1/6/2024 0 Comments Homeward bound movie poster![]() ![]() Shadow and Sassy follow his lead, and together after eluding airport authorities, the animals find themselves in the city of San Francisco. In a frenzy, Chance breaks free from his carrier. At the San Francisco International Airport, the animals escape after Chance panics while mistaking airport workers for the workers at the pound, after his earlier actions angered Jamie causing Chance to believe that Jamie was sending him back to the pound. The Burnford-Seaver family, owners of Shadow the Golden Retriever, Sassy the Himalayan cat, and Chance the American Bulldog, take a family vacation to Canada and decide to bring their animals with them. The film was released on March 8, 1996, and went on to gross over $32 million at the box office. The movie was met with mixed critical reception overall, while it fared better with audiences. It also features the voice work of Sinbad, Carla Gugino, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jon Polito, Adam Goldberg, Al Michaels, Tommy Lasorda, and Bob Uecker. Ellis, the film features the three pets from the first film, Shadow the Golden Retriever (voiced by Ralph Waite, replacing Don Ameche, who died in 1993), Sassy the Himalayan cat ( Sally Field), and Chance the American Bulldog ( Michael J. Since there was never any MS merchandise produced, specifically a Topps trading card set, I thought it would be fun to make a mini set of 80s-style digital trading cards for my favorite movie of all time.Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco is a 1996 American adventure comedy film and the sequel to the 1993 film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. So, on to today’s Monster Squad trading card… I totally saw these two flicks as a double bill of sorts on August 22nd, 1987. Nelson also did the fantastic painting for the Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie poster, here’s that work as well. I wonder how many other ideas were bandied about?Īlso, since I just realized today that Mr. Again, it’s awesome to get a chance to see what was being kicked around before the final version was approved and painted. Honestly, the concept isn’t horrible, I actually think it’s cute, but it would have probably hurt the film even more than the unfortunate marketing already did. This second concept was a much more tongue in cheek pass at the poster featuring a rubber dart and a completely different tagline… Even still, it’s really cool to get to see a rough variation that would lead to the final piece. The same basic gist is there, but it’s not nearly as effective at conveying the epic nature of the movie that the finished piece achieves. First up, let’s take a look at another variation on the same basic idea, except instead of arranging the monster’s visages as a giant cloud mountain, they were more general floating otherworldly heads in the storm behind the kids… ![]() But this poster wasn’t the only idea Nelson had as there were a couple of earlier concept roughs that illustrate the range that the studio was looking for. The idea of working all of the monsters into the night sky framing the Squad as they loiter on Dracula’s hearse is such a cool idea. Craig Nelson is a prolific poster artist have painted works for movies like Slapshot, Homeward Bound, Moscow on the Hudson, John Wayne’s The Cowboys, and Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie, but his work I am the most familiar with is obviously The Monster Squad. Even in that tiny format I was excited by the design and the artwork, and it wouldn’t be until almost 20 years later when I realized who was responsible for designing and painting the image. The first time I saw the main US poster for The Monster Squad it was in the small black and white ad in the Arts & Entertainment Movie section of the Orlando Sentinel just over 27 years ago. ![]()
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