Imagine if Marvel and Lucasfilm teamed up to make a movie nowadays. It would be huge! Well, back in 1986, that wasn’t the case… In fact, “Howard The Duck”, was the opposite of huge. What was supposed to be a comedy, hardly had audiences QUACKing up. Most Audiences thought it was rather FOWL. It wasn’t a success and Universal Pictures was stuck with the BILL.

George Lucas was the man that decided to turn a Marvel comic about a sassy, wise-cracking anthropomorphic duck into a summer blockbuster. Universal was ALL IN after previously turning George down for his previous mega hits. Lets just say, this didn’t turn out too well for some Universal Executives.

This week Ray teaches Rob all about how Lea Thompson went all out to get her roll in this film, how a love scene between a talking duck and a human woman was actually produced, and how George Lucas selling off his Animation Division to Steve Jobs, amid a contentious divorce, led to the creation of one of the biggest Animation studios of all time. Hint: Disney owns the animation studio. Second Hint: Rhymes with Bixar.

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TEAM:

Ray Hebel

Robert W Schneider

Mark Schroeder

Billy Recce

Daniel Schwartzberg

Gabe Crawford

Natalie DeSavia

WEBSITES

Rotten Tomatoes

Box Office Mojo

BOOKS

Howard The Duck Film Novelization

ARTICLES

The Hollywood Reporter - 1

The Hollywood Reporter - 2

Mental Floss

Screen Rant

Mouse Planet

Den Of Geek

AUDIO/VISUAL

Howard The Duck Teaser Trailer

Howard The Duck Trailer

Film Clip - No More Mr. Nice Duck

Film Clip - Intense Animal Magnetism

Howard The Duck "Duck Calls" Hotline

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Williard Huyck & Gloria Katz

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science Music Video

Howard The Duck Music Video

Siskel & Ebert - Stinkers of 1986

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