Peter Jacobs
@pjacobs.bsky.social
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climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience) ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126 Mastodon: fediscience.org/@peterjacobs Bird Site: twitter.com/past_is_future
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During the original filming of D-Tox in 1999, Sylvester Stallone became attached to star in another Universal produced film, an action horror entitled Fatalis. Written by novelist Jeff Rovin in 1998 and sold to Universal for over a million dollars, the script for the film concerned a huge pack of saber-toothed tigers who come back to life after an El Niño hurricane awakens them from being frozen inside an ancient sinkhole for thousands of years. They start attacking any humans they run into while moving down the mountains and through the woods before eventually attacking Los Angeles.[9][10] Rovin, who wrote the novelization of Stallone's Cliffhanger (1993) and his biography, wrote Fatalis with Stallone in mind for the lead role of an anthropologist who, along with a female reporter he befriends, wants to capture the tigers alive as they are our last link with the past, however the local sheriff wants to destroy them. The film went into pre-production by 2000, but following the huge failure of D-Tox and Stallone's other films, Universal ceased production and it went unproduced, though Rovin later turned his script into very successful novel of the same name. Rovin did the same with Vespers, another cancelled action-horror film from around the same time, which would have focused on giant bats that attack New York City. When asked in 2021 about the chances of Fatalis being produced twenty years later, Rovin revealed that Stallone still owns the rights to the original story, and he suspects it will not be produced.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uhg5hca7y57yncreaen663g7/bafkreie2esl7rnagk2b4ax4cav6pkcjzj77cmok6qzyyqgk2ey2ndzznj4)
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@boring_as_heck
[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me flying a hot air balloon into power lines]
Me: is that good"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uhg5hca7y57yncreaen663g7/bafkreify3ecnomdv27b63bqbahglinawpyj46gtn7j6m7dmvw5eaujmupi)
