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Excellent Podcast on Kriminal. Cult Epics has licensed KRIMINAL and THE RETURN OF KRIMINAL aka THE MARK OF KRIMINAL for 4K UHD+Blu-ray release in 2025 in North America.
regarding Kriminal assumed to be imprisoned in Istanbul, they did reveal who it was locked up- a nut with a skull mask who seemed awfully happy to be in jail. Inspector Milton took it upon himself to go to Istanbul and see for himself. Quite an amusing scene. Thanks for this episode, I enjoyed it thoroughly!
Thank you so much for the wonderful review! The screenplay was written to be the basis for a comic book adaptation. The first draft was a direct prequel to StarCrash, but we had to remove all of the names and references due to rights issues. To take an additional step away from StarCrash, and because Caroline Munro is synonymous with Stella Star, Mr. Cozzi and I went back-and-forth, “dream casting” Luna Diamond. I suggested some Bollywood stars, but then I suggested an Italian actress from another one of my favorite films: Ornella Muti (Princess Aura from Flash Gordon 1980). Luigi was very enthusiastic about that choice, especially because he almost had the opportunity to work with her. Again, I’m so glad that you enjoyed the screenplay! I hope that you will like the comic (as soon as I can get around to adapting that script).
Thanks so much for getting in touch! I really enjoyed the screenplay. I didn't realise it was going to be about Stella Star initially but that does make sense. A comic book would be fantastic! Perhaps when that's in production you could come on the podcast to talk about it?! I'll be reading out this feedback on our next episode.
Enjoyable listen on this otherwise boring Sunday evening.Matt’s writing and reviews were very helpful when i first discovered Italian genre cinema via his Cheeseplant fanzine which covered some real obscurities.
Thanks for listening! Yes, Matt Blake is something of a legend and it was great to be able to track him down for this. Hope you enjoy some of our other episodes!
Hello there, I found this channel(and subscribed) the other night upon looking up reviews for Warriors of the Year 2072 and didn't find too much on RU-vid. Funny thing is I had the same revelation as Rod with Endgame in that I don't think I ever saw it or it had been so long I forgot most everything in it. I watched it last night on the Severin Blu ray. It's strange because I've had a burned dvr copy of it for many years and now I'm second guessing whether I ever checked it out. I may have been getting it confused with other flicks like Rod had mentioned for himself as well. I do have 2020 Texas Gladiators on VHS and I know I've watched that many years back. I also watched Warriors of the Year 2072 a few nights ago on the Severin Blu-ray and that felt new as well despite having a dvr copy for many years. Great to revisit these films or watch seemingly for the first time as they are a blast. I also did the Severin bundle with the book when it came out. Raiders of Atlantis I do have a bootleg but it's been many years since it watched it. I'm going to revisit it soon via the Severin Blu ray though. Anyway tried not to write a novel above but glad to have come across your channel/podcast, keep up the great work 👍
