I just saw the new Watchmen trailer and hoo-boy! I continue to be encouraged by what I'm seeing.
Also, I noticed something on the Ozymandias poster that thrills me beyond words:
That long-eared cat thing looks exactly like the ones Gibbons drew. Aieeeee!
I am easily amused. Carry on.
Josh Brolin has been tapped to play Jonah Freakin' Hex. I freaking love Jonah Hex. So does, Dwayne "the canoe guy"! I mean, he runs a whole blog about Jonah. I just feature his covers every now and then. Dwayne's pretty hardcore.
Anyway, I think Brolin's a good choice for the character. I wonder how they're going to handle the makeup for the scar.
In other news, the two most recent issues of Jonah Hex are really good.
The Hollywood Gang has optioned screen rights to Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse's Ocean which is one of my favorite comics.
I think it will work well on the big screen. Is it too much to hope that the promotional stills will look something like this?
The payout copy of Marvel Comics #1 goes up for auction. Since I'm not a big-time comics collector, this is the first I've heard of payout copies. I can see why such a thing would be valuable I just didn't know about the practice. I'm curious to see how much it goes for.
A British company I've never heard of buys a stake in an American comics company I've never heard of.
Hell, yeah! There's a Jonah Hex movie in the works! Please don't screw this up.
The Y: The Last Man movie has a creative team. D.J. Caruso will direct and Carl Ellsworth will be the inker-- I mean writer.
Here's part 2 of the episode begun in yesterday's senses-shattering post!
Check out the closing credits. The FF sure did fight a lot of really big people, didn't they?
Many things have conspired to keep me away from the blog lately and it looks like they will be around for the next week or so. Actual, factual content is on the way. Until then, enjoy the Fantastic Four movie that could have been:
Not only does The Watcher suck at staying out of other people's business, he sucks even more when he goes against all his people represent by trying to help out. I guess he needs more practice.
Pay special attention to:
The Testing Devices of the Dread Galactus.
Galactus attacks Ben with the Cosmic Dreidel.
Oh, snap! Galactus totally severed Johnhy's head!!
Archie to get Indian makeover. Now that's outsourcing! My favorite quote:
"Archie is not as funny as Chacha Chaudhary," the crime-fighting Hindi comic book hero."
From the blog of the Executive Producer of the Global Frequency pilot.
An excerpt:
"I bitch and moan about how all this emergent technology is going to change the entertainment industry and nobody's taking advantage of it. And here I have, well, unless I'm mistaken, a fan base which exists and is trying to organize for a show which has never appeared on television. Not a cancelled show -- a show which has literally never aired on broadcast television. "
"BUT ... having said that, I'll make some calls, talk to some humans. I'll try to learn, in what time I have, how this totally new process could work. That's what we're talking here, about you (the audience) creating a completely new process for television shows.
On the other hand, the entire idea of Global Frequency is of ordinary people subverting the establishment and getting things done. The concept of a fan base for the show subverting the establishment and getting things done ... frankly that's a little irresistible."
From the "Stuff I wish I'd said" department, BeaucoupKevin (of BeaucoupKevin fame) has good stuff to say about the Global Frequency Pilot.
An excerpt:
We need to believe in the common man as hero now more than ever, and this show could have gotten us all a little closer to that - all of the viewers would be on the Global Frequency.
