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[Toy Fair 2013] Meet The Latest Motley Crew Of “Presidential Monsters”
To commemorate “Presidents’ Day” 2013 later this month, noted toy company Heroes in Action Toys will unveil some of the newest entries in its wacky “Presidential Monsters” toy line during Toy Fair 2013 at the Javitz Convention Center (Feb. 10-13) in New York City. The “Presidential Monsters” toy line pays tribute, in “monstrous parody,” to many U.S. Presidents and other popular U.S. Government notables throughout the course of American history. Heroes in Action Toys will be exhibiting at Toy Fair: BOOTH # 5032.
Among the new action figures the company will unveil will be Hillary Clinton as “Hillvira – Secretary of Stake,” a female vampire. Another new action figure will be Sarah Palin as “Van Palin”—in a spoof on monster hunter “Van Helsing.”
Unsuccessful 2012 President hopeful Mitt Romney becomes “Romney, The Robot” – a classic sci-fi robot, and George Washington is portrayed as a Ghost with his “Spirit of ‘76” action figure toy.
Other new entries within the “Presidential Monsters” toy line will be:
** “Dr. Benjamin Franklinstein” – Ben Franklin as a Mad Scientist
** “Algor” – Former VP Al Gore as Lab Assistant “Igor”
** “Jacksferatu” – Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory, as an Ancient Vampire
** “Yeti Roosevelt” – President Teddy Roosevelt as a Yeti monster
** “General Eisenhowler” – Ike as a Wolfman
** “Jimmy Pea Nutz” – Jimmy Carter as a “psycho”
** “Martian Van Buren” – the late president Martin VB as a Vintage TV Martian
** “Young Frankenford” – Gerald Ford as a Frankenstein
** “U-Headless S. Grant” – Ulysses S. Grant as a Headless Horseman
** “Lyndon After Midnight” – a spoof of President LBJ
These new figures, which range in price from $ 19.99 to $ 29.99, join a number of previously existing “Presidential Monsters” from the Heroes in Action Toys line, first launched in 2011. (Click here to view these toys) Previously existing toys include:
** “Lincolnstein” – Abe Lincoln as Frankenstein
** “Baracula” — President Obama as Dracula
** “Wolf Bill” — President Bill Clinton as a Wolfman
** “ZomBush” — President George W. Bush as a Zombie
** “Monster from the Watergate Lagoon” – President Nixon as a “fish monster”
** “The Phantom of the White House” – President Kennedy as “The Phantom of The Opera”
** “The Ronmy”—President Ronald Reagan as “The Mummy”
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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