Just finished the Iron Man roundtables — full transcriptions will be up soon — but I wanted to quickly clarify what’s up with Ed Norton writing The Hulk. The dirt paraphrased from Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige goes like this: Zack Penn wrote a few drafts that were great starting material, and that when Ed … Continue reading →
I was just writing about how little new news is coming out of Comic Con this year when an honest to God bombshell got dropped – Disney has announced that they will make every single one of the seven Narnia novels into films, and they’ll be released once a year. That’s actually pretty surprising, since … Continue reading →
Sitting in the Comic Con press room on the biggest day of the five day event, I’m coming close to calling this whole edition of Con a bust, at least from the movie nerd point of view (there seems to have been some actually exciting news coming out of the comic book side of things, … Continue reading →
This is going quick so I’m going to keep the intro short. But this is the place for Hulk and Iron Man news, so here we go. 4:20 Eric Morrow from IGN takes the podium to introduce, as he says, the first ever Marvel Studios panel in Hall H. 4:22 Gale Anne Hurd. Avi Arad. … Continue reading →
I’m camping in hall H today, and while I wasn’t sure it was going to be worth it, things got going fast with Neil Gaiman’s announcement of Coraline details and some unexpected comedy from Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon.12:23 Neil Gaiman, Henry Selick. You can almost see Selick animating himself frame by frame, step by … Continue reading →
I’m sold. That’s all I really have to say. I’m not liveblogging this Blade Runner panel because I’ve just had over an hour of roudtables with guys like Syd Mead, DVD producer Charlie de Lauzirika and Ridley Scott. There’s some good stuff in there (including Sir Scott’s serious enthusiasm for American Gangster, which I’m more … Continue reading →
It was disappointing to sit through the entire Warner Brothers panel this morning to find not a smidgen of Dark Knight material after all. It was more frustrating to realize that the oddball Joker-oriented viral marketing campaign was continuing right outside the door. Short form, between the links to a site called Whysoserious.com that were … Continue reading →
I can’t even believe it, but Comic Con has sold out Sunday. What is usually the quietest and most low-key day of the whole weekend is going to be just as packed as Saturday, the biggest day of the event. This has been an especially huge Comic Con (although it’s been a real stiff in … Continue reading →
Chris Nolan may detest the geeks, but he’ll take their money just the same. At Comic Con 2004, Nolan and Christian Bale whetted appetites for Batman Begins with a videotaped greeting that was comical for its seething contempt. Perhaps this isn’t the case (and I doubt a confirmation from the Nolan camp is forthcoming), but … Continue reading →
I just came from a whirlwind one on one with Watchmen director Zack Snyder here at Comic Con, and while he wouldn’t confirm or deny it, it was obvious that he’s going to cast Gerard Butler as the desperate castaway in The Tales of the Black Freighter, the pirate comic within Watchmen. Maybe. That maybe … Continue reading →