Will this tie in with the Universal Monsters Shared Universe?

But true: DC scored him for Aquaman (which they keep telling us is a big deal) because Marvel was unable to land him to play Drax in GOTG- Momoa's agent told him to hold out for a role that could spin off into it's own franchise- and it worked!

And once you get the beaver, you have to rub it repeatedly as part of a process called "making it felt".
(ACTUAL FACT)

Actually, that sounds a LOT more appropriate for his career path than "Marvel and DC are fighting over him to headline a movie".

so… seriously, does this guy have a lot of fans, or something? Because I'm not seeing how being "The Conan That No One Liked", "That Guy From The Less Interesting Parts Of The First Season Of GOT", and " Aquaman EXTREEEEEEME, No Really, That's Happening" has made him such a big deal.

It would have worked as a plot on BREAKING BAD, wouldn't it?

Partial points.
But did you read the books?Because they didn't even film the one where Sharpe finally met Napoleon face-to-face.

My Facebook is STILL like that.
But part of that is i'm hanging with both a slightly older crowd (although, of course, we could start aging into Grumpy Grampa mode at some point), and a group that's a combination of nerdy fans and nerdy artists.
And also, we're mostly Canadians, and to be absolutely blunt, our…

The notorious Bryanston Releasing Company, a known mob front, was actually too successful for it's own good; while it's job was basically to pick up a few cheap films and use them to launder money, they ended up distributing a number of genuine hits, like DEEP THROAT and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, that drew a little TOO…

FUN FACT: Al Ruddy, producer of THE GODFATHER, also produced Bakshi's COONSKIN (which, of course, has a particularily pointed Godfather parody in it)

The 1970s fanzine RBCC reported (in an issue published to commemorate Bode's passing) that Bode and Bakshi had been in the preliminary stages of a film project; presumably, this work was folded into WIZARDS. (The Bode influence on the final film is, indeed, undeniable).
To be fair, the roots of WIZARDS can be…

One of Bakshi's big strengths is his willingness to experiment. The pen-and-ink backgrounds for The Land Of Skortch ( by artist Ian Miller)are a good example.

WIZARDS is kind of the definitive Bakshi film, in that it combines the underground comics vibe of his New York stuff with his fantasy adaptation stuff.

well, it's about time someone made a film about Steve Jobs!

The Frankenstein Monster was in VAN HELSING. You get full points.

He will eat ANYTHING on a dare. Bugs, spoiled food, garbage, ANYTHING.
It is excellent training for being a writer in Hollywood.

Well, she's married to the guy who makes the UNDERWORLD movies.
But yeah, that don't explain VAN HELSING,

Serious answer? According to the guys at ILM, they offer him roughed-out versions of the CGI sequences, and he just tells them to make everything bigger and more "in your face".
The complete loss of realism is the inevitable side effect.

I hear THAT guy denies the nuclear holocaust even happened!

… and that`s why Pinewood Studios STILL has a problem with giant glow-in-the-dark ants.