{"id":8605,"date":"2013-08-07T19:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2013-08-07T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:04:03","slug":"the-shadow-knows-its-a-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/08\/07\/the-shadow-knows-its-a-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow knows&#8230; it&#8217;s a turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John Carter of Mars<\/em>, and now <em>The Lone Ranger<\/em>, have both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23598825\">flopped<\/a>. Actually, they&#8217;re not that bad, certainly not bad enough to be put in the same cone-of-shame as <em>Howard the Duck<\/em>, <em>Dick Tracy<\/em>, <em>The Shadow<\/em>, etc.  Just a bit bland and instantly forgettable.  But together their failure has cost Disney somewhere around $400m in direct losses, not to mention the lost opportunity costs in terms of tying top talent to turkeys.  Sony&#8217;s <em>Doc Savage<\/em> is set for 2014, though it seems to be the only old-time pulpster set for release next year.  If <em>Doc Savage<\/em> tanks too, then I guess we won&#8217;t be seeing too many big-studio movies of near-forgotten pulp fiction and old-time radio heroes in the next decade or so.  Or maybe ever again, as the cultural demographics of nostalgia move inexorably on to 90s toys, 00s videogames (<em>Morrowind: the movie<\/em> &mdash; want!), and superhero comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Carter of Mars, and now The Lone Ranger, have both flopped. Actually, they&#8217;re not that bad, certainly not bad &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/08\/07\/the-shadow-knows-its-a-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}