Governator Prepares For Battle Against Femmebots, Twinkbots
These days Stan Lee seems to be all about haphazard collaborations, in what appears to be a vie to complicate his own soon-to-be-survivors' inheritance. The freshest batch of headlines pits him with Arnold Schwarzenegger in development of "The Governator", which aims to skip that awkward media endearment phase and jump to being a full-on franchise, with a TV series already optioned for a movie. The series will feature a hardly-fictional retired governor who takes crime-fighting into his own hands with an array of gadgetry and teenage cohorts at his disposal. And the antagonists invented by the alliteration-enthusiast co-creator? An organization named Gangsters, Imposters, Racketeers, Liars & Irredeemable Ex-cons, or GIRLIE Men, for short. While there's nothing overtly homophobic in the Governor's infamous choice of words towards his political competitors, I'm definitely reading some inconsistency in the show's marketing. Is Arnold's square-jawed hyper-masculinity and lightcycle mockup supposed to be geared toward kids? That would partially justify that crapshoot of a trailer, but then why include an uncensored rendition of Black Eyed Peas' "Turn it Up"? (Oh yes they did) I suppose the show will do a fine job of crashing and burning on its own, but I'll be keeping my pickfork handy for the first mention of an enemybot with a broken wrist sprocket.
Rubber Justice
Posted to Television on 4 April 2011
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Oh, Stan! No! Don't become a parody of yourself!
I suppose it could be worse: he could be creating a comic book version of The Rock or something. That wouldn't be much worse, though. Ugh.
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