Boy Wonder

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"A forever young teenager and an immortal warlord quest for The Salamander Cross; the one thing that will allow one to destroy the other for good." -IMDb Writer: Robin Morningstar Director: Lucinda McNary Actors: Robin Morningstar, Kate Korbel, Sameera Steward, Lucinda McNary, Mahesh Talamasca, Neil Faulkner, Rachel Warren, Guy Stevens, B. Byron Whitten, Denis Rekic, Mark McNary, Katarina Korbelova Production company: Talastar Productions Runtime: 1 hour and 32 minutes [1] Taglines: "Two legends will meet. One will try to enslave the world. The other will try to save it." "Wonder who will save us?" [2] Information / history of the movie Wonder Boy (2010) is unofficial CGI animation movie adaptation of the Wonder Boy video game series (namely, takes elements from "Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap", "Wonder Boy In Monster World" and comic series called "Wonder Boy In Demon World").[3] Movie was originally slated to be a official live-action movie by Uwe Boll and was the main news story in Retro Gamer Magazine issue 51.[4][5] After a long drawn out fight with Sega refusing to ressurrect the character (even though Sega only owns the trademark, not the copyright[6]), Uwe Boll walked away. So the project became an unauthorised CGI project led by original project's screenwriter Robin Morningstar.[7] The movie was most likely made with software called "Moviestorm", because Lucinda McNary (director) was known for making machinimas with this particicular software.[8][9] There's some speculation that CGI was made in Second Life, but this likely is false. Movie was considered as lost media but in 2017, it was mysteriously found as unlisted YouTube video from description of the movie review video.[10] Film became lost media again when in 2021, Google privatised all the unlisted YouTube videos uploaded before 2017 unless you opt-out. YouTube video is back in unlisted state since 2022.[11] There has been a DVD at some point in 2011, but it's no longer available to purchase.[12] Footnotes [1]: Runtime in the Amazon store page [archive.today] is incorrectly as 1 hour and 15 minutes (or this copy of the movie is different cut). [2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446716/taglines [wayback machine] [3]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446716/faq#fq0040648 [wayback machine] [4]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446716/trivia?item=tr0758254 [wayback machine] [5]: Pages 6-7 has interview of Robin Morningstar about Wonder Boy movie [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Boy#Modified_ports [wayback machine] [7]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446716/faq#fq0040647 [wayback machine] [8]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucinda-mcnary-941aa16 [9]: http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=lucindamc123 (recovered from Wayback Machine) [10]: https://coolgreat.website/post/162428880060/wonder-boy-2010 [wayback machine] [11]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_btRK5qSrM [12]: https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Boy-Robin-Morningstar/dp/B004MYFVPO [archive.today] More info / links Retro Gamer #051, pg. 6-7: interview of Robin Morningstar about Wonder Boy movie Download PDF: https://datassette.org/revistas/retro-gamer-uk-reino-unido-videogames-revistas/retrogamer-no-051 If link stops working, try googling: retro gamer 051 pdf or retro gamer 51 pdf Rights-holder of Retro Gamer takes down archived versions of the magazine on Internet Archive, so it's not available in there Blog post about finding the full movie by "Cool Great Website" [wayback machine] Blog post by "obscure video games" [wayback machine] "Have You SEEN This?" podcast episode #025 [wayback machine] Article by "Geek.com": Wonder Boy is the Most Bizarre Video Game Movie Ever Made (recovered from Wayback Machine) Article by "Attract Mode": The Video Game Movie Equivalent Of “Manos: The Hands of Fate” Is A Wonder Boy Adaptation You Had No Idea Existed [wayback machine] IMDb page [wayback machine] Amazon.com page [archive.today]