Late Pledges Now Open on Kickstarter
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Primary Goal:
Over 300 followers pledged greater than $28,000 to carry RIPPED TO SHREDS to life. When you missed the principle marketing campaign, it’s not too late! Because of Kickstarter’s new Late Pledges characteristic, for a restricted time you’ll be able to nonetheless help the venture and assure your self a duplicate of the guide.
Concerning the venture:
RIPPED TO SHREDS is a period-authentic graphic novel adaptation of Michael Johnson’s “lost- slasher” screenplay from 1980.
Initially scheduled to start filming in Dec. 1980, RIPPED TO SHREDS went by way of years of improvement hell earlier than funding finally fell by way of and manufacturing collapsed.
Now, almost 45 years later, the long-lost script is getting a devoted adaption in graphic novel type. In the end, followers of 80s horror can, in a roundabout way, see what may need been.
Concerning the adaptation:
Adaptation director Scott Alan Gregory, artist Thiago Motta, and colorist Karla Aguilar have taken period-accuracy significantly. The general expertise is painstakingly designed to imitate the sensation of watching an precise 80s slasher movie. Wardrobes, props, settings, digital camera angles, and even the filmic shade palettes of the 80s have been faithfully recreated for the guide.
Friday the thirteenth connection:
Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor from “Friday the thirteenth Half 2” reunite… in comedian guide type! The RIPPED TO SHREDS graphic novel “stars” the 80s likenesses of Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor from “Friday the thirteenth Half 2,” lending an ever better component of period-authenticity to the venture.
Concerning the story:
The legend of Shadow Hills is the stuff of campfire tales: The maniac with the metallic claw. The three drunk women who give him a experience. The fiery crash… And the lone survivor, institutionalized for all times. However may there be any fact to the decades-old story?
That’s what teenager Maddie, her boyfriend Richard, and her cousin Sharon, goal to find as they examine the supposedly haunted hills—and the legend surrounding them—after considered one of their pals is killed there below mysterious circumstances.
The police are ineffective. The suspects are many. And as our bodies proceed to pile up, Maddie and her pals should unravel issues earlier than they, too, find yourself… RIPPED TO SHREDS!
Concerning the Kickstarter:
Three variations of the guide can be found by way of the Kickstarter: a typical commerce paperback; a deluxe hardcover version with over 100 additional pages of behind-the-scenes options; and a 400-page, restricted slipcase version, which comes signed by the unique screenwriter and features a full facsimile of the long-lost 1980 screenplay integrated into the guide.
Different bits of curiosity:
Justin Kerswell, writer of The Teenage Slasher Film E-book and host of The Hysteria Continues podcast, contributes an interview with authentic screenwriter Michael Johnson for the particular options
R.G. Henning, writer of SACKHEAD: The Definitive Retrospective on Friday the thirteenth Half 2, contributes interviews with “forged” members Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor for the particular options
Features a 13-song retro soundtrack by composer Matias Canteros
