Michael Hopcroft Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I doubt there were ever any actual plans to produce this sequel to Buckaroo Banzai even before its unfortunate consignment to cult classic rather than mainstream hit. But if you want to roleplay in the world of the Blue Blaze Rangers, one could do worse than creating this epic adventure. Since there are so many ideas that could work with that title, let me propose the germs of one: Playing around with dimensional travel has usually been trouble for Banzai. However, this is not the sort of thing that deters him, so his latest effort is a device to view past the barriers of time and record certain important historical events so that he could see, for example, what Napoleon Bonaparte really looked like. After watching the past, he decides he's going to take a look at what a possible future might look like (knowing very well that the present creates the future). He sees a world of fantastical wonders and technology, much of it extrapolated from his own ideas, and signs everywhere that, in the future, his name is legend as a Benefactor of Mankind. He is so pleased that his efforts will bear fruit in the centuries to come that he pays little attention to the man who seems to be looking back through the window, until their eyes meet -- and Banzai sees in them the sort of cold, bitter all-consuming hatred that he has not seen in ages.... He disconnects the power to the machine but it is too late. For Francisco Lizardo, great-grandson of his great nemesis, has now seen the face of Banzai and knows that there is a way to bridge the time barrier. Soon Lizardo IV has made his way to 1987. And he's not alone, for he has also recruited and brought with him seven of the most ruthless and vicious criminals in the history of mankind. And he sends taunting messages to Team Banzai challenging Buckaroo to guess what he is up to, "because by the time your feeble intellect conceives of my design, it will be too late for anyone to interfere and all you will be able to do is weep bitterly at all you have lost". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! Hanoi Xan and the World Crime League play a much larger role in the book, which is not so much a novelization as a companion to the movie. The book for example covers a lot of things that were done offscreen, sometimes way way offscreen. Not that any of what you posted is bad or anything, very nice stuff. The version of the League in my book is based off of the book but adds a lot of stuff not found there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyGuardian Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! There is a new buckaroo banzai comic book series out right now. As I understand it, the comic is based on a proposed television pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! Rumor has it that this was made, but re-written as the classic Big Trouble in Little China with the Buckaroo Bonzai characters replaced. W.D. Richter (the director of BB) was one of the writers for Big Trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! IMDB trivia on BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! Well, the Little China connection has been debunked, but the rest of it is cool. The trivia about Xan more or less jives with the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcLight Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! Well' date=' the Little China connection has been debunked, but the rest of it is cool. The trivia about Xan more or less jives with the book.[/quote'] Yeah, we keep trying to get that BTiLC business taken out of the trivia there but it keeps coming back. It did finally get dropped from the BTiLC page (which points out that the original story was a western). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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