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adgy-san said:
No hope for Guardians Of The Galaxy, Doc?
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I'm sure it will be fine. As will the Ant Man movie and Avengers 2 etc etc etc...

I just don't think it will ever be as awesome as the first Iron Man movie & The Avengers.
 
Benicio Del Toro Joins GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Collider

Benicio Del Toro nearly signed on to a major sci-fi film when he was in talks to play the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness, and while the deal ultimately never came to fruition, it appears that the Oscar winner is going to be appearing in a rather high-profile franchise pic after all. Deadline reports that Del Toro is the latest actor to join the truly remarkable cast for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. The nature of Del Toro’s role is being kept under wraps, but it’s said to be a significant character that is poised to also appear in future Marvel movies. As such, Del Toro’s deal includes the option to appear in a number of Marvel films. Could the villainous Thanos have finally been cast? Hit the jump for more.

Director James Gunn has assembled a ballsy yet promising ensemble cast for the space-set Guardians, with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, David Bautista, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly, and most recently Glenn Close and Karen Gillan all set to star. Del Toro is currently filming Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation Inherent Vice, but Guardians of the Galaxy marks the actor’s first foray into the world of franchise tentpoles.

The peculiar and relatively obscure nature of the source material makes Guardians a bit of a risk for Marvel, which has been on a hot winning streak as of late with the back-to-back billion dollar grosses of The Avengers and Iron Man 3 , but the studio sure is swinging for the fences on this one. Guardians of the Galaxy starts production this summer in anticipation of an August 1, 2014 release date.
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THANOS!!!!!!!!!
 


so far the trailers seem to have alternated from making the movie look good, or bad. This is one of the good ones. Not going to say that I feel terribly positive about this. I hope it's at the very least, not horrible. And maybe it'll surprise and be pretty good. Jim Carrey being in it scares me simply because he has been such a fail magnet for some time now.
 
FABLES Movie to Be Directed by Nikolaj Arcel and Written by Jeremy Slater | Collider

When I got back into comics in 2002, one of my must-read series was Fables. Aside from the gorgeous, eye-catching covers from artist James Jean, Bill Willingham stories’ cleverly re-appropriated fairy tales taking familiar characters like Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Little Boy Blue, et al. (known as “Fables”) and forcing them to build new lives in New York City. While there were individual arcs like the detective Big Bad Wolf (renamed “Bigby Wolf”) trying to solve a crime, and story centering on a revolt on the Farm where non-human Fables are kept, there was an overarching arc involving a mysterious figure named “The Adversary” who was responsible for taking over the Homelands and sending the Fables into exile. The books petered out eventually, but there was plenty potential for a movie, and now one is moving forward.

Hit the jump for more details.

According to Heat Vision, director Nikolaj Arcel (the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair) has signed on to direct the adaptation, and screenwriter Jeremy Slater (the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four) will pen the script. I haven’t seen A Royal Affair yet (I’ll be remedying that soon), but I have full faith in Slater handling the script. Furthermore, David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films (the producers behind the Harry Potter franchise) are on board to produce.

This isn’t the first attempt to adapt Fables, but it’s the best shot to make it happen thus far. Warner Bros. tried to develop a film in 2004 with the Jim Henson Company, but that never got to the screenwriting stage. Then in 2008, ABC was planning to adapt it into a TV series, but that also fizzled out. However, when ABC eventually launched its own fairy-tale-characters-in-the-real-world series, Once Upon a Time, in 2011, I was shocked legal action didn’t follow.

But that’s all in the past, and fans of the comics should be excited for the adaptation’s future.
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The Bullying Of Creators - Paul Jenkins Talks About Leaving DC And Marvel For Boom - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

I have a publishing relationship that has lasted for years with Marvel. It was not always a perfect relationship, as both Marvel and I are aware. But while we have not always seen eye to eye, my business with Marvel is between myself and the company. Fans would be correct to have an issue with me if I simply aired my day-to-day grievances publicly without having a good reason to do so. But DC is a different matter altogether. Why am I willing to describe certain specific events during my brief encounter with them for the New 52? Because I am appalled at the way in which creators are being bullied, and somewhat freaked out at the things I saw in my own time there. I encountered more lies and veiled threats – more attempts to justify dysfunctional behavior and systems – than I have ever encountered in my career. And believe me, I have been around a while and seen a lot, notably with Mirage and Tundra. In at least two obvious cases – once the editors responsible were found out – I received a “my bad” email with the assumption that we move on and sweep it all under the rug.
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Thing I don't get about DC...is that it's not working. The new 52 gag has soured and I would have to say between cancellations of good books and the overall mediocrity of the ones that actually sell, you would think someone would have stepped in at this point and overhauled the editorial staff. If you have this much defection of talent under really bad blood, with REALLY public fallout whoever is at the top is seriously asleep at the switch. With all the plans Warner Brothers wants to move forward on in the film forum...they need to get their damned comics division working right. It sickens me that Marvel just OWNS them.
 
jerseydevil said:
Thing I don't get about DC...is that it's not working. The new 52 gag has soured and I would have to say between cancellations of good books and the overall mediocrity of the ones that actually sell, you would think someone would have stepped in at this point and overhauled the editorial staff. If you have this much defection of talent under really bad blood, with REALLY public fallout whoever is at the top is seriously asleep at the switch. With all the plans Warner Brothers wants to move forward on in the film forum...they need to get their damned comics division working right. It sickens me that Marvel just OWNS them.
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Couldn't agree more, but I guess the money is coming in well enough that they don't need to care about anything else right now.
 
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