Comic Book Movie Buzz for Aug 12, 2008
August 13th, 2008
I just got re-inspired to start up a new Hollywood Stock Exchange account. I had one I started about six years ago now when the Iron Man movie was nothing but a dream and a penny stock over on this fun little time killer. Years later (and much wishes that the game was real) I was turned into an instant multi-millionaire!
Anyways, onward then to the second instalment of this new series on comic movie news!
Worthy Time Killers or Worth a Chuckle
DC Comics Meets The Simpsons - Ever wonder what DC characters would look like if Simpsonized? Well Dean over at Springfield Punx has gone ahead and skipped the step or curiosity!
Fresh Prince of Gotham - I used to love Fresh Prince of Belair when I was younger so this parody video was worth a good couple chuckles. The actor sings out quotes that are actually pretty damn close to the original. The fact that he can mix them up into the lyrics is golden.
The Inevitable Alliance - First we get G.I. Joe/The Thing in stop motion; now we get this masterpiece that took a year to make with over 3000 photos. This one is a longish one but it’s worth the watch as some of the fight sequences are pretty entertaining considering they’re coming out of toys.
… More entertaining than The Spirit fight sequence from Comic Con in any case linked down below…
The Spirit of What Exactly…?
Some footage got leaked from Comic Con showing a fight between The Spirit and his arch-nemesis The Octopus. I’m going to go right ahead and quote the rant over at BamKapow.com on this one. No point in wasting my time repeating my fearful thoughts after seeing this clip. I hope the trailer doesn’t end up being better than the movie with this one.
Frank Millar’s debut as a director could hurt any chances of a potential Daredevil actually “rebooting” the franchise. Lets hope this all comes together this Christmas.
Watch More About The Watchmen
There are a bunch of clips from Behind the Scenes stuff for the Watchmen movie. If you want to get yourself caught up on why this movie WILL succeed in pleasing the fans, then clicky click and start watching!
Hearing a director talk about their project is often times a good sign as too how much personal knowledge and affinity for the material they actually have. Zack Snyder doesn’t disappoint.
Superman Begins Again (Hopefully)
I never cared much for Superman, and the strange thing is that something about Smallville actually made me find interesting things about the character actually existed in some creative team’s mind! If you ever wondered about Superman Returns having done nothing for all your anticipations; or perhaps wishing that studios could look at that movie as another Ang Lee’s “Hulk” scenario… then you’re not the only one! Mark Waid, Grant Morrison and Brad Meltzer also have opinions about rebooting the franchise.
Saving Superman - Comic Book Creatives Try to Fix the Franchise
Superman Needs To Start Over! STAT!!
Batmania Continues
Who Should Be Next Villain for Nolan’s Batman? Comic Writers Weigh In - A bunch of comic book pros give you their picks for who should be in the upcoming Batman movie.
If this post is any indication as to who the next adversary will be, then it seems to be weighing heavily in on the Catwoman choice for multiple reasons. This combined with gossip about Angelina Jolie talking to her porn star friend Tera Patrick about the Catwoman role, I can’t help thinking the new advertising model involves turning the rumour mill to let the internet hounds gobble it all up and spit it all back out to others (like I just did). <burp> Excuse me.
Captain American’t
Captain America movie in CGI - If this internet buzz is more truth than rumour, it’ll be a sad, sad day in Marvel-movieland for fans. This could single handedly destroy the crossover awesomeness that is in the Marvel movie making framework thus far.
What could be so off-putting for Marvel Studios to make a call like this? It’s like they never made enough money on Iron Man or something?! Maybe Increadible Hulk didn’t perform as well, sure, but to take a step back like this has mega-disaster written all over it.
To Magneto or Not to Magneto
“Magneto” Defeated By “Invisible Man”? - David Goyer, screenwriter for the Batman franchise is set to direct the Magneto movie. Word has it though that he’s interested in another project that may come first: The Invisible Man.
He’s got a take on it that could actually be quite interesting on screen. It involves the nephew of the first Invisible Man and Scotland Yard setting him up as a secret agent.
Paris Hiltoon
Paris Hilton Set to Be Super Heroine — Please… why? That is all.
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