BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MY VERSION OF THE PHANTOM\, the ghost who walks\, an introdu ction DTSTAMP:20260521T210140Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:737-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:For me \, no character of fiction is locked into one way\, i magination gives any artist the chance to find a way to change any charact er\, because your imagination allows you to make yur own version of any ch aracter. Will your version be financially successful... I don't know\, fi nancial success in the arts is not an exact science. When Toulouse LAutrec made money with his art when alive but more came later in appreciation. Jean Michel Basquiat made money but died giving his art away for free \, n ow decades later art he gave away for free near the time of this death tha t the art market suggested had little to no financial value is now worth m illions each. Fragonard was very successful with his adult themed painting s when alive but after his death was cast out only until late 1900s and be yond gave his work more appreciation. so... the ability to regale isn't se t ins tone\, it isn't a matter of work rate\, audiences\, viewers\, custom ers\, the public have the right to simply not like your work today and lov e it tomorrow or love your work today or hate it tomorrow. But I do think artistic objectives can be achieved in manipulating any story to a particu lar theme or style. STeven Barnes made a post about John Carter of Mars by Disney and made the following comments \, the first the initial reply an d the others temporally in sequence to replies to mine.LINKthe shadow/the phantom/john carter / tintin I think a long list of films exist that aren' t bad but the film going customer needed a preview. Marvel + DC + harry po tter+ Twilight + Dune+Lord of the rings all had tv shows or comics or mult iple media forms not movies in theaters that prepared the movie theater go ing audience for the films\, which is needed when a ticket isnt affordable . If ticket prices were affordable I think all of those film would had bet ter fiscal reception. .. My biggest issue was in preproduction the storybo ard artists or writers didn't realizeLINKKathy Lehman haha well the origin al radio program was cheesy\, but sincere and the movie is sincere too.LIN KSteven Barnes That is cool you figure a way for tarzan today\, i see a wa y to do phantom or shadow today. Though to your original post theme\, i do think all three need marketing care\, wise production . Need quality dire ction from an efficient director . it isn't just a good screenplay from yo u or me:) that will do it. None of these properties are like a star wars o r marvel where they are present and strong in media before a movie comes o ut.LINKSteven Barnes to the phantom\, the inherited hero aspect of the pha ntom is the tool to break out of the negative biases\, white saviordom\, i n its creation and majority history. Yes \, the phantom was made with pure white savior mythos\, but within the story it has a great way to fit beyo nd said limitation and not sideline the history of the character.LINKSteve n Barnes yes the cultural point of the original creator of the phantom \, lee falk\, or the audience he created for\, would vanish with my version\, but that is why it would be my work. Rich Murray's phantom\, based on fal k\, but not falk'sLINKSteven Barnes I will answer the questions in reverse order. MY experience as an artist has taught me never to assume to know h ow to capture audiences for sure. But I always hope to capture them. 🙂 My Phantom's change is simple but influences the entire storyline. My chan ge is to make the phantom older than kit walker. In Falk's version the pha ntom starts with Kit Walker. this lineage of white men of europe who save colored folk and others. In my version the phantom is from an ancient lin eage from Africa itself\, started by a Black man in the ancient predecesso r to Bengali about the indian ocean coast somewhere[thus afro asiatic] . Now what has to be added because of this? The first phantom around the tim e of kemet passed it down to his first son\, but also had other children. And over the thousands of years\, the bloodline of the original phantom is now global \, and has members of every phenotypical race in all parts of the world\, but all in the bloodline don't know it. A group of descendent s were started by the second son of the first phantom from kemet to catalo g and keep the record of the lineage of the phantom and manage the phantom \, including killing the phantom if need be. To kit walker\, a phantom di ed without an heir sometime before pirates killed his father and he crashl anded on the shores of bengali A member of the second son's descendents no tices kit and checking the records see's that he is a descendent of the fi rst phantom. After Kit\, who is negatively biased towards blacks makes the vow. The descendent of the second son invites him to become the phantom. What is the point? the phantom has always been a hero\, the ghost who wal ks\, but has not always been culturally the same. In my version\, the phan tom before kit walker was a black man who had a huge negative bias to whit es. But still aided white people at times in a condensending way. Kit walk er \, albet condescending to blacks still saves lives including black peop le. To your first question\, my phantom is still a legacy hero like falk's but unlike falk's my phantom is a greater legacy as complicated or comple x in membership as humanity itself\, while it has a more interesting stewa rdship in the descendents of the second son of the first phantom\, preserv ing this hero\, who can't stop all crimes or keep all safe\, and has never tried to stop all crimes or keep all safe\, but consistently does good no matter who bears the name.LINK DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR