His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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The Unstoppable junket is underway this weekend, and as expected, director Tony Scott has faced a barrage of questions about the in-development sequel to Top Gun. What’s Playing are first out of the traps with a horse’s mouth confirmation that Scott has said yes and will be directing the sequel.
The film suddenly sounds really real. Which is a bit surreal.
Probably the only way they could get me to care much about this film is if Quentin Tarantino agrees to write the screenplay. Not only did he provide Scott with the screenplay for True Romance, quite comfortably the best film of the director’s career, Tarantino also has a famous (though most likely long since retired) party piece* that revolves around the original Top Gun. You can see him enact it here in a clip from Sleep With Me:
Another check in the Tarantino column can be credited to his rewrites for Crimson Tide. Remember all of that business about stallions and cigars? Hilarious. That’s the stuff that Topper Gun would need a ton of.
After Jerry Bruckheimer recently confirmed that a Top Gun sequel was drawing ever nearer, the first rumours had it that Tom Cruise would be appearing, if only in a cameo role. But then Entertainment Weekly reported that Christopher McQuarrie’s screenplay would actually focus on Maverick, the Cruise character. Surely Bruckheimer and the studio would get Cruise to agree to the film, at least in principle, before having McQuarrie press on ahead with his writing? They don’t think they could get away with a recast, do they?
Maybe they do. Maybe it’s going to be a kind of reboot. With Chris Pine. And Simon Pegg as his comedy chum. And America are at war with the Chinese. And there’s some kick-ass dogfights. And a Silver Surfer poster. All of that sounds really good.
*Apparently either written or co-written by Roger Avary.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
