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Ah My Goddess: Marller Gets a Spinoff (DUB) The Dragon Eye Serial The TTS Voice Track

The First of Three Test Audience Pilot Films for the Truncated Marller Gets a Spinoff Season One Video Comic OVA Series. Featuring a Temporary Text to Speech Voice Cast.

"The Private Sector"

When Kevin from the Other Dimension is scandalized off of Public Access, he vents his rage by doing a spinoff where Mara Marller finds herself kidnapped by Doctor What and Sayoko Mishima just as she was promoted to a CEO position.

"The Flying Shoes"

The Marller Gang find themselves stranded in the Dark Ages, where they come into conflict with Welsper, attempting to trick a child into walking a ledge around a castle wall. Luckily, Doctor What has Skuld's Flying Shoes.

"Dark of the Windmill"

The Marller Gang continue their medieval journey, taking refuge in a creepy abandoned windmill - or is it? We proudly introduce to you, Mr Nilbog.

"A Ghostly Village Story"

The Marller Gang stumble across a medieval peasant hunt village where Richard O'Brien and Warwick Davis tell the story of a rogue knight named Keiichi the Spineless, which is a sex comedy parody of Hoichi the Earless from Kwaidan.

"Sayoko at the Goblin Feast"

Having been abandoned by Marller, and imprisoned by Richard O'Brien and Warwick Davis, Doctor What and Sayoko try to escape from a dungeon before Sayoko is carried off and sacrificed to the Goblins for a yearly ritual feast.

"Those Who Hunt Elves"

Sayoko is saved at the last minute by Those Who Hunt Elves - wait a minute? What are they doing in this series?

"When All Hope Seems Lost"

The Marller Gang band together to battle a medieval warlock calling himself The Dragon Eye. But just when they think they've won, Thirteen Demons are released through the Tardis into the Alternate Universes. Uh Oh.

  • Kevin Neece
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9332147/
  • Kevin Neece
    Writer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9332147/
  • Kevin Neece
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9332147/
  • Mara
    Key Cast
    "Mara Marller"
  • Rhea Butcher
    Key Cast
    "Doctor What #2"
  • Sayoko Mishima
    Key Cast
    "Sayoko Mishima"
  • Velsper the Cat
    Key Cast
    "Welsper The Demon Child"
  • Keiichi Morisato
    Key Cast
    "Keiichi the Spineless"
  • Chris Sarandon
    Key Cast
    "The Dragon Eye"
  • Richard O'Brien
    Key Cast
    "It's Motherf**king Richard O'Brien Bitches"
  • Warwick Davis
    Key Cast
    "And Warwick Motherf**king Davis"
  • Elijah Wood
    Key Cast
    "North"
  • Troll 2
    Key Cast
    "Mr Nilbog"
  • Verthandi Nornir
    Key Cast
    "Belldandy"
  • Urth Nornir
    Key Cast
    "Urd"
  • Skolde Nornir
    Key Cast
    "Skuld"
  • John Hurt
    Key Cast
    "Doctor Who"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Feature, Student, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Anime, Satire, Spoof, Parody, Fan Film, Meta, Existential, Sword and Sorcery, Fright Night Actor Reunion, Anti-Piracy Commentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 49 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 3, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    20 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Medibang Paint Pro
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • FilmHub, YouTube, Facebook Video, Instagram Video, DVD-R Download
    Rights: Internet
Director Biography - Kevin Neece

Kevin Neece was born and raised in Austin TX. He grew up an only child, watching a non-stop onslaught of vhs tapes from the local video rentals, and got into the hobby of copying the video tapes using multiple vcrs and editing video mixtapes. He was raised on a diet of Troma Films and Dark Horse Comics anti hero series: Comics Greatest World and The Mask.

Kevin got into screenwriting around the age of 15, but quit after three screenplays and went on to focus on raising a family and working in retail. He met his first wife in 2002, married her in 2003, had a daughter with her in 2004, and remained married to her for 15 years. Sometime around 2008, he was drafted as the volunteer webmaster for director Josh Becker's website where he spent a lot of time watching old movies at the recommendation of Josh's Extensive Film Knowledge.

In 2009-2010 Kevin lost his career in retail and took a dishwashing job at Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek out of desperation. It was there he met his friend Austen Crothers, who edited the lobby videos, and helped give him some insight into the making of their Cult Thursday screenings. Kevin noticed the line-up of films wasn't very good, as if they were just pick cheap $5 films out of the bargain bin, and offered to help pay the licensing fees to get some better cult films, and his fascination with the Preshow Mixtapes got him back into Video Editing. Kevin's ambitions were admirable, and he got a line-up of The Projectionist, Simon King of the Witches, Boss N*****r, and Fairy Tales, but in the process of paying the licensing fees, he accidentally "booked" the movies, and he did it without running it by the creative director. Being undermined by a dishwasher, this started a personal vendetta between Kevin and Alamo Drafthouse. Kevin saved his money and tried to get into 35mm print collecting, and got his hands on a 35mm print of Ken Russell's Lisztomania, and privately screened it for his co-workers, curating the preshow, and about twenty people showed up. But none of his bosses did. After putting so much time, money, and effort into putting on a show only to be intentionally dissed by the management, Kevin walked out three days later on his daughter's birthday.

Kevin had plans to move his family to South Austin to live in his grandmother's house for free rent, working as a caregiver, and once he got a dayjob, he could use the extra money to go into renting out theaters to put on film screenings and editing video mixtapes. But the jobs never came, and Dobie Theater shut down. Kevin started putting his efforts into a music video mashup style of preshow editing, but the damage had been done. Alamo Drafthouse refused to look at anything he made, stating that no theater in America would ever run his work. In 2011, Kevin became fascinated with an Alamo Drafthouse show called Horror Remix, and knew that some of the employees had discarded leftover copies from past shows. Upon getting some from a friend, he made the mistake of telling EJ, the show's editor, that he had copies, and it accidentally resulted in one of Kevin's projectionist friends losing his career. Somewhere around that time, Kevin was introduced to the Anime Series, Ah! My Goddess, via a theatrical screening of the first disc of Flights of Fancy as a part of their Anime at the Alamo Series. From that point on, he was hooked and watched everything the show and the manga had to offer two times over.

As job after job turned Kevin down, he began to fall into despair. But he experimented with editing mashup shows similar to Horror Remix, and even learned how to remake the Horror Remixes at home that he didn't have access to. In 2014, Kevin began to attribute his backtracing trick to the Alamo Drafthouse Preshows, where he realized that they were outsourcing a majority of their preshow material off of youtube. Kevin collected around 350 preshows over a period of four years, and as his own private joke revenge, gave the preshows back to the employees in envelopes, knowing that Alamo Drafthouse would never look at them, mistakenly thinking he was trying to submit his own editing work. The original preshow curators that Kevin was copying were: Laird Jimenez (main editor), Sarah Pitre (girlie night), Craig Ries (sing alongs). One day, he received a message from the theater that it was no longer necessary to turn the discs into the theater. They let it go. Kevin then realized that they had held their employee appreciation day on the same day that he had walked off the job at Lake Creek, and considered the coincidence to be a sign from God that he should let things go.

In 2016, when Kevin was attending a Garth Manor screening of Benjamin R Moody's Last Girl Standing at Alamo Drafthouse Village, he was hunt down by an old Lake Creek co-worker named Michael Ludlow, who had recently gotten into Public Access, making a television show called Zombie Life TV. Michael had been roommates with Kevin's old friend Austen, and had been watching all of the early editing work that Kevin had been sending him years ago. In Michael's own words, Kevin had an amazing ability for peering through two hours of garbage films and finding little five second nuggets of gold. Kevin was shocked. Michael wasn't aware of his ability to collect Alamo Drafthouse preshows. He wanted Kevin to edit the Horror Montage background end credits based on all of his early work that had repeatedly been rejected by Alamo Drafthouse.

In exchange for his mixtape editing work, Kevin was taught the duties of a technical director, where he got to work the switchboard in the control room for both Zombie Life TV and Fanboy TV. It was there he was introduced to Gavin Stone, Eddie Rotten, Brenda Dickerson, JP Provins, Saul Ravencraft, Lydia Gallardo, Tom Timbrooks, Nick Lybrand, Robert Chaney, Captain Burton, and a bunch of others. Kevin was responsible for switching the camera angles during the live broadcasts and cutting in the graphics videos (in addition to making the Horror Mashup end credits). While he was working there, Kevin wrote a fan fiction series called Bad Goddess, which was intended as a satire of the tv series Ah My Goddess. Kevin also got to meet director Frank Oz (of Little Shop of Horrors) and he got to work on a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey background mixtape for a Jumbotron in email collaboration with BC Furtney (director of New Terminal Hotel, starring Stephen Geoffreys). BC Furtney's response to Kevin was, "So you want to be a director, let me know when you release your first movie."

Kevin was somewhat dismayed as he had no stories to tell, and decided to take the risk adapting Bad Goddess as a Storyboarded Fake Studio Pitch Fan Film series using stock animation he screencaptured and photoshopped off the Flights of Fancy dvds. Kevin's theory was that, because fan fiction could not be copyrighted, if he went out and made the series, nobody else could steal it either. He wouldn't be able to make a distribution deal with it, but he could release it on youtube and archive.org as long as he was honest about the bootleg nature of it. Kosuke Fujishima and Kodansha LTD, could've easily sued him for his efforts, but chose to ignore the series in silence even though Kevin sent them emails explaining what the show was. Kevin's show could be considered a blatant act of copyright infringement, but at the same time, all of the copyright owners characters crossed each other out and protected Kevin's work from being stolen even though he could never own it.

In 2017, halfway into Zombie Life TV's third season, the show was cancelled. Kevin was going to stay on with Fanboy TV, but some nasty gossip about a conversation he had with Logan Gordon concerning an old abusive relationship with Michael Ludlow got leaked around the station, and everyone was offended by Kevin's attempt to stay out of if, mistakenly thinking that he condoned Michael's actions. Kevin was not only scandalized off the station, but feared that it was Karmic Backlash for the Projectionist incident back in 2011 when he accidentally got his friend fired from Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek. Kevin knew that if he ever continued on with his career somehow, the incident would be dragged out again to haunt him, and he felt that his station friends did it intentionally as the Ladies of Fandom were looking to get rid of him from the outset because of a vendetta brought on by Courtney Manor.

Kevin decided to make the best of things, going to a birthday party concert held by Brenda Dickerson at Kick Butt Coffee, and in his attempts to video record the show using his iphone7, realized he could shoot feature length documentaries on his phone for youtube. Kevin was able to use these Documentary Films, along with Zombie Life TV, and Bad Goddess, to build himself an IMDb resume as a director. Kevin's idea, was that the behind the scenes lives of the ZLTV cast and crew were much more interesting than the variety show they were putting on in front of the television cameras, and that all of the stars and past guests should be explored documentary style. Instead of making a bunch of fictional films, he would dedicate his film career to following the lives of his own friends, which could be shot for nothing on an iPhone. While Kevin doesn't have the industry clout to make distribution deals, he printed up dvd case copies for the local I LUV VIDEO and Goodwill so that his films would be lost within the video archives to be found by trash film collectors later in life.

Kevin eventually followed up Bad Goddess Season 1 & 2 with a third season called Marller Gets a Spinoff, which would be a crossover series with other Anime Shows like Doctor Who, Those Who Hunt Elves, Hellsing, Ghost in the Shell, Najica Blitz Tactics, Ex-Driver, Bubblegum Criss, Bio Booster Armor Guyver, Angel Tales, Love Hina, and A Certain Magical Index. While Kevin originally intended Bad Goddess to be a short and contained series, he continues to work on the cartoons month by month, as nobody has tried to stop him and the series costs nothing to make and post online. And in-between them, he adapt Kosuke Fujishima's other manga series into video comic format as a hobby (such as Paradise Residence, Toppu GP, and the original Oh My Goddess). Kevin sticks to the work of Kosuke Fujishima, as Fujishima has never had full control on how his work has been adapted to the screen and Kevin wants his video comic adaptations to be the most faithful versions of his work as possible.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kevin from the Other Dimension

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Marller Gets a Spinoff The Dragon Eye Serial Trivia:

*Mara Marller's promotion to CEO of Fry's Electronics is actually bad outdated. Fry's used to have those policies back when Kevin worked for them as a cashier in 2002, but they've changed their ways many years since. If a remake of this episode were ever done, he would change Marller's promotion to a studio executive at Disney as a joke reference to Alyssa Brodsky's career.

*The Flying Shoes was originally a one and done story. Kevin didn't write it with the intention of a feature film, but he enjoyed the story so much that he expanded on it.

*Heart's Magic Man was written into the original fan fiction, as was Ease on Down the Road from The Wiz. If this had been animated, both of those songs would have still been included. The fan fiction stories featured an entire village worth of people but it was too complicated to visualize. It's better to keep things simple. Kevin Neece got the idea to streamline the story elements down to their basic necessities from Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where they cut the Budget by limited the King of the Moon sequence to just Robin Williams and his Queen instead of an entire Kingdom Full of Extras.

*Kevin Neece got to meet Those Who Hunt Elves voice actress Jessica Calvello during his internship at Austin Public Access. She sometimes collaborates with Gavin Stone. Kevin sent her the script for the Those Who Hunt Elves segment back when it was just fan fiction and she didn't even bother to respond. Hence Kevin repeatedly makes fun of her, and her chihuahua Menshi throughout the Bad Goddess series.

*Zombie Life TV regular Ebony Strange died during the making of this and is featured in a memorial. Ironically, Kevin never knew her, but attended her funeral anyways with all of his friends.

*There's an amusing parallel between Doctor Who and Fright Night in the Bad Goddess universe. Doctor Who's David Tennant plays Peter Vincent in the remake of Fright Night. And Fright Night's Stephen Geoffreys is photoshop cast as Doctor Who in Bad Goddess. Adding to the hilarity, in Sorority Bad Goddesses at the Slime Bowl a Rama, Stephen Geoffreys Doctor What is tricked by the Goddesses into taking them to a Bowling Alley in the movie universe of Fright Night Part 2 for Skuld's Birthday Party where they are attacked by the Vampire Cast of Joel Shumacher's The Lost Boys. Stephen Geoffreys famously bailed out on reprising his Evil Ed character in Fright Night Part 2 in favor of a a starring role in Robert Englund's 976-EVIL. Hence, the Goddesses try to give him an alternate reality of the other road he may have taken as a sort of moral confidence booster. He isn't too happy about the situation, either. How do you think William Katt would feel if you jumped him from House to House 2: The Second Story.

*The Marller Gets a Spinoff series is the first time Welsper has been featured in a video format as a lead character, although he may have been briefly glimpsed in the opening credits montage of the 1990s OVA series. From a chronological standpoint, Welsper would've made his debut in Ah My Goddess Flights of Fancy, had Hiroaki Goda not skipped over his introduction in favor of adapting fan favorite storylines. Welsper openly mocks Hiroaki Goda for cherrypicking in The Hellsing Peccadillo, accusing the producers of Flights of Fancy of not returning his phone calls or correspondence. As a comic foil to Mara Marller, Kevin thought Welsper was a comedy goldmine, and chose to bring him back through Doctor What's time traveling abilities, centuries before he would need to be turned into Belldandy's housecat to save his life.

*In Marller Gets a Spinoff The Private Sector, Kevin openly acknowledges Stephen Geoffrey's suspected double life as gay porn star Sam Ritter and jokingly dives at it head on. Kevin was extremely conflicted about which story to present all the way up to the making of the episode because he had heard two completely different stories and Stephen doesn't respond to his Facebook Messages, possibly because he may have been endlessly internet trolled about it throughout his life. In end, he decided to go with the story that it was Stephen's "Twin Brother" that did the films while Stephen himself had left the film industry to act in Live Theater. Whether this was the correct story or not, if that was the story that Stephen chose to tell everyone, then that was the version that Kevin was going to go with.

*When Kevin was gathering the materials to make Marller Gets a Spinoff The Flying Shoes, he visited Vulcan Video Russell Drive to try and find some childhood movies of actor Elijah Wood. For some reason or another, the very first one that came to mind was Rob Reiner's North. Upon finding the dvd on the shelf, he found a note attached to the box by one of the Vulcan Employees that read "I Hated This Movie. Hate Hate Hate. I Hate Everything About It. I Hate Every Single Moment That It Tries to Achieve. And Most of All, I Hate Anyone That Ever Laughed at This." Kevin walked up to the counter and said, "I must rent this Holiday Classic immediately." Upon showing the film to his daughter, Kevin was shocked to find that it's Satirical Sketch Comedy Vibe was oddly in sync with his Sense of Humor, although he was somewhat disturbed that the movie tried to glamorize Foster Parent Homes.

*In Marller Gets a Spinoff Dark of the Windmill, the inspiration for the goblin character dubbed Mr Nilbog, came from a goblin figure that Fanboy TV Actor Jeffrey Lord used to bring to the set everyday. While the character in the Bad Goddess cartoon is obviously screen captured from the infamous "worst movie of all time" (aka Troll 2), the real Mr Nilbog can be seen sitting in the background behind Eddie Rotten in Zombie Life TV episode Music Mayhem and Sideshows (Season Two, Episode 24). Meanwhile, the medieval setting for Dark of the Windmill was directly inspired by both Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.

*In Marller Gets a Spinoff A Ghostly Village Story, the original villains in the Fan Fiction Screenplay were listed as "Renaissance Girl", "Creepy Jester", and "The Dragon Eye". Kevin originally had the idea to photoshop cast Stephen Geoffreys Fright Night co-stars Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale, and Chris Sarandon in the villain roles. When it came time to make the thing, Kevin had no way to visualize it properly because he only had online materials to work with (on top of which, all of Amanda Bearse's online photos made her look a little too intense for a role that was supposed to be funny). So he decided to push Amanda Bearse and William Ragsdales photoshop cameos back to Marller Gets a Spinoff Like Clockwork (as Hippies in a sendup of the Goldie Hawn film Butterflies Are Free), and recast the villains in the Dragon Eye Serial as Richard O'Brien and Warwick Davis, as he could at least find proper materials that looked like they were dressed from the Middle Ages, and they were more suitable to the roles in that particular story anyways. Chris Sarandon still retained his photoshop role as "The Dragon Eye", who is supposed to be a recurring villain mentioned throughout the series (such as Fisher Stevens "The Gremlin" was a recurring villain in Bad Goddess Seasons One and Two), even after Stephen Geoffreys Doctor What gets regenerated into Jeffrey Combs. Meanwhile, Kevin got around the problem of how to have Welsper and Keiichi the Spineless appear like they were from the Middle Ages by simple using artwork of them in the most bland generic clothing. A White Shirt and a Black Vest seemed passable to him as he had nothing else to work with.

*Once all of the pre-production photoshop cells were completed for Marller Gets a Spinoff: When All Hope is Lost, Kevin took a brief break to watch Ah My Goddess: The Movie to put his mind at ease before he started editing. Bad Goddess and Ah My Goddess: The Movie both share a similarity in the fact that both of them to take place in their own separate alternate universes that are neither directly connected to the Manga or the Anime shows. In the original Bad Goddess Fan Fiction series, Marller Gets a Spinoff Challenge of the Dragon Eye completely skipped over the fight confrontation scene between Mara Marller, Keiichi the Spineless, and the Dragon Eye, for comedic effect, only showing the aftermath. For the Anime Video Comic Adaptation, Kevin wanted to do something he had never done in the Bad Goddess series before... he actually wanted to visualize the fight scene with an animation set piece, instead of describing it with onscreen words as he usually does.