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Secret Wars: Ghost Racers by Felipe Smith and Juan Gedeon For June

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Welcome to the scorching hot track of the most popular arena on Battleworld – for the one and only spectacle known as the GHOST RACES! Enslaved and bound to the arena, cursed souls race at the speed of sin – anything and everything goes. The only rule? No rules! Friendships, loyalties and family bonds will be tested. All in the name of the top prize. Win the Ghost Races – earn temporary freedom from the Arena. But what happens to the unlucky and unholy losers?
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I wonder if this is basically what's going to happen in all this Secret Wars stuff. Characters that have multiple iterations are going to be forced to fight each other, and the winner is the one that gets to live on in post-Secret War continuity.

Interesting.

Also: Digging that Francesco Francavilla cover art!
 
Tom Ellis To Play Lucifer In Fox Pilot

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Rush star Tom Ellis has been cast as the title character in Fox’s comic book drama Lucifer, written by Tom Kapinos and directed by Len Wiseman for Warner Bros. TV and Jerry Bruckheimer TV.

Based on the characters from the DC Entertainment’s Vertigo, the TV series centers on Lucifer (Ellis) who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the gorgeous, shimmering insanity of Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.

With Wales-born brunette Ellis, Lucifer is taking a darker turn as the original comic book character was modeled after another Brit, David Bowie.
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So... nothing like the comic, then.
 
Review: PlayStation's 'Powers' fails to take flight

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...wers-fails-to-take-flight#jcp41VWrKV0dLm2h.99

Even with top "Hannibal" director David Slade doing the pilot, "Powers" also looks cheap and small. The show does interesting things with the way it depicts the power of teleporting villain Johnny Royalle (Noah Taylor), but all the costumes look ridiculous on flesh-and-blood actors (and are mostly not meant to be silly), and there's only occasionally the sense of scale needed to convey how big and scary people with powers seem to normal folk. It's a premise that's simultaneously tiny (cops investigate gruesome murders) and grand (these crimes happen to, or are committed by, people who fly), but the production really only makes the first half work, even though it's beefed up the prominence of super characters like Retro Girl (Michelle Forbes) and Wolfe (Eddie Izzard) in the early going.


Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...wers-fails-to-take-flight#jcp41VWrKV0dLm2h.99
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Shame, but not unsurprising. Fx tried to crack this for over 3 years. And Playstation just forged ahead and, seemingly, rushed out a half formed product.
 
Valiant Announces $100 Million+ Deal To Make New Superhero Movies, From China

They will also work together to pursue large-scale Chinese licensing programs for the Valiant characters beyond film in publishing, toys, gaming, apparel and more.

The films are to be co-funded and distributed by major Hollywood studios, beginning with Bloodshot for by Sony Pictures and Neal Moritz‘s Original Film (producers of the Fast and the Furious and Jump Street franchises)

Other Valiant films already announced include Shadowman written by J. Michael Straczynski, and Archer & Armstrong with the Sean Daniel Company (Mummy franchise)

Look for more announcements at upcoming comic book conventions. Going to be an even bigger San Diego…
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Interesting. I recently bought a bunch of the new Valiant stuff on eBay, but haven't read any of it yet.
 
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