John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
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John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s Button Man strips were first published in 2000AD before becoming some of the House of Tharg’s best selling collected series books. Inevitably, the strip was optioned for movie adaptation and, before long, Dreamworks set about developing the picture.
This was back in 2006 when Wagner was hot in Hollywood off of the success of A History of Violence. Indeed, it was that film’s producers who took the rights to Dreamworks and started the ball rolling on their big-screen, big-budget Button Man.
But a ball can only roll for so long. If no movie is made on an option, sooner or later the rights revert to their original holder. That’s why there’s a rush job version of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged going before cameras right now – they literally started shooting on the very last day before the rights would slip through the producers’ fingers. And I really don’t want to remind you of the Corman quickie Fantastic Four film that you paid fifteen bucks for on ebay but turned off ten minutes in.
In the case of Button Man, Bleeding Cool were told that Dreamworks had hit the refresh button and stumped up the cash to keep a hold on it, and this week Arthur Ranson confirmed this on his blog.
I heard that Dreamworks have renewed their option on Button Man which is good news – not the best possible but good. They are still considering it, it could still happen, it is not ruled out, the possibility remains. Fingers crossed.
In all likelihood, then, they’re going to be attaching writers, a director and maybe even actors to this thing in the coming months. Stay tuned.
We’ve finally been given a look at Loki’s forces in the new, extended trailer for The Avengers, as premiered online just after a cut-down version graced the Superbowl. Here are four screen grabs from the single shot in which they appear with any degree of clarity: So it’s not the Skrull or the Kree –…
Here’s the new TV spot for The Avengers as premiered during the Superbowl – just, longer now. And that’s a good thing. For those of you who watched the Superbowl just to see this commercial, tell me: was it worth it? Related Posts:The Extended John Carter Superbowl Spot Is Here (Fixed) The Avengers Mini-Rushes –…
In yesterday’s webchat (referred to earlier), Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far… and that we’ll see it before the end of…
(Welcome Facebook people… please tell us who has linked to us, because we’re gettng massive traffc and we’d like to say thanks. And you can see more Bleeding Cool Doctor Who coverage here.) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will tomorrow be playing The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, described in their schedule as: A musical celebration with…
Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he’ll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the machinations of Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six are made clear. There’s webbing design on the lining as well. Related Posts:Spider-Man’s New Costume Gets…
When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true – Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda Conner, JG Jones, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes and John Higgins. There was another name that I dismissed as it was denied directly – that of Kevin Smith. His…
