"The basic design was finally done
in 1996, after - or was is it during? - the Inner Beings project. Oddly enough I did a full 20-page lay-out on it. Fully scripted and all but I didn't get around to it. Life got in the way, you know."
It's amazing how movies can inspire us to do things. For Lubisan, the inspiration for the ultimate assassin came after watching Arnold Whatshisname in Predator. The sight of the be-muscled American Austrian getting kicked about onscreen sent the alarm bells ringing as the creative juices went into overdrive.
Litar Bara saw fruition at the end of 1996 with a series of design sketches. Unfortunately, this was at about the time that Lubisan was trying to finish his epic Inner Beings project.
Despite being fully scripted and with a 20-page lay-out already complete, Litar Bara was shelved along with other ideas as Lubisan went into semi-retirement.
"The basic design was finally done
in 1996, after - or was is it during? - the Inner Beings project. Oddly enough I did a full 20-page lay-out on it. Fully scripted and all but I didn't get around to it. Life got in the way, you know."
The titular lead is like an amalgamation of the Predator alien and the X-Men's Wolverine. Couple that with the one-minded determination of the Terminator cyborg and you can understand why Litar is the ultimate killing machine.
Whilst essentially human, Litar has an embedded endo-skeleton that is made up of traces of titanum, boron, kevlar, magnesium and carbon-fibre compound. And that's not all.
Litar, is literally a one man armoury. His left hand contains a knife gauntlet while those same hands can morph into razor sharp claws. The right hand can be removed and replaced with a selection of weapons that range from a 45-calibre man-stopper to a 42mm cartridge launcher that can fire either armour-piercing, flash grenade or shooting star cartridges.
And if you think that is already an overkill, Litar carries two staves behind his back that shoot-up and form a deadly spear. He has infra-red & ultra-violet vision. His mask comes with a motion-sensor and is tightly bonded to his cybernatic skin. This is the deluxe model with all the options.
Characters created for this unfinished work include Killian - the evil-looking dude on the left, Midas, Inspector Morgan, Rajawali, Jasmine Chew, Chief Nazieman and Dr. Saleha.