Viking Bastard
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Warner owns all the DC characters.
The reason? Warner owns DC.
The reason? Warner owns DC.
Who is going to be the next Comic Superhero to reach the Movie Screens?
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Klaus
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Hellboy is about to begin shooting. Yay!
The best bet on a Superman movie franchise is to let Smallville run its course (ending with Clark flying for the first time and graduating from Smallville High), then do a movie set five years later, with Clark relocating to Metropolis. By the end of movie 1 he's a world-famous hero, in movie 2 he faces a challenge that may be too great even for him and by movie 3 he's solidified as the world's greatest superhero.
And someone please just forget about Doomsday.
As for Batman, heck, just use Batman: Year One as the sotryboard! Then follow with Batman: Year Two/Three (Batman vs. Ripper, the introduction of Robin and the turning of Gotham from crime-ruled city to insanity-ruled city). After that, use Hush (the current Batman storyline that has Bats redefined) and you're set!
Or just make a Nightwing series...
The best bet on a Superman movie franchise is to let Smallville run its course (ending with Clark flying for the first time and graduating from Smallville High), then do a movie set five years later, with Clark relocating to Metropolis. By the end of movie 1 he's a world-famous hero, in movie 2 he faces a challenge that may be too great even for him and by movie 3 he's solidified as the world's greatest superhero.
And someone please just forget about Doomsday.
As for Batman, heck, just use Batman: Year One as the sotryboard! Then follow with Batman: Year Two/Three (Batman vs. Ripper, the introduction of Robin and the turning of Gotham from crime-ruled city to insanity-ruled city). After that, use Hush (the current Batman storyline that has Bats redefined) and you're set!
Or just make a Nightwing series...
jdavis
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I've got a feeling we will see more superhero movies than you can shake a stick at in the next two or three years. Heck there is even a Longshot project out there. Ti wasn't that long ago that remaking old TV shows into movies was the cool thing, they remade tons of old tv shows (most of them bad). Daredevil, SpiderMan and the Hulk on the way, it will seem like a goldmine until one of these bombs in a huge way. Rumor of not only X men 3 already in preproduction but of spin off movies for Wolverine and Storm are going around, the Spiderman three rumors are already getting thick and Spiderman two is just getting started filming. Superman and Batman projects are still in the works not to mention darn near every superhero title out there has somebody working to turn it into a movie. Many of these project have been stuck in developmental ruts for years but Spiderman opened up a lot of doors.
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Enchantress
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I think that Wonder Woman might be an upcoming when because I read an article that the part was being torn between Sandra Bullock and Lucy Lawless.
WayneLigon
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Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
From http://www.eonline.com/Features/Features/InkTank/NuffSaid/index.html
Moments before Ben Affleck held court at a Daredevil press conference this week, we sidled up to Avi Arad and pestered him for the skinny on upcoming Marvel projects. Here's what he said.
• On the long-awaited Punisher, rumored to star Thomas Jane, with Jonathan Hensleigh directing, a new writer has been added to bring it all home: Oscar-nominated writer Michael Tolkin (The Player).
• As for horror flick Werewolf by Night, Arad simply said it was "in active development," being rewritten by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Tolkin again, maybe?). He compares the plot to Romeo and Juliet, which makes perfect sense, right? Right.
• He also talked up Deathlok, which is currently in production at Paramount. It tells the story of a man being slowly turned into a computer, and Arad seemed particularly into this one. Is there something he wants to tell us? Can we help?
• He mentioned that Silver Surfer and Namor were both on the way, too. In fact, Arad quipped to gathered reporters that the only Marvel character who shouldn't be getting a movie soon is the obscure roller-skating mutant-singer Dazzler.
Marvel Comics heads to the swamp for one of the first (Man-Thing) in a series of not so big budget projects (others will include Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night and Black Widow).
Man-Thing's one of your lesser-known Marvel anti-heroes, a large, mossy mutant who tromps around the swamps avenging environmental wrongs. Sure, he gets confused with DC's Swamp Thing, another marsh-dwelling guy who turned into a monster, but there's room in the world for both of them, wouldn't you say?
The movie, directed by Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity), will seldom show the man--or thing--himself but play him more like an urban legend. Think Bigfoot, Blair Witch or even The Mothman Prophecies. Man-Thing looks to shoot in New Orleans, Arad told us, "I hope in two months."
Speaking of potential new DC franchises, a new Catwoman is clawing for attention. A source at Warner Bros. recently hinted that the film--originally set to star Ashley Judd and with names like Nicole Kidman being bandied about to replace her (meow!)--could start filming some time this year.
What's the story? Like the mysterious hero in The Mask of Zorro, the new Catwoman implies that the mantle can be passed down from one feline-inclined crime-fighter to the next. The Catwoman we knew in Batman Returns--Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle--spent her nine lives years ago.
So, a new Catwoman rises up to avenge her mom's death--she was killed by an unsavory appliance company after inventing a better dishwasher (we're serious)--and finds herself fighting with and falling for a local cop--rumored at one point to be Owen Wilson.
The latest announcement has Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) directing the fifth Batman film. This follows two weeks of rumors that a new script, Batman: The Frightening, was floating around looking for a director. Coincidence? Not likely.
We hear that the script's a horror flick, pitting Batman against the Scarecrow (he uses his knowledge of pharmaceuticals and the human psyche to put everyone's worst fear in front of them), and the clever, stylish Nolan seems a natural choice.
What does this mean for the now pretty much dead Batman vs. Superman? Or for Darren Aronofsky's long in waiting Batman: Year One? Or for the live-action incarnation of the futuristic Batman Beyond cartoon? Nobody knows.
But the Year One concept still seems like the sexiest: The script is cowritten with legendary Dark Knight Returns comic scribe, Frank Miller, and we'd get a fresh young Bruce Wayne, taking to the streets of Gotham for the first time to bust up bad guys.
Aronofsky-area sources say that Year One is still happening, so perhaps we'll have two ultra-stylish, bizarre new interpretations of the Caped Crusader hitting in the next couple of years?
And, of course, we hear they're both starring DMX.
Moments before Ben Affleck held court at a Daredevil press conference this week, we sidled up to Avi Arad and pestered him for the skinny on upcoming Marvel projects. Here's what he said.
• On the long-awaited Punisher, rumored to star Thomas Jane, with Jonathan Hensleigh directing, a new writer has been added to bring it all home: Oscar-nominated writer Michael Tolkin (The Player).
• As for horror flick Werewolf by Night, Arad simply said it was "in active development," being rewritten by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Tolkin again, maybe?). He compares the plot to Romeo and Juliet, which makes perfect sense, right? Right.
• He also talked up Deathlok, which is currently in production at Paramount. It tells the story of a man being slowly turned into a computer, and Arad seemed particularly into this one. Is there something he wants to tell us? Can we help?
• He mentioned that Silver Surfer and Namor were both on the way, too. In fact, Arad quipped to gathered reporters that the only Marvel character who shouldn't be getting a movie soon is the obscure roller-skating mutant-singer Dazzler.
Marvel Comics heads to the swamp for one of the first (Man-Thing) in a series of not so big budget projects (others will include Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night and Black Widow).
Man-Thing's one of your lesser-known Marvel anti-heroes, a large, mossy mutant who tromps around the swamps avenging environmental wrongs. Sure, he gets confused with DC's Swamp Thing, another marsh-dwelling guy who turned into a monster, but there's room in the world for both of them, wouldn't you say?
The movie, directed by Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity), will seldom show the man--or thing--himself but play him more like an urban legend. Think Bigfoot, Blair Witch or even The Mothman Prophecies. Man-Thing looks to shoot in New Orleans, Arad told us, "I hope in two months."
Speaking of potential new DC franchises, a new Catwoman is clawing for attention. A source at Warner Bros. recently hinted that the film--originally set to star Ashley Judd and with names like Nicole Kidman being bandied about to replace her (meow!)--could start filming some time this year.
What's the story? Like the mysterious hero in The Mask of Zorro, the new Catwoman implies that the mantle can be passed down from one feline-inclined crime-fighter to the next. The Catwoman we knew in Batman Returns--Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle--spent her nine lives years ago.
So, a new Catwoman rises up to avenge her mom's death--she was killed by an unsavory appliance company after inventing a better dishwasher (we're serious)--and finds herself fighting with and falling for a local cop--rumored at one point to be Owen Wilson.
The latest announcement has Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) directing the fifth Batman film. This follows two weeks of rumors that a new script, Batman: The Frightening, was floating around looking for a director. Coincidence? Not likely.
We hear that the script's a horror flick, pitting Batman against the Scarecrow (he uses his knowledge of pharmaceuticals and the human psyche to put everyone's worst fear in front of them), and the clever, stylish Nolan seems a natural choice.
What does this mean for the now pretty much dead Batman vs. Superman? Or for Darren Aronofsky's long in waiting Batman: Year One? Or for the live-action incarnation of the futuristic Batman Beyond cartoon? Nobody knows.
But the Year One concept still seems like the sexiest: The script is cowritten with legendary Dark Knight Returns comic scribe, Frank Miller, and we'd get a fresh young Bruce Wayne, taking to the streets of Gotham for the first time to bust up bad guys.
Aronofsky-area sources say that Year One is still happening, so perhaps we'll have two ultra-stylish, bizarre new interpretations of the Caped Crusader hitting in the next couple of years?
And, of course, we hear they're both starring DMX.
demiurge1138
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You guys have all missed the greatest superhero of all time, the one who deserves a film the most...
Aquaman!
Seriously, though, has Aquaman even been discussed? He's not that bad.
Demiurge out.
Aquaman!
Seriously, though, has Aquaman even been discussed? He's not that bad.
Demiurge out.
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
He used to be really corny, but since the Peter David revamp he got in the early 90s (the bearded, one-armed, arrogant noble), he's been kinda kewl.
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