NEW IRON MAN TRAILER:BLACK WIDOW, WHIPLASH, WAR MACHINE!
Source: scifiwire.com
Scifi Wire has the new Iron Man 2 trailer up on it’s website! Check it out HERE!
RYAN REYNOLDS’ GREEN LANTERN COSTUME IS SNUG IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES
Source: io9.com
Last night at the Oscars, Ryan Reynolds let slip a few superhero details about working on the Green Lantern film in New Orleans. Specifically about his Green Lantern Corps uniform, and how it hangs on his new superhero figure.
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WHY WE JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF ALICE
Source: Los Angeles Times
When Lewis Carroll popped Alice down the rabbit hole in 1865, he had no way of knowing that the girl in the pinafore dress — along with the creatures that populate “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its 1872 sequel “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” — would become a permanent fixture on our pop culture landscape.
The phenomenon encompasses more than the 100-plus versions of the book – the most recent of which, published last month, pairs Carroll’s text with illustrations by Camille Rose Garcia and recently hit the Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestseller lists. It’s something beyond the more than two dozen feature film incarnations, ranging from a star-studded 1933 version — in which Cary Grant played the Mock Turtle, W.C. Fields was Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper, the White Knight — to the Tim Burton take that opened Friday. And it’s greater than the nearly dozen TV versions (the most recent a Syfy miniseries that included Kathy Bates as the evil Queen of Hearts who happens to run an emotion-emptying casino and Harry Dean Stanton as a shadowy operative code-named “the Caterpillar”).
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CHINESE WRITER SEEKS $146 MILLION FROM JAMES CAMERON FOR PLAGIARISM SUIT
Source: io9.com
Add one more Avatar-esque story to the pile James Cameron allegedly cribbed for inspiration. Beijing-based scifi writer Zhou Shaomou believes that Cameron ripped off his online novel Tale of the Blue Crows. What’s Shaomou want? A cool 1 billion yuan.
According to Shaomou, much of Cameron’s Oscar-nominated film was yanked from the Chinese author’s 1997 space epic novel, right down to the details of Jake Sully’s space flight
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Oh, Ryan Reynolds. That’s the life of a Superhero! *pets him*
Iron Man 2! I’ll admit, when the first trailer came out I was a bit dubious about it – Iron Man was good and fun, as superhero movies go – but it’s sequel looked a little lackluster to me. But, this one is pretty! And yay, Pepper!! What do you think of it?
What do you think about the law suit against James Cameron?
The Alice article is an interesting read, with some interesting insights into how the Wonderland characters can be interpreted. Why do you think people love the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland story?
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