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  • January 29, 2008

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Warren Ellis on Transmetropolitan: The Movie?

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  • January 29, 2008

During a recent appearance in the Something Awful forums, writer Warren Ellis fielded some questions from members about the possibility of a film based on one of his most most popular series, Transmetropolitan.

The forums require a paid subscription, but the crew at Comics2Film has posted some of the highlights of the discussion, including the identity of the actor both Ellis and Transmet artist Darick Robertson would like to see don the red-and-green glasses of the series’ main character.

Q: More generally, who do you have in mind doing Spider so that it gets "done right"?

A: Darick and I both favour the idea of Tim Roth playing Spider.

Ellis also dismisses the rumor that Patrick Stewart, a fan of the series, will play the role of Spider in any form whatsoever.

Y: The Last Man to be a Film Trilogy?

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  • January 29, 2008

USA Today reports that the director of the big-screen adaptation of Y: The Last Man, D.J. Caruso, plans to break up the story of the last man on Earth into several parts.

According to Caruso, the first film of what is likely to become a trilogy will focus on the storyline of issues #1-14 of the series. Caruso added that he has had "preliminary discussions" with Shia LaBeouf to play Yorick Brown, the story’s main character.

Caruso was the director of another LaBeouf film, Disturbia. The screenwriter for that film, Carl Ellsworth, is also attached to the Y project.

According to Caruso, "The most important thing and the reason I want to do this is … I don’t want to say it’s the end of the innocence, but it’s actually a man-child who has to become a real man now."

"I think it’s a really simple, beautiful theme, but at the same time, the movie’s really pop-culture entertainment," Caruso told USA Today.

 

Marvel, EA Games Part Ways

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  • January 29, 2008

Marvel Comics and videogame developer Electronic Arts have agreed to disagree, it seems, and parted ways after only one game collaboration.

According to a report on GameTap, EA has doscontinued production of the second game it planned to develop with Marvel properties. The two entities had partnered in 2004 to produce games based on Marvel’s stable of characters, but the only game to result from this partnership, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, was largely considered a bust.

"EA and Marvel have jointly agreed to discontinue development of the Marvel titles under the EA Games Label. This was a business decision based on EA’s portfolio strategy," an EA representative told GameTap.

Marvel also issued a statement, claiming that the dissolution of the partnership "will not affect Marvel’s ongoing plans to release fighting games based on the Marvel properties in the future."

Cap Invades the Media, ComicMix Radio Yields the Shield

Now available through ITunes (for free!), ComicMix Radio kicks off the week covering all the other cool comics out this week besides Captain America and a nice stack of new DVDs, too.

Plus:

  • Walking Dead celebrates #50 with a variant that might be tough to find
  • Northworld jumps to Oni Press
  • The WGA gives a GO to The Grammys

Cap Is having a tough week, so please Press The Button!

 

 

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Brian K. Vaughan on Lost and Y: the Last Man

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  • January 29, 2008

bkv-5761346Another day, another tease regarding this week’s season premiere of Lost and the impending end of Y: The Last Man.

New York Magazine‘s pop culture blog, Vulture, posted this brief interview with writer Brian K. Vaughan about his uber-popular television and comics projects. The interview provides some context for Vaughan’s decision to off one of the series’ main characters in a recent issue, as well as some insight regarding his favorite characters.

All of that, and some thoughts on the possibility of a spin-off series:

No. I am truly washing my hands. Unless I’m in really dire financial straits and I have to do an Ampersand the Monkey spinoff.

As far as the passengers of Oceanic Flight 813, Vaughan manages to keep the secrets of Lost Season Four, well… secret. And for good reason:

I think if I were to answer too specifically, a future version of myself would appear and assassinate me.

Lost airs Thursday, Jan. 31 on ABC at 8 PM (EST).

On This Date: Lewinsky!

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  • January 29, 2008

In today’s heated, war-fueled political climate, it’s sometimes nice to look back on a time when our biggest problem was a married man’s bodily fluids on a blue dress.

Today in 1999, Monica Lewinsky was subpeonaed for private videotapes to be used in President Clinton’s impeachment trials.

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What a time, eh? It was the dawn of celebrity obsession (remember Gwyneth Palthrow?) and a time before the axis of evil, the destruction of the World Trade Center, the invasion of Iraq and all of the controversy surrounding Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

With that in mind, it seems wise to hope our future problems can be as simple as some Arkansauce on a blue dress.

Guillermo del Toro to Direct The Hobbit(s)?

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  • January 29, 2008

Guillermo del Toro, director of the critically praised Pan’s Labyrinth and the comic adaptations Hellboy and Blade II, is in talks to helm a pair of films based on author J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings precursor, The Hobbit.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, del Toro is on a short list of directors who studios New Line and MGM, the holders of the film rights, believe to have both the filmmaking chops and respect for the source material necessary for another wildly successful blockbuster. If del Toro indeed becomes the director of The Hobbit, he would become the second filmmaker to to take on a Tolkien project after making a name for himself in the realm of horror films. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson began his career behind the camera of such cult-classic horror films as Bad Taste, Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive) and The Frighteners.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Few filmmakers have the cachet that del Toro has, as well as a deep love for the source material, an assured grasp of fantasy filmmaking and an understanding and command of geek culture as well as its respect. Del Toro has built that goodwill through such films as the Oscar-nominated "Pan’s Labyrinth," "Hellboy," "Blade 2" (which was made by New Line) and "The Devil’s Backbone."

Also of note: After settling a heated dispute with Jackson over "profit participation," the studios have agreed on an Executive Producer role for Jackson in The Hobbit, with the director also overseeing certain creative elements of the films.

The Hobbit films are tentatively scheduled for release in 2010 and 2011, but no writers have been assigned to the projects yet due to the WGA strike. Once the strike is settled, the studios plan to fast-track the projects.

 

 

 

Hate, by Dennis O’Neil

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  • January 29, 2008

Calling movie actors “stars” was appropriate when I was a midwestern lad, long ago, because they seemed as distant and unattainable as those celestial twinklers that speckled the summer sky. None of my friends or relatives were movie stars — they were butchers or clerks or drivers or printers — and what the stars did, acting, wasn’t a real job and so those who did it weren’t real people. They were…stars. But if you knew someone who knew, or at least had spoken to, one of these distant beings who lived in places you never expected to visit, the stars became somehow real — or maybe realer, anyway. They were, if not people, then some sort of demi-people.

Clark Gable was a star. But Rock Hudson was both more and less than a star because I knew a girl who had worked as an extra on one of his films. Julia Adams…heck, she was a person, because she did a personal appearance at the grocery co-op my father belonged to when she was co-starring with Tyrone Power in Mississippi Gambler and people I knew actually saw her in the flesh. And didn’t that make Power a demi-person, too, by association?

Which brings us to Heath Ledger. I was never in a room with him, never saw him on the street, spoke to him on the phone, none of that. But when a heard about his death a few days ago, I felt just a tiny bit worse than I usually feel when someone whose work I admire passes. Why? Mr. Ledger and I lived in two of the same neighborhoods, one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, though not at the same time, and my big 2007 project was writing a novel based on the script of a movie Mr. Ledger performs in. Somehow, all this makes me feel a dim and distant connection to him.

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