First Trailer For Batman: Year One

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The first trailer for Batman: Year One, the animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s 1987 four-issue comic book arc of the same name, has been released over at MTV, and for someone who admittedly hasn’t read the original material, it looks good. The film will get its premiere at Comic-Con later this month on 22nd July, [...]

Green Lantern Ups Its Game With Three New Posters

Green Lantern Poster 3

Although I cannot count myself among them, I understand that there are a number of people looking forward to this summer’s Green Lantern. With little over a month remaining before the film’s June 17th release date, the production has upped its game with not one, not two, but three new posters. The first, a panoramic showcase of [...]

Christopher Nolan Confirms Himself as Batman 3 Director

Well, it’s not a huge surprise, but it’s good to know that as well as overseeing the next Superman film Christopher Nolan has just confirmed that he will be directing Batman 3. Empire had the rather good fortune to catch Nolan in a chatty mood and here’s the all important confirmation, I don’t know if [...]

Why Nolan Should Have Quit Batman

Last week, Inception broke the $500m worldwide gross milestone. A big success story, to be sure, but after The Dark Knight’s $1bn+ number, it perhaps isn’t really a major surprise. It was even less of a surprise when it was revealed that Nolan would be at the helm for Batman 3 once Inception was done and dusted, [...]

Michael Goldenberg to Pen Green Lantern 2

Michael Goldenberg

Variety have just reported that Warner Bros. Pictures have officially hired screenwriter Michael Goldenberg to pen the screenplay for Green Lantern 2. Despite the first instalment, Green Lantern, not being released until next year, it seems Warner Bros. Pictures have now committed themselves to a franchise. Michael Goldenberg co-wrote the Green Lantern screenplay alongside Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim [...]

Green Lantern Character Art Surfaces

Blake Lively

Warner Bros. Pictures have just unveiled character art for the upcoming Green Lantern film on their Twitter stream. It comes after marketing was kicked up a notch at last weekend’s Comic-Con event in San Diego. The art designs each feature one of the main cast members: Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Blake Lively [...]

Green Lantern Poster from Comic Con

Green Lantern Poster Comic Con

Some more Green Lantern news has trickled through, this time in the form of a poster which Collider spotted and snapped at Comic Con. This teaser banner (which you can see below) doesn’t really offer much more on what we’ve already seen, but with the tantalising tagline ‘The Ring Has Chosen’ at the top of [...]

Time To Take Comic Book Movies A Little More Seriously

Iron Man 2 is already on release around the world, and this weekend opens domestically. It has already passed the $100M mark before it even hits screens in the US. Arguably the most highly anticipated movie of the year, it could quite conceivably turn out to be the highest grossing, and has already enjoyed a [...]

Is A Marvel Budget Range A Step Too Far?

CHUD are reporting today (right HERE) that Marvel and Disney are developing an idea to put together a series of budget range movies based on some of the more obscure superheroes from the Marvelverse. With Iron Man 2 set to score big at the box office, and this year’s news dominated by reports on the casting [...]

The Bland And The Bold Of Comic Adaptations

Superheroes

Yesterday i posted an article (which you can find here) looking at the news that Joss Whedon had been chosen as the surprise choice to direct the forthcoming Avengers movie. I called it a bold choice, particularly in contrast with the other directorial choices Marvel have made for their forthcoming projects, choices i saw as [...]

New Quad Poster for The Losers

The Losers Poster

It looks like it’s going to be a good year for men-on-a-mission films with The A Team reboot, The Expendables and The Losers. The Losers is a adaptation of the Vertigo comic of the same name and as this new poster suggest, the film focuses on a group of misfits on a mission. It’ll probably [...]

Will We Ever See a Mark Millar Scripted Superman Film?

Superman Red Son

Back in 2007, the future writer of Kick Ass, Mark Miller spoke to Warner Brothers about possibly making a Superman film, stating on a forum that he would even write it for free as he was such a big fan. Mark Millar had previously written the excellent Elseworlds title Superman: Red Son in 2003 and [...]

New Cast Photo from The Losers

losers comic

Not content with giving us a lovely new trailer for Sylvain White’s film adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series The Losers, a new image has been published and it’s a good one. Certainly, as The L.A. Times (via MovieWeb) point out the image is an almost identical replica of the comic book image, also [...]

Mark Strong Contender to Play Sinestro in Green Lantern

Mark Strong

For a while there it was looking as if the rumours that Jackie Earle Haley was to be cast as Sinestro in Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern flick were going to be confirmed but today MTV reported that in conversation with Campbell during his Edge of Darkness press duties he confirmed who is actually is in [...]

Peter Sarsgaard to Face Off against Green Lantern

Peter Sarsgaard

With comic book movies taking up a lot of our time recently, it’s nice to report that some excellent casting has made one of the forthcoming adaptations a little more interesting. Ryan Reynolds is DC’s Green Lantern, and after the potential ruffling of feathers that casting Gossip Girl Blake Lively prompted, the news from THR [...]

Green Lantern’s Leading Lady, Carol Ferris, is Blake Lively

Blake Lively Green Lantern

The first question a lot of us had when THR reported that Warner Bros had cast Carol Ferris, the female lead in Martin Campbell’s forthcoming adaptation of Green Lantern, was ‘Who is Blake Lively?’ The article pointed to Keri Russell and Jennifer Garner as potential actresses to fill the role of Carole Ferris, who runs [...]

Green Lantern sees the (Green) Light

The Green Lantern

Never in any serious doubt Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern adaptation, starring Mr. Scarlett Johnasson – Ryan Reynolds, was given the green light today, throwing yet another comic book movie into the ring. This will be Warners and DC’s follow up to the Josh Brolin fronted Jonah Hex, due out sometime this year. SuperheroHype broke the [...]