Kevin Roegele said:
"As for TV, it won't be long before we'll be announcing Daredevil in his own series! (Note: pilot for this show was never televised, but it does exist).
Do you know this for sure? I know Rex Smith did a turn as DD in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (I liked him better than Affleck - if not the costume!) and that that was supposed to be a springboard for a pilot but I never heard they actually shot it. If so I would love to get my hands on a bootleg copy!
I posted this a while back (I don't even remember where I got it) but it is an article in response to Stan's Soapbox comments about the "New, Big-budget, big-screen feature of Captain America!" - the 1991 film. The guy's comments are hilarious, especially if you've seen the film and just how "big-budget" it really is, and highlight just what a shameless huckster Stan the Man is - and I LOVE him for it! Check it out:
Found this in the archives; thought I'd share it. The stuff with
arrows is reprinted from a "Stan's Soapbox" in which he hyped the
(then-new) 1991 Captain America movie, starring Matt Salinger. (If
you've never seen it, well, don't bother.) The stuff without arrows
is my own caustic in-line commentary to Stan. Egotistically, I
thought it was funny. If you don't, oh well. But I thought I'd share
it again here.
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>Greetings, True Believers!
>These weighty words are being pounded out on an old fashioned
>typewriter in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia!
Just the place *I* would've wanted to be. What could be better
than a vacation in the land of Tito -- the "moderate" Communist
paradise, soon to become the land of race war and genocide.
> I'm here in a beautiful hotel on the Adriatic Sea because it
finally >happened! No, I don't mean Marvel finally sent me into exile!
Suuure they didn't, "Comrade" Lee.
You'd just better hope Tito doesn't remember what
finally happened to the Unicorn......
> This is even better - production has just started on our big, new >
>Captain America feature film!
This is even better -- a hernia AND a ruptured disk,
AT THE SAME TIME!
> some of the most exciting action sequences you've ever seen!
Car chases in Yugos! Fruit-cart vendors being knocked over!
> Then, after these scenes are completed, the entire production staff
>will move to other locations throughout the world
some garage in Southern California.
> The film is being produced by 21st Century Film Corporation
an offshoot of Century 21 Realtors -- with ALL their
vast experience in film production.
>and directed by Albert Pyun, one of the most talented young
directors to come down the pike. Hawaiian-born Albert has been a
Captain America fan for as long as he can remember and he's
determined that this production will do our red, white and blue hero
proud.
>
And our set designer is Bob Grindfilth -- he's never heard
of Cap, but is determined to get his paycheck and eat well for
another week or two!
> Starring as Cap is handsome, young and rugged Matt Salinger, who
has starred in many stage productions.
Remember him as "3rd sailor" in Mechanic Arts High School's
production of "H.M.S. Pinafore" ? (We would've gotten
Reb Brown, but our budget wasn't big enough to hire a star
of his magnitude.)
> Not only is he a two-fisted hero type,
both fists desperately clenching this role like it was
a lifejacket thrown to a Titanic passenger
>but the guy can also act!
What does it say that Stan felt he had to add this comment?
> You'll also find such popular favorites as Ned Beatty,
fresh from his triumph as "Otis" in Superman:the Movie
>Ronnie Cox, Darren McGavin and Scott Paulin in the cast.
The commercial they were shooting had just wrapped, see, and
Darren needed some beer money to get him through the weekend...
> Scott plays the reprehensible Red Skull, and you should see the
make->up that was created for the role. It's really something else!
It actually looks like some guy wearing a Skull mask!
> As for the stunts, many of them will take your breath away!
You'll wish they had taken the producers' breath away.
>I don't want to describe any now cause it'll spoil the surprises,
and keep you away in droves
>but those of you who like your action fast and furious will be in
>superhero heaven!
>
Just like you felt watching the Batman TV show.
> But don't get the wrong idea. Our off-beat new Captain America
spectacular isn't merely a mindless rock 'em sock 'em oater.
"Oater"?!?? I wasn't planning to watch
"The Cap with No Name"....
>No way! This one's got a real story to it
A change from the Fantastic Four movie, then.
>with suspense,
You'll wonder when it's getting better!
> sensitivity
You'll itch all over after you see it
>and carefully crafted characterization.
Like the touching story of the kid who sees Cap on
the V-2, grows up to be President, yet never forgets Cap.
*Sniff* Yes, the Prez of the US yelling, "Sock 'em, Cap!"
as he pistol-whips some hapless Italian punk. *Sob*
Oh, the humanity!
>You'll see the startling origin of the Red Skull
The tragic story of young Guido,
youthful Italian piano virtuoso, kidnapped by Italian
Fascists and injected with the Super-Soldier serum!
Who then becomes a Nazi, for reasons none too clear!
Who survives the war as the world's biggest mafioso!
*I* was startled -- that's for sure!
>as well as the origin of Cap himself.
The slightly-limping but already muscular Steve Rogers!
His tearjerking farewell from his family and home
in suburban California!
The secret lab underneath the roadside diner! The hot babe
Italian scientist, inventor of the serum! Cap wearing a
costume...for no apparent reason! Cap failing his first
(and only) WWII mission! Cap chained to a V-2, launched
from Germany, landing in Alaska!
Yes, it's all here,
Cap-fans...just as you remembered it!
>Then, as the scene shifts from the past to the present, you'll be
swept away in a surge of dazzling drama as you follow the gut-
wrenching metamorphosis of America's great sentinel of liberty from
his dazed awakening in a world he never made to his single-handed
battle to save civilization from the terrifying scourge of the Red
Skull's deadliest threat!
>
Stop! STOP, Stan!
Pause. Breathe. That's better.
You're right about the "gut-wrenching" part, though...
> Well, that's about all I can tell you for now. The shooting's just
started and I'm off once again to put my own two-cents worth into
things. I'll bring you another progress report next month (as if
anyone could stop me!).
From using my column for a cheap sales pitch.
> So remember, wherever you go, whatever you do, think Marvel! Cap
would want it that way!
Wherever you go, whatever you do...believe my line of bull.
Marvel wants it that way.
>
> Excelsior!
>
> Or as we say in Yugoslavia...
>
> Ziveli!
>
> - Stan Lee
And as we say in fandom...
***BARF!!****
