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jerseydevil said:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Up for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY? | Collider

Hmmm. Like JGL, especially after watching Looper, and I have no familiarity w/the source material...but I get the feeling this is going to be more swashbuckling/adventure-ish and I can't see him playing so light. Zach Levi could be a solid choice, would be nice to see Chuck make the leap to movies...seems a good guy.
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I would kind of prefer to see Levi get the role just because I think a lesser known actor might be a better fit, but if it does go to JGL... I can live with that.
 
American Vampire #34: Farewell for a While | CraveOnline

Oh...this is sad. I guess Snyder is getting spread too thin. I keep wanting to pick up the trades on this, but with a hiatus, I guess there's no hurry now. Not sure(ADGY???) but isn't this one of Vertigos last real high profile books? Man, DC has taken one of the greatest sidelines and just crippled it. I stopped reading Vertigo books a while back(too many obscure titles and crime type stuff) but at one point it could be argued that Vertigo was stronger than DC's regular comic line. Sad.
 
jerseydevil said:
American Vampire #34: Farewell for a While | CraveOnline

Oh...this is sad. I guess Snyder is getting spread too thin. I keep wanting to pick up the trades on this, but with a hiatus, I guess there's no hurry now. Not sure(ADGY???) but isn't this one of Vertigos last real high profile books? Man, DC has taken one of the greatest sidelines and just crippled it. I stopped reading Vertigo books a while back(too many obscure titles and crime type stuff) but at one point it could be argued that Vertigo was stronger than DC's regular comic line. Sad.
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I've been keeping up with the hardcovers. This book is ****ing great. No rush, as I doubt the books are going to go out of print anytime soon, but... yeah, I think you'll dig this book, JD.

I know Snyder's got a new Vertigo mini-series coming up with Sean Murphy and that new Superman book with Jim Lee, but between this and him leaving Swamp Thing I can't help but worry a little. I guess as long as he doesn't leave Batman...
 
Another Way To Breathe - ?ber Announced

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It’s serious work. It’s obviously phenomenally violent. It’s written with the sense of moral outrage that WW2 has to provoke. I’m angry when I’m writing it. I can’t write about WW2 without being angry. Since I conceived it, I find myself thinking about reviewers who say I seem to be more interested in villains than heroes in my work. I suspect ?ber will provide more fuel for that particular argument.

As I said, I’ve tried to purge the majority of the tropes of the genre. This is a book that, if you run with its assumptions, takes itself seriously. It’s a book that is more concerned with large scale strategy and economic production. Technological advancement and R&D is key. The heroism tends to be desperate and futile. A tradition of the genre is that a weaker hero will overcome a stronger one. There’s none of that here, any more than a tank is anything but a target when a gunship pops over the horizon. It switches between those decisions between men poring over maps and the lives they’re ending as they push pieces around the board. As the size of the bible suggests, the world building is considerable and the plan is complete. I could end the series at any point by going into a documentary-style comic. While the title shows that the Wunderwaffen of the Germans precipitate the situation, this uses all the major players and all the major theatres. So far I’ve written everyone from Churchill to Hitler, from Guderian to Turing. Its scope is large, to say the least.

It’s overthought. It strives to be credible. It’s as ethical as I can make it. It’s dark as hell. I think it’s good.
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Very much looking forward to this.
 
Michael Keaton Says He Wanted To Do A Nolan-Esque Origin Story For Third 'Batman' Movie With Joel Schumacher | The Playlist

"You look at where he went, which is exactly what I wanted to do when I was having meetings about the third one," he continued. "I said you want to see how this guy started. We've got a chance here to fix whatever we kind of maybe went off. This could be brilliant." But alas, his vision wasn't supported.

By this point, Burton had left the franchise, and Joel Schumacher was now on board, and as the actor simply says: "[He] didn't want to do it, so I didn't want to do it." And it was probably for the best as Keaton wisely saw that things weren't going to turn out well. "I could see that was going south," he stated.
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FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Will Include “Stuff You Haven’t Seen in a Superhero Movie Before”


As we look forward to a number of superhero films hitting theaters this year, there’s also plenty by way of costumed characters heading our way in 2014 and 2015 as well. One such anticipated property is 20th Century Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four. The studio tapped Chronicle director Josh Trank to take the helm, and the project was recently given a March 2015 release date. As comics guru Mark Millar was just hired on at Fox as their creative consultant on all things Marvel, the talkative creative has been privy to all the in-the-works projects, including Fantastic Four. Now Millar has spoken up a bit about the reboot, teasing what fans can expect from Trank’s iteration of the characters. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.

During an interview with SciFiNow, Millar revealed that Trank is working on contemporizing the story:

“From what I’ve seen and from talking to him – he and I have had dinner a couple of times and we talk quite regularly as well – he’s contemporizing it. I think he’s just making it work for the screen – he’s a great storyteller.”

He went on to talk about the pic’s tone, teasing that it will include elements that have yet to grace the silver screen:

“What I wasn’t expecting actually was just how funny and likeable he could make this as well as getting the more awesome moments on screen – I use awesome in the traditional British sense and not the California sense awesome, you know? The Ridley Scott moments, and the Fantastic Four really are jaw-dropping in the same way you feel when you saw Alien for the first time. There’s some moments in this – not to be specific – that are actually gonna be phenomenal on screen and stuff you haven’t seen in a superhero movie before.”

Hopefully we hear more about the project as it moves closer to production. The Fantastic Four will open on March 6, 2015.
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More of Millar's trademark hype?
 
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