Written By: Ken HulseySources: Avery Guerra / Undead Backbrain / B Movie News
It has been quite a while since any news has surfaced on the Reptisaurus movie front, but the folks over at B Movie News and Undead Backbrain were able to rummage up a copy of the film's poster art.
It is always cool to see an image of a giant winged monster either attacking or being attacked by fighter jets, it always takes me back to the first time I saw Rodan. Now at this point I don't know how much of this ariel action we will see in the film, or how good it will look. A lot of special effects men have tried to pull off sequences like these and failed miserably, but then again they all can't be Tsuburayas.
Oh, yes before I forget, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. It does indeed say "Gill Gerard" across the top of the poster. Many of you may not know who that is, but to us Gen-X types his name will always be connected to the early 80s sci fi series "Buck Rogers" which also starred the lovely Erin Grey, but then again if you didn't know who Gil Gerard was then you probably wouldn't know who she was either. Wait....I'm rambling aren't I? Sorry, we old-timers tend to do that.
Back on topic.
Reptisaurus is based on the short-lived Charlton comic book "Reptisaurus The Terrible, " which ran for seven issues in 1962. Oddly enough the comic actually started out as an adaptation of the Danish monster movie Reptilicus, but the tie-in was abandoned after only two issues. In the comic, Reptisaurus was a giant, winged, reptilian, island-dwelling, monster that was worshipped by the ancient Aztecs who believed it to be the embodiment of their god Quetzalcoatl.
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