VendavalEste
10-14-2006, 11:43 AM
Seeing as how this film is only around the corner now, I thought I make a thread about it.
Dominator X is the new animated production from Renga Media; it is an entirely new revamp of the original movie, starting off with an immensely bigger budget in comparison as well as a much more interesting and, overall, better visual style. From what I've heard, this production is inspired by The Guyver and, something which should be familiar around here, Devilman so I'm expecting very good things.
As of yet, I have nothing on the film's plot except that the prologue sequence takes place in old Japan in which a samurai-esque demon warrior (Dominator) does battle with a monster for destroying a village and the actual film is going to take place in Edinburgh.
That out the way, I think I'll post a bit on the history of Dominator (using what's already available on my site's Introduction page of course)...
Metal Hammer magazine has been a successful long-running magazine on the subject of good, loud music. Dominator all began in 1988 in an issue of Metal Hammer, as a black-and-white comic strip detailing the misadventures of a masked rock demon who had escaped from Hell. With art by Tony Luke, the first ever incarnation of Dominator featured him battling otherworldly foes such as the Darkadians, “guests” included Ozzy Osborne, Anthrax and Zodiac Mindwarp.
After the Metal Hammer series ended, Dominator went on a bit of a hiatus and seemed like a character who would not return, not to the UK at least. In 1993 Dominator returned mightily as the starring character of the first-ever Brit-created manga with Tony Luke on art duties as usual and Alan Grant on stories. Published in Kodansha Comic Afternoon, this reincarnation of Dominator introduced many new characters as well as a new plot; Dominator and three demonic warriors – Extricator, Decimator and Lady Violator – had been released from a realm in Hell called Darkadia and were left to wreak havoc on Earth (as well as save it in some cases) as they did battle with an assortment of ghouls and titans. It was printed alongside with other manga including “Oh! My Goddess”, “Gunsmith Cats”, “Gonta” and many more, it was overseen by Hiro Morita; the editor of the internationally-famous Akira. The starring characters of the new Dominator later went on to feature in a special crossover with the characters of “Get a Grip! Tsuyoshi” in the strip “Tsuyoshi Tai Dominator”; a bizarre crossover but also one of the most successful.
During 2000, another reincarnation of Dominator was taking place. Using new character designs (and amongst new characters) such as Yasushi Nirasawa’s most notable Lady Violator re-design, an early prototype video was made by Tony Luke showing off the new character designs and what-not. From here on, Dominator was intended to be a series of episodes that were available to download from the Renga Media website, but work was postponed when Tony was diagnosed with a form of lung cancer, he luckily survived. After this the UK Sci-Fi Channel, pleased with the success of Archangel Thunderbird a few years ago, asked Tony Luke if he was interested in turning this new Dominator into a movie, which happened of course. Like with the original concept for the downloadable series, the Renga team made the movie on several Apple Macs with a variety of graphic and animation programs. The film went on to be awarded at the Festival of Fantastic Films and was screened in Brighton and in Cannes before receiving cult status. After this, Renga Media went on to do more work and eventually released the 6-minute special, A Brief History Of Hell, for download on their website in 2004 which was followed in 2005 by the 12-minute Heavy Metal VS Dominator which starred Dominator and Tara and some of the characters from Heavy Metal FAKK2 movie such as Tyler and Julie.
The film will be directed by Tony Luke, scripted by Alan Grant and produced by Simon Moorhead, with Yasushi Nirasawa in charge of the character designs.
The voice line-up so far has been confirmed to consist of...
Dough Bradley (Dr. Payne)
Mark & Lard (Decimator & Extricator)
Liza Goddard (Fina)
Patrick Bergin
Billy Boyd
Ian Ogilvy
Billy Boyd will be taking up the joint role of Shiro Lamont and his demon alter-ego, Dominator. Dani Filth is still involved with Renga Media and future projects.
Think I'll post the movie Dominators...
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7533/r26fq.jpg
The Dominator of the 2003 movie. As you can see, the movie was low budget, so I really wouldn't recommend you take it so seriously. It's good fun nonetheless.
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5649/heavydomguitarlt0.png
The highly-improved Dominator of 2005's Heavy Metal VS Dominator short. Very, very cool; downloading and watching recommended.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/GP02A/domxguitar.jpg
Here is a much better version of the original image I had her. This is the new Dominator as of 2006. Going back to the original 2003 design (and a bit further to the manga Dom of '93), Dominator now dons his traditional angular mask once again and holds a samurai sword at his waist and a staff on his back, a kilt pinned on his shoulder (the Demon Lord of Rockstars is Scottish this time round). Noticeably lacking in bulk and armour, this is a more slipstream design, and possibly the best in my opinion. And to bring these images full circle, I included this guitar variation, to also show how his axes have evolved.
Coming from a background of Punk, Metal and gothic eccentricities, Renga Media is sure to fuel Dominator X with a grinding soundtrack, with the original movie consisting of Cradle Of Filth, Killing Mode, Jezebel, SikTh, Matter, and many other bands that were on the Brighton Rock scene. If Dominator X has Iron Maiden or Judas Priest on it...:dribble:
Dominator X is the new animated production from Renga Media; it is an entirely new revamp of the original movie, starting off with an immensely bigger budget in comparison as well as a much more interesting and, overall, better visual style. From what I've heard, this production is inspired by The Guyver and, something which should be familiar around here, Devilman so I'm expecting very good things.
As of yet, I have nothing on the film's plot except that the prologue sequence takes place in old Japan in which a samurai-esque demon warrior (Dominator) does battle with a monster for destroying a village and the actual film is going to take place in Edinburgh.
That out the way, I think I'll post a bit on the history of Dominator (using what's already available on my site's Introduction page of course)...
Metal Hammer magazine has been a successful long-running magazine on the subject of good, loud music. Dominator all began in 1988 in an issue of Metal Hammer, as a black-and-white comic strip detailing the misadventures of a masked rock demon who had escaped from Hell. With art by Tony Luke, the first ever incarnation of Dominator featured him battling otherworldly foes such as the Darkadians, “guests” included Ozzy Osborne, Anthrax and Zodiac Mindwarp.
After the Metal Hammer series ended, Dominator went on a bit of a hiatus and seemed like a character who would not return, not to the UK at least. In 1993 Dominator returned mightily as the starring character of the first-ever Brit-created manga with Tony Luke on art duties as usual and Alan Grant on stories. Published in Kodansha Comic Afternoon, this reincarnation of Dominator introduced many new characters as well as a new plot; Dominator and three demonic warriors – Extricator, Decimator and Lady Violator – had been released from a realm in Hell called Darkadia and were left to wreak havoc on Earth (as well as save it in some cases) as they did battle with an assortment of ghouls and titans. It was printed alongside with other manga including “Oh! My Goddess”, “Gunsmith Cats”, “Gonta” and many more, it was overseen by Hiro Morita; the editor of the internationally-famous Akira. The starring characters of the new Dominator later went on to feature in a special crossover with the characters of “Get a Grip! Tsuyoshi” in the strip “Tsuyoshi Tai Dominator”; a bizarre crossover but also one of the most successful.
During 2000, another reincarnation of Dominator was taking place. Using new character designs (and amongst new characters) such as Yasushi Nirasawa’s most notable Lady Violator re-design, an early prototype video was made by Tony Luke showing off the new character designs and what-not. From here on, Dominator was intended to be a series of episodes that were available to download from the Renga Media website, but work was postponed when Tony was diagnosed with a form of lung cancer, he luckily survived. After this the UK Sci-Fi Channel, pleased with the success of Archangel Thunderbird a few years ago, asked Tony Luke if he was interested in turning this new Dominator into a movie, which happened of course. Like with the original concept for the downloadable series, the Renga team made the movie on several Apple Macs with a variety of graphic and animation programs. The film went on to be awarded at the Festival of Fantastic Films and was screened in Brighton and in Cannes before receiving cult status. After this, Renga Media went on to do more work and eventually released the 6-minute special, A Brief History Of Hell, for download on their website in 2004 which was followed in 2005 by the 12-minute Heavy Metal VS Dominator which starred Dominator and Tara and some of the characters from Heavy Metal FAKK2 movie such as Tyler and Julie.
The film will be directed by Tony Luke, scripted by Alan Grant and produced by Simon Moorhead, with Yasushi Nirasawa in charge of the character designs.
The voice line-up so far has been confirmed to consist of...
Dough Bradley (Dr. Payne)
Mark & Lard (Decimator & Extricator)
Liza Goddard (Fina)
Patrick Bergin
Billy Boyd
Ian Ogilvy
Billy Boyd will be taking up the joint role of Shiro Lamont and his demon alter-ego, Dominator. Dani Filth is still involved with Renga Media and future projects.
Think I'll post the movie Dominators...
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7533/r26fq.jpg
The Dominator of the 2003 movie. As you can see, the movie was low budget, so I really wouldn't recommend you take it so seriously. It's good fun nonetheless.
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5649/heavydomguitarlt0.png
The highly-improved Dominator of 2005's Heavy Metal VS Dominator short. Very, very cool; downloading and watching recommended.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/GP02A/domxguitar.jpg
Here is a much better version of the original image I had her. This is the new Dominator as of 2006. Going back to the original 2003 design (and a bit further to the manga Dom of '93), Dominator now dons his traditional angular mask once again and holds a samurai sword at his waist and a staff on his back, a kilt pinned on his shoulder (the Demon Lord of Rockstars is Scottish this time round). Noticeably lacking in bulk and armour, this is a more slipstream design, and possibly the best in my opinion. And to bring these images full circle, I included this guitar variation, to also show how his axes have evolved.
Coming from a background of Punk, Metal and gothic eccentricities, Renga Media is sure to fuel Dominator X with a grinding soundtrack, with the original movie consisting of Cradle Of Filth, Killing Mode, Jezebel, SikTh, Matter, and many other bands that were on the Brighton Rock scene. If Dominator X has Iron Maiden or Judas Priest on it...:dribble: