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Gay.

Even though I want to see the movie, this whole situation is hilarious to me.

"Great! Watchmen is all done and ready to be relea-"
FOX: "Oh HAI guys!! So... *ahem* we own this here movie..."

Solomon Must Be Pissed:

Captain Marvel is no longer happening. The screenwriter posted on his blog that WB wanted something edgier than the happier version of the character he penned (blame TDK). This is why Marvel [Comic Films] are kicking ass right now; they don't make movies according to 'focus groups'. WB better quit this 'darker is better' shit. How in the Hell did they think Captain Marvel would translate to such a tone? Do they even know who Captain Marvel is?

Whatever.

Yeah. Captain Marvel is like on the opposite scale of dark and gritty. Even further away than Superman, I'd argue.

They'll probably just decide to make a Black Adam film and have it be nothing but Adam ripping people in half for an hour and a half.

Well if The Rock's still playing him...

God, if they keep with this 'make everything dark' bullshit, every DC movie that comes out is just gonna look like Marvel in the 90s. Nothing but gritty anti-heroes covered in pouches and sporting oversized guns and generally sucking all the fun out of the room.

Save the dark depressing stuff for Batman. Keep it the hell away from everyone else.

Speaking of unnecessary pouches:

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Especially Captain fucking Marvel. I'm still WTF over that.

That's the greatest comic I ever read.

Seriously. Captain Marvel is basically Superman meets Harry Potter. "Dark and gritty" is about as appropriate for that as circus clowns at a funeral.

I wonder if anyone in Vegas is taking bets on making the release date.

WB Takes A Chill Pill:

According to David Goyer [Writer/Director], WB is pressing pause on all of their DC properties - including Man of Steel and Green Lantern. He says the success of Iron Man and The Dark Knight made them rethink how they handled comic movies.

Essentially, they're just now taking it serious.

Whether they're gonna regroup and restructure their release plans or whatever is not stated.

This is the second we've heard of WB acting in the tune of, "...Wait, people want all of our comic movies to be good?" As I mentioned in the past I think this has everything to do with Marvel Studios film-blitz in the last few years. And the buzz over the Avengers film will be fever pitch very soon. We'll see what this all means by late 2009.

He's Still Chasing Cars:

There's some rumor going around that WB execs were riffing the possibility of Joker's return in Batman 3, at least in cameo like fashion. There's little more to this one, although it would make sense to have the character factor into what [I think] Nolan is going for with this trilogy.

Smallville 9?:

Smallville may well get another season. Can't imagine why they don't call it "Metropolis" at this point but hey, it's chugging along. If WB does end the show the writers already have a finale in mind, but since these very writers managed to re-energize the show, perhaps this won't be The Death of Superman after all.

Smallville's Saturn Girl:

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Check out the rest of the Legion guests on Smallville!

Sorry, forgot to post this yesterday:

Thank fucking god.

I love how they're apparently dead-set on incorporating every single aspect of the Superman comics except for the suit and the name. And then usually ruining it.

I've grown to love the aesthetic. And the only thing they ruined was Black Canary, IMO.

GOOD NEWS!!!

Eh, I'm too much of a purist to get into their take on it. Plus, I just really don't like Tom Welling.

Give Tom a break, it was Clark Kent or being a Power Ranger.

Well, except for the original Mighty Morphin Rangers, they've all only lasted one season, so Tom made the smart choice of at least having a CHANCE at multiple seasons. Even if he WILL be typecast unless he can pull a Jim Carrey-esque out of the box role.

Random Smallville Promo Shot, Mini-Blog:

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First of all, Erica Durance is the hottest Lois Lane ever. Secondly, can we just call Smallville's Season 9 Metropolis now? For God's sake Clark and Lois are working in the Daily Planet already. Jimmy's there, and Chloe's a more than worthy addition to the Superman mythos. How much of the show even takes place in Smallville anymore? At this point the show is more a recreation of The Adventures of Lois and Clark. I haven't been watching myself, I rather catch up via major DVD marathons, but I kept up with general stuff. How about the Legion, huh? One reviewer compared Smallville to a Justice League Unlimited with all the characters popping up (except Bruce and Diana... dammit).

Well I think a name change to Metropolis will breathe new life into the show, especially with the great job the new creative team's been doing. And who knows, if it is repackaged as Metropolis maybe we could ekk one or two seasons of that before a certain major life decision is made on camera... I mean, he can't be called the Blue Blur for long, right?

Viva La Smallville!

Ellivllams Ni S'annataz!:

Serinda Swan is on tap to portray Zatanna in an episode of Smallville. No word yet if she'll use her trademark backward speak for a few magic tricks!

Batman 3 in 2011?:

TDK's producer says he expects a new Batman film in 2011. He also hints at knowing about the new villains and a possible love interest without spilling the beans. Of course, 'executive talk' like this are usually hyper positive and we'll know nothing for sure until Nolan himself (or his bro Jonah) give sign that a plot was developed.

To me it's sounding like WB is trying to force a third movie with these little hints and half-news. If Nolan is still on vacation than he's on vacation, no need to rush something/anything just because somebody is bothering you over it. I'd just say, "Listen, I heard about all the buzz and I find the rumors and casting suggestions interesting but there is nothing concrete at the moment." Simple. My guess is we'll start hearing shit with weight to it next Fall or maybe even as early as Summer when the Superhero movie gloves come off from multiple studios vying for our geekly attention.

Later.

Green Lantern has been given a release date of December 17th, 2010. For what that's worth.

Forgot to mention that. Can't wait to see the production.

Super News:

Smallville got greenlit for a ninth season (call it Metropolis, already!).

Man of Steel, the sequel to Superman Returns, has been given the project name "Superman Unleashed". Whether that's merely a hint at production tone or story is up in the air.

I believe the Jonah Hex movie was also given a date of August 6, 2010.

I hope they do that Mark Millar Superman Trilogy. Scrap the current franchise and start from scratch. It sounds awesome and we'd see all the characters and avenues explored right from the getgo. We'd get a new, more badass Lex, a stronger Superman origin story, serious character development with everyone, and for the love of god, some formadible villians.
I want to see involvement from other baddies besides Lex. The military too.


If they go the trilogy route from step one they could do some awesome stuff, like origins and his "death".

Superman could really be the 'central force' in WB/DC's film plans. If they wanna be serious about crossovers and such.

Superman is all sorts of epic if they stop bumbling around and put Routh and a good director to work.

I never want to see or read another Superman origin story ever again.

Agreed. The origin's been done to death. I would love to see them incorporate some of the more interesting villains from Superman's gallery instead of just Lex and Zod. Hell, even a Lex with more interesting ideas would be fun (like the one from All-Star Superman or Lex Luthor:Man of Steel) Just no more goddamn real-estate scams.

They need to involve Doomsday and the Superman death angle in the series somehow. I've seen enough of him flying around saving people, and foiling Lex's real estate scams.
They need to up the ante. People want to see Superman's powers put to use and taken to the limit in action. Fighting.

What we need is white-collar criminal Lex, Kevin Spacey would eat that up. And at the same time, splice in some of that mad scientist Lex so Superman winds up fighting something Lex creates. Not Nuclear Man, though. Although I actually like Nuke Man, and wish he would get into comics. Anyway...

We're all pretty clear in that an origin story isn't needed, Lex needs to be dangerous, and Superman needs to punch something that won't die on impact. I think a suitable story could be forged out of the ending of Superman Returns. And it could involve little 'Superboy' even.

They should have dark seid or doomsday in it

Darkseid would bring allusions to greater things at work, something WB isn't ready to produce. Doomsday would be cool, and Braniac would be relevant.

Wouldnt Doomsday bring allusions too then?

It's been announced that they are going to be making a Suicide Squad movie. Could be awesome.

But its being written by the guy who decided to make a Green Arrow movie called "Supermax", so it could also be bad.

I thought Supermax sounded pretty cool actually.

I dunno, Supermax just seems like a cheesy B-Movie to me. Something you'd see John Cena star in or something.

Of what? An ancient Krypton? We're good and ready for that. The New Gods mythology? That's a whole new beast.

$10 says this idea won't get to preproduction.

Hoping for Darkseid in cloud form

Come on, Marvel has a monopoly on the 'Supervillain as a cloud" gimmick.

Darkseid is gonna be a tree.

Mongol as a villain for Superman would be pretty cool.

Just update the story where he uses the plant creature to hypnotize superman and make him think he's in a dream world would make a great movie. You would have to find a way to do it without Batman, Robin & Wonder Woman but I think that could make a great movie.

Nixing Batman, Robin, and Diana from "For The Man Who Has Everything" would be a fairly easy task. Now what do you do about the riots anti-adaptation freaks will ensue?

Show them Superman Returns. They will either realize this story isn't so bad, or run in fear and forget why they were rioting. :lol:

Well in some storylines the league helped fend off doomsday too not just superman which is what I assumed you had a problem with dark seid

Oh it wasn't that. We can do Doomsday without the JLA. In fact, Doomsday could be used as plot device to usher in the JLA to movies. I mean, what would make Superman suddenly think of bringing together a team of heroes? What would inspire Batman, GL, Wonder Woman to come together? His near death would do it.

Green Pastures Ahead:

With Wonder Woman rolling out, DC Animated next DVD feature is none other than an origin story for the Green Lantern! Bruce Timm says it's coincidence that the live-action film is picking up just as the next animated film is revealed. The DC Animated series has delivered Superman, Batman, JLA, and Wonder Woman features so far (though you can argue the Batman anime 'culture project' and the New Frontier adaptation doesn't count).

I'm noticing a trend, it seems Bruce and his team are making movies that elaborate on elements that were scarcely presented during their DCAU run. We got a proper Doomsday battle, a full Wonder Woman origin, and now a GL story. It's a shame these universes aren't connected.

By the way, the Wonder Woman movie is surprisingly pretty awesome. Not as great as New Frontier was, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Yeah, it was pretty good. Hella violent.

Kilowog's gonna be voiced by Mr. Blonde? Sweet!

Poozer.

With the late Micheal Turner's past relationship with DC, this nice piece of news lands here. RIP Turner, I'll miss your petite babes.

Fathom Comes to Screen:

Nice. This could be a big break for Megan.

EDIT:

Megan Fox is also slated to appear in the Jonah Hex movie, as the scarred hero's love interest.

Green Lantern's Tone?:

Producer Donald De Line: "It's going to be a series of big stakes and big action, but it absolutely has a sense of humor," he replied when asked about the humor quotient of the movie. "I think people accept real life, even with really serious situations, with humor as part of that situation, as we experience in life, you have to have that. That's how people cope, so they've done it so well in these other movies. I think that people are absolutely ready. It doesn't have to fall on one side of the fence vs. the other."

The entire context of this convo isn't revealed so I'm only guessing that the last line is some sort of allusion to The Dark Knight's depressingly dark tone. Other than that it's good to see they're taking GL to the 'feel good' range, unlike those ridiculous chats WB has had over Superman's tone.

Every once and a while news comes around that makes my day. I'm talking news so good you have to ask the source if they're bullshitting you just so you don't fall from your nerd-high. The last news that I wrote with a geek-trip smile on my face was Sam Jackson's return as Nick Fury in a bunch of Marvel films. This piece of news gets me just as giddy.

"Batman/Superman: Public Enemies" Gets Animated Film:

DC's consistently strong slate of animated movies will deliver an adaptation of Batman/Superman's first arc, "Public Enemies", which is one of my favorite comics of all time (seriously). It's relatively recent as far as great comics go (regarding the warrented belief that all the best 'hero books' came out years ago), but it is a great read. I have read it front to back on several occasions and bought it up on this forum when I spoke about a possible Batman/Superman movie.

Pick it up, it's good fun - that is if you can stand Leob's overuse of thought boxes and Ed's quasi anime partially deformed art style. And yet, both of those elements make the book great fun. Currently, the Batman/Superman series is shit, but the first arc is well worth an animated feature. I am stoked for it.

And hooray for DC Animated for moving at a pace WB can only dream of. Perhaps Bruce Timm and his team should be running the live action side of things.

So you gonna have someone on here arrested if you don't approve of the way they talk?

Yes.

On the 22nd this thread will be two years old.

Green Lantern will commence filming in September in Australia. I will try to get in contact with an Aussie who'll get some exclusive bits of anything during that time.

I wouldnt advise it, you get one and sure they look dumb and loveable, you keep it in a cage but after while you get tired of feeding them, they shit everywhere an...

Oh wait...

Nevermind. :shifty:

Toh S'annataz:

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Smallville's never short on guest superheroes and Zatanna makes her debut in the episode "Hex". In the above pic she's seems to be leaving Oliver Queen hanging, or perhaps she gets kinky like that. Never a fan of Zatanna myself but if she's that hot in live action let's make her a recurring character. Also, Paul Dini is fapping to this pic right now.

Awesome. Can't wait for that one.

How many other Animated movies do they have? Seeing the Green Lantern trailer I kinda wanna watch a bunch of them.

Agreed with the poster above. DC's animated movies tend to outdo their live-action films. Its actually quite frustrating when you think about it. But then again, not really.

You mean currently or coming up?

BCWWF

What could have been...

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Funky, you have officially scared me.

I'm a black man. It' kinda my job to be scary.

When he's not stealing bikes, of course.

I don't steal bikes man, that's just fuckin' racist. :(

I meant because you are big and can push people off them easily, mr. jump-to-conclusions.

With child strength? Unlikely.

Hooray for old timey whore clothes!

Ya know, every movie that gets announced, pre-produced, and filmed before another Superman movie makes me wanna bomb Warner Bros. Studios.

They just don't know what the fuck they are doing when it comes to live action shit that doesn't include the words "bat" or "joker". They have this great animated film section full of greatness like Superman Doomsday and Justice League: New Frontier, but can't put together anything else with DC. How about a fucking Preacher trilogy? The Bible Belt would be up in arms, which would create a massive hype machine.

They need to get with it, and stop worrying about focus group and shit. That's not how you make movies, dammit!

Yet Another Loser:

Oscar Jaenada (The Limits of Control, Che: Part Two) has landed the role of Cougar in Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book The Losers.

He's joining a cast that includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the leader Clay, Idris Elba is his second-in-command Roque, Chris Evans as Jensen, Columbus Short as Pooch, Jason Patric as Max and Zoe Saldana as Aisha.

Sylvain White is directing the movie about a band of black ops commandos who are set up to be killed by their own government. They barely survive and set out to get even.

Credit: Superherohype.com

Also, I've seen some rather... wacky misconceptions online. I just wanna say that The Losers is not Sly Stallone's action project (also about outcast soldiers). Just wanted to say.

The First Two Still From The Animated Adaptation Of One Of My Favorite Comics: Super/Batman: Public Enemies!!!:

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Adapting the comic art of EdM as well! Love it! Freaking out right now!

Kevin Conroy and Tim Daly have their respective voices. I am good with this.

IS THAT CONFIRMED?!? I'LL KILL YOU FOR LYING ABOUT THIS!

It is confirmed.

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I KNOW that scene!

Captain Atom. :heart:

Got raped within the DCU proper.

I have high hopes for this.

It's probably going to suck.

Just read the comic book story because I never read it before and heard it was good. It was average. Mayhaps in movie form it will be better. I can see the potential.

Fuck you. I say this nicely.

I'm looking at my copy right now, fucking love it.

Superman Has Options:

Brandon Routh's Superman contract has expired (way to drag your feet WB), but simply means WB doesn't have to use him in Superman movies and he doesn't have to return. Past news show that he's pretty much still 'in the boots', unless something goes wrong on the studio side.

Are they even working on another Superman movie?

They'll say yes, I think no. I think they're sitting on their ass waiting for some fucking... 'sign' that a Superman movie will make them the most money or some shit like that. To be honest we should be hearing about Superman 3 plans by now, with 'Returns 2 coming out on DVD already. But they're sitting chilling, butthurt that Superman Returns didn't net them enough to buy a small island (even though it fucking did). So no, they're not in the process.

Superman Returns is on FX like every weekend, and Brandon Routh is the best thing in that movie. So I hope he comes back.

Also Bruce Timm and company should do The Killing Joke. I don't care if it doesn't fit in with their continuity. They should just do it, because it would probably be good.

I'm just sayin.