The Week In Geek, No Supes or Batty, Lucas XXXcitement
Justice League Movie Without Superman and Batman?!?
So ok, take this news with not a grain, but a pound of salt; but it seems that Warner Brothers’ Justice League of America movie is back on the front burner again. This of course should come as no surprise, especially with Marvel Studios moving forward on Avengers and making such a huge splash at Comic Con this year. What does sound awful though is the notion that both Superman AND Batman are being left out of this version of the Justice League. According to the original story over on comicbookmovie.com, the current script being developed will focus on Green Lantern, Flash (who is set to star in his own movie soon along with GL) with Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman being introduced in the JLA movie. While there was never any doubt that Aquaman and J’onn J’onzz were very likely never getting their own movies first, it is more than a bit disappointing that Wonder Woman is relegated to being “the chick” of the movie, but the writing has been on the wall when it comes to Wonder Woman getting her own movie for some time now. But seriously, leaving out Superman and Batman would be like doing the Avengers movie without Captain America, Thor and Iron Man. What the hell would be the point?? By the end of 2012, Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy will have come to a close, and Superman will have hopefully been reintroduced to the movie world with leaps and bounds in quality. Wouldn’t that be the ideal moment to have them team up with the other DC Heroes? Hopefully new DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns will do his job and make sure this half assed JLA movie is done right, or not done at all.
Speaking of a JLA flick, actor Jay Baruchel, who was set to star in George Miller’s aborted 2007 version of the movie as Maxwell Lord, recently spilled a little bit on what was to have been
“I’ll just say this, if we had been able to make the movie that we had gone down [to Australia] to rehearse, if you had seen the production art I’d seen … it would’ve been the coolest thing ever. It would have been the neatest vision of Batman and the coolest vision of Superman you’ve ever seen. It would have been dark and fairly brutal and quite gory and just f**king epic.”
Despite fanboys everywhere breathing a sigh of relief when this was shit canned, the few script reviews for this movie were actually pretty positive. This movie was this close to happening, and yet it is amazing we have never seen a single leak in the intervening years of concept art or costume tests. WETA designed the costumes after all, among other things. Would love to see what might have been. Someone leak that shit already! I mean, It can’t be any worse than this….
JUST FOR TODAY, STOP HATIN’ ON GEORGE LUCAS
Yeah, we all know how much you hate George Lucas for raping your childhood or whatever, but the man just agreed to give away half of his billion dollar fortune to charity, along with forty other billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. This alone should make you feel better about the money you shelled out for Phantom Menace and Crystal Skull. At least you know it went somewhere worthwhile. And Speaking of Lucas and Star Wars…cue the John Williams music…..
You know you’ve been waiting for it, you fuckin’ dirtly liitle pervert. Announced first here at Geekscape during Comic Con, Vivid Entertainment are finally coming out with a Star Wars Porn Parody. But will Lucas and his lawyers come after Vivid? It is parody and therefore should be legal, but Lucas is said to be cool with any and all Star Wars parodies….except for those involving pornography. And half a billion dollars can afford you the some pretty good lawyers still. Any good will Lucas might have earned for giving away half his fortune to the poor starving babies of the world will evaporate if some nerd doesn’t get to see Princess Lay-ah get molested by the tail of Jabba the Slut. And you know you’re that nerd.
QUENTIN TARANTINO MIGHT KNOW WHERE EVIL LURKS
After the success of Inglorious Basterds, people have been wondering just what Quentin Taranantino is going to do next. And the big rumor this week is that he will be tackling the classic hero of 1930’s pulp fiction (heh) The Shadow. This of course, could be fucking awesome, and is pretty much the closest thing we geeks would get to a QT directed super hero movie. What makes me think this might all be bullshit, though, is that current Shadow rights-holders are none other than Twentieth Century Fox, the most director unfriendly studio there is today. The idea of Fox studio chairman Tom Rothman letting Tarantino run wild with an R rated “super hero” movie just does not seem likely. But man, it would be awesome wouldn’t it? Considering Tarantino’s penchant for using older actors, maybe he’ll find a role for original Shadow Alec Baldwin? Yeah okay, probably not.
