MARK STOREY - ORIGINAL MOVIE ARTWORK

Star Wars Ep1 Poster Art by Travis English Ep1 Poster Art

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STAR WARS EPISODE 1 3D POSTERS AND WALLPAPERS

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Storyboards from Never-Before-Seen STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE

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Battle Sequence

We’re only a few weeks away from the 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in theaters. The event hopefully marks the beginning of the theatrical re-release of all the films in the Star Wars saga (given that the first few are financially successful), and in anticipation of the theatrical exhibition, Star Wars Insider Magazine is releasing a celebratory issue. The magazine has been kind enough to provide Collider with an exclusive preview at what they have in store, giving us a peek at some never-before-seen storyboards from Episode I involving a battle sequence between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn and a slew of droids. Hit the jump to take a look.

During pre-production on the first Star Wars prequel, artists pitched battle concepts showing the Jedi-led attack on Theed before penetrating the hangar during the film’s climatic battle. While the sequence didn’t make the final film, Ed Natividad drew up some storyboards for the fight. The magazine will be publishing the full storyboard sequence in their celebratory issue, and we’ve got a few of the images to share with our readers. The sequence below features Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn in a Jedi vs. droid battle.

To read more of this feature, pick up the new issue of Star Wars Insider Magazine, which hits stroes in the US and Canada on January 31st and in the UK and Ireland on February 9th. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D opens February 10th.

Paramount Pictures and Universal 100 years logos for 2012

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STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition

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As a Designer and also massive Star Wars fan this video is truly inspiring. Enjoy.

Great Star Wars Posters to buy

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Buy these prints here
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74274980/star-wars-poster-a3-print

Mark Storey My ideal Star Wars teaser posters.

2011-10-13T13:08:00.000-07:00

Being a designer thought I'd have a stab at creating a nice teaser poster for reveng of the sith. Honestly, it's more of a tribute to the saga.

Mark Storey Original Artwork

2011-10-09T15:09:00.000-07:00

Here is a selection of some of my movie and TV related artwork. more can be seen at my online portfolio at

Darth Vader Poster Shot with a Action Figure

2011-10-03T12:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a poster of incredibly stunning Star Wars toy photography, it was created by Photographer Avanaut. This is one amazing piece of art so enjoy! I slightly tweaked my own version simply just to see what it would look like with the star wars logo. This now makes a great teaser poster in my opinion.

My Version above with Logo and copy. Original version below

Hi Res Transformers 3 Poster

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Transformers Dark Of The Moon IMAX poster

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Cool Star Wars Art

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A different Style of Vader

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TRANSFORMERS 3 OPTIMUS PRIME TEASER

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Han Solo & Chewy Publicity Shot from Return of the Jedi

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Fantastic Darth Vader Art made from TEXT

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MONDO Star Wars Saga movie posters

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These posters were NOT designed by myself i.e Mark Storey but by another British artist called Olly Moss. You can visit his website here http://www.ollymoss.com/

Superman movie costume designs

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Never used E.T concept movie posters

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OPTIMUS PRIME HI RES PICS

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Nuclear Holocaust hi res image.

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DISNEYS EPIC MICKEY - HI-RES CONCEPT ART & LOGO

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Inception - Alternate/Unused Poster

2010-11-24T13:39:00.000-08:00

OBLIVION MOVIE - Epic concept art that looks great

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Disney has picked up the movie rights to Oblivion, a science-fiction feature film imagined by Joseph Kosinski. Radical Publishing will release a comic book based on the story of Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion in November.

Oblivion Trailer

Plot:
“Earth, 2015. The Odyssey travels to Mars to assemble and occupy the Red Planet’s first base station. En route, the sudden appearance of a vast White Cube in space interrupts the ship’s voyage – and the crew of the Odyssey is never heard from again. 30 years later, Earth has become an almost unrecognizable, surreal wilderness with the remains of human cities poking through vast black sand dunes and bizarre geological formations. The White Cube, from a long-dead extraterrestrial race, was to find potentially inhabitable worlds and reshape them into suitable environments for the aliens, who now will never come. It now sits high in the planet’s orbit, dominating the sky, attempting to undo the damage it has caused as well as repopulate the Earth with clones of the comatose Odyssey crew. The only clones on the surface remain those stationed in the looming Watchtowers, scattered around the planet. One such Watchtower crewmember, a clone named Jak, witnesses a burning object fall to Earth. It’s an escape pod carrying Julia Kanan, the one lone survivor of the Odyssey before its capture by the Cube, and a love from Jak’s pre-clone past. But as the authorities close in to retake Julia, Jak’s genetic memory of his love for her drives him to decisions he never would have thought possible-and which could lead to disaster for both of them.”

Here’s a first look at Oblivion the upcoming illustrated novel:

NEW ROBOCOP Designs by JASON HAZELROTH

2010-11-17T07:52:00.000-08:00

Great concept but not to sure about the new logo.

CHECK OUT MORE OF HIS WORK AT http://jasianinvasion.blogspot.com/

VANITY FAIR "Old on set pictures from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK"

2010-11-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL (the sequal to the cult 80's movie finally & hopefully will hit screens BUT when)

2010-11-07T05:47:00.000-08:00

Plot to the movie

Power of the Dark Crystal is set many years after the events of the first movie. Jen and Kira, the gelflings, are older and are reigning as king and queen in the Castle of the Crystal. After the Gelflings welcome a fiery. and unexpected visitor. to their castle they learn that the very existence of the U-mun people, who live in the searing heat in the center of the planet, is threatened by the death of their sun. There is apparently only one thing powerful enough to heal the dying sun – a shard of the Crystal.

The Gelflings refuse the request for a crystal shard, as breaking the crystal would disturb the peaceful surface world’s balance. But the desperate visitor takes matters into her own hands and steals a shard, making a hasty escape through tunnels deep in the bowels of the castle. The surface world once again falls into darkness – as the UrSkek split into Mystics and Skeksis. So begins the adventure of Thurma, a girl “made of fire”, who bands together with Kensho, an outcast Gelfling, in an adventure in the “inner-world” over the fate of the planet.

LUCASFILM - Through the years poster by Mark Storey

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TRANSFORMERS PRIME (PROMO POSTER)

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New First Possible Star Trek 12 poster (NOT CREATED BY ME)

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SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO OFFICIAL TEASER POSTER

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2010-03-27T11:20:00.000-07:00

New TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MOVIE Posters from The Alamo Drafthouse

The Alamo Drafthouse has some great new posters up for sale. First up is Rhys Cooper’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set. The set includes four 12″ x 36″ screenprints, has an edition of 160, and is $85. The Turtles posters are already over half-gone, I wouldn’t expect them to last past today. Visit MondoTees.com.

TRON LEGACY BILLBOARD POSTER in HI-REZ & TOY STORY 3 Character Poster in HI-REZ

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EMPIRE MAGAZINES ACTORS ICONIC ROLES PHOTOS

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STAR TREK meets THE SIMPSONS

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Kirk & Spock Publicity Photo

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New AVATAR Poster

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The Star Trek 2009 Unused Scene Written For William Shatner

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ALTERNATE SCENE B

SPOCK PRIME
Then I ask that you do yourself a
favor… put away logic, and do what
feels right. The world you’ve inherited
lives in the shadow of incalculable
devastation… but there’s no reason you
must face it alone.

And from around his neck, he removes the PENDANT that
until now, we’ve only caught glimpses of. Places it on
the table beside his younger self. The feeling in his
eyes is profound…

SPOCK PRIME (CONT’D)
This was a gift to me. Representing…
a dream. One we were unable to fulfill.
(softly)
The way you can now.

And moves to the door. Stops. Offers the VULCAN SALUTE:

SPOCK PRIME (CONT’D)
As my customary farewell would appear
oddly self serving, I will simply say…
good luck.

Their eyes hold. Spock turns, disappearing into the
corridor. Young Spock stares at the empty doorway a
beat, his mind a jumble of thoughts. Looks to the
pendant… and realizes it’s a HOLO-EMITTER. After
considering a beat, he hits an activation button and a
MOVING HOLOGRAPHIC MESSAGE materializes before him:

CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK. WILLIAM SHATNER. As always,
brash, wry, confident — and SINGING:

KIRK/ SHATNER
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to
you…
(stops, grins)
I know I know, it’s illogical to
celebrate something you had nothing to do
with, but I haven’t had the chance to
congratulate you on your appointment to
the ambassadorship so I thought I’d seize
the occasion… Bravo, Spock — they tell
me your first mission may take you away
for awhile, so I’ll be the first to wish
you luck… and to say…
(beat, emotional)
I miss you, old friend.

… and we’re PUSHING IN on Young Spock, taking in the
image of Kirk’s future self, the message, but above all —
the clear, unquestionable friendship these two men had…

INT. CORRIDOR – CONTINUOUS

As Spock Prime walks off down the corridor, he passes
right by a man conferring with a nurse — the man pauses,
turns… it’s SAREK. Suddenly overcome by a feeling that
the stranger who’s just passed him is… oddly familiar.

KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
I suppose I’d always imagined us…
outgrowing Starfleet together. Watching
life swing us into our Emeritus years…

INT. STARBASE ONE – HANGAR – ETERNAL NIGHT

MUSIC BUILDING — glass walls reveal THE ENTERPRISE at
dock, UTILITY CRAFTS floating around it, repairing.
Standing at attention in rows, THE ENTERPRISE CREW —
over four hundred of them wearing DRESS UNIFORMS — TRACK
DOWN the faces, all proud:

KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
I look around at the new cadets now and
can’t help thinking… has it really been
so long? Wasn’t it only yesterday we
stepped onto the Enterprise as boys?
That I had to prove to the crew I
deserved command… and their respect?

And we STOP ON YOUNG KIRK. Composed, focused, proud. A
man. And to every fan’s delight, finally wearing his
YELLOW SHIRT. The FEDERATION COMMANDANT stands at a
podium:

COMMANDANT
This assembly calls Captain James
Tiberius Kirk…

Kirk breaks from formation, pivots, marches down the
hangar — past UHURA… SULU… CHEKOV… SCOTTY. All
Beaming. Notably absent, is Spock. Kirk ascends the
stairs, snaps to attention:

COMMANDANT (CONT’D)
Your inspirational valor and supreme
dedication to your comrades are in
keeping with the highest traditions of
service and reflect utmost credit to
yourself, your crew, and the Federation.
By Starfleet Order 28455, you are hereby
directed to report to Commanding Officer,
USS Enterprise, for duty as his relief.

Kirk turns. Walks to… PIKE. In a wheelchair now,
wearing an ADMIRAL’S UNIFORM. Overnight, his hair’s
turned totally grey — but despite his trauma, his
pride’s overwhelming. They SALUTE each other:

KIRK
I relieve you, Sir.

PIKE
… I am relieved.

He opens a BOX in his lap — glorious in repose, a MEDAL:

PIKE (CONT’D)
And as Fleet Admiral, for your… unique
solution to the Kobayashi Maru, it’s my
honor to award you with a commendation
for original thinking.

Pike containing a smirk, pins the medal to Kirk’s
chest…

PIKE (CONT’D)
(a touch choked)
Congratulations, Captain.

KIRK
Thank you, Sir.

Kirk turns to the crowd. Eyes shining. WILD APPLAUSE.
OUR MUSIC SOARS. Bones leans in to Sulu, rolling his
eyes:

BONES
… Same ship, different day.

As Kirk rejoins his crew for hugs and congratulations, we
go to the BACK of the hangar… SPOCK PRIME. Watching.
Moved beyond words. He turns and leaves them to it… as
he goes…

KIRK/SHATNER (V.O.)
I know what you’d say — ‘It’s their turn
now, Jim…’ And of course you’re
right… but it got me thinking:

INT. STARFLEET HOSPITAL – EARTH – DAY

Our montage comes full circle as we END on Kirk’s
transmission:

KIRK/SHATNER
Who’s to say we can’t go one more round?
By the last tally, only twenty five
percent of the galaxy’s been chartered…
I’d call that negligent. Criminal even —
an invitation. You once said being a
starship captain was my first, best
destiny… if that’s true, then yours is
to be by my side. If there’s any true
logic to the universe… we’ll end up on
that bridge again someday.

Stops, grins. Because this is the part he needs to say
most…

KIRK/SHATNER
Admit it, Spock. For people like us, the
journey itself… is home.

Young Spock’s face. Lost in feelings that flood through
him.

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan HD Blu-Ray Trailer

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Unused Official Star Trek Teaser Posters

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Picture taken from a selection of UNUSED ARTWORK from the ART OF STAR TREK book.

Another Fantastic Fanmad Teaser Poster for STAR TREK 2009

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Work & Information on Mark Storey UK ARTIST

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Here is a few selected pieces of my original artworks.
contact me for interest and information at
markbenstorey@hotmail.com

NEW Possible Master of the Universe Movie Conceptual Artwork

2009-11-06T06:12:00.001-08:00

HE-MAN

SKELLETORNEW CASTLE GREYSKULL

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL (HE-MAN & BATTLECAT)

HE-MAN & SKELLETORS ARMY

SHE-RA & HORDAKS ARMY

Drew Struzan Original Movie Poster Artwork - Plus Never Before Seen and UNUSED DESIGNS

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STAR WARS EPISODE VI RETURN OF THE JEDI - FINAL TEASER POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

STAR WARS EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH BACKGROUND - POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

WATERWORLD - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL - POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - FINAL POSTER CONCEPT DESIGN

INDIANA JONES TRILOGY - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

INDIANA JONES - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE MOVIE - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

TOY STORY 2 - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

WATERWORLD - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE MOVIE - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT

STAR WARS EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

MORE STAR WARS EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH - UNUSED POSTER CONCEPT DESIGNS

for more of his work check out www.drewstruzan.com

The Evolution of the superhero movie Chart -TOP 250 Best MOVIES of ALL TIME MAP and Charts for Character INTERACTIONS in STAR WARS & LORD of the RINGS

2009-11-04T00:37:00.001-08:00

New AVATAR Poster Revealed

2009-08-04T02:01:00.001-07:00

Never-Before-Seen Concept Art For Warner Bros.' Thundercats

2009-08-04T01:58:00.000-07:00

Everyone has their own ’80s cartoon franchise that meant something to them, and mine was ThunderCats: The Rankin/Bass series followed of a race of humanoid felines from the planet Thundera, forced to evacuate after their home comes under siege by the fearsome Mutants of Plun-Darr (who looked a bit like reptilian Ernest Borgnines.) Yes, I still hold a fond place in my heart for Lion-O, Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra, Snarf and the rest, and so Warner Bros.’ announcement a while back of a Thundercats movie filled me with the warm, fuzzy feelings one typically associates with watching Saturday morning TV while eating peanut-butter-and-grape-jelly sandwiches. The script, written by Paul Sopocy, was to follow Lion-O’s origin myth from young cub to his anointment as Lord of the ThunderCats, and was to be directed by veteran art director Jerry O’Flaherty.

In conjunction with our coverage of Comic-Con 2009, Movieline has obtained O’Flaherty’s never-before-seen Thundercats concept art, demonstrating just how gorgeous and ambitious his vision for this production is. After the jump, you’ll see Thundercats renderings of Lion-O, The Pyramid, Third Earth, and Mutant Attack.

Original post from movieline at

http://www.movieline.com/2009/07/movieilne-presents-the-never-before-seen-concept-art-for-warner-bros-thundercats.php

Fantastic Artwork by Ryan Church

2009-05-12T02:40:00.001-07:00

Above: The new Starship USS Enterprise from Star Trek 2009

Above: Conceptual Artwork from Revenge of the Sith

Check out www.ryanchurch.com

STAR WARS CLONE WARS - Classic Style Art

2009-05-06T06:12:00.000-07:00

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Character Poster - Optimus Prime

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STAR TREK IMAX VS THEATRICAL POSTER

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Above the Theatrical Version

IMAX Version

TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN STANDEE POSTER

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The Tanman of Pop - aka, Mark Storey - Star Trek Styled

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2009-04-09T06:10:00.001-07:00

Inglourious Basterds "Vanity Fair Set Photos"

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Star Trek Bridge Pics

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New Star Trek Pics with Bios

2009-04-03T14:59:00.001-07:00

HIPSTERS STAR TREK - Party Poster

2009-04-02T06:00:00.000-07:00

Playstation 3 - Cloud Bomb Poster Pic

2009-04-02T05:54:00.001-07:00

EPIC

Final Star Trek US Poster - Hi-Rez

2009-03-31T00:04:00.000-07:00

New Star Trek Posters BUT are they REAL or Fake?

2009-03-26T04:11:00.000-07:00

These posters have turned up on the net and are getting a bit of buzz. They were NOT made by myself and people are asking if the are fan produced or made by the studio. For the moment you decide!

The Greatest Movie Off ALL TIME!

2009-03-13T05:59:00.000-07:00

I made this because it is sooooooo true! Ask anyone what their favorite movie of all time and you are guarantied to prob get Star Wars as the answer.
Well in my opinion this is true. Star wars is the greatest movie ever made. Take everything into consideration like what Star Wars done to movies e.g. "How their made, merchandising" It changed movies forever.
BUT
Empire is better. Think about it?

SCENES POSTER BY MYSELF

2009-03-11T03:45:00.001-07:00

JUST A QUICK POSTER I KNOCKED UP. USING SOME OF THE SCENES FROM THE MOVIE

Another Nice Star Trek fanmade poster. But not made by myself!

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I found this on the Official Star Trek Movie Forum fanart page. Nice work.

STAR TREK Other HI-REZ Shots

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STAR TREK TRAILER

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"FIRE EVERYTHING"

The Final Star Trek International Trailer

Star Trek Hi-Rez Shot

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Mark Storey as the new Captain Kirk on the Bridge

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Captian Mark Benjamin Storey

TANMAN THE MOVIE POSTER & OTHER ART BY MYSELF

2009-02-27T04:45:00.000-08:00

THE OSCARS 81st Academy Awards Poster

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Cartooned Characters Paintings by Alex Leighton

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STAR TREK XI TOYS - DOLLS & PLAYSETS

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Complete crew Poster

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My final Star Trek XI Poster with complete Crew

Another UPDATED Star Trek XI Poster of mine!!!!

2008-11-19T06:17:00.000-08:00

NEW USS ENTERPRISE REVEALED

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Star Trek Original artwork Prints for sale on ebay. Get them now, Limited Edition.

2008-10-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=140278742840

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=140278744493

Their are only 100 prints available worldwide & signed by myself the Artist Mark Storey.

Check them out.

New Empire Magazine Cover - Star Trek

2008-10-28T07:33:00.001-07:00

Rendezvous with Rama Short Film/Trailer

2008-10-21T01:06:00.000-07:00

Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama from Aaron Ross on Vimeo.

The Pitch: Last week it was revealed that David Fincher won’t be directing a big screen adaptation of Rendezvous With Rama after all. We used an image for our blog about the news which we just assumed was included in one of the many editions of the book. Apparently not. Longtime /Film reader Aaron Ross e-mailed to inform us that the image is actually from his short film. Ross directed and animated the short in 2001 while attending Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. We get a lot of VOTD submissions from film school students. As you would expect, most of them are horrible and never make it to the site. But every once in a while, a student short films surprises me. This is the case with Ross’s Rama-based short. You can definitely see the inspiration of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. Aaron Ross has since been hired by Blue Sky Studios, and has worked on Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Horton Hears a Who! and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

STAR TREK XI MOVIE LOGO REVEALED

2008-10-18T07:56:00.001-07:00

GRAYSKULL: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - SCRIPT OUTLINE & REVIEW. THE FILM WE WILL NEVER SEE?

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ABOVE: Doulph Lundgren as He-Man in the 1987 Masters of the Universe Movie

GRAYSKULL: THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

GRAYSKULL is LORD OF THE RINGS meets THE MATRIX and a little BATMAN BEGINS thrown in for good measure.

The script takes place in Eternia, not a middle Earth on Earth. It’s a hard and edgy PG-13 tinkering on a R. The script has ZERO CAMP or CHEESINESS. NO ORKO EITHER! The writer takes the MOTU mythology very seriously. Whatever made the cartoon corny is not in here at all. In fact, there is not a single beat of comedic relief in the script.

What is GRAYSKULL about? We get both the origin of HE-MAN (or HE-MAN BEGINS), the origin of SKELETOR, and the origin of THE POWER SWORD. If Warners even remotely executes this script like they did 300 they will have a monster hit on their hands because this script leaves it open for a trilogy.

GRAYSKULL is the perfect marriage of Sorcery and Science fiction where in Eternia both Fantasy and Technology co-exist. The character arc of the hero ADAM works for me because like Bruce Wayne in BATMAN BEGINS, Adam has to overcome his selfish need for revenge and realize his destiny for the greater good of his people – the fallen son of Eternia must rise to occasion and become HE-MAN.

Ok, so let’s get right to it because I know you folks are here for the details.

Before the credits we get this kick ass opening prologue narrated by EVIL-LYN.

Four thousand years go in the workshop of Eternus we open on the powerful hands of a blacksmith forging steel from a raging fire. The hands raise the finished SWORD, an amazing mix of katana and high tech. It generates an OUTWARD LIGHT.

At the beginning of time, the blacksmith Eternus forged the Sword Of Light, a blade so beautiful that its spark created all life as we know it. After the blacksmith saw what perfection he’d built, he tried in vain to duplicate his mold. Eventually he fell into madness. Angered by his failure, he forged one last blade before he died. The mirror opposite of its original. The Sword of Darkness.

Instead of light, a dark void burns deep into the surface of this blade. Haunting and ominous.

We are next in an epic battlefield on Eternia.

Both blades, being born of magic gave amazing powers to anyone who held them. And so they were sought after.

On a hilltop plateau, a colossal army marches with enough feet to rattle the earth. Thousands of soldiers, all clad in high-tech battle gear. Think of something out of feudal Japan but poly-alloy and with a hint of alien texture.

Over thousands of years, the swords faced each other army times…

The leader of the army, a king we will come to know as GRAYSKULL (40s), stands at the front and raises the Sword of Light, which bathes his army in a majestic light. On the other of the battlefield: a different army emerges from the fog. Dark and intimidating. Monstrous, snarling BEASTS, augmented by a complex nano-technology that fuses their bodies with mechanical parts. Half monster, half machine. Their leader, a creature masked in thick armor, lifts up the Sword of Darkness. It spreads a black cloud over the army, fueling their bizarre technology with energy.

…until one battle changed it all.

On Grayskull’s side, the soldiers’ battle armor suddenly grows around them like a mechanical shell, encasing their bodies in a high tech metal poly-alloy. On the other side, the snarling beasts rise up, their hydraulic parts expanding and enhancing their size. The two armies run straight at each other and clash violently. Awesome advanced warfare. Mix high tech, swords, and otherworldly creatures and you have a sense of what Eternia’s all about.

King Grayskull squares off against the other leader. During the fight, he manages to defeat him and cause him to drop the Sword of Darkness. Grayskull picks it up and suddenly the two swords begin to fuse together.

It was King Grayskull who first realized that to stop a war between two sides, you had to bring them together.

Metal wrapping around, metal, sparks flying, like a fusion reaction, coils winding down the blades and suddenly and finally nestling at the handle which King Grayskull raises in the air creating a blinding light that spreads over the battlefield. Soldiers on both sides stop fighting and watch in awe.

In that moment, light and darkness combined to form a life-giving magic, subjugating everyone under it’s incredible power. So long as the king lived, Eternia never saw another war again.

We are next in a private chamber, where the much older King Grayskull lies on his death bed, surrounded by well-wishers.

But when his end came, his inner circle feared what no successor would be able to honor the balance the king had created.

Next at a table in the Hall of Wisdom (an ancient temple marked with stone ornamentation), a sacred site, sit six warriors. They are identified by ancient tribal tattoos on their faces. They surround the two swords wrapped in silk.

Six warriors, endowed with the magic of the blades, were trusted with separating them and burying each in a secret location. They were called the Masters of the Universe…

Three masters take one blade, three take the other. They embrace each other and go separate ways.

…and they took these secrets to their graves. For several generations the swords have remained hidden until now.

In present day Eternia at the Sands of Fire, EVIL-LYN (30s) a gorgeous seductress with the same markings all over her face that the Masters wore, has found the location of the Sword of Darkness.

Her companion, obscured in shadow and wearing a heavy hood, scans the terrain. His name is KELDOR (40s).

Keldor reaches for the sword. As his fingers touch it he suddenly undergoes a euphoric vision of dark wonders and endows Keldor with all terrifying forces of black magic. Keldor’s hands wither at the touch of this power. His skin begins to erode. Flesh turns to tissue and then to bone. Soon the sensation spreads to his arms, his shoulders, his face…literally tearing the skin from his bone. He madly clings to the blade as we smash to the main title card GRAYSKULL: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.

Weeks later, we are at Capitol City, the center of civic life in Eternia. A stunning achievement of a civilization that incorporates advanced technology and magic. At the Royal Palace, a colossal celebration is underway – the Anniversary of the Great Unrest commemorating Grayskull’s victory many centuries ago. YOUNG ADAM ( 14) is there – dirty blonde with striking blue eyes. He’s the kind of tough kid who acts first and thinks later. He is there with his father KING RANDOR (50s) –the kind of man you’d have to spend a lifetime living up to. They have a father son moment where Randor tells his son Adam that a true leader brings their people together, whatever their differences. Adam tells his dad that he is not that man. Randor looks down at Adam sadly and wonders if he ever will be.

Meanwhile, at the gates of the Royal Palace, two soldiers walk the palace grounds as fireworks explode in the sky. The first, with a face that has seen the horrors of war and yet still stays above it is GENERAL DUNCAN aka MAN-AT-ARMS (40s). The second is just as tough with battle scars all over his body – KRONIS (30s). Let’s just say Kronis betrays Duncan, knocks him out, and opens the palace gates. A heavy black mist pours through the opening.

Kronis and several Eternian guards stage a coup and try to kill King Randor. King Randor puts up a fight and evens the odds.

A terrifying and powerful presence enters wearing THE CHROME MASK OF A SKULL, clad in armor, a hood over his head, the Sword of Darkness mounted on his back, the man formerly known as Keldor…

…now known as SKELETOR.

Kronis fires a huge blast at Randor who drops to his knees. Randor tells Adam to run. Randor uses what strength he has left and slices KRONIS across the face who screams out and falls backward. MOTU fans know that Kronis will become TRAP-JAW. Skeletor stands over a weakened Randor then he suddenly plunges the Sword of Darkness into Randor’s back, killing him for good – our inciting incident. Adam watches in horror, tears forming in his eyes. Adam escapes and Skeletor gives the order to his goons to kill Adam.

Man At Arms helps Adam escape and instructs him to go to the frontier until the time is right. Skeletor’s dark army lays siege to Captiol City and it falls tragically like Troy.

Adam makes it to the edge of the frontier and collapses beside a cluster of trees on top of a hill. A FALCON perches itself on a branch above him. Majestic, dignified, mysterious . Wind picks up in the clattering of branches, we begin to hear a voice, speaking in a whisper, manipulating the sound of the leaves to shape a language. The voice of the SORCERESS. She tells Adam that his time is not over and shows him his future.

Suddenly, a violent gust of wind tears the leaves from the branches and causes them to float freely in the air, forming the image of CASTLE GREYSKULL.

A beautiful stone structure surrounded by a precipice. Epic in detail and a front face which resembles a GIANT SKULL, complete with a raised drawbridge where the mouth would be. The wind ceases. The leaves fall to the ground. Then the falcon spreads it wings and takes flight.

Days later, in a dust storm, Adam is rescued by ZODAK (40s) wearing heavy animal hides and high-tech gear strapped across his chest. A powerful black man, an experienced warrior. Across Zodak’s face and arms are several mystical tattoos similar to what the Masters wore earlier. Zodak belongs to the Order of the Masters. Protectors of the legacy of Greyskull.

For the next 10 pages or so, reminiscent of Batman Begins, Adam gets mentored by Zodak for the next seven years and turns the pampered 14yr old Prince Adam into a 21 yr old bad ass warrior. We get some more cool backstory which I prefer not to spoil. Basically, Adam has to prove himself worthy of the Sword of Light and to use the power of the Sword to create balance, to fight for something greater than himself. We find out that Keldor/Skeletor was actually King Randor’s brother…Adam’s uncle.

We also find out that the Sorceress is the only surviving member of the original Six Masters of the Universe. Now she is the protector of Castle Greyskull. If Adam can get the Sorceress to unlock the Sword of Light, he will be able to stand up to his uncle and take back Eternia. But first, Adam has to prove himself worthy and find Castle Greyskull which is well hidden. So the script also throws in a treasure hunt for good measure and executed perfectly.

The Masters once spoke about the Legend of the He-Man. A fallen son who would find the Sword of Light and unify his kingdom. Will Adam fulfill his destiny? Well, I guess we are going to have to wait and see what Warner Brothers decides to do. I hope to God they make this because you can see the effort it took over a year to complete this draft. The script is lean, mean, got no fat, no camp or cheese and is full of story and action. A special effects house is going to have a field day with the set pieces and battles that take place throughout the story. Like I said earlier, Warners executes this remotely like 300 – they have a monster hit and a potential franchise on their hands. My sources tell me the young execs behind Grayskull are MOTU fanboys that are passionate about this project and are really trying hard to take this to the next level.

Ok, so Silver Pictures took a bit of a hit with Speed Racer, so what? Silver Pictures has in their possession, a script that lays out the blueprint for a movie that is guaranteed to be a fanboy classic. All that made He-man corny, even that forgettable Dolph Lundgren movie is not here. MOTU fans get the movie they have been wishing for over 25 years. I got some bad news folks, unfortunately, pertaining to HE-MAN, since Silver took a hit with Speed Racer, Warners has been unresponsive to Silver projects.

Hands down folks, Justin Marks listened to the fanboys and wrote the next potential Lord of the Rings. Mr. Silver, Mr. Horn, and Mr. Robinov, I hope you are reading this. You would be insane not to at least look at this. Give this script to any creative exec in their early 30s at the studio and I dare you guys to tell me that I’m dead wrong about Grayskull.

Anyway, in spite of the writer’s strike, this has so far been a damn good year for scripts and GRAYSKULL: THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is already and easily in my top five. I would spoil a lot more but I hope the groundwork I presented today gets all you fans excited. It would be a disservice to spoil more but I leave you with this, the supporting characters.

Along with SKELETOR and EVIL-LYN, the bad guys are TRAP-JAW, TRI-KLOPS (Skeletor’s main henchman), and BEAST MAN. Skeletor’s evil cat PANTHOR is in here too.

Star Trek XI Plot Points Revealed in Entertainment Weekly

2008-10-17T00:16:00.000-07:00

Star Trek’s time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film’s heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). The adventure stretches from Earth to Vulcan, and yes, it does find a way to have Nimoy appearing in scenes with at least one of the actors on our cover — and maybe both. The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu’s swordsmanship to classic lines like, ”I have been, and always shall be, your friend.” More ambitiously, the movie subversively plays with Trek lore — and those who know it. The opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ”Heresy!” But revisionism anxiety is the point. ”The movie,” Lindelof says, ”is about the act of changing what you know

Even more STAR TREK XI pics

2008-10-16T23:54:00.001-07:00

Chris Pine the new Captain James T Kirk

Zachary quinto the new Spock

Another STAR TREK XI Artwork Poster by Myself

2008-10-16T07:03:00.000-07:00

This is still a work in progress! Watch this space.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES if they were REAL LIFE

2008-10-16T03:01:00.001-07:00

I’ve always wondered what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle might look like if they existed in the real world. AlexCF created a fine detail small statue of Leonardo based off the original red-headband comics.

Old V's New Star Trek Crews

2008-10-16T00:50:00.000-07:00

Above: The Original Star Trek Crew in their Movie Uniforms
(STAR TREK VI THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY)

The NEW 2009 STAR TREK CREW

Other 1st STAR TREK XI Official Pics

2008-10-15T15:02:00.000-07:00

First Official Star Trek Pics to be released by Paramount

Star Trek XI 1st pic of Kirk & Spock on Cover of Entertainment Weekly

2008-10-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

Finally the first pic of the new Kirk & Spock together

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2008-10-08T03:41:00.000-07:00

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Mark Benjamin Storey

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - STAR WARS STYLED MOVIE POSTER

2008-10-08T03:11:00.000-07:00

Here i have tried to create a Battlestar Galactica Themed version of the style of the epic Star Wars movie posters.

Tanman.co.uk contact me if you would like to hire me for design work.

2008-10-02T07:11:00.000-07:00

ULTIMATE WARRIOR RETURNS PROMO POSTERS

2008-10-02T06:51:00.000-07:00

Both these poster which I made for the Ultimate Warriors epic return to wrestling were displayed on his personal MySpace page.

STAR TREK XI TEASER POSTERS

2008-10-02T06:46:00.001-07:00

I decided to make my own version of what I think the new STAR TREK movie poster should look like.