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Comic Con Day 4: Troma Panel
International Friends, I bring news from the Troma panel at Comic Con. The panel featured people that have worked with Lloyd, or are currently working in the field and consider him to be an inspiration. The panel Featured Lloyd Kaufman, Mark Neveldine, Chad Gilbert, Batton Lash, Stephen Paul, and Alison Star.
Lloyd Kaufman started the panel introducing Mark Neveldine. Mark went on to proclaim poultrygeist the best film in the last 4 years and shared that Lloyd will have a role as a Genericon in Game and have a surprise role in Crank 2.
Chad Gilbert from New Found Glory was up to bat next to discuss the poultrygeist theme song. We were lucky enough to see the video for the song and it was hilarious. Sadly I haven’t seen the film – but look forward to doing so. He also mentioned that he started his own website moviescenester.com
Batton Lash creator of the comic book supernatural law spoke third. His comic book is about lawyers who represent the supernaturally afflicted, and has a crossover issue featuring the Toxic Avenger being defended before judge Lloyd Kaufman.
Stephan Paul producer of Ghost Rider discussed his plans to work with Speilberg for the upcoming Ghost In The Shell film. He just finished the film adaptation of Tekken, and is currently working on Castlevania and Lost Planet. Stephan Paul then proclaimed Lloyd as the symbol of the independent, and among the most generous of people. He closed by sharing that Ghost In the Shell will be 3-D
Allyson Sereboff, star of Poultrygeist then shared stories about the filming of the movie and what it was like to live with 50 people in one house, with one bathroom, for 2 months!
During the panel we got to see a cool short of Toxie in Iraq, and promo clips from Make Your Own Damn Movie. We were reminded that Poultrygeist will be available on DVD Oct. 28th and much was spoken about the influence and kindness of Mr. Kaufman. The man makes films the way he wants and his voice has been one of inspiration to many.
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Is it better now amigo?
Yes, much better. Much thanks!
so there was nothing else going on and you decided to go check out the troma panel I take it
Don’t you fuckin disrespect Troma CMC, they deserve our respect for having the balls to do what nobody else is doing.
Llyod and Troma are great. Not only is he just a super decent person but he really does want people to make films that THEY want to see.
He has been a huge supporter of the film I am in called “For Christ’s Sake”. Not only is he in it, but I know that he is interested in the film to come out on the TROMA lable. That would help an Indie like ours get play in the world market that we other wise would not get.
I respect Troma and Lloyd for all the hard work they do. I’m proud to know him and be affilated with the company in even just a small way.
check out a pic of Lloyd & I from MegaCon in Orlando:
http://a998.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/86/l_e595bc95d0eaa5d71e48ae0bd76f4645.jpg
and the Trailer for “For Christ’s Sake”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x6mX6SQinY
http://www.myspace.com/for_christs_sake
There is a huge amount of people working in the movie-making business who owe a lot if not their entire carreer to Lloyd Kaufman. Some went further and find themselves too important to ever mention that, some make very well and keep loyal (James Gunn for instance). Many multi-million-dollar films would never have been made if it wasn’t for Troma in one way or another, and influential directors like Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino acknowlegde the influence Lloyd and Troma have had on them.
It is a shame that bigger audiences don’t take the time to appreciate the imprtant and impressive body of work this man is responsible for, and this situation is not helped by the fact that supposedly respectable newspapers print bad reviews about Troma’s movies obviously without even having taken the trouble to see them (clink my name for the website where much is revealed), just to service some big conglomerates who don’t care about the ART of moviemaking as Lloyd Kaufman does, but only go for the fast bucks.
Apart from that I am happy to see mentioned above here that Mr. Kaufman is not only a great artist, a great influence on other artists, but also a very decent and loyal person, a rare commodity in today’s business-ruled world.
@ CMC – I would have ditched any panel to support Troma.
I grew up watching their films, loved them and am thankful that I now get to cover events like this and share the news with kindred spirits.
I also got to see a clip of the Toxic Avenger in Iraq, I doubt any other panel would have had shit this cool.