totallynotagentphilcoulson: vintagegeekculture: Dave Dorman did a phony GI Joe movie poster for a 20
totallynotagentphilcoulson: vintagegeekculture: Dave Dorman did a phony GI Joe movie poster for a 2003 April Fools issue of Wizard magazine. Wizard used to do April Fools issues, where a lot of the content was made up. This was back in the day when a big budget revival of a fanboy-beloved eighties property was just a wild and crazy nerd dream, instead of the central, mainstream force of popular entertainment culture. Is that Viggo Mortensen as Duke Yes, that is in fact, Viggo Mortensen as Duke. 2003 was really his year of greatest visibility and prominence. You can probably also tell Dorman drew Michael Clark Duncan as Roadblock. Some of my my younger readers, though, are probably unfamiliar with the third person in this image: Thora Birch, who, for a few years in the early 2000s, after she won the Academy Award for American Beauty, was all set to become a Hollywood icon and A-list movie star….if not for the fact that her career was derailed by her father and manager, a former porn star, who made his daughter a pariah in the industry due to his deeply disturbing and deranged behaviors on sets. At one point, he threatened to murder her director.What’s very interesting to me is that Dorman fan-cast Thora Birch to be Scarlett, a redhead amazonian commando spy, and her not her (less famous at the time) Ghost World co-star, Scarlet Johannsson. -- source link