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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There can’t be many parts more fashionable than Lisbeth Salander right now, and David Fincher continues to be almost unutterably hip too. I’m failing to think of a single upcoming Blu-ray release better suited to conspicuous coffee table placement than his version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It’s the kind of film that sells absolutely colossal numbers of posters.
But it will have quite a big audience crossover with Twilight, I think. Indeed, The Girl appeals to a lot of the Twilight fans I know (I teach at a school full of teenagers, they’re not so hard to come by).
I’m sure the following news will go down well with this overlap.
You see, according to Hollywood Life, nu-Lisbeth* Rooney Mara was seen chatting with Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke at the “Women In Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party.” The reporter managed to have a few words with Mara, giving the actress a chance to confirm putative plans for collaboration with the director. They weren’t just socialising over a pre-Oscar cocktail, says Mara:
I am a huge fan of Catherine’s and would love to work with her. We have something planned, but I can’t talk about it yet. I am really excited though.
Well, there you have it. Straight from the horse’s mouth… well, after filtration through a gossip website. It seems kosher at first glance, though.
Hardwicke is currently cooking up an “erotic thriller” called Plush, a film which will reunite her with Thirteen‘s Evan Rachel Wood and which was described as:
A 21st century Fatal Attraction… set in the turbulent world of Los Angeles’ rock-and-roll community.
Does seem like Mara could slip right in and be boiling rock-and-roll bunnies before you know it.
On the other hand, Hardwicke has also been working on a biopic of Swedish boxer Bosse Högberg, and Noomi Rapace was, for a while at least, cast in its other lead role, as the Swedish pop star Anita Lindblom. Seeing as Ms. Rapace’s ex-husband Ola Rapace was set to play Högberg, however, I can see how some rejigging might now be necessary.
So.. if that project is even still alive, could Hardwicke be considering the replacement of one Salander with another?
Two not-impossible options. Or perhaps it’s something else entirely. When I know, you’ll know.
*Lisbeth-lite? Discuss.
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…
