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Alternaversal Productions, LLC is the production company of Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson, which produces the show following its acquisition by Shout! Factory from the franchise's original production company Best Brains.
Background: TBA. 1st logo. (2017) Logo: Depending on each clip, we see the white words on the bottom of the screen, "ALTERNAVERSAL PRODUCTIONS, LLC." Variants: TBA. FX/SFX: All of the clips. Music/Sounds: Depends on the clip. Availability: Seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return on Netflix. Editor's Note: TBA.
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- Whither Season 13?
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By Samuel Claiborn
Updated: Jul 25, 2020 5:37 pm
Posted: Jul 24, 2020 1:50 am
When hopes for a new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Netflix were dashed last November, creator Joel Hodgson assured fans, “[While] this might be the end of the first chapter of bringing back MST3K, don't worry: It's not the last chapter.” Shortly after that, Hodgson took MST3K on the road with a new cast which wrapped in March -- just before the global pandemic hit the US and most of the country shut down.
Despite the interruption, the MST3K team got to work right away on a charity special (the MST3K LIVE Social Distancing Riff-Along) and, of course, got to work on resurrecting MST3K. Again! MST3K cast members Jonah Ray and Felicia Day with Joel Hodgson at San Diego Comic-Con, 2017.Hodgson had just arrived home from the recent live tour, mere days before widespread shutdowns were enacted. Like many other things, the global pandemic interrupted the next steps necessary for bringing Mystery Science Theater 3000 back. “We were planning on recording our six live shows ... How do you do that remotely? So we're really thinking through that and we're really going to start talking to the fan base about that. What does that look like? How do we do that? ... That's what we were going to do when we got back, is just get ready for that, get ready to do a Kickstarter. And we want to proceed really thoughtfully, because it's such a weird time. So we just are thinking about it, figuring it out right now.”
While the live shows and the Netflix series featured different cast members, some combination of recent players and puppeteers could show up in a future MST3K incarnation. Hodgson says, “If we do these live shows, it's a composite of Jonah [Ray], and people from the cast from Netflix, and it's me, and it's Emily [Marsh]. So it's really going to be a mix. For example, the first tour we did [the Watch Out for Snakes Tour] was Jonah, right? That's Jonah and the cast and Cynthia, who's Rebecca Hansen. So that was those two. And then we did [The 30th Anniversary Tour] ... And that one, it was kind of split between Jonah and me. So we kind of took turns riffing. And then the third one was me ... And then in success, if we raise more money, if people want more, then we're going to let Emily start doing some on her own ... My impression is it's kind of rotating with hosts. I'm going to phase myself out probably.”
Here are some additional tidbits Joel Hodgson provided in our interview. Enjoy!
On early robot prototypes:
"The funny thing was is a lot of people don't know this, but I've made about 60 or 80 robots out of found objects before I did the Mystery Science Theater robots. I used to sell them in a store in Calhoun Square called Props. I used to just make them. I made them for friends, it just was my gig. I collaged robot sculptures. And sold them. And so that was the one part of the show that I knew I could do. It didn't take a lot of thinking. Like the other parts of the show, which is just figuring out the concept."
On the all-nighter Hodgson pulled to create the first MST3K set:
"Long story short, the last thing I left on my list was to make the robots. And I think I pulled an all nighter to make [them]. I remember I had that moment where I saw Crow on the workbench, and it was like Pinocchio. I go, "Oh, that's a good one. That's definitely going to work." Then I made Gypsy, and I made another robot that we called Beeper, or I called Beeper, which was a baby robot. And after we did the proof of concept, it's like nobody really sparked to it. And so I brought it home and popped its head off and put a gumball machine on and that became Servo. So Servo wasn't on that first proof of concept -- but the next show we did, he was there." Joel and the 'Bots. (Courtesy of Shout! Factory) On watching weird old movies for fun in 2020 (sans riffs):
"You know, I've got kids now, they're teenagers. And it's like, with a society that is so drenched in the moving image, it's really a rite of passage to understand the idea of an ironic viewing. Every kid goes through it. Every kid has a moment where they go, 'Wait a minute, this movie is funny, but this movie that wasn't meant to be funny could be even funnier.' So I think that I've noticed, it's just kind of an age where kids, it happens to them, you know? Where everybody kind of has that moment."
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Nov 17, 2022 · Factory TV and Joel Hodgson’s Alternaversal Productions Present the Surgically Enhanced 2022 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Marathon Nov 17, 2022 Tune In to See Eight Freshly “Surgically Enhanced” Fan Favorite Classic Episodes, Plus Two Fan-Favorite Episodes from Season 13!
The revival was produced by the companies Satellite of Love, LLC, Alternaversal Productions, and Abominable Pictures. [61] Production for the new season began on January 4, 2016, with movie selection and script writing. [74]
