A couple of days ago some potential plot details leaked for David Ayer‘s Suicide Squad, and now there is an even more interesting rumor that you’re gonna want to hear. According to Forbes, Ben Affleck‘s Batman could appear in the movie, and his appearance will set up a solo film in which he will face off against Jared Leto‘s The Joker. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2015
None of George Lucas’ Ideas Were Used in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
We know that George Lucas was developing a new trilogy of Star Wars films before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. I’ve been curious to know how much of the story he was developing made it into J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: The Force Awakens – and now we know. Continue reading
Promo Art Surfaces for Joss Whedon’s WONDER WOMAN
Back in 2005, Avengers director Joss Whedon wrote a Wonder Woman script for Warner Bros. Unfortunately his version of the film never saw the light of day. But today some rare promotional art for the film he was developing has surfaced, and the original art is currently up sale for sale on eBay for a good cause.
Money is being raised for Clydene Nee, who is suffering from kidney failure. “The money will go to help support her healthcare and living expenses. Clydene has worked in the comic book industry and is a long time and loved member of the art community.” She was also a San Diego Comic-Con volunteer who is instrumental in the continued existence of Artists’ Alley.
The art was created by Adam Hughes, and apparently prints of it were given away at Comic-Con back in 2005. When talking about his version of Wonder Woman, Whedon had this to say in a previous interview:
“She was very powerful and very naïve about people. The fact that she was a goddess was how I eventually found my in to her humanity and vulnerability, because she would look at us and the way we kill each other and the way we let people starve and the way the world is run and she’d be like, ‘None of this makes sense to me’.”
It’s a shame this movie never happened, but one day it will, and it probably won’t be as good as what Whedon could have given us.
WORLD WAR Z 2 Will Start With a “Clean Slate”
The Most Marvel-ous Heroes Are Joining Your Action Figure Collection
The most Marvel-ous heroes on the planet are finally ready to join your collection as the Avengers Marvel Legends Infinite Action Figures Wave 1 Case, complete with 8 epic figures.
This case comes with 8 individually packaged action figures, with each packaged containing one character as well as pieces of Odin for your very own Build-an-Odin. The characters in this set span the history of one of the biggest superhero organizations in history.
The selection of heroes winks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thor and Hawkeye have already joined forces in The Avengers. We know that Scarlet Witch will be in Avengers: Age of Ultron and that we’ll get a Captain Marvel film in 2018. Iron Fist will be part of The Defenders, alongside Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones.
This case includes the following figures (subject to change):
» 1x AVN Thor
» 2x AVN Marvels Hawkeye
» 1x AVN Marvels Iron Fist
» 1x AVN Marvels Machine Manprevious
» 1x AVN Scarlet Witch
» 1x AVN Captain Marvel
» 1x AVN Marvels Sentry
The Wave 1 Case is currently available for pre-order with free shipping at Entertainment Earth and is slated for arrival in March 2015.
» Pre-order Avengers Marvel Legends Infinite Action Figures Wave 1 Case
New POWER RANGERS Movie Shooting This Year
While conducting an interview with comicbook.com, Jason David Frank (more affectionately known as the Green Ranger), covered a number of topics. He talked about his web series My Morphing Life, his interactions with his fans via social media, oh, and like it was nothing at all, that the much-discussed Power Rangers movie is going to be filmed this year!
Frank does a lot of self-promotion in this piece, but it does seem like he has his finger on the pulse of the next Power Rangers flick. This is what he had to say when asked about it:
“The movie is definitely set for this year. Everything is in place. They won’t give me specific details because it’s all like hush-hush. Even me, I try. I email Saban and ask them kind of what you’re asking me, but they do feel that I’m going to be part of it, because they feel there’s no movie, at least, without me. The funny thing is, one way or another, whether it happens or it doesn’t, I’ve been great to Lionsgate and I’ve been loyal to Saban. It’s not like they owe me, but if I want to ask for a personal favor, I’ve invested into their emotional bank account. I feel like it’s fair to have that withdrawal with them, because I’ve done nothing but support them for the last 10 years, 20 years in fact.
“So when that happens, I don’t need to cash in any favors. I believe it’s going to happen anyway, but when it does, I’ll keep my fans involved, but I will tell you it is being filmed this year.
“I know that for a fact. It’s going to be great when it is.”
For the fans of the original show, this is great news – and it makes sense, considering the film has been given a release date of July 22nd, 2016. so with that said are you ready for more power rangers?
THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 Trailer – “Another Day”
After the tragic events of the mid-season finale–as well as losing the possibility of a cure in Washington, DC–Rick Grimes’ band of survivors find themselves on the road, surviving day to day and trying to hold on to their shredded humanity and dwindling hope.
Stripped of security and without a direction for the future, some of the group near their breaking point, some find themselves hardened and cold and some just try to grasp on to what little they have left.
Though they are still breathing, the line between Rick’s group and the dead is starting to blur.
The show has already been picked up for a sixth season, so the nightmarish adventures will continue.
Actresses Being Tested for First Star Wars Standalone Movie
 While J.J. Abrams is putting the finishing touches on Star Wars: The Force Awakens for its release on December 18, things are already moving forward on the first Star Wars standalone film with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision reporting that actresses are being tested for the female lead in the Gareth (Godzilla) Edwards-directed film.
Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany (left), who has made huge waves playing multiple clones in BBC America’s hit series “Orphan Black,” and Rooney Mara (right), nominated for an Oscar for her performance in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, are two of the names being mentioned with The Theory of Everything‘s Oscar-nominated star Felicity Jones also on the short list.
There still has been no word on who the focal character of the first of the planned stand-alone “Star Wars” movies will be, although Disney and Lucasfilm have already snagged the release date of December 16, 2016. They’re currently looking for a writer to step-in following the departure of Gary Whitta after turning in his draft. A second stand-alone movie being co-written by Simon Kinberg and Lawrence Kasdan will be helmed by Chronicle helmer Josh Trank, who is currently finishing up his relaunch of The Fantastic Four for 20th Century Fox. |
THR’s Borys Kit says that Jones may have scheduling issues as she’s already pegged to co-star in the Da Vinci Code sequel Inferno opposite Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard.Clark Gregg Talks Launching Inhumans on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Last year, Marvel Studios confirmed that the long in-development Inhumans film would be hitting theaters in November of 2018, and president Kevin Feige teased we might be seeing something about that sooner rather than later. Not long after the announcement came the episode of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” that introduced not only Terragenesis, the process that gives Inhumans their powers, but our first official Inhuman from the source material, Daisy Johnson, AKA Chloe Bennet’s Skye.
Speaking with CBR, series star Clark Gregg opened up about the Inhumans being introduced in the series and what that means for the forthcoming episodes.
“Inhumans represents a different chapter…At least in the comics, the Inhumans, they’re a race of people who’ve been transformed. They’re mutants, more or less. I’ve always loved that part of the comics. They’re people who have evolved differently, and that generates a lot of fear. Some people want to annihilate them. Some people want to lock them up. Some people want to register them. Some of them become superheroes. Some of them become monsters. I find that particularly germane. Are we going to accept the people who are different, or are we going to try to wipe them out?
“I think the first thing we’re going to deal with when we come back is (Coulson) led everyone to this place with the writings. He found this submerged, several-thousand-year-old alien city. It turned out to be like an incubating factory that turned his own most beloved protégée — his surrogate daughter — into something else and got one of his team members killed. That’s not going to be easy on his new team, which has some people who he knows and trusts and some people who are much newer to him.
Gregg went on to express his excitement
with having the Inhumans on the series and reveals that it won’t put any creative clamps on the series.
“I’m excited by it. I think the Inhumans is a big, cool part of the Marvel universe, a great story. And we’ll set up something. We’ll get to explore it. I’m glad they’re entrusting us with it, and I think that they’ll take what they’re going to do with it, and it will connect. And yet, we’ll have the freedom to kind of make our show be our show.”
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is set to return this March, while Inhumans will debut in theaters on November 2, 2018.
New Adaptation of Stephen King’s IT Will Be Scary and Vicious
Director Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) is preparing to shoot the first of a two part big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s It. The plan is to start filming it this summer.
Seth Grahame-Smith, who is one of the producers of the film, talked about the adaptation in an interview with EW and said that they are moving pretty quickly into production and revealed a little more about what we can expect from the highly-anticipated horror movie.
It is my number one favorite story from King. It’s just such a terrifying and horrific tale, and one of my favorite aspects of the story is that the nightmarish events revolve around a group of kids who are called the “losers club.” The fact that these insane events involving a murderous clown named Pennywise are happening to kids intensifies that fear. The first part of the film will focus on the kids, and the second film will focus on the same characters reuniting as adults to fight the murderous monster of their past.
There was a great TV movie adaptation made in the 90s that I really enjoyed, but I couldn’t be more excited to see what Fukunaga has in store for this new adaptation. In the interview, Grahame-Smith says the film will be scary and vicious, which is exactly what I was hoping for:
“I think that if anything, [the new film] will bring back some of the viciousness of the book that they couldn’t do with the miniseries because it was for broadcast. I think it’s going to be very scary, but I also feel like you’ve got Cary who is going to direct these kids—and he’s incredible at casting, incredible at shooting. He’s incredible with tone and atmosphere.”
I love Fukunaga’s work, especially what he did with True Detective. I have complete confidence in this guy to give us the greatest big screen adaptation of this story possible. If you’ve seen any of Fukunaga’s work, then you know he has a talent of creating an amazing atmosphere for the stories he tells.
With It being a feature film, they’ll be able to get away with so much more craziness than they could do with the TV movie. The book is definitely an R-rated story, and I really hope that we get an R-rated film. They might as well go all out on this movie! Grahame-Smith then confirmed that Fukunaga plans to shoot the first of the two films this summer:
“We’re going to get a draft, what is supposed to be the shooting [script], any day now from Cary and his writing partner. We’re doing a deal for them to write the second movie. Our hope is to prep sometime in the next few months and shoot in the summer. That one is as much on the runway as we can possibly be. I know New Line is ready to go.”
I kinda liked the tv movie for what it had to offer back then so i can imgine what can be done now with advancement in tech! are you excited about this?