Green Archer Misses the Target

It has been a while since I visited myLot (which is one of the reasons that inspired me to create this blog) and I came across a discussion that was asking for your favorite characters from the comic world. The person that started this discuss named his favorite characters as: Green Archer, Wolverine, and Silver Surfer. At first I thought to myself "who is this Green Archer character, I have never heard of him before," and that's because the Green Archer doesn't exist. I think the character that he meant to say was Green Arrow, although he was close keeping with the whole archery theme. Growing up primarily with Marvel comics it took me a while to realize that DC's Green Arrow was the equivalent to Marvel's Hawkeye (one of my favorite characters). I just thought Green Arrow had a bow and basic arrows. I think it would be awesome to have trick shoot challenge between Hawkeye and Green Arrow.

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Shedding Some Light on the Dark Knight

The LA Daily News made a brief mention that the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, will begin filming in April; the film is deep in pre-production right now. They asked director Christopher Nolan what his reasons were behind casting Christian Bale (Batman) in three films (Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight), Nolan said "Christian has got a very, very extreme form of intensity that comes across on the screen." I though that was very interesting.

In other Batman news, Maggie Gyllenhaal will be the new leading lady in the Dark Knight, replacing Katie Holmes as the hotshot lawyer. I found this from Lee's blog Quit Your Day Job. Lee talks about if Maggie's character ends up being more of a "damsel in distress" role, just taking up precious screen time what's the point. And I totally agree with him, to me a movie is so much more exciting when the hero is try to save the world from evil domination rather save the girl who happened to get mixed up with the villain. I know that I have talk about this in other posts (particularly with this film), but I still do not under stand why actors refuse to continue playing their role in sequels. To me it's like me going into work for three days a week and then having someone else coming in to finish off the week, life just doesn't work that way and neither should movies. If I had the power the make the decision, I would leave the Katie Holmes character completely out, especially if the character is just going to be some marginal part in the plot. Do it right or don't do it at all, that's what I say.

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The Incredible Hulk eh?

I found a story on Hollywood North Report site that reported that the Universal/Marvel Entertainment production team "has been scouting studio locations to set up shop in either Toronto or Vancouver." So the new Hulk movie is going Canadian eh? The rest of the article just goes through the background of the Hulk and the other two main characters that have been talk about for this movie "Thunderbolt" Ross and Abomination (aka Emil Blonsky).
I think if the production team does decide on filming in Canada that one of the outtakes should be the Hulk saying "Hulk smash everything eh?"

Update:

Torontonians beware! The Incredible Hulk is coming. The city has been chosen as a principal filming location for the upcoming Marvel Studios production of "The Incredible Hulk." "The Incredible Hulk" is expected to begin shooting this summer for about four months. (source)

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Ghost Rider Blazes Across the Silver Screen

Comingsoon.net had this to say about Ghost Rider's opening weekend:

"Despite less than stellar reviews, Sony's Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage playing the Marvel Comics character, found a huge audience of fans this weekend, as it grossed an estimated $51.5 million over the four-day weekend in 3,619 theaters. With an astounding average of over $14 thousand per theater, Ghost Rider easily beat previous holiday weekend records set by Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates and Ghost Rider director Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil. Having made $44.5 million over the three-day weekend, the action-thriller also set a new opening record for its star Nicolas Cage, whose previous high was $35 million with 2004's National Treasure."

I have to admit that I was a little worried about how well this movie would do. Ghost Rider is not as well known as some of the other characters in Super Hero movies. I am really glad that it did well, it probably helped to have some well known actors playing the title characters.

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Blog Overhaul

I must apologize for not posting in such a long time, I have been update the look and features of the blogs that I am responsible for. All three were completely redesigned, they all needed a new look in a bad way. The work included this blog as well as Random Encounters and Random Games. Go check them out and see if all the neglect was worth it. Although everything that I wanted to do hasn't been done yet (when is wed design ever "done") I am more or less at a stopping point. I will do my best to keep this blog up-to-date as much as possible.

 

Comic Carnival

Starting this week is a carnival about everything related to super heroes and comics hosted by News and commentary about comics. I submitted my post about "What Super Hero are You Most Like?" So to get some of the latest news and info about the comic world check it out.

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WOLVERINE MOVIE: Will It Include Brian Cox

Ain't It Cool News is asking the question if Brian Cox, who played William Stryker the main villain in X2, will be appearing in the up coming Wolverine movie. The movie is set to be 17 years ago and Brian said that maybe they can do to him what they did to "Professor X" (Patrick Stewart) and "Magneto" (Ian McKellen) at the beginning of X3, be CG Young-ified. He knows his character is in the film and they have asked him to be in film, but it is yet to be seen how things work out.

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The WB Directors Headed in the Wrong Dirtection

Warner Brothers is planning on making two DC comics movies, The Flash and Wonder Woman, but from what I here they are having trouble getting the ball roiling. Both David Goyer, the writer and director of the Flash, and Joss Whedon, the writer and director of Wonder Woman, will no longer be filling those roles. (Both have made announcements on their blogs) It seems that the the studio is headed in a different direction than their directors. It sounds like the movies are still planned for production but new directors/writers need to be found.

I think it's great that someone is trying to produce some DC Comic character movies but it is too bad that they are having a hard time. Situations like this could have also happened with some of the Marvel movies, but I just haven't heard anything like this. Personally I am a bigger Marvel fan than DC, although it might seem like the contrary is the case when looking at all the DC related content. I am excited to see how these movies turn out, I hope that the product teams for each put in the time and effort they deserve rather than just trying to cash in on the Super Hero Movie craze.

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The Hulk: Reborn

The latest news on the new Hulk movie, The Increadible Hulk, is that director Louis Leterrier has said that the main villian in this movie will be "Thunderbolt" Ross, but Emil Blonsky (aka Abomination) will also be in the film. The movie is scheduled to be release June 27, 2008. He also said: "The title character will also show feats of strength." Since it's a movie about the Hulk I figured that was kind of obivous. It is still unclear who will play the leading role of Bruce Banner; Eric Bana, who play this role in the first movie most likely will not fill this role. There were also rumors that Prison Break's Dominic Purcell (aka Linc) would play the leadings role but those rumors have been comfirmed as false by Dominic himself.

It will be intersting to see how this movie turns out. I have heard that this movie is not supposed to be a sequal, it is suppose to be more of a new start because the first movie didn't do so well. I guess we'll just wait ot wait and see how things turn out.

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