RUMOR CONTROL: JOSS WHEDON TO DIRECT THE AVENGERS??
Source: scifiwire.com
There’s a lot of bogus news going up today in honor of April Fool’s Day, but our pals at IESB.net insists this is real, so we’ll bite:
Among the contenders to direct the proposed Avengers movie for Marvel is cheerful atheist and Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator JOSS WHEDON!
The site reports that Whedon is edging out Clash of the Titans director Louis Leterrier:
Whedon, who was previously writing and directing WB’s long gestating Wonder Woman film, has a history with the Marvel brand as a comic book writer. His run of the Astonishing X-Men was one of Marvel’s best selling lines and was nominated for several Eisner Awards. He was also the second writer on the Runaways line for Marvel and wrote short stories for Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man.
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WATCH NIC CAGE KILL EVERYONE IN NEW KICK-ASS CLIP
Source: io9.com
Nic Cage is lethal, devastating magic with his shotgun, knife and karate hands. See him murder a whole gang full of mobsters, in this exceedingly violent Kick-Ass clip. This is the real-life superhero violence we crave.
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BURTON TO BRING GAIMAN’S ‘SANDMAN’ TO THE BIG SCREEN
Source: FEARnet.com
It’s a dream come true for diehard fans of The Sandman, and potentially a match made in moviemaking heaven.
Fresh off the box-office success of Alice In Wonderland, acclaimed director Tim Burton has announced plans to direct a big-budget film adaptation of the legendary Sandman graphic novels for an early 2012 release. Principle filming will start later this year in England.
Casting details and more after the jump.
April Fools! Sorry to the many Sandman fans who got their hopes up for this, and a special note of appreciation to Neil Gaiman for who weathered the storm of “is this true?” tweets with his customary good cheer.
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PAUL GREENGRASS GOES ON A ‘FANTASTIC VOYAGE’
Source: heatvisionblog.com
Paul Greengrass, coming off the Iraq War thriller “Green Zone,” is moving into more commercial territory by going on a “Fantastic Voyage.”
The director is in talks to direct Fox’s long-gestating remake of the 1966 sci-fi thriller which is being produced by James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment
The original “Voyage,” made during the Cold War, revolved around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent on a miniature submarine to save the life of a defecting Soviet scientist. The story then followed the biological adventures the team encounters in trying to save the scientist and themselves.
The new take hews closely to the original, minus the Cold War element, and will add snazzy up-to-date special effects and be delivered with the medium du jour, 3D.
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Yeah, okay – I was suckered in to the Sandman April Fools Joke. I wanted to believe it so, so much. *Sighs forlornly* Were you? What do you think of today’s movie news?
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