marvel movies

[Cecil]

comic books are cool.

i like sin city and sandman

[Derek]

Talk about overdoing the comic book super hero genre.

Yeah, I agree. I don't really get why a lot of the directors I love (i.e. Aronofsky) are turning to these movies that will probably end up being exactly like one another regardless of how complex they try to make the character. I've never liked super hero movies or been into comics. I guess it's a guy thing.

Who can't handle a couple of super-hero movies in a year? It's not like you have to see them.

[polkablues]

comic books are cool.

i like sin city and sandman

If they ever come up with a decent script for a "Sandman" movie (the draft I read on the internet sucked ass), and get it made by a decent director, I would go see it ten times.

I'm also looking forward to Guillermo Del Toro's "Hellboy".  It's the role Ron Perlman was born to play.

[underdog]

who is the sandman anyways? ??  :scatter:

[underdog]

Small tidbit about Spiderman 2:

The Amazing Spider-Man: Zentertainment reports that Jake Gyllenhall ("Donnie Darko") will cameo as Kletus Kasady in the second film, setting himself up for a bigger role alongside 'Venom' in the third movie.

this should this make a movie on Vemon... screw spiderman..lol
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[bonanzataz]

Small tidbit about Spiderman 2:

The Amazing Spider-Man: Zentertainment reports that Jake Gyllenhall ("Donnie Darko") will cameo as Kletus Kasady in the second film, setting himself up for a bigger role alongside 'Venom' in the third movie.

this should this make a movie on Vemon... screw spiderman..lol
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Gyllenhall pisses me off.

[RegularKarate]

Your avatar pisses me off

[bonanzataz]

suck it RK. suck it long and hard. Buddy Holly will eat you and your unborn children.

[RegularKarate]

Buddy Holly looks like an unborn child.

Those fuckin' pearly whites are about to be bloody browns.
I'll soon have some famous teeth in my boots.

that or I'm gonna need another monitor soon

[Raikus]

PTA alum cast as "Doc Ock" in Spider-Man 2.

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Alfred Molina is Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2!
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:21 CST

Alfred Molina (Frida, Identity) will join Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco in Columbia Pictures' highly anticipated sequel to Spider-Man, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, Chairman of Columbia Pictures.

Molina will portray Spider-Man's new archenemy "Doc Ock" in the second installment to Columbia Pictures' 2002 worldwide phenomenon Spider-Man, which grossed more than $820 million worldwide and became the fifth highest grossing movie in U.S. history. Spider-Man is based on the classic Marvel Comic book series.

The sequel will reunite the cast and filmmakers from the original blockbuster, including Maguire, Dunst, and Franco along with director Sam Raimi, and producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. Columbia Pictures co-president of production Matt Tolmach is overseeing development of the project for the studio.

Raimi will begin principal photography in April and the new film will be released in 2004.

"Alfred Molina has a remarkable facility for everything from classic drama to mainstream comedy and he is the ideal choice for 'Doc Ock,'" said Pascal. "We wanted an actor that would bring irresistible depth and dimension to this role and we are all tremendously excited to be working with Alfred."

[joke08]

I think comic books make good / fun movies because they are such a classic form of storytelling PLUS they lend themselves to interpretation so the writers can have poetic license and change things, making them more suitable for cinema.

[Tommy Both]

MARVEL just rules. DC sux.

[MacGuffin]

Werewolf by Night Scribe on Board

Variety reports that Dimension Films has set Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) to write Marvel Comics' Werewolf by Night adaptation.

"Night," a comic series that originated in the '70s, revolves around a guy who tries to accept and live with the curse that transforms him into a wolflike beast during a full moon.

"It is our aim to bring the werewolf genre to mainstream audiences in the same character-driven way we have done with our other superhero films," said Marvel Studios' Avi Arad, who will executive produce. "'Werewolf by Night' is at its core a beautiful love story reminiscent of the great Shakespearean tragedies. It needs the meticulous heartfelt crafting that Robert Nelson Jacobs is known for."

[MacGuffin]

I know this is the Marvel movies thread, but...

Princes Bride Scribe is Writing Shazam!

Variety reported this morning that New Line Cinema has hired veteran screenwriter, comic fanatic and two-time Oscar winner William Goldman ("Dreamcatcher") to write Shazam!.

"I started collecting comics in 1938," Goldman said. "I was a lunatic comicbook lover, and I had everything. (This project) is a big deal for me. I hope I don't screw it up."

Slated for a Christmas 2004 or summer 2005 release, the film will be the first comic book adaptation for Goldman, whose credits also include "Misery." He won the Oscar for 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and for 1976's "All the President's Men."

In December, New Line acquired from DC Comics the feature rights on the 60-year-old title, in which mild-mannered Billy Batson discovers that he can call on the powers of an ancient Egyptian wizard, Shazam, and thereafter undertakes heroic exploits.

The Shazam! name is an acronym for six gods and heroes of the ancient world: the wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules, stamina of Atlas, power of Zeus, courage of Achilles and speed of Mercury.

[oakmanc234]

I think 'The Hulk' will be the best film of the three. It's got Bana, Connelly & Lee. I'm pretty dissapointed in the Hulk's FX but I'm sure it will all work out in the movie.
'Daredevil' looks average. OK. Fine. Nothing spectacular.
'X2' looks very cool. More characters. More action. More conflict.

By the way, has anybody seen Eric Bana's 'Chopper'. It's Australia's 'Raging Bull'. In another words, it's excellent. Sick, but excellent.