Comic-Con plays 'Lets' Make a Deal,' Day One
Announcements are coming fast and furious from all over as we head into Day One of Comic-Con. Here's what's going around:
* "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg is developing the Radical Comics title "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" as a feature film.
* "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" actor Luke Goss and Jenna Dewan are attached to a film adaptation of Top Cow's "The Magdalena" in the works from Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, Top Cow and Platinum Studios.
* WB has picked up the rights to Rob Liefeld's upcoming comic "Capeshooters" for director Bryan Singer to produce.
* "Battlestar Galactica" director Michael Rymer is confirmed to helm Top Cow's planned "Witchblade" feature.
* Benderspink has picked up "Underworld" creator Kevin Grevioux's "ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction" for feature development. Comic is published by Canuck publisher Red 5.
* "Iron Man" is reportedly coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray Sept. 30 in single-disc DVD, double-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-Ray editions.
* Newly minted Image Comics partner Robert Kirkman is teaming up with MTV to create animated digital comics based on his series, "Invincible." IGN has the interviews.
* Den of Geek reports that Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier — whose retraction of recent comments he made about being approached to direct a Superman film make anything he says worthy of a little suspicion — says a new Avengers character will debut in "Iron Man 2" and that Robert Downey Jr., Ed Norton and Samuel L. Jackson are set to reprise their various roles in the planned "Avengers" movie.
* Director D.J. Caruso is telling SuperheroHype that the absorption of New Line into WB has been good news for his planned adaptation of "Y: The Last Man." Caruso says the studio is high on the pic, which Shia Leboeuf is attached to star in, and it could come out in 2010.spoiler (click to show/hide)fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck[close]
* Summit Entertainment has acquired the rights to the one-shot comic "Leaves," published by Virgin Comics. Script will be penned by the comic's scripter, Kevin J. Walsh. The studio meanwhile has licensed the comics rights for the film "Push" to DC/Wildstorm. A six-issue prequel is planned, with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman on board to script.
* "DC: The New Frontier" creator Darwyn Cooke is set to adapt the first four novels in Richard Stark's "Parker" crime series for IDW.
Not sure how you would do a Y movie, but whatever, wasn't that good in the first place.
I want someone to try to do a Sandman TV series!!!!!!!
It was good, but some it is bloated and fairly juvenile. The bad parts boil down to little more than "men won't put the toilet seat down, hyuk, hyuk" and there is some garden variety messageboard misogyny as well.
I want someone to try to do a Sandman TV series!!!!!!!