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ED NORTON KNOWS THE HULK INSIDE AND OUT

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

DISNEY HATES NICK NUNZIATA

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

COMIC CON ’07: LIVE AT BLADE RUNNER

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

WITH SCHUMACHER GONE, BATS IS SO SERIOUS

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

LEONIDAS RIDES THE BLACK FREIGHTER

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