Animated Gremlins Show in the works. Are you excited Yea Forums?
>>Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.
Sounds like it was meant to be made in 1989
fuck you world, fuck you.
I'm 22, why would I care about Grelims?
If it's well animated and funny, I'll watch though
i was excited for this but the whole behind the scenes dc universe drama really soured me. i cant think about this show without thinking about swamp thing and doom patrol
>Along with a teenage street thief named Elle
taking bets now, is the OC donut black, or hispanic?
It's WB, you know it will suck. All of their top talent is currently at Looney Tunes too.
Just when you think you can't hate WB any more than you already do
Well, loved the movies, so...
Fingers crossed.
She's a thief, therefore she can't be black
>Prequel
>That means the horny girl gremlin that survived part 2 won't be in it.
Dropped.
There had better be a Stripe/Mohawk analog.
How is he named Gizmo in 1920s China when his name was given to him in the 1980s?
ladderbro, keep this in capeshit threads
Sounds like fun, I’ll be looking out for it
Just make sure there are lots of gremlin variants like in 2.
Funnily enough, the people that scripted Gremlins made a back story to make sense to the creatures and their biology. Seemingly they are a gift from an advanced alien civilization to many worlds. But given a genetic glitch, the Mogwai turn into horrible creatures when they have dinner at midnight. Supposedly the Gremlins have successfully overrun an alien planet. Will they discard that nugget the writers needed for inspiration? I hope not because I hate my nerd lore to be turned to dust.
Lets just ignore that whole alien angle, mmkay? Gremlins rules are magic, simple as that.
yeah.
sigh...I miss 80´s logic in stuff.
>There had better be a Stripe/Mohawk analog.
I dunno if it's supported by any of the novelizations or anything, but it was always my head canon that every batch of Gremlins had an Alpha Gremlin that was distinguished by having a central fin or tuft of hair on his head and neck, hence why Stripe and Mohawk were both so similar despite being different characters.
Mohawk was Stripe reincarnated, at least according to the directors.
..yeah, Didn't Mohawk call Gizmo by name in 2? Despite not being raised by Billy or be around at any point when someone would have said Gizmo aloud?
Yup. Right before he got roasted as a spider.
That would sort of be interesting and all kinds of fucked up if Gizmo (or any mogwai/gremlin, really) keep producing/ reincarnating the same gremlin 'soul' if their offspring are killed and then the progenitor later gets wet again.
Like killing Stripe/Mohawk is only effective as long as Gizmo doesn't take a shower and this particular gremlin always comes back as a major villain.
Seems to be the case. Mohawk somehow had Stripe's "genetic memory", however such a thing might work.
Yeah... though honestly I really fail to see how mogwais are supposed to be, at all, any sort of "gift" as Mr. Wing reminded the audience at the end of G1.
Gizmo is a sole exception and I'm not subscribing to the flawed alien experiment theory especially if the reincarnation shit is canon. Mogwai literally means devil going by the Chinese definition and none of them aside from Gizmo seem to have any predilection but to get wet and eat after midnight.
I kinda like that idea. Stripe/Mohawk is like Gizmo's suppressed dark side and all his negative energy. So whenever Gizmo gets wet, that evil part of him escapes again.
Or maybe they were all created by an alien named Jupitarman (according to the novel). I dunno.
You may be onto something there, user.
Gizmo's an anomaly among his kind, though Earl from G1 may have turned out better if the fucking science teacher hadn't stuck him with needles. He obviously knows what happens to mogwai if they eat after midnight and refused to do so, and also knows to avoid water whereas the other little shits antagonize others and deliberately want to turn into gremlins/make more gremlins.
The mogwai are obviously sentient so maybe Gizmo just doesn't *want* to turn into a monster, but he was willing to live in a fucking cage for most of his pre and post movie life. There's *gotta* be a part of him that wants out of that even if it's infinitesimally small.
The first novel had them as the creation of a scientist named Mogturmen to be the perfect designer pet: docile, intelligent, and adorable. Whoever he worked for them shipped them out across pretty much the entire galaxy and only afterwards did they find out that only about one in every thousand Mogwai were stable mutants while the rest were mentally unbalanced. Even the ones that don't figure out how to transform could still be vicious.
The regular Mogwai had genetic memories that told them that they had problems with light and that would be side-effects if they got wet or ate after midnight but, because of the instability, they didn't know what the results were though they were aware that Gizmo knew since he was a mutant. They recalled or killed as many of the species as they could and Mogturmen was lobotomized as punishment if I remember correctly.
Stripe learned what the effect of water was when he saw the others being born. They found out light kills them after one of the batch slipped outside and was killed by the sun. The transformation was just Stripe just saying to hell with it and tricking Billy into letting them eat.
In the second book, Mogturmen was an entire species.
Personally, I'd rather keep the alien backstory out, as was mentioned earlier in the thread, especially if this series really is about Young Mr. Wing and some dame fighting gremlins on a treasure hunt in the 50s.
Having there be some sort of spiritual aspect to mogwais (and the Stripe/Gizmo dichotomy being literally about an escaping evil) seems more on point because how were Billy or Wing any fucking body else supposed to know about the whole alien business? You'd need Gizmo or the Brain Gremlin to explain this, and it doesn't add anything to the story unless more aliens show up or something. And we already have Critters so it's unnecessary to go that route.
What Else should WB streaming do?
I suggest Shazam The Animated Series
they did some pilot shorts for Shazam during CN's DC animated block years back. It could workdespite CN's modern TTGo inspired art direction
>there will never be a Timmverse Shazam series
Eh. Gotta be honest, I waited all through Justice League Unlimited for the Shazam episode and felt it was one of the worst.
Superman was such a dick, even if the entire mess was revealed to be Luthor intentionally antagonizing him and Billy was innocently trying to move things along.
>industrialist
Wow a person who worked hard to make a business or any so called boss CEO is the main villain huh?
I got a list of better villains but that's not the point here on my 2cents, this is fucking stupid I could have done a new fucking gremlins that actually brought back the horror aspect of it.
My thoughts almost exactly.
Probably a douchier version of the building owner from the second movie.
as an unapologetic casual fag who's first introduction to the Cap was watching that JLU episode, I kinda agree, he doesn't stand out, even in his own episode. The speech about calling out the league for being "not heroes" is kinda kino-ish, but that whole episode kinda falls flat because they don't really explain Shazam's character. He is kinda just there as not-superman
both are terrible, I'd just have the gremlins just "be".
This is like 30 years too late.
Can't wait to hear Joe Dante commenting on this on his podcast.
>he doesn't know about the upcoming CGI reboot featuring Ninja's voice
Except they're pretty much going with the Young Mr. Wing adventures.
It's not what I'd do, either, but among the two I would rather see a mystical/mythical approach rather than tacked on alien explanations the plot cannot really bring into the forefront.
I wouldn't be against a new Gremlins film since them fucking around with modern technology could be pretty funny.
Not sure how I feel about this series though.
Wasn't Clamp a bro? I remembering him just being a bit native but when shit went down he tried to fix it
Christ, the original movies were DECADES ago. No fucking way these retards can reboot it into a cartoon series without OBLITERATING the appeal.
The lore is superfluous without a tech/modernity metaphor.
Well...... can't say I expected this.
Yeah, maybe a bit of an ego, but he really enjoyed playing hero in the end.