Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Lost Adventures of Jake Speed




Recently I was doing some searching to see if I could track down the Jake Speed novelization. I've never found a copy for sale and I was starting to think that it was a rumour based on the prop books used in the movie.

However I had a look at the imdb message boards for the movie and Wayne Crawford (the actor and co-writer of the film) comments on some of the threads including this 
one.

Wayne confirms that the novelization happened.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that part of the advertising for the film was a four strip prequel comic featuring Jake Speed against Dr Kanker which can be found 
here

As far as I could find Jake Speed hasn't been used much in fanfic but I did use him in my story 
The Interview

3 comments:

  1. I see that Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads and elsewhere advertise the novel, but all state not available. A shame. Is Melon a real person?

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  2. No according to the movie it's the pen name that Jake and Des use to write the books. It comes from Jake's favourite city and Des' favourite breakfast food.

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  3. I watched the movie again last night and caught it this time. A play on words (LOL). Neat. Thanks.

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