Just last week, I recounted the infamous story of how one of the first superhero fan films to hit the web, Superman: The Super 8 Movie—Special Edition, got forced offline by DC Comics before it developed a more pragmatic view of fan productions. Now Fan Cinema Today is hearing that the famed, forgotten flick may be making a comeback in the near future, served up as garnish to a much meatier cinematic dinner.
Marc Kimball, the filmmaker behind the Superman fan film, has been working away on his own original sci-fi short, Star Ranger 7 (“A force of one”) for the last few years, and it turns out that the film is almost ready to be released. “I have finally finished all the visual effects shots for my mini epic sci-fi film; it feels great to have them done,” he said.
Kimball added, “The run-time of the movie is 20 minutes, with well over 500 visual effects shots. I hope is will be well received; I think everyone will have a lot of fun watching this movie, but only time will tell. The film has now moved on to sound design and I’m working on the website, which I hope will be up by the end of November. I will have all my other films, including Superman: The Super 8 Movie, on there as well.”
Who knows—with a little luck, maybe I’ll get to re-debut the trailer to the Superman fan film closer to its reappearance on the web. In the meantime, as a taster to Kimball’s long-gestating original project, here’s a few sweet stills of Star Ranger 7–an FCT exclusive!
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