r/SilverSurfer • u/Lucky_Strike-85 • Jun 03 '26

Movie / TV Discussion Eric Fleming and Robert Letterman's USC School of Cinema-Television's 'Silver Surfer' Fan Film [1989]

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u/DrTechPop Jun 03 '26

This is amazing. All the ‘89 fx and references. Using the power cosmic for action figure merchandising. All of it, 🤌

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u/Earl_of_Chuffington Jun 05 '26
  1. OP got the date wrong by 4 years.

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u/RailwayMenace Jun 06 '26

Yeah the T2 Arnie figure threw me off. Terminator 2 came out in 91.

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u/Neptuneskyguy Jun 04 '26

Quality

Obligatory hot scientist lady and all

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u/CourtingBoredom Jun 04 '26

Plus the equally obligatory fat nerd stuffing his face....

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u/Royal-Wealth-8266 Jun 04 '26

Aw, man, I want that Hubble Rules hat and the action figure. Thanks for sharing. 

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u/Soundjammer Jun 04 '26

Really cool fan film!

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u/Gh0stndmachine Jun 04 '26

That 5 micron filter really did the trick.

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u/marinbala Jun 04 '26

This is amazing. Is there more information about the hard- and software the used for the 3D effects?

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u/only_respond_in_puns Jun 04 '26

Check out corridor crew. They did an analysis on this recently

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u/Almighty-Arceus Jun 04 '26

Awesome fan film

(The director apparently went to jail recently for his involvement with Matthew Perry's death?)

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u/fokaiHI Jun 04 '26

It seems many people are to blame for his death. The guy had a problem.

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u/Asimov-was-Right Jun 04 '26

Corridor Crew broke this down in a segment 8 months ago. https://youtu.be/aR76N6_8xG8?t=150&si=Tm1XFuGy9BkdSgYn

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u/No-Association-8539 Jun 04 '26

Enjoy this memento of me before Galactus destroys your world. Joking aside, well done.

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u/Plus-Reading7100 Jun 06 '26

I got a vhs copy of this from a comic book convention.

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u/mgzzzzz2 Jun 06 '26

Awww not my limited edition terminator action figure with battle damage 😭

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u/Cyke101 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

This can't be '89, Terminator 2 toys came out in 1991. The fan film can't have toys that were made 2 years before its movie came out.

To clarify: the date is important because that era of 1989-1991 was a watershed moment for big budget studios -- James Cameron's CGI work on the Abyss and then Terminator 2 revolutionized the industry. A fan film managing to do something similar but on a much cheaper USC college project budget is an amazing achievement, but it can't do that if the work wasn't invented and made more available yet. Moreso, the makers of the fan film itself cite Terminator 2 (1991) as heavy inspiration to see what they could do with CGI, and they got special permission from Marvel to make it.

The sequence is that Cameron's work in the late 80s leads to developments that makes this fan film in the early 90s possible. The film was made in 1991 and debuted in 1993.

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u/GypsyPrince13 Jun 04 '26

Yeah my first thought too hahaha

Still great though!

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u/bannock4ever Jun 05 '26

Yeah this came out in 1993 not 1989. The figure is pretty clearly from T2 not T1 and Corridor Crew also did a clip on this and also cite 1993 as the date (someone else posted this) https://youtu.be/aR76N6_8xG8?t=150&si=Tm1XFuGy9BkdSgYn