I have more than a few reasons to tell he's lying

the redhead pirate woman clearly is keira knightley. now it's finally clear: pirates of the carribbean is the secret sequel to monkey island!

Nobody would ever miss Lucas if you and Purcell join forces. Ask him to draw like.. uhmm.. 200 original characters, choose ten, and write them a story. The perfect formula! :)

Steve IS a genius... if only he had been there to prevent MI4 from happening.

What !? Mission : Impossible IV is on screen ? ;)

He's a fine artist. Looking forward seeing him and his work in the future.

Wow.

Ooooh ... beautiful.

Check out the link in the first pirate images I've posted if you didn't see those pics already. They look great, too. Well... that's what I think. And the style is signature, really beautiful and whatever the technique is, I would like to learn it... but first I gotta learn to draw.

Sorry to post here its totally off topic but I don't seem to be able to post in the general comments area.
Your "Worth Visiting..." section has changed a little and there were a bunch of links up there that I never bookmarked but love to visit.  Is there any chance you could pop them back up for a while so I can grab them.

Cheers.

Nice drawings, but I personally don't like the style of them.
They don't get the Monkey Island feeling at all, just look at the box drawings of MI and MI2 to catch what I mean.
These drawings are more in the style (way less mature) of Monkey Island 3. Which, as we all know, doesn't exist.

these are artworks. Did you ever see the concept artworks for the intro scene of CMI? They didn't look like the real scene. It just depends on the style he wants to use depending on what he needs it for. Just for showing, how these characters may look like, this style is good.. And you don't know for which MI this is. I think these MI-Paintings were created for one of the "sequels" but those scenes never got into a game. I don't like the comic style for MI, but I don't think, that I would like a dark reality painting of MI.
Mentioning MI1: You know, that Mister T. looks very young there. In those paintings it's the same. Where do you see the comic then? It's just that you know:"AHHAHHHHhh MI is comic-like now, so the paintings are, too". Ever checked other concept artworks? Some of them look comic-like but afterwards the game is more realistic than comic.

I think you misunderstood me.
These artworks, per se, are really stunning, I love them.
But they don't fit at all my vision of the MI style. Not only the box covers, but all the graphics in MI and MI2 were way more realistic and less cartoonish than that, and I love and always loved that style.

No i know what you mean, but paintings are paintings. I don't think that anyone would ever make complex detailed realistic paintings just for Concept arts. And yeah, I love the real style more since the new MI's couldn't give me that "Aye"-Feeling, if you know what I mean. ;)

ahahahaha, a monkey smoking a pipe on a pirate ship! Those were good times.

Hey George Lucas just gave me the thumbs up, we can totally tell people what the secret of Monkey Island is so you can go ahead and post that up now~

and you know that you shouldn't come up with that almighty question over and over again. Think of that: You may get to know the secret, what is this secret worth then? You know it and boom the secret is no secret anymore and features no real interest to anyone. If he would tell, nobody would be interested in the story. Even now people think about this secret and wrote already some myths about what the real secret may be. I think, Ron likes it that way more, because this is creative, just like he is. Maybe DeathSpank will have a secret, too. But when Ron ever creates the last game of a series, he may also tell us, what the secret is. For now, we gotta sit and twiddle thumbs.

More believable if you splet Schaffer right.

And also knew that LucasArts don't own the rights to the actual secret...only the game itself.

I love this artwork, it's absolutely fantastic.

Ron,what do you think of that?
I found it here

The really interesting thing is that the movie was going to be produced by Steven Spielberg (who is a big Monkey Island fan himself). He asked Ted Elliott, a script writer who has worked on several Disney movies (including 'Treasure Planet') and on 'Steven Spielberg’s Director's Chair' game, to help with the story for the MI movie. The Monkey Island movie never got the green light and years later Ted Elliott wrote 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl', which took several ideas from Monkey Island. So basically the first two PotC movies are the Monkey Island movie.
– The World of Monkey Island[13]

It really makes me sad to know thats never going to be made. It also makes me even more sad that a series of films starring Johnny Depp are the reason why... that and maybe a film starring Gena Davis.

Posted by Ron Gilbert on Jan 11, 2008 ten to eight am

I have no way of knowing for sure, but I'd lay money down that they never heard of the game.  You have to remember that Monkey Island was hugely influenced by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, of which the move was directly based.

How does that fit to the upper Statement?
Ron,you can't be serious.....

hey... you're not in the "Valuable Links"!

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but some more images are up, including one which is given the simple file name 'guy.img' (wonder who that could be of?).

Here's a thought, if MI had been made more recently maybe Guybrush would have been called Guygif or maybe Guy J. Peg. Doesn't quite have the same ring, somehow.

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