Oh man, the first time I saw Team American: World Police I was blown off my feet and laughing my ass off all the way home. Just the way that the puppets would fight and try to be real humans was the funniest shit I have ever seen. I was a fan of Thunderbird’s before but they never moved so ridiculously as Team America.
Well it seems that whilst Trey Parker and Matt Stone where giving there praise to the old Thunderbird’s in Team America, it somehow brought back the puppet genre. A new movie is coming out called Agent Crush which is going to be taking the piss out of James Bond is going to be entirely done by puppets.
These puppets aren’t the ones with strings but the mechanical ones (I think that kind of takes away the fun as the limited movements by string puppets really made it funny) and already has a pretty sweet cast lined up. The star of the show, Agent Crush (played by Ioan Gruffudd), had a little chat to SciFi wire and had this to say
It’s the old animation of using puppets, but they’re not on strings anymore,” Gruffudd said in an interview while promoting Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in London. “They’re mechanical puppets. Sean Robinson and producer Barrie Robinson have done an amazing job with the movie, and I’m very proud to represent this sort of goofy 007-esque type character. … It’s sort of like the Supermarionation they had in Thunderbird’s, but the technology has certainly evolved.
Other people who will be starring in Agent Crush are Neve Campbell, Brian Cox, Alice Evans, and Roger Moore who surprisingly starred in 7 Bond films so should be a good little addition to the cast to make it even more Bond like. CinemaBlend have a poster for you to have a look at, can’t wait for this one to come out, should be great fun
