Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern?
Well, no, not really. Still, this is an impressive fan trailer:
In comments: identify all the places that the creator borrowed from. (Hat tip: Jenifer Rosenberg.)
Author: Glenn Hauman
PeterDavid.net and BobGreenberger.com NOT malware sites
We think.
I’ve been getting notices from people all morning, saying that they’re receiving warning messages at PeterDavid.net or BobGreenberger.com because Google is claiming there’s a link to a malware site somewhere– not that they’re saying what page it’s on, or other things that might be useful to a webmaster trying to track down the problem. (They’re claiming it’s on an underlying site in a different subdomain, which ain’t helpful.)
So we’re digging. In the meantime, use caution on odd links there.
Jon Peters autobiography proposal dishes huge dirt on Batman and Superman films
Nikki Finke has gotten her hands on the book proposal for Jon Peters’ autobiography. Peters was a producer for, among other films, the Michael Keaton Batman film franchise and Superman Returns. The details are unbelievable, if for no other reason that Peters seems to be burning every bridge behind him, including the one that he’s on. A few choice quotes:
“Batman was a box office bonanza, among the highest grossers
in history. Jon took a lot of credit for that hit, especially in his
heroic efforts to sell Jack Nicholson on playing the Joker. Jon had
bonded completely with Jack and partied hard with him on The Witches of Eastwick;
now Jon had to top himself. With the help of Madam Alex and Steve
Ross’s jets, Jon took Jack on a whore and drug fueled global joy ride
to see the Batman sets in London that was one of the most
expensive and decadent junkets in cinema history. Jon basically turned
staid Claridge’s into the Playboy Mansion, with strippers, hookers,
masseuses, coke dealers, and more, plus champagne and foie gras room
service that put Adnan Khashogghi’s stays to shame. Jack couldn’t say
no to a good time like this, and he succumbed to Jon’s relentless
charms.”“During the Batman shoot in London in 1988, Jon had his first
high profile post-Barbra [Streisand], post-Christine [his 2nd wife] movie star
tabloid affair, with Kim Basinger, whom Jon had cast as Vicki Vale in
the biggest role of her career. Kim’s tall blonde beauty and her inner
turmoil were very much in the mold of Jon’s mother. Another shared
similarity was that Kim was also part Cherokee. Otherwise, she was pure
screen goddess, the hottest women on celluloid at the time. The Georgia
belle was a Ford model, the Breck girl, a Bond girl, the cover of Playboy.
She had rung up every milestone possible in the pulchritude
sweepstakes. And now she was Jon Peters’s girl, and, thanks to the
breathless London yellow press, the world took note. The affair with
Jon may have ended Kim’s nine year marriage to a makeup artist (again,
the beauty shop connection), but it did not result in marriage to Jon.
Like so many on-set affairs, the honeymoon tends to be over soon after
the premiere.
And we won’t even talk about Superman Returns, where the best guess is that Peters caused the film to cost $50 million dollars more. Instead, we’ll let Kevin Smith talk about it:
See also our previous story about Jon Peters and his parole violation for drunk driving— which apparently, if I’m reading this right, was on the way to the premiere of Superman Returns. Oh, and just for good measure, the book’s been pulled from major publishers at this time, as everybody appears to be ready to sue..
Memorial Day 2009
Take the time today to remember them in your own way.
New ‘Doctor Who’ for Memorial Day weekend
It’s a holiday weekend, and you know what that means… new Doctor Who!
Okay, it’s an American holiday, not a British one… but that’s okay, we’ve got an American in it. Take look…
Watchmen Blu-Ray edition coming with video game included
Think of it as the Absolute version for the screen.
In an attempt to appeal to PlayStation 3 owners, Warner Bros. is releasing a special version of Watchmen
bundling the Director’s Cut of the movie on Blu-ray disc with the full version of the video game, Watchmen: the End is Nigh.
Part one of the game was released for Xbox Live, Windows PCs and the PlayStation Network in March.
Preview: ‘V’ 2.0
Like we haven’t had enough science fiction shows from the 80’s remade lately… here’s the trailer from ABC’s upfronts for V:
Yes, that’s Elizabeth Mitchell from Lost and Morena Baccarin from Firefly with the butch haircut.
Interestingly, some people are finding current political metaphor in it, such as David Sirota in Salon:
Am I crazy or does this preview make the show seem like a
not-so-subtle fringe-right-wing criticism of Obama and Obama followers?In questioning Obama’s citizenship and heritage, conservatives
have always portrayed Obama as an alien visitor. They’ve also
constantly implied that behind Obama’s friendly veneer are sinister
motives – and they seem to believe that while most of the public are
gullible fools believing in Obama as a savior, they and their tea-party
protestors see the “real truth” of those motives.Now, didn’t I basically just describe that preview?
And James Poniewozik from Time:
Remake of the classic alien-invasion miniseries plays in the trailer,
weirdly, like an allegory of the Obama election: aliens come to Earth,
promise “hope” and “change” (words actually used), inspire cult-like
devotion, but have creepy intent and are secretly lizards. Maybe I’m
reading too much into it. But it has potential to be Glenn Beck’s new
favorite show.
The original metaphor was the Aliens were based on the Nazis. Now it’s Obama? Terrific.
Obama vetoes Mutant Registration Act; puts Claremont out of work
Boy, is Chris Claremont going to be unhappy…
Interview: Chris Claremont on ‘X-Men Forever’, part 1
This is the first part of a very long interview with Chris Claremont that started on the topic of X-Men Forever and branched into a number of other areas. We start the interview today to tie in with today’s release of X-Men Forever Alpha, and we’ll be running more as we get closer to the release of X-Men Forever #1 next month.
ComicMix: X-Men Forever Alpha is a reprint of the first three issues plus an eight page bridge to the
new series, correct? What do we need to know going in?
Chris Claremont: Essentially
nothing. Those were the issues going in, to establish all the fundamental
parameters: the X-Men are a team of heroes that are based at Xavier school for
gifted youngsters at Salem center, outside of New York City.
CM: So you’re
starting up right from where you left the book in 1991.
CC: Yes.
CM: Is this House Of C, then, as compared to House of M?
CC: No, it’s the
Marvel Universe, there’s no real change to it, other than the fact that in a
very practical sense that the subsequent sixteen, seventeen years of material
following my departure doesn’t exist.
CM: So this is a
new forked off continuity.
CC: Yes. We’re
essentially picking up where I left off and the only acknowledgment we are
making to the passage of time is that if a label needs to be placed on #1, #2,
and #3, they occurred in the opening months, weeks, whatever of 2009.
CM: Then
everything that happens since in mainline Marvel continuity has not happened
and is not going to happen?
CC: Everything
that relates to the X-Men specifically has not happened. The origins of
characters that were established after I left are not necessarily the origins
that we will encounter here. For example, the reality in this book is that
Sabretooth and Wolverine are father and son. Betsy Braddock has not been
transferred into a cloned dead Asian body.
CM: Do you find
it strange that people are looking at this series and referring back to your
original run as the time when X-Men continuity wasn’t convoluted?
Preview: Human Target
From our good friends and ComicMix alumni over at the Flickcast, we find a trailer for the new Human Target series coming soon to Fox, starring Mark Valley as Christopher Chance, with Tricia Helfer, Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride.
Looks like fun– although I hope they use the rubber masks once in a while.
