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Following the success of the Kickstarter funding for the novel series Gemini Force One, Anderson Entertainment are preparing to launch a further campaign to bring to life another of Gerry Anderson’s projects – Firestorm.

The project will start on Kickstarter on September 30th with the aim of raising enough funding to produce the pilot episode.

Firestorm will be made in Ultramarionation, which producer Jamie Anderson describes to Sci-Fi Bulletin as “a modernised puppet technique” – a unique combination of techniques that are entwined with the Gerry Anderson universe: practical effects (real explosions), physical sets and props, model miniatures and, of course, puppets.

The series is based on the series originally developed by Gerry Anderson and his then business partner John Needham, before it was produced as an anime series in Japan in 2003. As Jamie Anderson notes, “We’ve gone back to the original paperwork, updated the story, added to the Firestorm universe’s logic: we’ve given it a slight rethink but based on those original notes.”

Many of the key creative personnel on the series worked with Gerry himself, or have a love and understanding of those elements that make a true Gerry Anderson production.

The S logo seen above will be used across the project. “We’re very fond of the S,” Anderson Entertainment explain. “It’s there for two reasons. Firstly the S is a logo inside the Firestorm world. Our heroes in Firestorm are all operatives working for Storm Force 9, a division of Storm Force. The S stands for Storm Force! Firestorm is the operation that Storm Force are undertaking, so the S features in the Firestorm logo, and inside the world. The second reason is for authenticity. The S was always a feature of the original Firestorm series’ logo, so we wanted to keep it that way.”