War Eagles had potential, but the basic problem with any interquel is that it can't have any real stakes, and with little opportunity for character arcs either. Since everything has to be reset-button'ed in the end, where's the drama going to come from? The third Kong probably would have just been a dull exercise in VFX with nothing else going on.
@@jasonblalock4429 No that's true...But still I'm excited at even the prospect of seeing more of the original King Kong having another adventure. I guess I'm happy by the incredible star lining to where both Godzilla and Kong's third movie have them together and both for the first time in color.
especially from a movie i imagine would have a bunch of scenes of people flying around on stop motion birds. i feel like it would have been scaled down massively or canceled being deemed to expensive to make
@@evenhartwick4422that was actually one of the reasons the film didn’t get made, because the budget was going to be too high for those days (around $1 million)
WAR EAGLES definitely would have been a wild and fantastic flick. Hate to agree w/ studio heads, but I have to say that proposed third Kong film did sound like some very contrived BS. We're accustomed to seeing out-of-continuity 'Untold Tales' type of films today, but back then, it would have come off as very confusing to viewers who had already seen the deaths of both Kong and Son of Kong.
This is another outstanding and informative installment of this great series. I've been reading and watching everything I could find about Harryhausen and O'Brien for longer than you've been alive, young feller, and I learn so much from your videos. 🥶 Continued success, greeat channel.
2:08 "...𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙬. 𝙄𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙆𝙤𝙣𝙜, 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨." If I didn't know any better, I'd say this sounds awfully familiar to how the first round of Godzilla Vs. Kong played out. Godzilla, a ferocious creature, emerges out of nowhere and attacks a naval fleet, and the best strategy to counterattack is releasing Kong and let him fight off the monster. Now I wonder if that was simply a coincidence or has this story element finally found its way into adaptation.
'The Valley Of Gwangi' makes fantastic use of Harryhausen's talents. Nothing can beat 'The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad,' But 'Gwangi' and '20 Million Miles To Earth' are fantastic creations in their own right.
Vikings riding giant eagles, apemen, a Nazi air armada, Dinosaurs. "War Eagles" could have been the greatest movie ever made. Sadly, we can only image it's awesome spectacle. Over to you, Peter Jackson?
i am impressed you manage to get more images of concept art for these cancelled movies. Minus Gwanji since that would be made into a reality by Ray Harryhausen, but the latter was more of an earlier draft.
I never knew about Cooper's proposed third Kong movie. Although, to be fair, it would have been anti-climatic, because the audience already knew what is eventually going to happen to Kong. One day, "War Eagles" will come to fruition in some way shape or form (movie, animated feature, TV series, etc).
Thanks for another great video retrospective Paper Finz! And esp for covering 'Mighty Joe Young', it's obvious it's related to 'Kong' but I wasn't really sure how. At the risk of being thrown off this site I have to say that I prefer 'Joe' to 'Kong'. The line: 'Don't worry kid. There's nobody in the world gonna shoot Joe now.' always makes me tear up.
Yes! I wonder if the road to Gamera will include footnotes to Kenya Boy (which does have a motley of dinosaurs, but is otherwise a good spiritual Indiana Jones prototype) and Brooba (the film spinoff of BaRuuba no Bōken, an under-appreciated classic adventure book series by Yoichiro Minami!), a film which tried too hard to compete with a flood of Tarzan and Bomba movies but is still a guilty pleasure to watch!
Fun fact: for a possible Road to Gamera mention, Kenya Boy has both a better known, so bad it’s good anime film and two live action adaptations, the better known early Dorama made by Toei from 1961-62, which spawned an equally classic manga with two runs, and a tokusatsu film made in 1954, which did get a brief and abridged release on home video in 1981, but hasn’t long been available (it’s probably just a weak tie in!) ever since. Anyways, Kenya Boy is an unsung icon that also spawned a radio drama, which deserves both completion and international respect.
Another fun fact: for yet another Road to Gamera mention, the Brooba film also has a picture story pair by Hisao Yukawa and a lesser known manga tie in drawn by Kunio Watanabe, which led to a pair of somewhat popular manga spinoffs (Shōnen Brooba and the teenage years prequel/interquel Zamba) by wildlife artist Kyuuta Ishikawa, who also made the Kenya boy manga adaptation in between.
Second to last fun fact: the Brooba movie is largely its own so okay it’s average story aside from being inspired by BaRuuba no Bōken, Yoichiro Minami’s best known book series. Aside from being somewhat popular in its day, the aforementioned film itself has officially (and semi-officially) inspired two mangas by Kyuuta Ishikawa, a picture story pair by Hisao Yukawa, and a manga tie in by Kunio Watanabe.
Last but not least: the BaRuuba no Bōken book series, which itself has officially inspired both a manga (Bōkenji BaRuuba) by Jun Toyama and a picture story anthology by Goichi Yanagawa, and for many people outside of Japan, the somewhat better known spinoff Brooba/Zamba franchise, was a freaking cliche storm even for its time, beating Black Clover in terms of blatancy by a couple of decades! And that’s not to mention the possibility of BaRuuba inspiring three unofficial film adaptations, a 1990 Bollywood adults only classic named Jungle Love and its 2012 Nepalese reboot of the same name, as well as a Canadian GoodTimes distributed Mockbuster cartoon film named Jungle Boy, which was made between them in 1996.
Cool video aboot the period between Son and Joe, but what the hell is with the clickbait title? This doesn't have a single god damned thing to do with Godzilla. Surely a video aboot the lost Obie works of the 30's and 40's is appealing enough on it's own? And apparently you've got 9 more of these? Do any of them have anything to do with Godzilla or... ?
its just the name of the series.these videos have little to nothing to do with godzilla its just about monster movies and other things that lead to the eventual creation of godzilla.
im surprised Gwangi was written off as just a "simple dinosaur movie" it was cowboys fighting dinosaurs! two things every kid in the 60s loved. that movie should have been a sure fire hit even when it did get made it never went down in history the way Kong did and is largely forgotten today. one thing that board of people were right on was Gwangi and even later, Valley of Gwangi. is a terrible and uninteresting name for movie.
Damn War Eagles and the Kong interquel sound like fun.
War Eagles had potential, but the basic problem with any interquel is that it can't have any real stakes, and with little opportunity for character arcs either. Since everything has to be reset-button'ed in the end, where's the drama going to come from? The third Kong probably would have just been a dull exercise in VFX with nothing else going on.
@@jasonblalock4429 No that's true...But still I'm excited at even the prospect of seeing more of the original King Kong having another adventure. I guess I'm happy by the incredible star lining to where both Godzilla and Kong's third movie have them together and both for the first time in color.
War Eagle could be one hell of a 80s Saturday Morning Cartoon show.
War Eagles sounds like a cross between King Kong and Avatar.
I can't even imagine how War Eagles would've looked given the scope of the project.
especially from a movie i imagine would have a bunch of scenes of people flying around on stop motion birds. i feel like it would have been scaled down massively or canceled being deemed to expensive to make
@@evenhartwick4422that was actually one of the reasons the film didn’t get made, because the budget was going to be too high for those days (around $1 million)
MAYBE IM DRINKING BEER BUT IM HERE!!!! PAPER FINZ BABY! Giving us THAT QUALITY!
War Eagles sound so cool
WAR EAGLES definitely would have been a wild and fantastic flick. Hate to agree w/ studio heads, but I have to say that proposed third Kong film did sound like some very contrived BS. We're accustomed to seeing out-of-continuity 'Untold Tales' type of films today, but back then, it would have come off as very confusing to viewers who had already seen the deaths of both Kong and Son of Kong.
War Eagles would have been a great movie and Mighty Joe Young was really good it’s a shame the movie bombed at the box office when it first came out
This series is eventually supposed to lead to you reviewing every Godzilla movie right?
This is another outstanding and informative installment of this great series. I've been reading and watching everything I could find about Harryhausen and O'Brien for longer than you've been alive, young feller, and I learn so much from your videos. 🥶 Continued success, greeat channel.
Another awesome installment in this great series! This is my first time hearing about War Eagles a Kong semi prequel, those would have been neat
2:08 "...𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙬. 𝙄𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙆𝙤𝙣𝙜, 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨."
If I didn't know any better, I'd say this sounds awfully familiar to how the first round of Godzilla Vs. Kong played out. Godzilla, a ferocious creature, emerges out of nowhere and attacks a naval fleet, and the best strategy to counterattack is releasing Kong and let him fight off the monster. Now I wonder if that was simply a coincidence or has this story element finally found its way into adaptation.
I love this series so much! Amazing job dude!
'The Valley Of Gwangi' makes fantastic use of Harryhausen's talents. Nothing can beat 'The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad,' But 'Gwangi' and '20 Million Miles To Earth' are fantastic creations in their own right.
So the "interquel" concept is at least as old as Kong!!
I am absolutely loving this series!
Another W Paper Finz
Do you plan on covering the Fleischer Superman short "The Arctic Giant" from 1942? Its basically a precursor to "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".
I'll be honest.....that's a breast that would be intriguing to finally see, regardless of who you are.
The what from 20 000 fathoms?
Vikings riding giant eagles, apemen, a Nazi air armada, Dinosaurs. "War Eagles" could have been the greatest movie ever made. Sadly, we can only image it's awesome spectacle. Over to you, Peter Jackson?
Funny, I was just watching your Kong videos in this series a couple of hours ago, and then this pops up! What a pleasant surprise :)
i am impressed you manage to get more images of concept art for these cancelled movies. Minus Gwanji since that would be made into a reality by Ray Harryhausen, but the latter was more of an earlier draft.
Mjy was a awesome movie when I got to see it Early 80s
I really like this series, cool beans
I can't wait for Joe, and after that, to quote Dale Gribble, "The Beast.
6:16
Kong in that photo is the perfect visualization of Cooper being "Preplexed" lmao
I never knew about Cooper's proposed third Kong movie. Although, to be fair, it would have been anti-climatic, because the audience already knew what is eventually going to happen to Kong.
One day, "War Eagles" will come to fruition in some way shape or form (movie, animated feature, TV series, etc).
Great video!
awesome stuff!
War eagles wouldve been metal before metal was a thing
Thanks for another great video retrospective Paper Finz! And esp for covering 'Mighty Joe Young', it's obvious it's related to 'Kong' but I wasn't really sure how. At the risk of being thrown off this site I have to say that I prefer 'Joe' to 'Kong'. The line: 'Don't worry kid. There's nobody in the world gonna shoot Joe now.' always makes me tear up.
awesome - keep up the great work!
Just wondering, are you planning to make a couple of spin-offs to Road of Gojira/Road to Gojira called Road of Gamera and Road of Ultraman?
Yes! I wonder if the road to Gamera will include footnotes to Kenya Boy (which does have a motley of dinosaurs, but is otherwise a good spiritual Indiana Jones prototype) and Brooba (the film spinoff of BaRuuba no Bōken, an under-appreciated classic adventure book series by Yoichiro Minami!), a film which tried too hard to compete with a flood of Tarzan and Bomba movies but is still a guilty pleasure to watch!
Fun fact: for a possible Road to Gamera mention, Kenya Boy has both a better known, so bad it’s good anime film and two live action adaptations, the better known early Dorama made by Toei from 1961-62, which spawned an equally classic manga with two runs, and a tokusatsu film made in 1954, which did get a brief and abridged release on home video in 1981, but hasn’t long been available (it’s probably just a weak tie in!) ever since. Anyways, Kenya Boy is an unsung icon that also spawned a radio drama, which deserves both completion and international respect.
Another fun fact: for yet another Road to Gamera mention, the Brooba film also has a picture story pair by Hisao Yukawa and a lesser known manga tie in drawn by Kunio Watanabe, which led to a pair of somewhat popular manga spinoffs (Shōnen Brooba and the teenage years prequel/interquel Zamba) by wildlife artist Kyuuta Ishikawa, who also made the Kenya boy manga adaptation in between.
Second to last fun fact: the Brooba movie is largely its own so okay it’s average story aside from being inspired by BaRuuba no Bōken, Yoichiro Minami’s best known book series. Aside from being somewhat popular in its day, the aforementioned film itself has officially (and semi-officially) inspired two mangas by Kyuuta Ishikawa, a picture story pair by Hisao Yukawa, and a manga tie in by Kunio Watanabe.
Last but not least: the BaRuuba no Bōken book series, which itself has officially inspired both a manga (Bōkenji BaRuuba) by Jun Toyama and a picture story anthology by Goichi Yanagawa, and for many people outside of Japan, the somewhat better known spinoff Brooba/Zamba franchise, was a freaking cliche storm even for its time, beating Black Clover in terms of blatancy by a couple of decades! And that’s not to mention the possibility of BaRuuba inspiring three unofficial film adaptations, a 1990 Bollywood adults only classic named Jungle Love and its 2012 Nepalese reboot of the same name, as well as a Canadian GoodTimes distributed Mockbuster cartoon film named Jungle Boy, which was made between them in 1996.
Great video.
Lots of new (to me) information presented.
Am planning to get both of those books.
🔥🔥🔥
Can you review the kong animated series from 2000 please
That would've explained a lot about how they lugged his huge ass through an ocean!
so it was Lion King 1/2 and "Inequel"
I've never been much of a Mighty Joe Young fan, seeing it as a weak Kong wannabe. Still looking forward to the next video though.
Mighty Joe Young does have a rather cool 90s remake distributed by Disney, amirite?
@@SlapstickGenius23 Don't think I ever saw it. The VHS cover (yeah, I'm that old) looked boring, just some lady and a big ape standing there.
🥵 new vid bb.
WHY NOT GODZILLA
I am the war eagle
Cool video aboot the period between Son and Joe, but what the hell is with the clickbait title? This doesn't have a single god damned thing to do with Godzilla. Surely a video aboot the lost Obie works of the 30's and 40's is appealing enough on it's own? And apparently you've got 9 more of these? Do any of them have anything to do with Godzilla or... ?
its just the name of the series.these videos have little to nothing to do with godzilla its just about monster movies and other things that lead to the eventual creation of godzilla.
im surprised Gwangi was written off as just a "simple dinosaur movie" it was cowboys fighting dinosaurs! two things every kid in the 60s loved. that movie should have been a sure fire hit even when it did get made it never went down in history the way Kong did and is largely forgotten today. one thing that board of people were right on was Gwangi and even later, Valley of Gwangi. is a terrible and uninteresting name for movie.
Wow rko pictures were jerks