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This year would have been the hundredth birthday of Jack Kirby ( he passed aside in 1994 ) , and SDCC held a exceptional venire detail his life and pursuits .
From Bleeding Cool reporterMike Sangregorio :
receive to 2017 Comic - Con International in beautiful San Diego . This year isJack Kirby ’s hundredth natal day , though he go across away in 1994 , and the con seems absorbed on properly celebrating " The King ’s " centennial . Literally one of the first panel of the show , Jack Kirby ’s Consciousness , Roger Zelazny ’s Lord of Light , Barry Ira Geller , and the Real ArgohadBarry Ira Geller , former motion picture producer , andMike Royer , amusing artist and former Kirby collaborator , take fans throughLord of Light , Argo , and the Jack Kirby interconnections between them , celebrating Kirby ’s endless imagination and die hard legacy .
The panel open as a mint would with Geller greet the bunch , a mid - size panel way about one-half full , and everyone replying energetically . 10 - 15 minutes into the lecture , though , the room satisfy right up . We are in " The House of Jack " and everyone is interested .
Barry took us back to the beginning of theLord of Lightsaga . He buy the moving picture rights of theRoger Zelaznynovel and sought out movie makeup artistJohn Chambers , ofPlanet of the Apesfame , to facilitate with the effects needed for such a complex projection . Kirby was give the task of storyboarding not only the construct from the novel that would be used in the picture show but the entirety of Geller ’s proposed Science Fiction Land amusement parking area , which appear to really have been Geller ’s end game in this labor .
This was in 1978 and the first metre in his professional career that Kirby was not told to " do it this way " and he was leave entirely to his own devices . With no editor program or publisher to tarnish his vision , the world generate a tone at the unchained adaptation of Kirby ’s imagination for the first fourth dimension .
Kirby ’s designs look as if they were part of a make new comic book existence that never made it to newspaper . So much so that one has to inquire how any of his proposed theme park designs would have actually been made . figure hundreds of animal foot marvelous , eye - level with only the weather , would have greeted visitor wandering in and out of the temples of Kali , Shiva , and other deity . One fussy small-arm of proposed photographic film set / parking area attraction is the Royal Chambers of Brahma , a bulblike , gestalt - soma of various mistily human features . At ground level there would have been the visitant ingress , itself a series of rotating head , with this impossible structure rotating above it .
Royer remarked that he was the only mortal , away from Kirby himself , to have seen these images at their original pencil stages before inking them himself . He said it had been his goal to keep as much of the original purport on the Sir Frederick Handley Page as possible but that he could severalise these were special .
Royer was not the only person who pick out note . Due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 , the CIA sought to relinquish a team of American diplomats trapped , unwittingly to the Iranians , behind enemy lines . They did this by utilizing the book forLord of Lightthat was never made , and Kirby ’s purpose . This was fictionalized in the filmArgo , but Geller is quick to inform the interview that " about 80 % of that movie was made up … it is not what happened . "
clip from a short film , develop by the original broker in charge , Tony Mendez(played byBen Affleckin the movie ) , were show . This is presented as a closer representation of what actually happened and includes a confirmation from Mendez that the " CIA never paid a dime for that book " and that he never had time to in reality read it in its entirety . Mendez eff Chambers , who had worked with the CIA to mask their operatives using makeup , but withLord of Lightthey had the exact type of fantasy to believably deal to the government of Tehran as something that could be film , and thus scouted , in their state .
As prove in the celluloid the plan mould but Geller add an postscript .
Years later , quite recently in fact , he had been interviewed by the Sons of the Revolution ( or some such likewise named group with etymon in the Iranian Revolution ) and they confirmed for him that it was the drawings by Kirby that really sell the project to the Government at the time . With the Shah having relinquished power , the representatives saw the drawings of large - than - life gods , and especially theTerminal of the Godsimage , as representing what they were feeling as a body politic now that they were experiencing " the counter of their interior religion . "
Geller mentioned that , as has already been announced , aLord of Lightshow is finally go to be produced , with one of the producer ofThe Walking Dead , Gale Anne Hurd , at the helm . Geller himself was passionate about the project and speak about how he and Kirby really believe they would " save the world … and perchance I might still have the fortune to do so . "
Science Fiction Land does not seem that probable of a realism , though . Geller notice that he , and a few others , had been indicted for securities fraudulence because of the room the funding was accounted for during the initial phase angle of that especial project and " my name was on everything . "
Royer closed out the panel by proposing that the thus far fresh design for the " Royal Chambers of Brahma " be used for the next building to host the convention .
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