Channel Frederator Blog

Interplay is being really cool…they’re hungry, so they want to see Jim fly again. That’s a different strategy than just sitting on a dead liscense and try to milk more re-hashes that continue to weaken the brand.

The old game was great, but there was no room to tell a real story. It barely says anything about Jim…it’s the perfect game but not a story at all. The cartoon was pretty stale with really low production values even for back then. The toy line was kind of clunky-chunky.

I’m excited to introduce him to a new generation of people. I’ve done a few new sketches and he’s really fun, funny and just more solid as a character. I have a ten page feature script treatment that I just finished to get a look at the character…see what a feature might look like.

I’m not going to say much more. I don’t want EWJ to be all about talking up a character…I’m putting the goods down on paper. We’ll give you updates over on the Interplay site and I’ll probably start a blog to let all of the Jim fans in on the progress of the character, game, movie, etc.

What some of you might not understand is that I haven’t ever had legal control of my own character for EWJ’s whole existence. I promise to deliver my very best ideas, story-telling, game ideas and I’ll demand the very best quality from all parties on board. That doesn’t mean it will come out a hit…I can’t control that. I can only say that I really want to make him shine so you won’t get some half-baked, heartless piece of crap made to exploit you for more money.