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 sequel to the 2008 adaptation of Mark Millar‘s graphic novel Wanted has been floating around in the aether for a long time. At one point it was supposedly canned after Angelina Jolie refused to return, mainly because [INSUFFICIENT SPOILER ALERT SPACE] her character died at the end of the first film. Jolie cited this as one of the main reasons that she didn’t feel up for a sequel.
Being dead makes it difficult. They were (trying to bring me back) but I kind of feel like if I die in a movie, I should die actually. I’m that way, and that character is not as complex as Salt. It would just be doing the exact same thing in another movie, so it’s not that interesting to me. [Coming Soon]
It’s pretty impressive that Jolie continues to pull the strings on the Wanted scripts even from beyond the grave. Ironically, it was her script change that killed the character off in the first place.
In the original, she doesn’t kill herself … I actually changed the ending. I said, ‘If she was to find out she had killed people unjustly and was a part of something that wasn’t fair, then she should take her own life.’ [MTV]
Believe it or not, Angelina Jolie isn’t actually going to be writing the script for Wanted 2. Derek Haas announced on Twitter yesterday that he and Michael Brandt, co-writers of the original Wanted, have been brought back to write the sequel. In conversation with The Wrap, Haas explained that the film doesn’t have a director attached yet, but that he and Brandt are planning to pick up the story where it left off with James McAvoy‘s character Wesley.
Wanted 2 [is] going to take off after the events of what just happened … Pick up Wesley a few years later and go back in for another round.
It’s a nice plan, but unless they do some clever recasting it relies entirely upon persuading James McAvoy to come back for another round. Since starring in X-Men: First Class McAvoy has become hot property and Universal may find themselves facing heavy competition when trying to bring him back for a sequel.
And finally, Mark Millar has been hinting that Wanted 2 is only one in a series of upcoming film adaptations of his work. Following the news about Wanted 2, he announced on his own site that:
“This is one of four or five big movie announcements from Millarworld in the next four weeks. Stay tuned.”
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…
