Now that the Doctor’s new Sonic Screwdriver has made its debut during the show’s season finale, we can get an even better look at it. I have to say, I really am in love with this design. It isn’t as chunky as the 11th Doctor’s Sonic, which I love, and it has some super cool lights. It’s also TARDIS blue. It is the perfect blend of old fashioned and modern. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on a replica!
Director James Gunn recently shared a behind-the-scenes photo from Guardians of the Galaxy that shows a very early design for Star-Lord’s helmet. This is what he had to say:
“#fbf Very early version of the Star-Lord mask. I wanted the eyes to be big, as if he was perpetually surprised, not your regular hero. We might have overdone it a bit here. #GotG#flashbackfriday”
It’s always fun to see the evolution of things like this. Below is a piece of concept art that this helmet design was based on. It’s not bad, but I’m glad they made all of the minor improvements that they did. The final version really works well.
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Here’s some Superman Lives concept art and some designs of Brainiac, who was supposed to be the villain of the film. This film would have been directed by Tim Burton and would have starred Nicholas Cage as the Man of Steel. However the whole thing was a complete mess and we never got that movie. Some are thankful, while others are sad. As weird as this film looks, I am intrigued. I would have liked to see what Burton could do with the Man of Steel, even if the weirdness seems cranked up in typical Burton style.
The art is from propstore.com who recently auctioned off some Superman Lives items. They were taking some bold chances with Superman, I’ll give them that.
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The designs and cool creatures that you see in Ghostbusters had to start somewhere. We have the amazing concept art of Henry Mayo to thank, as well as Thom Enriquez, John Deveikis and others. You can check it all out in Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History. We’ve mentioned the book before, but check out some of the images here.
Witness some of the drawings that led to the creation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Slimer. I’m always fascinated with how these things evolve. It’s interesting to see the creative process. I almost wish we had gotten a more evil looking Stay Puft Marshmallow Man after seeing this.
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Artist Ben Murphy from Cork, Ireland says that this is the first of three mini-projects that is part of his 4th Year Project. The idea is to create the concept art for “Logan’s Run” as if it was being rebooted for this generation of moviegoers. From what I can see on his page, he did an amazing job. Below is just a sample of some of the work that he did.
I really like the costuming of the main characters, the vehicles and the guns. He has a pretty cool vision for what this world would be. I’d love to see his vision in movie form. Even in animation.
If you were disappointed with Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four movie, you were far from alone. One thing that we didn’t see in the movie was HERBIE the robot. Apparently the robot was to be in the movie at one point. Not that this would have helped any.
HERBIE stands for Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics. Thanks to concept artist Fausto De Martini we have some concept designs showing us what we missed out on. He is literally a robot sitting on a soccer ball. He also has LEGO parts. I’m guessing it was to be built by Reed Richards as a kid in the film. Or maybe as an adult. I mean most of us never grow out of LEGO. It’s kind of cool, but it also feels like something is off about it.
Whether you enjoyed Josh Trank’s FF4 movie or not, you’ll like this. Concept artist Steve Jung has released some concept art that he made for the much talked about and maligned Fantastic Four film.
What is interesting here is that they feature a different-looking Planet Zero and also show off Doctor Doom’s castle. This art was created in 2013, and you can see from these images that at that time, that things changed a lot. I’m really enjoying what I’m seeing here. We can only imagine what kind of movie we would have gotten if their plans hadn’t changed so much.
It’s been awhile since Steven Spielberg has made a sci-fi action film, but we are always game to watch what he throws our way. In 2013, he postponed work on his adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s best-selling novel Robopocalypse. But we can now have a look at what might have been. This is some intriguing stuff.
He was working on the film for several years. Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway and Ben Whishaw were even cast. But t some point it was announced that the script needed a lot more work. Plus it was apparently “too expensive to produce.” Who knows if we will ever see it finished, but here are a few images by artist Patrick Janicke.
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One thing we should all take away from Disney’s recent attempt at John Carter is that it is really hard to make the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels on film. In 2012, Andrew Stanton’s adaptation bombed at the box office. Now, a Presentation Reel of another adaptation has surfaced, and we get to see what might have been.
This reel was put together by director Kerry Conran and it shows off some amazing visuals from concept art that was created for the adaptation. There is also some action and fight scenes. There are many similarities, but it has more of a pulp feel for sure. It sure looks like a better and more sweeping adaptation. Sadly, we will likely never see it fully realized on screen, which is a real shame.
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We know a fair bit about Terminator: Genisys’ plot already. The movie releases in just a few days. It looks like John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to save his mother Sarah from the Terminators before he is born. But this time around, when Kyle arrives in 1984, Sarah is already waiting for him. And she has brought her own Terminator.
I bet he didn’t expect that. Those scenes have been shown in all of the trailers, but the trailers haven’t shown us much about the future in this movie. This concept art from the upcoming book Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Future by David S. Cohen helps to shed some light on the darker grittier future in this movie. Not to mention all of the other concept art that we can’t see yet.
