Turok to rock Turok animated film

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Oct 23rd 2007 at 4:00PM }

Time-traveling Native American news now (we'll have to create another spin-off site at this rate!), with a newly released video of an animated Turok film. Presumably releasing straight to DVD in early 2008, Turok: Son of Stone looks to feature plenty of violence, reptile dysfunction and at least one scene of a fat man being eaten unexpectedly.

If you're confused as to why this Turok looks nothing like the one featured in Disney's promising Unreal-powered first-person shooter (slated for February), it's probably because you either skipped the comic book series or never accompanied the dinosaur hunter when he battled his greatest foe -- the N64's draw distance.

[Via Firing Squad]

Tags: Disney, FPS, Turok

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mark @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:07PM

Wow, it looks terrible

Grant @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:15PM

I think from everyones experience would tell you that cartoons based off of video games they can tell you it's a terrible combination;with maybe the exception of viva pinata, which is mildly entertaining.

DO THE MARIO!

Grant @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:16PM

I didn't proof read.
to make up for it i offer this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3w2fi_f5OLY

Grant @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:17PM

and this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=65uNCLBTje0

Kristof @ Oct 23rd 2007 5:30PM

Welcome to Factsville ... population: not you.

Turok was a comic a LONG time ago, then revamped by Valiant ... as a comic. THEN it became a video game much later.

Grant @ Oct 23rd 2007 5:41PM

Welcome to "it's-still-a-terrible-fucking-cartoon-and-not-that-great-of a-game-eithersville"

P.s. I never said it was solely based off of a video game, and the comic was last published 25 some odd years ago. I'm sure the concepts will be based off of the only material anyone under the age of 30 will have seen based on turok, which is the video game.

Cabal @ Oct 23rd 2007 6:02PM

Actually the last incarnation of the comic was published closer to 10 years ago.

losttoys @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:18PM

Odd that the independent label TWC (The Weinstein Combany) instead of Miramax is handling the distribution of this.

Chaotic (FDF - Fry) @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:19PM

I'm left wondering what age group they're marketing that to. It looks too simplistic for adults, but too violent for younger audiences.

Also, it did nothing to fill me with nostalgia for the original Turok.

Sean @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:47PM

Cerebral bore plz.

WiNG @ Oct 23rd 2007 5:12PM

Sorry but Jurassic Park has a monopoly on the best "Fat man eaten by dinosaur" scene ever.

DemonGSides @ Oct 23rd 2007 5:26PM

Looks good, since it will have actual violence.

Anticrawl @ Oct 23rd 2007 6:06PM

I don't like it. As a native and a fan of Turok I'm offended, but I'll go see it anyway because I'm a fan.

Haha...

val @ Oct 23rd 2007 6:37PM

That is the single most awesome trailer for an animated feature that I ever saw. Too simplistic for adults!? Remember Heavy Metal!? That movie came out almost 29 years ago. I'll buy two Turok dvd's.

losttoys @ Oct 23rd 2007 8:16PM

The art style in Heavy Metal was animated much better than this. This trailer screamed "low budget".

dustandechoes91 @ Oct 23rd 2007 7:22PM

crap.....its a disney movie....with blood

Mecharine @ Oct 23rd 2007 7:41PM

Comic book, not the game. As in a book that often consists of entirely drawn pages.

bm @ Oct 23rd 2007 8:17PM

It seems to suffer from the same thing every western cartoon suffers from that doesn't have a multi-billion dollar budget: horribly shitty animation.

Too bad. :(

Paul Gale @ Oct 24th 2007 2:53AM

I'm looking forward to Turok: Son of Stone; I just hope it has the Chronocepter (I believe that was the name of the big, blue gun you had to assemble in Turok for Nintendo 64).

ironyCurtain @ Oct 24th 2007 5:12AM

While I think that an animated feature based on Turok could be ok, that was just too crudely animated to be something I'd bother watching. Voice acting wasn't very great either.

I think the comparisons with badly animated Disney sequels are apt. It's like they took the most recent Land Before Time and added a bunch of gore. Sweet.