X-Men Origins: Wolverine Footage Debuts
July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
At San Diego Comic Con today a brief trailer-like set of clips from the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie debuted. The movie will premier in theaters May 1, 2009.
Sadly, I’m not at Comic Con, and as of now there is no linked cell phone footage. The best I can do is share some of the characters and castings that have been confirmed and/or shown:
- Hugh Jackman is of course reprising his role as Logan/Wolverine.
- Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed/Sabretooth (replacing Tyler Mane)
- A younger Major William Stryker will be played by Danny Huston.
- Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau/Gambit
- Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox
- Kevin Durand as Frederick J. Dukes/The Blob
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool
- Daniel Henney as David North/Agent Zero
- Dominic Monaghan as Barnell Bohusk/Blackwing/Beak
- IESB is claiming they saw Emma Frost in the footage too
Other than all these characters making brief appearances in the film, not much is known yet. Hopefully a general public trailer will be revealed in the next couple months. Filming has completed.
Tags: agent zero, comic books, comics, david north, deadpool, emma frost, hugh jackman, iesb, marvel, movie, movies, ryan reynolds, Wolverine
A New Captain America
October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
Captain America may have been gunned down at the end of Marvel’s Civil War killing Steve Rogers, but the ideal that Cap stood for carries on. With this in mind someone new dons the costume and persona of Captain America starting in January. With a new Cap’ comes a new costume designed by near legendary comic artist Alex Ross. There is a great deal of speculation about who may be taking on the mantle, I’m certainly curious read Ed Brubaker’s upcoming storyline.
If you want more detail on the hows and whys, the Marvel article on this is fantastic.
Tags: alex ross, america, captain america, civil war, comic books, comics, ed brubaker, marvel, marvel comics, steve rogers
Marvel Civil War Continues?!?
August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
IGN posted this image today with a gigantic veil of secrecy. It’s drawn by Marko Djurdjevic, perhaps the hottest cover artist at Marvel right now… As soon as I looked him up, I realized he is the artist responsible for nearly every painted cover I’ve been in love with since December.
Anyway, from left to right this image includes: Sentinels, Cable, Wolverine, Thing, unknown #1, Ms Marvel, Cloak (without Dagger, WTF?), Captain America (who’s in the suit?), Iron Man, Thor, Hercules, Yellowjacket, unknown #2. I think I should know unknown #1. IGN makes a big deal about who unknown #2 is (the dude in the top right corner). If we knew who was writing this, we might be able to make a better guess. A Marvel.com article makes me wonder if this is Vulcan, but that’s a serious shot in the dark.
Many knock Civil War, but I haven’t felt the passion since that series ended. This has the potential to make me dig in with some serious Marvel induced excitement. Is this a one-shot? A new series? An alternate universe? What does it mean?!? I can’t wait to find out.
Tags: cable, captain america, civil war, cloak, comic books, comics, dagger, emperor vulcan, hercules, IGN, iron man, marvel, ms marvel, sentinels, thing, thor, vulcan, Wolverine, x-men, XMen, yellowjacket
Grayson
August 19, 2007 | 4 Comments
Note, I recommend the High Res 60MB version of this if you are at all interested beyond the first 30 seconds. The YouTube version is here for the lazy and/or bandwidth challenged
A fan written script about a post Batman era Dick Grayson led to the creation of this trailer. The trailer is a bit long and pretty much tells the overall scope of the story. Batman is gone, but villains rise up again in his absence. Grayson re-dons the guise of Robin to fight crime in Gotham City once more. Cameo appearances come from Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern, Batgirl and more.
In watching the trailer it’s obviously amateur in it’s portrayal of nearly the whole of the story in a fully linear manner. Trailers need to make you want to find out what happens and get excited about potential, I feel like I know way too much after watching this, but of course this can be forgiven as it seems unlikely this film will ever be produced in it’s entirety anyway… I didn’t read the script, so I’d hope it’s development is a touch more mature. I want to want more from this, but don’t…
I can partially understand the appeal of this as a popular internet phenomenon, it is good in a generally poor area of fan created action/adventure films.
Tags: action, adventure, Batgirl, batman, comic books, comics, dick grayson, fan film, film, gotham city, grayson, green lantern, joker, script, superman, trailer, video, Wonder Woman
Army of Darkness and Marvel Zombies Crossover
January 8, 2007 | 1 Comment
Spinning out of the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Marvel launched a highly successful Marvel Zombies limited series written by Robert Kirkman. The popularity of that series has lead Marvel into many new horror genre comics.
The most exiting of which is the Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness crossover.
From the Marvel solicitation:
This is it true believers, the cross-over of the century begins here! The Marvel Zombies come face-to-face with Dynamite Entertainment’s Ash from the Army of Darkness! Ash has faced legions of the undead before, but never like this…as he lands in the heart of New York just as the Zombie outbreak begins! See how his actions help turn more heroes and villains into Zombies! Under the watchful eye of Marvel Zombie guru Robert Kirkman, this might just be the comic event of 2007! Plus: The entire series will feature classic “homage” covers from painter Arthur Suydam!
The five issue limited series begins in March. It will be written by John Layman and penciled by Fabiano Silva Neves.
Tags: army of darkness, arthur suydam, ash, comic, comic books, comics, Fabiano Silva Neves, fantastic four, John Layman, marvel, Marvel Zombies, robert kirkman, ultimate fantastic four, zombie
Mutant America Clothing
January 6, 2007 | 4 Comments
I love tastefully done comic geekery clothing. Mutant America sells a few shirts all of which are very cool. The Marvel based designs include two Madrox shirts, a “Magneto was Right” shirt, and the Xavier Institute shirt (shown here). They also sell rings and pins, also tastefully designed.
I would be happy to comment on the quality of these items, if only I had some of them…
Tags: apparel, buttons, clothing, comic books, comics, marvel, merchandise, pins, x-men
Moon Knight TV Series Coming Soon
October 25, 2006 | 12 Comments
Marvel announced today a deal with No Equal Entertainment to create Marvel’s character Moon Knight as a television series. Moon Knight is not the most well known of Marvel’s heroes, but he certainly has the potential for development. After many short and semi-successful comic series going back to 1975. Moon Knight did not experience real success until the 80’s when he managed to sustain 60 issues or so.
I count Moon Knight amongst Marvel’s other 70’s era vigilantes who have seen medium success, more so in the 80’s to early 90’s. Each of these heroes is currently being explored and expanded in new series by Marvel currently. These heroes include: Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Power Man, and Punisher.
Since most people aren’t familiar with MK, from the Wikipedia character analysis:
Moon Knight is often criticized as an ersatz Batman and the parallels are indeed apparent. Writer of the 2006 relaunch of Moon Knight, Charlie Huston, attempted to answer these criticisms in an interview with Comixfan. The interviewer noted that the comparison is not baseless, as both Moon Knight and the Dark Knight are wealthy, “normal” humans that use gadgetry to fight crime. Though not specifically mentioned by the interviewer, further comparisons may be drawn due to the two characters’ specialized vehicles, use of themes in their gadgets, and use of fear to aid their fight against the criminal element.
Huston, though he disagreed, accepted that the character may be a rip-off of Batman, but went on to contrast the two by noting in particular differences in origin, motives, and personality. “Bruce Wayne,” he said, “fights crime to avenge the murders of his parents,” whereas Moon Knight “beats up whoever has it coming because he believes he is the avatar of the Egyptian god of vengeance and it helps him to feel better about all the people he killed when he was a mercenary.” Thus, while Batman is motivated by vengeance for wrong done to his parents, Marc Spector primarily seeks redemption from crimes he committed in his mercenary past. Huston further notes that Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alterego, takes on other personalities merely to aid in his fight. However, Moon Knight has three alteregos which aid him as much in dealing with personal demons as fighting law-breakers, and which have taken a further psychological toll of causing multiple personality disorder.
I actually think Moon Knight has the potential to be developed into a useful TV franchise. Since few people are familiar with the character, he can be expanded and developed in whatever ways the writers want to take them. Additionally, with his Batman-like characterization, there is plenty to fall back on. Add to that the dark and twisted features mixed with the multiple personality stuff and suddenly this vigilante story can go mainstream.
With this in mind, I remain hopeful. I’ll be paying close attention to casting and hopefully No Equal Entertainment can pull off a hit TV show with this. Anything has to be better than the short lived Blade Series…
Tags: batman, blade, charlie huston, comic books, comics, iron fist, marc spector, marvel, moon knight, no equal entertainment, power man, punisher, television