Dan Dare concept art

November 21, 2004 2:44 PM

The Dan Dare film that never was. Concept art for a movie adaptation of The Eagle comic strip character which eventually returned as an computer animated cartoon.
posted by feelinglistless (1 comment total)

I've always loved the concept and the artwork of Dan Dare so I was delighted with the recent movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow which blends elements of Dare with Flash Gordon. I did see the computer generated Dare cartoon a little while ago and it's pretty ghastly - for a start the characters look all wrong and it seems a little cheap. When you add that Dan Dare hasn't been on newsagent shelves since, umm, 1983 (or thereabouts) you end up wondering what the point is.
posted by dodgygeezer at 3:40 PM on November 21, 2004