Peter Telep's Official Site has posted a scan of an article about the man from the University of Central Florida's newspaper (point out the UCF reference in Pilgrim Stars and win big!). The good news is that it's a great review Mr. Telep's many projects... the bad news is that Pilgrim Truth apparently now has a November release date! 10 more months without Wing Commander!
The question on everyone's mind this holiday season is, of course, what's going on with Unknown Enemy? They posted this update at the site, letting people know that they aren't dead! Sounds good!
It's been almost 2 months since the last update so let me fill you in on what has been happening. First of all we thought we could be finished very soon and then exams occured, my new PC wouldn't upload anything and things weren't looking good for Unknown Enemy. Recently HCl left the Wing Commander editing scene and that left us with very few programmers (I still don't know about the status of Dude ;). Anyway I had quite a few e-mails (over 25) regarding what was happening with Unknown Enemy and I wasn't quite sure what to say, to be honest I have had other things on my mind recently but don't worry since HCl's disappearance rather than the crew giving up it appears that each and everyone of us is more determined to prove that Wing Commander is not dead than ever. Thomas Bruckner sent a message in today (yes he's back as of now it seems) that we should aim for a 1999 release, how realistic this is is anyones guess but keep your fingers crossed and maybe in the last few hours of this millenium while everyone else is partying I'll be uploading episode one. It's good to be back!
Well, it looks like Wing Commander earned a few awards afterall! In fact, it made scifi.ign.com's Best Movies of 1999 list! Why the 'Best Movies' list gives awards for 'Worst Picture' and 'Worst Special Effects' is beyond me... Thanks for finding this, JediKTim!
Worst Picture
$27 million, low-budget special effects, and two leading men who's biggest roles have been the murderer in Scream and the full-eyed hero of She's All That. Built on one set with special effects by a studio that worked on PCs, everybody expected this movie to underperform, and it did, big time. There's a generic good humans vs. evil cats storyline and when "It's too big!" is the most exciting line of the entire movie, you know it's got problems.Worst Special Effects
Wing Commander racks up another big turkey in the special effects department. Although the computer-generated effects are adequate enough to give The Last Starfighter a run for its money, it's the Kilrathi that take the prize. After a tense boarding party landing, these vicious, catlike aliens turn out to be giant foam rubber puppets that wouldn't look out of place at Disneyland. Yeesh.
Saw in the latest issue of ToyFare that X-Toys is now doing Saturday Night Live action figures... Wing Commander, Wild Wild West and now this? They must have been in the shower while toy licenses were being handed out...
Designer BlackWolf reports that Wing Commander Lost Universe's project site has been updated with the stats of two new Confederation ships -- the SF-777 Griffen and the TCS Wolves Bane. Pictures should be available by Monday night.
Transport correspondent Tony Knox reports. The construction of a new space port for Hermes has foundered somewhat, following an unexpected shortage of industrial materials. Prices have been upped considerably in an attempt to entice traders to bring more supplies.
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