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bapenguin
10-26-2005, 05:29 AM
I saw this over at Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000890065044/) who saw it over at Gamegossip (http://www.gamegossip.com/comment.php?id=15409) who saw it over at The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/video_games/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001351055). Apparantly Fox has purchased the rights to make an animated CGI show based on the Destroy All Humans franchise.

Fox Broadcasting Co. has acquired the rights to develop THQ's best-selling sci-fi video game "Destroy All Humans!" into a half-hour CGI-animated comedy by former "King of the Hill" writer/co-executive producer Jim Dauterive. The deal marks the first time a video game will be used as the basis for a primetime network television program. The script will be developed through 20th Century Fox TV, where Dauterive has an overall deal. Set in the 1950s, the third-person action game puts players into the bulbous gray head of Crypto 137, an alien who has landed on Earth and is intent on destroying it. The game takes a comic approach and spoofs '50s Hollywood B-movies. "The goal is to make the show as good and as funny as the video game," Dauterive said.
It'd be great if they can capture the artistic style of the game, as well as the dark humor.

Steve_Erhardt
10-26-2005, 05:34 AM
Hopefully the comedy aspect will save it from the shitfuckers at Fox who invariably axe anything with a hard sci-fi aspect.

KamaItachi
10-26-2005, 05:37 AM
Just like Futurama.

In it's 8th season and still going strong.

Heretic Machine
10-26-2005, 07:53 AM
It's already made, yo, it's called Invader Zim!

...Oh wait, nevermind... Go ahead and make it anyway <.<

Nikells
10-26-2005, 08:10 AM
Just like Futurama.

In it's 8th season and still going strong.
Didn't Futurama get axed at one point though?

The Iron Weasel
10-26-2005, 08:45 AM
Just like Futurama.

In it's 8th season and still going strong.

Don't even joke about that you bastard. Futurama was the best cartoon to ever come out of fox. Serioulsy they wouldn't have ever run outta ideas. They need something for a joke, or a story, just make a new planet. Seriously I love Futurama sooooo much. Those bastards put it in the death slot though.

JudasGoat
10-26-2005, 08:55 AM
It's already made, yo, it's called Invader Zim!

...Oh wait, nevermind... Go ahead and make it anyway <.<

Amen to that, brother. Poor Zim... Even Richard Horvitz (Zim) does a voice in DAH. They should have bought the rights from Nickelodeon and just made a Zim game.

Anyway, yes. BRING ZIM BACK, JERKS. Adult Swim is prime real estate for him.

if76
10-26-2005, 10:39 AM
I was just suprised no one brought up the parallels to zim when the game came out.

kurr
10-26-2005, 10:56 AM
That's actually the first thing I said when I heard his voice. "Goddamnit, that'z ZIM!".

I still have no idea what Jhonen Vasquez was doing, making a TV show on a kid's network. This guy wrote and drew Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee! Those are NOT kid's comics!

enversi
10-26-2005, 11:32 AM
Anyway, yes. BRING ZIM BACK, JERKS. Adult Swim is prime real estate for him.

If only... :(

Why must life be so difficult! Why doesn't God care?!

JudasGoat
10-26-2005, 02:44 PM
The frightening thing about Richard Horvitz's voice is, he REALLY DOES sound exactly like Zim. If you've got the DVDs you can listen to the commentary track (which is funny), but man, if my voice sounded like that I'd be a mute.