“We can rebuild her . . .” the narrative boldly states.
If you recognize that as a gender-modified line from the introduction to the 1970s TV show, “The Six Million Dollar Man,” welcome to James Elliott’s heady cyberworld parody.
It’s “The Stevie Austin Project.”
Not unlike astronaut Steve Austin in the TV show, Elliott’s flicks relate the tale of how the head of a mannequin that endured a rocket explosion above the Olympic Peninsula can be attached to a cyborg body that’s bigger, stronger and better.
Elliott, himself, is portrayed as the genius doctor performing the miraculous surgical work.
Whether Stevie becomes a top-secret government agent like Steve Austin was remains to be seen as Elliott’s computer movies unfold.
The offbeat Web site came to life after the Pasadena, Calif., film actor-director bought Forks-based Space Transport Corp.’s dummy astronaut head on eBay.com.
“I sent them a money order for $200,” said an enthused Elliott, who has produced and directed two short video clips.
He bought the mannequin head — which rode Space Transport’s Rubicon 1 spacecraft Aug. 8 and washed ashore near Queets after the rocket plunged into the Pacific — after e-mail chats with Space Transport founders Phillip Storm and Eric Meier.
See the film on your computer at www.nighttrainfilms.net/StevieAustinProject.
