The upcoming Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment release of The Dark Knight Returns has been a long time coming, though I believe you heard about it here first. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s comic has been divided into two films for this adaptation, the first of which will be released later this year, the second…
Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is free, downloadable on ComiXology, but we also took this opprtunity to make it available free on Bleeding Cool as well, below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool…
Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big as the US conventions, but over in sunny old Blighty (though I did notice the sun pretty much eluded us this year). It’s a good show,…
At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
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While Jerry Robinson had the original notions that became The Joker, the look of the character was created by Bill Finger, and inspired by Paul Leni’s very striking silent picture The Man Who Laughs. In the film, the great Conrad Veidt plays an English nobleman cursed to forever have a horrendous rictus grin. That’s a picture of Veidt in the role on the left.
The grin makes things rather hard for this character, to say the least, though I suppose he was very lucky there wasn’t some kind of kinky fascist in an animal costume on his case. Talk about a bummer.
The film was based upon a novel by Victor Hugo, and now that book is being adapted again.
According to The Wrap, director Jean-Pierre Ameris will start shooting this Monday, in Prague. Ameris’ last film was Beautiful Lies, a slightly spiky and quietly self aware rom-com that I included on my 101 Films From 2011 to Not Miss list.
Amongst the cast of The Man are Gerard Depardieu and Emannuelle Seigner, with the Canadian Marc-Andre Grondin in the title role.
Grondin is in Goon, currently playing in UK cinemas, as a gone-to-seed hockey player. Not for one second of that movie did I think “Man Who Grins“.
While I’m quite the fan of Leni’s film, I’ve never read Hugo’s novel. Judging from the plot summary that has been wikid, there were significant differences made in the adaptation – including the ending. I’m curious to see which way Ameris goes.
But, if I’m being honest, I’m more curious to see the look they’ve designed for the title character.
Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as “closet”) thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the…
What would you do if you met a visitor from another time? Michael Moran finds out when he sees a movie sequel that’s at least a decade overdue. Has time been kind to Earth’s shadowy guardians?
“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU,…
Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman’s comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there. Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a…
It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso has been contacting other creators on other Marvel books to ensure they reflect… whatever change is coming with Amazing Spider-Man #700 towards the…
Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…
