07/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Some Movie News"
Bryan Singer, director of the 2 X-Men movies, is the new director of Superman. That’s good news for Superman, who went through quite a few bad directors but potentially bad news for X-Men 3 since it could end up in some moron’s hands. The best part of this is that Singer, unlike the last 2 attached directors, doesn’t intend to ONCE AGAIN retell Superman’s origin story and just get right down to telling a Superman story. What would be the point anyways? We ALL know how Superman came to be already.
Seems like DC based stuff always gets the shaft. Marvel’s movies tend to stay fairly close to the original material but DC’s movies go in really odd directions. Before Singer, Superman was going to feature a Kryptonian Lex Luthor(!); Wonder Woman was going to start with Wonder Woman dying and having her powers transferred to some “new” Wonder Woman. Now Green Lantern is being made. As a comedy. Starring Jack Black. Why!? WHY!? If they wanted a comedy superhero movie, there’re a ton of other characters they could use for that. Why take Green Lantern, who’s all about living up to the expectation of others, triumphing against impossible odds, stepping out of the shadow of his predecessor, and wielding the most powerful weapon in the universe, into a joke? There are no words to describe how frustrated I get when movie people pay huge sums to adapt perfectly good concepts and characters and throw everything away except for the most basic things.
Catwoman has one of the worst ratings ever at rottentomatoes, that’ll teach those f’ers to mess with the comics.
The Batman Begins trailer is going to be in front of Aliens VS Predator in august. Can’t wait.
Darren Aranofsky (pi, Requiem for a Dream) will be doing Alan Moore’s Watchmen, which is considered the best comic series ever written. I liked both of Aranofsky’s two movies so hopes are high even though other Moore adaptations (From Hell, League of Extra…) haven’t fared the text-to-screen translation so well. This is sorta a good time for a Watchmen adaptation since it can only exist after other superhero movies have come out. I wonder if it’ll still be set in the cold war.
The live action Transformers movie is coming from Dreamworks in the summer of 2k6! I honestly don’t care if this is going to suck or not, CGI Transformers interacting with live humans is going to be a really interesting thing to see. The robots in disguise better be in every single shot. It’d be spectacular if they could get the same voice actors as the ones from the original animated series, the nostalgia would be so overwhelming, I’d potentially shed a tear.
Out of this weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, we have 2 fan films like last year’s Batman: Dead End. First up is the great looking Grayson, and the slightly less awesome World’s Finest (by the same team who did Dead End).
Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency is being adapted into a TV series starring Michelle (ensign Ro Laren) Forbes!
You know, I think it’s kinda odd that some directors are doing nothing but superheroes for 2-3 films in a row. Maybe they’re just getting it out of their systems while the public’s still willing to watch these things. Not that I’m complaining. If Raimi, Singer, Del Toro, and Rodriguez made nothing but comic book adaptations for the rest of their careers I’d probably be pretty happy.
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where did you get the info on superman and transformers? Nothing is known on the sites i go to
Posted by Doug @ 07/26/2004 05:58 PM EST
aint-it-cool.com
filmforce.ign.com
cinescape.com
Are my main sources for Geek films.
Where do you look?
Posted by Rayne @ 07/27/2004 05:46 PM EST
So Singer ain't doing X3?
As for DC, they're retards! Casting that snobby bitch Halle Berry was my first turn-off from Catwoman.
I didn't know Aranofsky did Pi, I'm interested in seeing it now since Requiem for a Dream rocked...but I doubt its a similar genre.
I hope them 'robots in disguise' ain't a disappointment in 06.
Posted by dAN @ 07/27/2004 09:29 PM EST
Grayson and World's Finest...which characters do they deal with?
Posted by dAN @ 07/28/2004 08:54 AM EST
Grayson is about Dick Grayson, Robin.
And World's Finest is a Batman + Superman team up. Check out the videos, they're really good for fanfilms.
Pi has a lot of the same "visual ticks" as Requiem does. It's a good movie, go watch.
Posted by Rayne @ 07/28/2004 10:54 PM EST
pi weirded me out ... sure i didn't watch all of it ... but the part i did watch i couldn't watch ... what i learned from this clip? always wear your safety goggles while operating power tools!
Posted by mel-pi @ 07/29/2004 09:47 AM EST
Posted by Rayne @ 08/06/2004 05:26 PM EST
A WOLVERINE MOVIE IS TO BE MADE????...YIPPY!!!!....:)!!!!
Posted by dAN @ 10/06/2004 06:34 PM EST
As if the two current X-Men movies aren't Wolverine films anyways =P
Posted by Rayne @ 10/06/2004 08:13 PM EST
Not Wolverine enough...:P
Posted by dAN @ 10/06/2004 09:27 PM EST
It's because of people like you that Wolverine's in almost every comic that Marvel publishes! =P
Posted by Rayne @ 10/12/2004 05:13 PM EST
Is that such a bad thing?!?!...:P
Posted by dAN @ 10/13/2004 02:48 PM EST
It is for people who wished that at least one of the other 300 X-Men could get some attention sometimes!
Posted by Rayne @ 10/13/2004 04:10 PM EST
Hmm, do any of those remaining X-Men have three claws per hand and an amazing healing factor???...LOL!
Posted by dAN @ 10/13/2004 08:24 PM EST
For people like you, they recently introduced his daughter..she has two claws on each hand and a healing factor.
Why's he so appealing anyways? Is it the badass-loner attitude?
Posted by Rayne @ 10/14/2004 01:26 PM EST
Two claws, not three?...DAMN!...LOL
His appeal not only stems from people's desire for his powers (I'd love a healing factor such as his), but the fact that he answers to no one. I think we would all like that sort of freedom, to do as we please, having little fear of the repercussions.
Posted by dAN @ 10/14/2004 01:37 PM EST
But she has a foot claw! thats gotta be worth something.
So anyways, it IS is badass-loner attitude, then.
Posted by Rayne @ 10/15/2004 12:21 AM EST
It'd be mighty hard to walk with a footclaw, methinks..
..why the hell isn't she wearing any CLOTHES? Hasn't she heard of CLOTHING? Couldn't her daddy bring her up right?
..and yes, I know why she's not wearing any clothes, but it doesn't make me any less displeased about it.
an' yeah, it's all in the attitude for Wolverine.. and the fact that he can pull it off. ..though.. I think the guy's costume looks mighty silly. Much prefer the look in X-Men movies O:)
Posted by Arshwana @ 10/16/2004 09:59 PM EST
Holy shit! Check out how "skinny" (The Machinist*a*
Posted by dAN @ 10/21/2004 03:40 PM EST
Ok, I've failed at hyperlinking text. So here's the long version of the post above,
Holy shit! Check out how "skinny" (<< an understatement) Christian Bale became for his upcoming role in the movie "The Machinist".
www.jurassicpunk.com/movies/themachinist.shtml
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