Fantasy-Adventure Has a New Name: Burgledorf
I didn’t say it wasn’t a silly name. Still, a group of enterprising young nerd filmmakers have set about making a full-on fantasy adventure movie titled The Battle of Burgledorf, about a lowly gas station attendent who gets caught in an epic battle being disguised as a Live-Action Role-Playing game, complete with elves and dwarves and monsters. It’s being made by some guys in Canada, who have apparently been working on it for over a year. Frankly, not only does the trailer seem pretty damn well shot to me, but it looks like it’s walking the razor-thin line between taking itself too seriously and acknowledging that it’s an inherently goofy concept — I obviously don’t know how true that’ll be in the finished product, but right now I’m ready to back Burgledorf all the way. Thanks to JRoss for the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.