Re: [NEWS] Gerry Anderson's "Hit Squad" in development (animated puppet-like series)

Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Americans making a British series ... this is probably going to be a 
> disaster.  :-(
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>    Warner Bros. is developing a show that looks a lot like Team America
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>    Gerry Anderson was a television pioneer, using marionettes with
>    electric moving parts to make several British shows in the '60s
>    including the science fiction adventures Fireball XL5 and
>    Thunderbirds. 

Let us not forget SUPERCAR the first Supermarionation series.


South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone paid
>    tribute to his unique style in their 2004 film Team America: World
>    Police, and now Warner Bros. is returning Anderson's version of
>    puppetry to TV by developing Hit Squad, which was announced at
>    Annecy Festival.
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>    The show is based on a 1983 pitch document Anderson produced for
>    "a puppet-based television format with merchandising potential."
>    Warner Bros. Animation executive vice president Peter Girardi told
>    an Annecy panel he'd been trying to license Anderson's previous work,
>    but when the rights proved too complicated, he reached out to
>    Anderson's son to see if he could find any archived ideas.
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>    Russell McLean and Darren Walsh, who previously teamed up on the
>    puppet-focused Black Mirror episode "The Waldo Moment," are working
>    on updating Anderson's style to incorporate modern technology. All
>    the effects are practical, though CGI is used for the mouth movements.
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>    A preview screened at the panel focused on a new agent being debriefed
>    on her first day on Hit Squad. A flashback shows she had been carrying
>    a briefcase when a man tried to snatch it. They got into a fight in a
>    train station bathroom, where she shoved a urinal cake in his mouth.
>    The battle ends with her detonating the briefcase, blowing up her
>    attacker with it.
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>    Her new boss at first seemed skeptical of aggressive tactics, but then
>    concludes her violence makes her perfect to be part of Hit Squad. He
>    shows off their collection of cars and rockets, leading to a montage
>    of the arsenal in action that ends with all of London exploding. It
>    feels a lot like a British version of Team America.
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>    No release date has been announced for Hit Squad. Warne Bros. has been
>    expanding its focus on adult animation with new series including
>    President Curtis, Absolute Batman, and My Two Cars.
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>    <https://www.polygon.com/adult-swim-hit-squad-gerry-anderson-reveal/>
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