Ok..Greetings, Fans........Cassandra the Damsel of Doom, here- talking to you from my home away from -well, these two- until now, anyway. Welcome to the Pummeled Pomagranate ..... "the" Underground club for the ultimate hip, cool Goths making the scene. Sit down, relax, have a cup of juice, groove to the beat but don't bogart the vibes. {Whatever the hell that means}....Pluck your lyre,talk about anything you want...feel free to improvise....just one thing though...... if you DO leave....Take me With YOU????!!!!!!
Herc site updated!
by Tara (no login)
mostly old stuff relinked, but lots of Devient art finds too!!
I don't know what the context was, but there was a link to a possible Herc 3 except I think the mojo went out of the project.Here is an excerpt from Slyvains Chomets opinion on how Herc 2 fared....it was such a mega-disaster that they canned it and created a quickie clip show video from the TV series instead.Which was'nt promoted, and the TV series flopped horribly cause Disney was so disgusted by the poor audience reaction for the movie.
The fact that Disney hired Sylvain Chomet in the first place to go anywhere Near a Herc storyboard is living proof the whole place was going to hell in a hand basket. I've seen "The Triplets of Belleville" and it's about the most polar opposite of "Hercules" in tone, writing and art production imaginable. Getting Sylvain Chomet to work on "Hercules" would be like getting Quentan Tarantino to do a Muppet movie. Although, come to think of it, that would be pretty funny, would'nt it???
heres his take on the experiance...........
Sylvain Chomet........{producer of The Triplets of Belleville,} on why we should'nt hold our breaths for a Herc sequel
"I know from experience that dispirited animators tend to make lifeless films. In the late 90's, I worked at Disney's animation studio in Toronto, developing characters for a "Hercules" sequel. It was the most frustrating and informative period of my career. Everyone had his own office with large windows and views over Lake Ontario. Coming to work in the morning, I felt as if I was walking into a bank. No one saw each other, no fun was had and there was no sense of teamwork.
I was lucky enough to see the original "Hercules" development drawings of Gerald Scarfe, a talented British illustrator. They were inspired. But over time, studio input robbed Mr. Scarfe's characters of their life. What the studio did to them was criminal like adding water to wine.
Once, my team in Canada was sent to Los Angeles to meet the people in charge of our project there. By this time we were on the sixth rewrite of the script, and we had a daylong brainstorming session in which we were locked in a big room with executives and so-called creatives. One executive suggested a rewrite incorporating an idea she had in the car that morning. Heads nodded, notes were scribbled and script No. 7 was born. It was like watching a runaway steam train being driven by a flock of headless chickens.
In a sign of how eager corporations are to have animated characters that can be franchised and spun off, work on the "Hercules" sequel had started before the first "Hercules" movie had been released. As it turns out the film flopped and the plug was pulled on the sequel, but already money equivalent to the whole budget for "Triplets of Belleville" had been spent."
.....heres my TV one url...but sorry, I had nothing to do with the movie site Herc Haven, although I shared a lot of my stuff with NPFlea. Too bad, it was a really well done page.
Oh dear, sounds like another one bit the dust. It happens. Don't worry Tara, like the Great Pyramid, you're still here. And the rest of us are here...sometimes...okay not as much as we should be. We're like...mummies...waiting for Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz to say an incantation to bring us back to life (or here, we're not fussy so long as we're doing something). LOL!!! Sorry I was watching "The Mummy" earlier today. I still like it! Although both sequels were disappointing. But hey, that's Hollywood for ya.
Especially in "Bedazzled"....absolutely hilarious{and very Herkish humor!!!!}....see it???? if you havent, see it NOW!!! youll fall over laughing, I promise.
Hi Cil, nice to see ya again....yes, too bad about Herc Haven, it was a good one. Perhaps she is just on hiatus.My site tends to hang in there because I have one big fat gigantic domain on which I host several sites, most of which are not open to the public{family crap}and I just love having websites to fiddle with{it's theraputic!!!} whether its Herc or my personal vacation/family pages, my Victorian dollhouse mansion or the Ultimate Collection Of Bad Record Album Covers}
Anyhoo, in case yer interested, Ive discovered a wonderful new artist whose all hot on Herc and shes inspired me to start an Aphrodites Secret Page{Where You Can Touch The Frilly Things!!}Its a very beginnng splashpage, but you get the idea.Its more than the Aphs Secret, of course, Id like to make it her offciial temple.
If you, or if you know anyone, who would like to draw a Herc female strutting her stuff, spread the word????? and if you run into any interesting graphics that would lend themselves to the page do send them on over. Always looking for inspriation!!!
My youngest sister is hooked on Hercules. She can't get enough it seems. Which is a good thing! I really wish I had more episodes 'cause well one I love Herc and two...I don't want my current disks to get worn out from watching almost 24/7. My sister is turning 10 August 21st and well I think I know what she'd like (so would I) Anyway... I saw the announcement about the site (thank God it's not gone for good!) I clicked on the link one day and well it was not there then I saw the announcement here and felt soooooooo relieved! And it's good to be back.
yeah we're still kickin around. The site had to switch to another domain and server so it will be months before we're really widely known again, but I guess it will happen eventually.Happy to help your request but I sent you a downloading link if thats easier for you. Give your sis a great big disgusting Icarus kiss for me.....shes gonna have a great sense of humour when she grows up!!!
....pretty quiet here since the Health Department shut us down. But theres always room for a fellow fan. *Spits in glass and polishes it.* Whaddyll ya have????
We got pommagranate juice {with extra grit}....Fig-Cola, {which tastes as good as it sounds}...griffin's blood flambe{Hade's special stock}...ambrosia, {kinda pricey, though,} nectar,ichor, Mountain Dew, some kinda Greek wine{was "One" a good year???}and some fine imported bottled waters.....Lethe or Cananthus??? *Pours you some Cananthus on crushed snow.* Here, this will take you back only 6 months. Oh, and a plate of hot wings. {Ick's favorite.}
Mmm...I really like the flow of this place. It SCREAMS party.
Man, Icarus was always my favorite character, to be sure. There were episodes where he would make only a brief cameo at the start and then vanish-- or worse, not appear at all-- and I was always super-bummed over it. All the episodes are good, but the best ones lays have him included in some way. French Stewart for the win.
he was really my fave too, i mean, you take it for granted that Hades makes the series top notch, but far too many people go loopy over Hades and no one else. I always thought French Stewart was a scream and loved his ad libs. Very Woody Allen, Bob Hope.Wish he did more stuff.
Totally!!!! He was the crazy guy that every high school in North America had. The guy at my school was Pete. He liked to stick gummie bears on the classroom ceiling, throw random water balloons...he was like Peeves the Poltergeist in the Harry Potter books. Well sort of. Pete wasn't dead.
My favourite Icarus moment was from Spring from Cananthus and he was eating worms. For some reason it cracks me up every time I see it.
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