Stephen Spielberg and Star Trek Legend collaborated for a series of forgotten science fiction

In 1989, Stephen Spielberg was trying to enter the animation game. He has held the position of an executive producer in films such as Don Bluth’s “Americ Tail” and Robert Zimikis “who frame Roger Rabit”, both directing them to great success. It also established its animation studio, Amblimation, of that year, in the hope of continuing its record of making the amazing, original and successful animation features. By 1989, though, Spielberg and Both suffered from falling, and new projects did not come easily. As a result, Amplimation made only three features: “A Orican Tail: Fievel Goes West,” “We have returned! The story of the dinosaur”, and “Balto”.

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Spielberg has achieved better success on TV, overseeing a new wave of animation that took place in a new generation of entertainment. 1990 witnessed the emergence of “Tiny toon Adventures”, a fourth comedy series of wall characterized by a new collection of their “KID” counterparts of the well -known Warner Bruce characters. This show was common enough to justify the creation of free “Animaniacs” in 1993, as well as “Freakazoid Masterpiece!” In 1996. Spielberg also supervised the “Histeria!” And “Toonsylvania”, as well as the PRIMETIME series such as “Family Dog” and Berkley breathing “Bloom County” TV Special “a Wish for Winss that Work.” In terms of animation, Spielberg hit its steps in the nineties. And he still goes; The man is now an executive product On “Gremlins: Secrets Mogwai.”

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However, one of the most mysterious parts of the opening in the Animated Spielber Sharia is the TV series called “Invation America”, a show broadcast on WB for only 13 episodes in June and July of 1998. It was a very dangerous and frightening science fiction show about a teenage boy discovers that he is half a foreigner. Spielberg participated in creating the series with Harve Bennet, executive producer behind “Star Trek II: The Wrator of Khan”, “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”

The “American invasion” plot was very involved. He explained that the strange power of the planet Tiros came to Earth in the 1980s, hoping to engage in a peaceful connection. There, unfortunately, the split inside the Terusians. The Governor of the Planet, Cale-OSHA (Lorenzo Lamas), wants to make peace with humans, while his uncle, The Evil Dragit (Tony Jay) wants the oppression of the earth. There is a fracas, a civil war that erupted, and Cale-OSHA, alongside his foreign friend Rafe (Edward Albert), must flee to Earth. He hides himself as a human being and begins to love a human woman named Rita (Cath Susi). They have a child together and call him David.

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David (Mickey Kelly) is growing for adolescence years that his father does not know is a foreigner. The display work escalates when the clouds return to the ground to kill the Cale once and forever, forcing the true David identity to the spotlight. The rest of the series follows the adventures of David as he escapes from the evil evil spies and enhances the unknown super powers. (His capabilities are enhanced and controlled by a user -like interface element called exotar.

“The invasion” was distinguished by some prominent vocal actors of the guests, including Christie McNishol, Ronnie Cox, and James Sequing. Leonard Nomawi also appeared as a villain named General Conrad, who is most likely participating because he and Bennett collaborated in three “Star Trek” films. While the show was produced in 30 -minute episodes, it broadcast two episodes at one time, it was presented in 60 minutes. The series of the series is similarly consisted of a 90 -minute block.

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The series was not very well. Review in Los Angeles TimesHouard Rosenberg wrote it, he argued that “the invasion America” ​​tried to cover up a gentle plot and his bad writing with great pictures. In fact, the show benefited from the rare CGI models at the time (TV) (outside the spacecraft), and its pioneers clearly sought to make everything look rich and mechanically satisfactory. Anita Gates, writing for the New York TimesI was equally influenced by the visual images – “elegant to the extent of Art Deco”, as she wrote – but she also noticed that the “invasion America” ​​had no heart. Even in 1998, the “selected” fictional novels were already tired, as Gates pointed out. At least, Ken Taker’s weekly entertainment review was positive. He pointed to each Spoiled tomatoesThe show was “derived”, but its pictures consist of it.

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Unusually, two copies of the “invading America” ​​were broadcast in different time holes while operating. Full repetition on WB ran, while the delivery process and less violent were run on WB for children. The series ended with Sheron, saying it was “the end of the first book.” 13 full episodes were presented as one long -term story, which no one heard in the animation at the time and was not common outside the soap opera. It will not be until the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century, as the stories that last the season have become. Unfortunately, there was no second book.

One cannot make mistakes in the “invasion of America” ​​due to the lack of ambition. He was severely pushed at that time and even had link accounts. It was a spot and tuning and had some of the gifted great Hollywoods who were working on it. Nevertheless, it seems that the “invasion America” ​​was very familiar to arrest him, and he came and went without a lot of noise. Spielberg returned to “Animaniacs” Spinoff “Pinky & The Brain”, while Bennet returned to his “Time Trax” money. “Animaniacs” was released in the end While “Tiny Toons” was re -turned on. “The invasion of America”, on the other hand, is still asleep.

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