[Groop] Question for Mark: Movie & Hats

[Gary Grossmann]

Thanks Mark!

It's always good to get the straight skinny.  It's also good (at least for 
me) to be reminded that the Groo Movie is still a big "IF" and if it happens 
it will still be years off. (Sigh!)

-Gary G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Evanier" <me at evanier.com>
To: "Groo Mailing List" <groop at groo.com>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Groop] Question for Mark: Movie & Hats


> On Wed, 16 May 2007 08:34:21 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>I have no idea what Dark Horse might have in mind to promote the new
>>Groo.  But if they wanted to have a T-shirt or baseball hat made for
>>sale rather than as a give away, let's say through Graphitti Designs,
>>would that have to be signed off on by the Movie folks?
>
> ME: Nope.
>
>>It seems to me that was one of the things that gummed up the re-issue of
>>the Groo: The Game, although there were a lot more complications with
>>that situation.
>
> ME: Not exactly.  It's a long, pointless story.
>
>>I'm very curious to know, and I know others are too, what will happen,
>>what might happen, and what won't happen in relation to the New Groo and
>>the Groo Movie.
>
> ME: I don't think anything will happen that will be any different. The
> movie contract merely bars us from entering into any long term
> exclusive licenses.  For example, if they make the movie (and that's a
> big "if"), they want to be able to go out and make deals for
> merchandise based on it and they don't want us to have already made
> deals that would prevent that.  For example, if they wanted to do a
> videogame based on the movie, they wouldn't want to then find out that
> we'd made a 20 year exclusive deal with someone else for the rights to
> make a Groo videogame.
>
> One reason that won't be a problem is that we never make exclusive,
> long-term deals for Groo stuff.  We never have.  And if they do make
> the movie, it'll be years before it comes out and all our existing
> deals will have expired by then.
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