Before there was Megamind, there was Lord Insidious

This commercial for online storage site driveway.com came out in 2000, and featured a parody of a supervillain, Lord Insidious, which I created. This spot was even featured at Cannes that year. Now Dreamworks is coming out with their movie, Megamind, about a giant brained supervillain in a black outfit with a high collar and cape. Coincidence? Yeah, probably. Let my lesson be one to you all: don't wait a decade before working on the film treatment for your own good idea.

For you film buffs, this spot was shot by Bennett Miller, who a few years later got some love from the Academy when he directed Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote."

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• movie
• supervillain
• funny
• commercial

[tsmcgu]

Ditto on the thanks for posting.

Do you have the Svaakhammer commercial as well by any chance? That one was pretty funny too.

"Are you ready to rohk!??"

[dmsfile]

Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to find this for years! I always found it amusing.