A selection of fine AI Cinema-stills (2)

Starring Terry Gilliams Batman, Fritz Langs Star Wars, that Akira Live Action movie, Wes Andersons Aliens and H.R. Giger designing Jim Hensons Labyrinth.

Here's part two of my selection of fine AI-cinema-explorations — find part one here, part three here.

After exploring the depths of 50s scifi and horror-trash from another dimension, this time we visit the alternative takes on the popculture icons such as Star Wars, Batman, Labyrinth, Alien, Akira and Dune by Jim Henson, Wes Anderson or Jodorowsky.

All of these are doors into parallel versions of the movie universes you know, each link here is a whole different branch of time where the franchise you and me know in this universe took a sharp turn and looked stunningly different from our version.

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THE STARKILLER SAGA

• On the set of Star Wars (1970)

• Star Wars: Youth Rebellion Dodecology

• Stanley Kubrick's initial stab at Star Wars (before Lucas decided to take over)

• Star Wars The Phantom Menace Concept Art inspired by Moebius

• Star Wars by Christopher Nolan / Part 2

• Star Wars by Hayao Miyazaki

• Star Wars by Fritz Lang, 1923

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SYNTHETIC JIM HENSONS

• On the set of 1984 secret collaboration movie between Jim Henson Studios and HR Giger.

• On the set of the Scifi Fantasy movie Jim Henson never finished.

• The making of The Dark Crystal 2

• Behind-the-scenes of Labyrinth 2

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ARTIFICIAL WES ANDERSONS

• Tron by Wes Anderson

• Wes Anderson's seminal film 'A Delightful Series of Throne Games'

• Once Upon A Time by Wes Anderson

• Some stills from the The Batman movie (2010) by Wes Anderson / some behind the scenes

• Wes Anderson's Alien

• The Matrix, directed by Wes Anderson

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ROBOT JODOROWSKY

• Jodorowsky's Dune, 1976

• Another Take on Jodorowsky's Dune

• Jodorowsky's Dune by Studio Ghibli

• "Paris, 1975 - Following his fallout with the Beatles ex-manager Allen Klein over his surrealist masterpiece, The Holy Mountain (1973), Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on his next grand project - the first adaptation of The Fifth Element - written by then unknown 15 year old French wunderkind - Luc Besson - who gifted the handwritten screenplay to Jodorowsky at a bookstore in Montmartre."

• The Djangotron by Wes Anderson and Alejandro Jodorovsky

• "Test shots from the cancelled series adaptation of Jodorowsky and Gimenez's Metabarons set to air on HBO, directed by Ridley Scott and Luc Besson"

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NEO-TOKYO STREETRACING

• Neo-Tokyo is about to explode

• A K I R A cometh 2023

• NEO-TOKYO IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE

• Neo Tokyo Motorcycle Club

• Akira the Motion Picture

• Live action production still of Akira filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

• Akira by Vittorio Storaro

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ANDROID DREAMS

• Bladerunner 2049 by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Sergei Parajanov

• Andrei Tarkovsky's Blade Runner

• "In 1982 Steven Spielberg set out on the impossible task of adapting Phillip K Dick's seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"

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LOST ALIENS

• The inhabitants of LV-426 decided to stop fighting and finally finish the album.

• After the universal success of their debut album, LV-426 start work on their difficult second album…

• Stanley Kubricks lost Alien-film

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PARALLEL BATMAN

• Terry Gilliams The Bat Man (1987) / Behind the scenes

• Production stills from 1978s The Joker

• бэтмен (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky

• "In an attempt to bring in more Western audiences for Asian cinema, acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa worked on a version of Batman that would focus on the detective if he was from 1950s Japan. Although only given a limited release for a few months, these stills give us an idea of the tone and aesthetic of the film."