Whilst away on holidays last week my wife got a phone call from my son, who is watching through my old collection of "Tales of The Gold Monkey" VHS DVDs, NOT to tell me that he had left one in the machine and accidentally taped over the last ten minutes of one of the episodes! He's a good lad (usually!) so I haven't gone off at him about it, besides I might still have them on the original Beta tapes if our old BetaMax still works!

I dabble in fan productions, mostly fan fiction, zines, audio books and audio dramas - has anyone thought of doing an audio drama based on Tales of the Gold Monkey or better still a fan film?

Cheers

Kirok of L'Stok

First; I would recomend getting the DVD set from the websites store Nice little set of DVDs at a good price.

Second: I have thought of it. I also wanted to make a fan-film for Crimson Skies (See the other thread).

I guess I was sorta thinking that if I ever could get together enough Crimson Skies players to do it, I would try and get the Gold-Monkeyers and maybe some Indiana Jones fans and try to get a setting in the South Pacific

Mainly Crimson Skies with a huge throwback to Gold Monkey.

When you say a fan film, you mean a machinima based on the game as Borg War was based on Elite Force II? I don't know the game much myself but machinima are a doable project if you have some game skills, knowledge about video files and a good story.

If the game doesn't render people very well another option could be to use the game for the scenery, backgrounds, aerial cgi and mix it with some live film shot against greenscreen.

You're looking at a major investment of time and resources with live filming though, not impossible but a major commitment. That's why I stick to audio drama - no scenery, costumes, video equipment and your cast can record their lines in the comfort of their own home anywhere in the world! (ok, Machinima has many of these advantages as well)

An audio drama of TOTGM has one major seling point over other shows - its great music! Not only does it have a distinctive theme, it has stings for different moods and people. You'd just need Voice Actors who could carry off the parts of the main players.

Have you got a URL that would tell me a bit more about the game Crimson Skies?

Cheers

K

Some years ago, out of boredom, I started working on a "mini-series" that would finish out the Gold Monkey story. It began in 1953 and, through the eyes of a (now married and settled-down) Jake and Sarah--who were paying a return visit with their kids (and Corky) to Boragora--it looked back at the characters' experiences through World War II.

I had about fifty-plus pages written last I looked at it...I know I still have a copy around here somewhere.

I would love to read the mini-series that you have written