For some reason, that post got picked up by Reddit and is officially the most popular thing that's ever been on trevorhale.com.
Go ahead and read it and then we'll get to the next part.
I'll wait. I've got plenty of time.
Done? Good. Let's go.
Did you see ARGO? You should, because it's fantastic. SCIENCE FICTION LAND is a documentary about the movie within the movie that ARGO is built around.
The fake movie that Ben Affleck and John Goodman set out to make was actually a real movie—as you know from the other post. There were tons of drawings and concept art for the whole thing all put together by Jack Kirby (who is actually in ARGO for maybe 5 seconds, but never mentioned by name). Then it all fell apart in the scandal that I mentioned in the other post, also.
What I didn't know was that for over a decade now, there's been a guy by the name of Judd Ehrlich researching and filming a documentary about the book LORD OF LIGHT and the Science Fiction Land theme park that was supposed to go along with it.
From the look of the video they put together, it's really going to be something interesting. They've got interviews with Barry Ira Gellar, the mastermind of the whole movie/theme park that was busted for embezzling the money for the movie and a whole bunch of other people that were originally involved with the project.
It just sounds like a really interesting story and I'd actually like to see the documentary.
The team has set up a Kickstarter, but it only has a few days left. Head over to check out the video and donate a few dollars if you want to.
SCIENCE FICTION LAND Kickstarter page.
Or if you don't really have any money to donate, you can go here instead. There's a whole bunch of Kirby's drawings for LORD OF LIGHT there and they're just as amazing as you'd hope.
