E3 Coliseum: Grim Fandango featuring Jack Black
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- 20 years ago Tim Schafer’s Grim Fandango released and became an instant classic of the adventure genre. At E3, the cast reunites for a one-night-only live reading of select scenes, live music from composer Peter McConnell, and very special guest Jack Black.
Alan Blumenfeld, Actor
Tony Plana, Actor
Jim Ward, Actor
Tim Schafer, President - Double Fine Productions
Maria Canals-Barrera, Actor
Patrick Dollaghan, Actor
Jack Black, Actor
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This isn’t complete without a balloon shaped like Robert Frost
The Atomic Cherry look out you pigeons it’s Robert Frost!
Hopefully it’s not on fire
That's not on fire
i think you mean a balloon shaped like a dead worm
@@lachlankerr5448 that doesn't seem like a good use of this special ceremonial bread.
There'll be another Grim Fandango reunion after they all die
On the number 9
Leo Dale will jack be there?
I know Jack Black was joking about it, but Grim Fandango could easily work as a play.
Please that needs to be a thing
I'm working on it. Would need permission to publish though. My first ever play.
@@lilacroft9308 dude i dont think you can get permission lucas films/arts in now a disney property , even the remaster of the game was a licenced project
@@RED01SEA *sad face*
@@lilacroft9308 i wish i was wrong but its true , even the monkey island creator cant get his game back , he even proposed to buy it back we they just wont sell it , disney killed every thing star wars and every thing good that lucas films/arts ever did .
We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later, we push up flowers.
Martin Asteasuain I was so hoping Jack would get to play Membrillo and do that line. Easily one of my favourite quotes from the game, and from video games in general.
"I'm your friend. Manny Calavera." Yeap, that still gets me.
Meche and Manny sound exactly the same, down to each syllable, twenty years later. Amazing!
Before Coco, this was the game that introduced me to the culture of the Day of the Dead.
I'll just take a little more bread, to honor the dead. *Repeats 5 times
Grim Fandango, I like to keep it close to where my heart used to be.
I was really hoping to hear Jack Black sing "this little Light of Mine"
Or rusty anchor
@@Peter-Luior Alan Blummenfield did just here as Glottis.
Let it shine let it shine let it shine!
I had a moment when that little guy entered the tunnel to the 9th Underworld. It really was *death. The end*.
This is the best thing to come out of E3 this year.
I typed that about half way through. Now that I finished, I think this is the best thing to come out of any E3.
@@arodindo you still think so, 5 years later?
@@GamerGamer-ok6wu considering E3 doesnt exist anymore, yes
@@viejitaloca2810 What are you talking about lol, I got a lifetime pass to E3 last convention, payed like 1k for it. There's gonna be another man.
Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!
damn you can tell jack really must love this game, he got every character he did spot on.
Alan’s singing of rusty anchor was awesome. Loved him in many of his roles in film and television
38:48 Fine tuning, lol. 40:07
Oh, my boat's got a rusty anchor.
Rusty as she can be.
Every port I go, I drop her,
But she always comes back to me!
Oh Rusty Anchor,
Goin' down, down, down.
Oh Rusty Anchor,
Guess I gonna hang around.
Now, I love that rusty anchor.
But man, she don't love me.
And this mornin' I woke to find us both
A-driftin' out to sea!
And every chance I get, I thank her
For never leavin' me.
Well, my bones are carved up driftwood,
But she won't never set them free!
Oh Rusty Anchor,
Goin' down, down, down.
Oh Rusty Anchor,
Guess I gonna hang around!
Jack was barely containing himself during that part
I thought he was created just to drive
Awesome but am disappointed amongst some other little production value missing, that no request was made... Oooh! a request! Hmmmm... Rusty anchor... Rusty anchor. Yeah I... I think I know that one! if I remember right... it goes a little something.... like this: [cue Peter with the iphone playback or preferably a pianist, given it's one of the simplest in the soundtrack!]
Glottis voice is awesome!
Just finished playing Grim Fandango a few days ago, this is a super awesome surprise.
Ohhhh, the Rusty Anchor is sooooo great.
Oh I finished my playthough yesterday.
First game to ever get me emotional, and this has hit me all over again XD
I got it for the ps4 a few months ago for £3.35! I'd love for a sequel to be done for this. 'domino hurley the sweatiest man in the office' lol
Same, I finished it for the first time today and then found this!
I caught this video through a Kotaku article, made it to the 45 minute mark in the video, and decided to actually play through the game because the voice acting and plot had me hooked! I played all the way through to the end because I didn't want to get distracted by other games and never end up finishing. As soon as I did, I came back to watch the last bit that I stopped at and to leave a comment.
Coming back after playing through the game with director commentary on, I realize now that the Narrator is Tim Schafer, the project leader (among other roles) of Grim Fandango, who later on founded Double Fine Productions, and came back around to "remaster" the very same game!
I looked up the game in my orders history out of curiosity. It had been sitting in my library since January 13th, 2015! Three years and I hadn't even touched it. I cannot believe it took me this long to get around to playing it, but what a ride! The voice acting was great, the environments were wonderful, and the music was a fantastic fit in the game. I'm glad that the idea of a live table reading came through, because I had a good time playing that game.
Thank you so much for making this happen!
I have such fond memories of playing this game with my dad when I was a kid.
Sadly, he passed away last month, but I know he would have absolutely loved seeing this.
May your dad rest in peace
Hopefully he got his ticket on the #9.
My condolences.
Thelonius Fabdul He’s finally chillin with Manny!
I hope to play this game with my kids, the circle of life continues
Thanks, TH-cam, for letting me know this happened. I was surprised at how good a fit Jack was for Celso, and his rendition of "Grim Fandango"...ha! Tony Plana will always be Manny to me, but a close second he's "a plethora of gifts" Jefe in Three Amigos. Always loved the lines "It says, 'I'M AT THE JUNKYARD, WOOWOOWOO!" and "Run, you pigeons - it's Robert Frost!"
I've played the game so many times it's strange to hear the lines read any differently.
I own several copies of this game. Now after watching this, I have one more reason to buy a Nintendo Switch. I couldn't imagine being able to play Grim Fandango anywhere and everywhere. It is hands down my favorite game of all time.
22 years, 22 long years and I'm still here wanting more, A Grim 2, a spin-off of some kind, but the whole day of the dead theme had me hooked, and the characters, the music, the voice acting, the puzzles my god, the fake ticket stub!!! This game was MY childhood.
Grim Fandango,
Broken Sword,
Monkey island,
Pioneers of the point and click genre, and Grim was the last, someone needs to fill this spot.
Jack black sounds exactly like the original Celso! And Tony plana is absolutely amazing!
Oh my god, Peter, wah-wah on an electric violin? That's fantastic! :D
I REALLY want Grim Fandango to be an animated series. I think they can summarize the entire story in 10 episodes.
Jim ward as Hector is an actual treasure.
He really is! He does a brilliant impression of Sydney Greenstreet as Hector.
Jim Ward was always one of the greats among voice actors. Absolutely brilliant.
well that was rather special. so wonderful to see that people still care about this after so long.
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
I wish I could upvote your comment more than once
You can, just make sure you upvote odd times
Wow. Tony's performance is like silk.
Even though I'm only 13, I grew up on a Win. 98 Dell, and the one thing I was always playing was Grim Fandango. Still my favorite game of all time, this brought a tear to my eye. It's beautiful to see everyone reunited like this, god bless you all.
I agree. Hands down the best game ever made. Nothing can beat Tony Plana's amazing performance as Manuel Calavera.
So great.
I'm just sad they didn't do the "Mannyyyyyyy! You prooooomiiiiiiised!" line.
Being a Hungarian and discovering that Toto speaks my mother language (also cursing like a taxi driver) was one of the best easter eggs of my whole gaming "career."
35:57 - Clint absolutely LOSING IT in the background
I only recently got around to playing out for the first time, and it's Tony Plana's voice acting that sold me on the game. Such a fantastic job.
I got chills as Tony Plana came out on stage. His playing Manny was fantastic! This has always been my all-time favorite game ever. And I mean ever! I am going to be downloading from Steam the remastered version. So I can play again. This game cracked me up a lot and the actors are cracking me up today as I watched this in 2023.
Tony Plana, Alan Blumfeld, and “Hector” were the best in this! I know I’m late to the party as this is 2023, but I’m so glad I came across this!
I think I'm going to cry and I'm only at 1:24 ... Thank you. Wow.
Same place here.
This should have way more views, Grim Fandango is a masterpiece, this takes me back, even though I've just also finished the remaster.
just want to comment and leave my respects to this blessed corner of the internet. Grim Fandango is my favourite game ever and really hit me emotionally when I first played it as a teenager. I loved this and it brought me back to those years. So bittersweet! The tears were welling up. Time does go by. I need to play the remastered version after all these years.
I don't know whether it says more about the slick mediocrity of the E3 lineup in general, or the superlativity of Grim (or both) that this was easily the best thing at the show this year.
Dr170 I know, right? I was kinda hesitant before watching this video, but once I got into it it was amazing. Truly a great performance, music and voice actors. Everything is just so good. Jack Black did really well actually and didn't make it cringey like I thought he would.
Definitely not the same as having the original actors for all the characters. I really wished they would have been able to have Rachel Reenstra the voice of Eva there as well.
That being said I was surprised at how good of a job Jack Black did. His Celso was pretty spot on.
He wasn't as good as the originals, but he held his own pretty well.
This game keeps on giving. Played again recently and before then hadn't pressed the PICK UP command on the giant cat litter tray in Rubacava in Year 2. Manny's reaction is great. Try it if you haven't
I replay the game every now and then and each time I discover lines I've never heard before
Patrick Dollaghan's delivery is so damn smooth!
This is so amazing. Peter McConnells music is iconic, and the way he arranged it live on violin instead of horns, amazing
This is one of the most emotional reunions I have seen! Grim Fandango is a masterpiece and I thank everyone who worked on it.
That was awesome! Now I’m going to ask for more! I needed to hear glottis drunk 😵
“but they can’t get into the high rollers lounge now can they!!!” 🍷🍷🍷
“Get that cat !”
“This is it! “
“Go kitty 🐱!”
I thought it was "Get that mouse!"...
Omg Glottis drunk... I could've watched him all day.... :) especially when he takes it out on the waiter Raoul lol
I'm sorry, is that a violin going through a wah? God it sounds amazing.
It's a WAH-iolin.
Electronic violin, as in pickups/mic on an acoustic one, through a wah, yes. Sounds pretty cool indeed. Combos like that will pop up much more the next few years I believe.
I can’t imagine how happy Tim S. must have been. I mean, I had a smile from ear to ear while watching it.
Also why is this not all over the web! This is the only video I can find of it! Well done guys!
it's on facebook as well
Grim Fandango is a masterpiece, so glad to see this.
This is so sad and amazing at the same time.
Why sad?
Still one of the best acting and cast in games ever
It's like their voices improved through out the years. Just played this game, and honestly the voices really do sound better now.
Love the texture in the voices, all of them and the tone, you could close your eyes and see the characters, so easy
I teared up watching this. So amazing. So much talent. And Peter and the other composers playing the lo-fi music from the game. Just brilliant and amazing. I wish I could've been there. I've been playing Grim Fandango once a year since it came out and I own it on multiple platforms. Definitely my favourite game of all time.
:). Amazing game
Glad that the fandom for this game is still going strong. Thanks for everyone who made this happen!
I have tears in my eyes for the joy of watching this. Jack Black looks like he's having so much fun
This is absolutely incredible. This is my fav Double Fine game. It has some of the best voice acting IMO.
Kiwi Koopa *LucasArt
The glory days of point and click adventures. Fantastic!
this is great, had a big dumb smile on my face, especially during Glottis's parts.
I almost cried watching this! I would have flown to America for this if I had have known!! So beautiful and awesome
I'd say this was like reliving my childhood (this is probably the first game I remember playing, on my dad's lap at 4 years old)-
but truthfully I've never really stopped playing it! Incredible that over 20 years later, it's still so engaging!
Oh. My. Word...Meche es muy Bonita.
I'm back again in 2024 and this is fantastic.
Just listening to them transports me back
I love the way Tony Plana says “Buenos Dias!”
I remember reading that the guy who did the french voice for Manny Calavera (Mario Santini) died in 2001, and I kinda mixed things up in my head and thought Tony Plana was dead too. Hearing him doing these lines, god, that's so awesome. Brings back so much good memories.
I've played this game every year since 1999 ....I LOVE THIS GAME I LOVE THIS GAME I LOVEEEEE THIS GAMEEEEEE
The voice acting is awesome. What a perfect cast.
I had a giant smile on the entire way through.
Such great comedians. And Peter McConnell always makes the best soundtracks.
Absolutely wonderful, they've all still got it. 19 people spent four years with nothing to read but that damn mug.
I love this. Grim Fandango fan for life
They’ve all still got it, this was wonderful
I just completed Grim Fandango Remastered so I could watch this. I loved it. Please fund Grim Fandango 2. (And give Jack a role)
Their acting is just great and hiliarious. 😆
so happy to see my favorite adventure game after CMI still being celebrated ! what a masterpiece !
This is amazing
I bought Grim Fandango remastered two weeks ago, went through it quickly and instantly fall in love by everything in this adventure game. I was so amazed by this video I clapped along with the audience :D
Oh my god, this is one of the best things on TH-cam. I love this game and these actors so much. The music, too. It almost steals the show.
Thanks to my dad for introducing me to this game when I was a kid! Played it many times and in love with it
This was so brilliant. Brings back a lot of memories.
I know every line, they spoke... I've played many games, this was one to remember
The game has an awesome german dub, that I grew up with. So I am only briefly familiar with the original voice actors. But it was awesome to see all these amazingly talented people. Mannys last line gave me goosebumps.
58min never went by so fast. and respect to the actor playing Hector
What an homage to this masterpiece that is Grim Fandango. It makes me so happy that this happened. Thanks to everyone involved! This was just amazing!
After watching 30 minutes’ worth, this reinforces why I love watching walkthroughs of games instead of playing them. And sometimes just watching the cutscene compilations on TH-cam satisfies me.
Loved every minute of this! Peter's violin gives me goosebumps! I wish they would've done a scene with Velasco though. He's one of my favorite characters from the game. "Urgh... Tourists..."
Very Cool! One of my all time favorite games. All of the voice acting in the game is awesome but Tony is a special talent.
played the game in my teens , brought back so much fond memories. thank you for doing this. hope it will be made into a movie. cheers from singapore
It deserves to be watched each second. Thank you for uploading
Thank you Tim and the whole team for making this happen. Best game ever made
Respects to Jepeth Pieper.
R.I.P.
its scary how on point it still sounds
Just love Jack black. He is awesome..
Thank you for this event and sharing it, wow, so beautiful to see and hear everyone in character, just beautiful!
Finally finished this after decades!! this is an awesome way of celebrating
Grim is one of my favourite games of all time, it’s something very special to me. I’m amazed I’ve never seen this before but it’s making me so happy. Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen.
I'm so happy this happened. Thank you!
This goes into my like-list and it stays there forever. Thanks everyone for making this happen :)
I originally played Grim Fandango in 2004 after I picked up a second hand copy but found it was riddled with glitches and I couldn't get beyond Year 3. So happy it was remastered but didn't get to play it until the last month or so on PS4 - eighteen years I waited to revisit that game and finally complete it. Absolutely my favourite ever video game.
To see this after playing the game start to finish is a joy, just the ticket indeed!
Wow this is great. I Just beat the game yesterday. God I'm glad walkthroughs exist.
What was the hardest puzzle for you? Easiest puzzle?
So wonderful that they did this :) and with Jack Black as well!? Perfect :)
This is beautiful. Thanks a lot to everyone involved!
40:06 glotis sings rust anchor
its like i was playing the game again, now i have to play it again!
Time to give that remastered PS4 version a go.