Cannon Films

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Cannon released some of the best action films of the 80's from the American Ninja series to Exterminator 2 and it's a real shame we don't have a company like that releasing films today.Found a Cannon Films youtube channel wth lots of trailers for movies they made.Some great trailers and some great 80's cheese.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CannonFi...04/t6Bfj6irLsg

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Now here's a thread to get excited about! Interestingly they planned a Dirty Dozen style flick with their roster of action stars in the 80s which never came to play. But... a good few ex Cannon people at Nu Image/Millenium who are bringing out The Expendables - the film where all action films converge!

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

The Expendables is going to be awesome! Also found this link to Cannon's UK site.Lots of UK/German/Benelux vhs covers.Brings back some memories.

http://www.cannon.org.uk/

[Pete]

During his q&a in Glasgow Ruggero Deodato said Cannon offered him the chance to direct Spiderman!

Would have been interesting.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Was it the Cannon Spiderman that James Cameron was once attatched to?

EDIT: It was Carolco I was thinkng of there

[vincenzo]

Thankfully common sense prevailed, and Deodato & Spider-Man never met.

There is a vague connection between the two in the first Spider-Man film though. The tugboat captain who helps rescue the trapped civilians in the tramcar on the bridge is Robert Kerman.

[Daemonia]

Oh, I don't know, Vin - I reckon a Deodato-directed Spider-Man would've been amazing(ly bad). He'd have cast David Hess as Spiderman and called it Holocaust in the Last House on the Edge of the Park....with Spiderman.

Seriously though, some of these Italian directors say the weirdest things. Like Lenzi reckoning that Hollywood stole his idea of Nightmare City for...wait for it...Philadelphia. You what? Did I hear right? *rewinds* Yes, he sure did say that. If anyone can possibly explain the correlation between the two, then please enlighten me. Thanks.

[vincenzo]

Deodato would probably have thought a Goblin was an elf with his head between his legs.

[spooks]

I remember reading somewhere Joseph Zito was down to do Cannon's proposed Spiderman.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by spooks

I remember reading somewhere Joseph Zito was down to do Cannon's proposed Spiderman.

Zito would've given us Prowlerman. Groovy!