Many big thanks to James of Reading Along for making me aware of Marvel's Xanadu adaptation!
Xanadu is one of the greatest bad movies of all time. Directed by Robert Greenwald, this 1980 film starred Michael Beck and Gene Kelly as a young artist and an aging big band leader who are inspired by a Greek Muse--played by Olivia Newton-John--to follow their dreams of opening a rollerdisco nightclub. I know that plot summary sounds bad, but believe me, it's much, much worse. It's one of those so-bad-it's-good movies. I own both the DVD and the soundtrack, which features music by Olivia Newton-John and ELO.
The comics adaptation doesn't disappoint. It's written by J. M DeMatteis, with art by a cast of many, including: Rick Buckler, Brent Anderson, Al Milgrom, Bill Sienkiewicz, Howard Chaykin, and Peter Kuper.
The only thing it's missing is the booming Jeff Lynne soundtrack, but you can get that from the iTunes Music Store and read away!
5 comments:
I used to LOVE that movie.
That's not bad. I had to buy the whole run of Nine Inch Nails albums, including singles, twice because of an ex-girlfriend that didn't like the band.
So did she make you give them away, or did she shatter them and toss the shards on the ground in disgust?
Roger: Xanadu on 8-track... there's something just so perfectly right about that!
My parents had the soundtrack on vinyl back when it was originally released. ABout 10 or so years ago I bought it on CD, but it was only available as an import from Japan. (Strangely, the side 2 tracks were sequenced first, followed by side one...) So yes, I paid import prices for the Xanadu soundtrack.
I sold them so I got a little bit of money out of it, but not much. She didn't exactly make me get rid of them, but let's just say it was implied that she didn't like them very much.
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