{"id":6778,"date":"2020-06-12T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/more-than-a-decade-after-its-failed-pilot-lets-reconsider-the-amazing-screw-on-head\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:30:00","slug":"more-than-a-decade-after-its-failed-pilot-lets-reconsider-the-amazing-screw-on-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/more-than-a-decade-after-its-failed-pilot-lets-reconsider-the-amazing-screw-on-head\/","title":{"rendered":"#More Than a Decade After its Failed Pilot, Let\u2019s Reconsider \u2018The Amazing Screw-On Head\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#More Than a Decade After its Failed Pilot, Let\u2019s Reconsider \u2018The Amazing Screw-On Head\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Welcome back to Pitch Meeting<\/strong>, a monthly column in which we suggest an IP ripe for adaptation, then assign the cast and crew of our dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Comic books are weird. Or they can be. Or they should be. Find the right creator, crack his head on the page, and see what spills out. You\u2019re gonna see plenty of spandex punch \u2019em ups, noir ally gauntlets of violence, underground outbursts of rage, and Sunday funnies. If you\u2019re patient, every once in a while, you\u2019ll stumble into something unclassifiable.<\/p>\n

Say hello to my friend, The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When discussing animation, you\u2019ll often hear how the creator and their imagination is free from the usual constrictions of Hollywood live-action filmmaking. Budgetary issues are of little concern. You think it, and you can draw it. The only problem to be solved is your mind.<\/p>\n

Comics are even more liberating, and a cartoonist like Mike Mignola<\/strong> requires few collaborators beyond his colorist (Dave Stewart<\/strong>) and letterers (Clem Robins<\/strong> and Pat Brosseau<\/strong>). The art and story are on him. With such freedom, it\u2019s his duty to concoct tales unlike any other, and time and time again, he does, but he\u2019s never made anything quite as bizarre or as unique as The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you know Mignola\u2019s name at all, you know him as the creator of Hellboy<\/em>, which was adapted into two well-renowned films from Guillermo del Toro and one unfairly maligned bloodbath extravaganza by Neil Marshall. Hellboy<\/em> is a long-running monster comic that stretches into fabulous celebrations of Lovecraftian lore, Arthurian legend, and mythology from nearly every era in time and place on the planet.<\/p>\n

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Compared to The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em>, however, Hellboy<\/em> looks as app<\/a>le pie as Superman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you keep saying that Brad, but what the hell makes The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> so damn special?<\/p>\n

Okay, okay. I\u2019ll tell ya.<\/p>\n

The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> began as a man-child\u2019s dream. Mignola envisioned a line of toys featuring a robot head with a neck threaded like a lightbulb so he could be screwed into various robot bodies. As Batman seems to have a suit of armor for every apocalypse and occasion (Knight Glider Batman! Super Sonic Batman! Skycopter Batman!), so too could the Screw-On Head! Unfortunately, Mignola is not a toy designer. Fortunately, he\u2019s a cartoonist.<\/p>\n

As he got to work constructing the idea, he imagined the world that would surround his peculiar adventurer. Mignola is not a modern-day maestro eager to draw electric shavers and automobiles. He\u2019s a man of castles and vampire bats, but having explored plenty of those in Hellboy<\/em>, Mignola constructs Scew-On Head\u2019s universe from the bones of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s America, but it\u2019s a battlefield Ken Burns would barely recognize.<\/p>\n

The Amazing Screw-On Head is a righteous champion for the 16th President; when the country requires his assistance against zombie intellectuals seeking to unlock dark dimensions from magical turnips, Screw-On Head answers the call to service. With the aid of his trusty manservant Mister Groin and the taxidermied but mechanically re-engineered Mister Dog, Screw-On Head tracks Emperor Zombie to the Aswam Valley, \u201cgeneral<\/a>ly considered the worst place on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thankfully, Screw-On Head selects his lucky number thirteen body, and Zombie\u2019s undead cronies are no match against its spring-loaded fists. Now, the same can not be said for the gargantuan amphibian demon unshackled from its vegetable prison. Taking froggy down proves much more difficult.<\/p>\n

These words do little justice to Mignola\u2019s comic. Yes, it sounds absolutely strange, but its greatest pleasures come from the joyfully stark, gothic designs of Mignola\u2019s absurd ideas. It\u2019s all very serious and proper, never flinching from its foolishness or acknowledging your presence with a wink.<\/p>\n

The comic is a playground unlike any other. Such originality is what you seek but are rarely granted. When you find it, you gotta hold on. It\u2019s like the first time you saw The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<\/em> or Repo Man<\/em>. What the hell is this? You\u2019re not entirely sure, but you gotta share it with others.<\/p>\n

The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> has already been adapted once before. Back in 2006, a 22-minute television pilot written by Bryan Fuller<\/strong> (Hannibal<\/em>) and directed by Chris Prynoski<\/strong> aired on the Sci-Fi Channel (pre-SyFy) only once. A year later, it landed on DVD. You should own it.<\/p>\n

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Screw-On Head was voiced by Paul Giamatti<\/strong> with Patton Oswalt<\/strong> pulling vocal duties for Mister Groin and David Hyde Pierce<\/strong> for Emperor Zombie. While the episode changes a few things here and there, fleshing out a little more backstory for the characters, it efficiently captures the tone and mood of the comic, going as far as to replicate Mignola\u2019s artistic style faithfully.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years later, we can do better. We can certainly do bigger.<\/p>\n

Casting the voices should be simple; just bring back Giamatti and the gang. Sure, Bryan Fuller is a little more popular these days than he was back in 2006, but grant him the same amount of creative freedom as Mignola had on the comic, and I\u2019m sure we can lure him back so he can fulfill his fantasy of The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> series<\/a> that never was.<\/p>\n

Now, a series could be fun, but let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves. There is only one issue of The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> in existence, and it was already adapted into the 22-minute pilot. Take those bones and expand the plot in minuscule increments. I\u2019m thinking a feature.<\/p>\n

Rather than going the CGI or traditionally animated route, let\u2019s go find some stop-motion wizards to take up the cause. Get Laika Studios and writer\/director Chris Butler<\/strong> to back Fuller. They\u2019re a bunch of eccentric maniacs who strive to flesh out the weird and the wild in their children\u2019s entertainment.<\/p>\n

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The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> easily falls into Laika\u2019s catalog of inventive and grimly provocative films (Coraline<\/em>, ParaNorman<\/em>, Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em>, etc.). Its agenda might be a little less apparent, or totally absent, but that\u2019s on Butler, Fuller, and their crew to expand upon. Mike Mignola provides an astonishing world of adventure, resistance, and heroism. Laika Studios should inject some warm morality.<\/p>\n

What does it mean to Screw-On Head\u2019s soul to have an interchangeable body? What pain could the Laika gang mine from such a troublesome possibility? Especially considering the divided nation around him? Screw-On Head comes pre-packaged with guts\/cogs, verve, and righteousness to thwart those who would dare to stand against Abraham Lincoln\u2019s values, if not all of America\u2019s values.<\/p>\n

Mignola\u2019s comic book is but a taste of a universe, and the original Sci-Fi Channel adaptation is not much more. It\u2019s delicious, but under Laika\u2019s guidance, The Amazing Screw-On Head<\/em> could be a heartier meal taken from an even grander franchise buffet waiting to be plundered. If Spider-Man could have four rounds at the box office dinner table over the course of a decade, then we can easily offer a second plate for the gentleman Screw-On Head.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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