! Just re-read Blood Brothers & now re-reading The Last Aerie. I love the whole Shaitan/Satan fallen angel stuff. So few writers of vampire novels bother to tackle the whole cross/garlic/mirror/stake/enter of your own free will etc mythology. Master Lumley does it effortlessly and believably. Hey, that's why I keep reading them!

Nope, not Duchovny. The well manicured man is one of the conspirators. He was in the movie, the one that was speaking to Mulder in the limo, who gave him coordinates to find Scully and then blew up in the limo - phew!

Thanks sdkdmd. I went to the gate but I'm not sure what I should be doing there (I really am green when it comes to navigating sites). I agree with Exsanguinator - unfortunately just because the rights have been bought, doesn't mean the movie will get made. But that shouldn't stop us from having fun with casting fantasies and possible storylines. Remember, what has been will be! As for not following the books, well... is Hollywood gonna come up with something better? Doubtful - it doesn't have a great track record! How about "the well manicured man" from X-Files (sorry, the actor eludes me) as Sir Keenan?

Nathan all the way. I've always wanted to travel.

I'm not sure about rock music for the movie. An original score would be my preference. A good dose of gypsy music wouldn't go astray (depends of course on which scenarios make it into the script). I would however hate for the movie to suffer from cramming multiple storylines into 90mins at the expense of character development. This story needs to unravel at its own pace. I say one movie per novel. There are too many great characters to leave out. Yes to Dragosani, but wouldn't you love to see Johnny Found!

Hi one and all. Glad to be on board. This is the first time I've ever done this & I'm a little green about all the in's & out's. Feel free to advise me! About the movie - great news, so long as they don't cast Keannu! I would've loved to have seen Oliver Reed as Lardis, but alas... I'll settle for an appearance by the Killglance bros though!