Posts tagged with 'Kenneth_England'
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Watchmen Movie Casting Rumors Continue
July 23, 2007
The buzz surrounding the upcoming Watchmen movie adaptation continues to build on the horizon with more casting rumors. At this point, it would be easier to start naming those who haven’t been rumored to be involved in the project at one time or another. We can now take Malin Akerman’s name off that list with Latino Review linking her to the role of the Silk Spectre. The website also confirms Jackie Earle Haley in the role of Rorschach.Unfortunately, the outlook on this prized comic book...
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Spandex Overload: "JLA" Movie in the Works?
July 30, 2007
I’ve long said that the comic book movie that was in the most need of being made, out of the characters not yet tapped for a live-action movie, was "The Avengers." I would put "Justice League of America" as a close second. If the rumors are true, a live-action "JLA" movie may be happening.
Word has it that Kieran and Michele Mulroney have been tapped by D.C. to pen the script for the movie. One obvious question springing from this news is will Routh/Bale play Superman/Batman, as one would...
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JLA Gets Director and.... Death?
August 2, 2007
Rumors abound today that the JLA movie that has been whispered about (and blabbed about in my column last week) has found a director. The word on the street is that George Miller, best known for directing “Mad Max” and “Happy Feet,” will be directing the Justice League movie. Hmm… from “Happy Feet” to “Justice League of America”… that’s a rather odd juxtaposition.
As odd as that transition may be for him, at least this is the guy who brought us “Mad Max” so that gives some hope (although it was...
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Luke Cage Versus Black Panther, Round One
August 2, 2007
By now we are all very aware of the current crusade within movie making to transfer every single character from the comic universe onto the silver screen (I’m personally still waiting for the Booster Gold, Speedball and Jubilee film treatments.) Adding to the pile comes either a Luke Cage or Black Panther movie, depending on which one John Singleton makes first.
In an interview with Blackfilm.com, Singleton expressed his long-time fandom for the Marvel universe as well as his desire to bring a...
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Who Owns the VALIANT Universe?
August 3, 2007
It’s extremely difficult to find any comic book fan who was engaged in the culture in the 1990’s that didn’t fall in love with VALIANT comics the moment they picked them up. Created by Jim Shooter to challenge the monopoly Marvel and D.C. held on the industry at the time, the company created a stable of characters and stories that quite frankly blew away anything that was going on at the time (and are still a step above 99% of most titles in quality even today.)
After six years of stellar books...
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Batrumors: Animated DVD Feature to Bridge "Batman" Movies?
August 7, 2007
A production document seems to have surfaced (assuming that it is legitimate) that details plans to produce an animated straight-to-DVD Batman feature to be released just before the release of "The Dark Knight." The project will apparently be PG-13 and will bridge the stories of the two movies.
The document states that this "brand-new adventure follows Batman as he unravels a mystery over six short stories done in the style of Japanese anime." The document also places the talent of Josh Olsen,...
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Baby on Board the Fantasticar?
August 6, 2007
Marvel’s had a pretty damned good success rate in transferring their prized properties over into movie form, with the obvious exception of the turgid "Fantastic Four" movies. While there were a couple other bad Marvel movies that suffered from bad direction or poor execution, the FF movie franchise just felt like an exploitative cash grab to me. Now Jessica Alba is talking about where she’d like the writers to take her character for the third movie. Just kill me now so I won’t have to see it.
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Thor Snatches Director
August 10, 2007
It’s no secret that next year is going to mark a red-letter year for comic movies. We all know the franchises that are hitting the screen, and we (as comic fans) are extremely excited about most of them. When news of a Thor movie broke it didn’t seem inherently interesting, but that has changed with the naming of Matthew Vaughn as director. Don’t get me wrong, I like Thor (although I liked Beta Ray Bill more) as a comic character, I just felt the project was rife for mediocrity in the wrong...
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The Ultimate Upcoming Comic-Book Movie List
August 16, 2007
We’ve been covering so much comic-book movie news around here lately it’s hard to keep in focus exactly how many are in the works. To really get a handle on it one needs to put it in list form, so here we go. Titles are roughly organized in the order that we are likely to see them release. By this count, we have 22 announced movies that are either in some sort of production or recently announced as well as eight movies that were announced, but have lost steam as a project or have disappeared...
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Doctor Strange to Remedy Movie Rumors?
August 16, 2007
This one is looking tentative at the moment, but the fanboy in me wants it to happen so badly that I will ignore my good sense and write about it. Rumors are circulating today that Marvel will be making a Doctor Strange live action feature film. IESB is claiming an exclusive reveal, but until it’s substantiated by another source, I’m calling it a rumor.
Dr. Strange would be an excellently adaptable character to the screen, particularly with the recent “magic-fantasy” boom in popular culture...
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Johansson Gets Spirit-ed Away
August 17, 2007
Frank Miller's big-screen adaptation of Will Eisner's classic "The Spirit" franchise just got a lot hotter with the announcement of Scarlet Johansson to the cast. The Hollywood bombshell will reportedly be playing femme fatale secretary, a character with ties to the villain (The Octopus) played by Samuel Jackson, in the upcoming film.
Much like Gwyneth Paltrow, Johansson has the perfect look and frame to play a 1940s period female lead, and should bring the right feel to the character (Paltrow, in... -
Movie Insider Rates "Watchmen" Script
August 18, 2007
If you think "The Watchmen" movie adaptation is such a massively interesting, obsession-rife fixation that I would cover a story on what the musical composer for the movie thinks of the script, well, you are right. Although, to his credit, we aren't talking about just any composer here. We are talking about Tyler Bates, who composed the excellently scored "300" movie and now is back together with Zach Snyder scoring "The Watchmen."
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JLA=CGI?
August 23, 2007
Word on the street Thursday has it that the upcoming Justice League of America movie will not, in fact, be a live action movie. Rather, IESB is reporting on what sounds to be fairly reliable rumors that the movie will be a CGI/motion-capture affair. This could make for an interesting movie feel (I've actually always wanted "Kingdom Come" to be done in this manner on screen, so this is probably as close as I'm ever going to get) and would obviously make it easier to pull this movie and "Superman...
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Two More "Dark Knight" Leaks
August 23, 2007
Some new set reports regarding "The Dark Knight" Thursday from HollywoodChicago, the most boggling is the prospect of Anthony Michael Hall playing a minor antagonist (meaning not a major villain but someone who doesn't like Batman … kinda sounds like a Peter Parker/Eddie Brock kind of dynamic) in the film.
Hall apparently will be playing the "Reese" character for those of you that have read the recent plot spoilers floating about. I suppose it's not that bad if it is true, Hall is an adequate actor...
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JLA Movie Rumors Continue ...
August 27, 2007
This week has been absolutely abuzz with D.C. comic-movie news, and today is no different. Following up on the JLA mo-cap/CGI story from earlier this week, IESB has done a little more digging on the situation and is now reporting that JLA will be a mix of CGI and live action, with the CGI being used to render the OMACS and the underwater scenes. Good news for those fans who were terrified of the prospects of a wholly CGI movie.
Also reported today is that Routh and Bale will not play Superman and... -
Superman Returns ... With a Better Movie
August 28, 2007
It's funny how the comic book/movie rumor mill works. Two weeks ago, it was a streaming flood of Marvel news, one piece of news after another, day after day. This week has decidedly been a D.C. week, with no signs of stopping today with a new "rumor" regarding the anticipated return of Singer behind the camera of "Superman."
Film Ick is reporting this is more than a rumor, citing that this comes from reliable inside sources, and given their track record, I believe them. From the sound of it, the... -
Another "Dark Knight" Leaked Scene
August 30, 2007
As usual, minor spoilers involved ... pretty minor this time, so don't worry too much about learning anything you didn't want to learn. If you "have to go in fresh" to the movie, turn away now.
This is by far the coolest "Dark Knight" scene I've yet seen leaked, because we actually get to see something blown up! Fox Chicago posted this video of a former candy factory getting blown up for what is undoubtedly a climax scene in the film.
The building, in the film, will apparently be portraying Gotham...
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"Spider-Man: Friend or Foe" Preview
September 4, 2007
Marvel has posted a news story on the upcoming Spider-Man video game, which actually looks pretty sweet. For those that haven't been keeping up with the Activision-produced Spider-Man games of the past few years, they are a cut above the usual comic-video game quality and get better with every release. Amid the typical Marvel, overhyped language in the blurb (where they assure us it will be a "sure-fire hit"... we will be the judge of that, Marvel!) is some info that gives us a real idea of what...
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Comics > Movies
September 20, 2007
It is, on one hand, great that our favorite (and even not-so-favorite) comic characters are getting remade in premier, big-budget movies. On the other hand, it's not so great when we walk out of the theater disappointed. Even worse is when we voice said displeasure over such movies, we are often labeled as fanboys (or girls) who are simply impossible to appease. I am here to tell you all that it is not that we are impossible to please, but that comic book to film transfer cannot possibly please us...
