“Wow, that “Radix” armor design is SO original, that I don’t see how anyone could design something even remotely similar to it! Oh, and “Radix” is also a character name from Dragon Ball.”

“If someone was using the designs in a movie or a comic, something intended to actually be shown in public, I’d see the point.”

First, they didn’t design something similar; they took art which someone else drew, and 1) claimed that it was their design and 2) credited the artwork to someone else(commonly known to those with common sense as plagiarism). The artwork then ran in the Alternative Press under said (incorrect) credit. They then received a generous amount of money for work based on a design which was not theirs. There is a reason those responsible apologized—it was a deplorable act, and certainly a shady thing to do, especially for someone who is supposedly intelligent and creative; it also calls into question(or at least, should) any other work these people have submitted as their own.

Try to at least read what you are so arrogantly trying to correct next time, or say nothing at all; opening your mouth, as the old adage warns, just revealed you to be a fool.

David C wrote on September 15, 2006 at 8:00 am
“Stated Ilya Salkind, ‘… It was over 300 pages long – it would have made a six-hour movie!
“rule of thumb” for screenplays is … about one minute of screen time per printed page.

Ted Watson wrote on September 15, 2006 at 12:56 pm
David C. quotes a website quoting Ilya Salkind on Mario Puzo’s Superman script: “It was over 300 pages long — it would have made a six–hour movie!” Then he quite rightly parenthetically acknowledges the “one scripted page=one minute of screen time” filmmaking formula. Call a spade a spade, man: this calls the authenticity of the quotation, and therefore the credibility of the site, into question.

There are two qualifiers there, OVER 300 pages and ABOUT one minute per page. So if you assume 64 seconds per page, you would need 338 pages. Over and about by my calculations.

Wow, that “Radix” armor design is SO original, that I don’t see how anyone could design something even remotely similar to it! Oh, and “Radix” is also a character name from Dragon Ball.

If you look really, really far in the sky, waaaaay over your head, you might see the point, which is not that they designed a similar armor, but that they literally appropriated the actual Radix drawings for themselves.

If you want to see what MIT put out…

Glad to hear my Radix suggestion worked out for you. I ‘m especially pleased it helped to wrap up what happened in the end. It’s true an idea cannot be copyrighted but printed/published art is automatically copywritten material here in Canada and I think once it’s it’s distributed, the same goes for the States (but I’m not sure).

Though the daughter led her father, and by extension, MIT, to believe the art was hers, they are complicit for not doing their due diligence. The art was taken off many months later but that no longer mattered since the need for the proposal was up. The Lais’ had a point about protecting their reputation. the resultant publicity was a two-edged sword. More people heard about them, but they were now associated with the theft of an idea; whether people knew it was stolen from them or thought otherwise.

I’m glad to hear they are doing well though I am curious what the final story of Radix would have been!

Robert

Curt Swan is a very frequent topic of discussion in those pages, and nothing remotely resembling that story ever came up in any of them.

Which is not to say it couldn’t be true, and I don’t recall anyone saying anything that *refutes* such a story, exactly, but the general picture you get of him is of a smart, level-headed, gentlemanly guy.

I have one for you to check out

I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine today who insisted that Curt Swan died a divorced alcoholic because the steady work that he had gotten from DC had dried up.

Now I had never heard of this and argued with him for a while

So I went online searching, I searched high and low and finally found ONE source with that info. http://www.supermansupersite.com/swan.html

Now, I’m not one to take any info found at one site as gospel, but has anybody else ever heard of this ?

That was pretty stupid of me not to see that link for the Earthquake movie there. Very sorry. I’ll try to be more awake in the future, and that, of course, goes for anybody’s postings.

An allegation has been made, without any evidence other than 2 ‘comics historian’ think so. No documents, no memories of the event, no bragging (while Stan Lee doesnt remember too much, you would think slipping one over INd would be one he might).
I asked the source of Raphael and Spurgeon’s comments (not sure if Doc wants his name tied to it here or not), and he admits that it was speculation (albeit he feels informed specuation).
Considering the way distribution is traditionaly handled, the story still makes no sense at all. The money doesnt flow that way.

Ted, no, that was my confusion – I thought “Earthquake” was an Irwin Allen movie, and didn’t bother checking. But it was definitely “Earthquake” that Puzo wrote a screenplay for – I was just mistaken on who made that film. Check the link for further details.

Basically, all the stories of Puzo’s phone-book screenplays seem to vaguely tie in with the tale here to suggest that the novel was the only form he was really professionally competent with. I was thinking maybe his screenplays essentially *were* novels, albeit with slightly different text formatting, but Donner’s quote seems to suggest otherwise. (He seems to be saying “No, I’m not kidding, it was a 550 page *shooting* script!” )

The whole thing seems also to tie in with the current trend of “tourist” comic book writers, those who made their name in some other field.

Obviously, I didn’t make myself clear. My point was simply to doubt the authenticity of the cited quotation due to its numbers being well off the movie industry formula of “one page of script equals one minute of screen time.” That the quote was on the whole essentially in line with the basic and general facts of the matter I freely concede, but it just isn’t plausible that a film professional would get that formula so wrong, unless Puzo was cramming huge quantities of description on each page so that he WAS well off the formula, and Salkind didn’t see any need to explain that to whoever he was talking with, which would certainly be understandable. THERE’S a theory that occurred to me just now. The more I think about it, the more I like it, as it makes nobody unethical or incompetent or whatever.

One other thing, David: Concerning “Earthquake,” do you maybe have the wrong film in mind? Irwin Allen had nothing to do with it, other than the fact that the success of his own disaster pictures inspired Universal to make it, and it WAS from Universal, not Fox. Perhaps Puzo wrote a draft of “The Towering Inferno”?