{"id":181497,"date":"2025-10-01T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:32:08","slug":"genndy-tartakovsky-shares-test-footage-of-film-no-studio-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181497\/","title":{"rendered":"Genndy Tartakovsky Shares Test Footage of Film No Studio Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2016 test footage for an R-rated Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynols leaked online. Had it not made its way to the world wide web the film might have never been greenlit. A decade later the Merc with a Mouth finally admitted<\/a> he was the one who did it. Reynolds released the sequence online to push 20th Century Fox to make it. Now legendary animator Genndy Tartakovsky is doing something similar. Only he\u2019s not being discreet about it. He shared a concept reel for an adult animated action movie he\u2019s been trying to make for six years because, inexplicably, no studio wants to make The Black Knight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a desperate\/hopeful\/exhausted attempt to gin up interest in a new original film, the creator of classics like Samurai Jack and Dexter\u2019s Laboratory took to social media to offer fans a look at The Black Knight. So far every studio, including notably Sony<\/a> who recently essentially gave away the money-printing smash K-Pop Demon Hunters<\/a>, has passed. After seeing this footage it\u2019s hard to understand why. It\u2019s equal parts gorgeous and exciting.<\/p>\n

It also has a very fun premise. While this sequence of a giant knight fighting a ninja hints at the story, Tartakovsky didn\u2019t want to get into specifics since he still hopes to make it. But he did write \u201cour Knight Armor is 20 feet high and controlled by a knight inside using ropes, pulleys, and levers. The setting is around the 14th century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GenndyGenndy Tartakovsky<\/p>\n

An adult-focused animated period piece about a giant mecha knight? Made by Genndy Tartakovsky? A project he believes in so much he released a concept reel to show fans what they\u2019re missing out on even though he knows doing so is a big risk? Yeah, we\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

Hopefully Tartakovsky\u2019s very public ploy works as well as Ryan Reynolds\u2019 secret one did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016 test footage for an R-rated Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynols leaked online. Had it not made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-181497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}