With all of the great superhero movies that there have been, there’ve been quite a few stinkers as well. And then there have been some that never made it before cameras — both promising sounding scripts and some that were so very, very bad. Here are 11 superhero films that might have been. Read more »
Marvel dropped the Avengers teaser trailer on us yesterday, and it’s looking awesome. But it goes by way too fast for my taste, so I took fifty high-res screengrabs to really get the full effect. Magnanimous guy that I am, I’m sharing them with you. You’re welcome. Read more »
Finally the San Diego Comic Con is in full swing, and many interesting teasers and statements are emerging. It’s one of those hallowed events I would not only like to be there, but to be there in multiple bodies, one at every stand and panel simultaneously. Read more »
While Joss Whedon has promised he would never create a Dollhouse comic book, he never said anything about creating a spinoff from the series, now we’ve come to learn that he’ll release a comic called “Epitaphs” which conveys the story of several key characters who survive the takeover. The comic will come bundled with season two DVDs. Here’s the synopsis for the comic book: Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, joined by longtime Buffy the Vampire Slayer artist Cliff Richards, take us on an intricate trip through the precise moment when the Active technology went global, and how the protagonists from Epitaph One and Two narrowly avoided death, and worse.Jed Whedon Read more »
That sound you’re hearing? Choirs of fanboys singing. This might be the greatest news to ever come out of geekdom. Joss Whedon, one of the most celebrated and respected (and geeky) wordsmiths of our time, is going to be directing Marvel Studios’ big-budget superhero mashup, The Avengers. As you probably know, The Avengers is combining the stars of Marvel’s various superhero pics — Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, and Nick Fury — into star-studded blockbuster film. Whedon landing this gig is on the same level as JJ Abrams being handed the keys to the Enterprise, and everybody knows how amazing that turned out. Whedon is best known as the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Read more »
Perhaps no other short-lived TV show in history has received as much ongoing fan enthusiasm as Joss Whedon’s scifi western Firefly. Fox famously canceled the show after airing about a dozen eps, but strong sales on DVD led to the theatrical film Serenity, which tied up loose ends from the show while trying to garner more fans so that the story could go on. Although Serenity qualified as a modest financial success, it was hardly a blockbuster hit, and never gained a strong enough foothold to justify more big-screen adventures. I guess that means that the story of Mal Reynolds and his motley crew has been canceled twice now, in two different mediums. Read more »
