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[lithera]

It is currently 82 degrees in my office. That is wrong. Sick and wrong. It is usually a freezer in here. What the hell, people?

Grant Morrison is among the writers who’ve pitched to Warner Brothers for a Superman movie. His is an approach that pretends Superman Returns never happened. Which probably works just fine, truth be told. Apparently Geoff Johns has also submitted a pitch. It is nice that Warner Brothers is actually /talking/ to the people who write comics. I know, something of a unique idea.

Seth Green and Breckin Meyer are joining Heroes for a few episodes. They're playing comic book geeks. Well. I think Seth has that one down.

Iron Man will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 30. Wooooo!

CBS is looking to make Hawaii Five-0 2.0. Which... Well. *shrugs*

ABC is looking to do a tv series based on The Witches of Eastwick. Let me just say this upfront. The /ONLY/ reason that movie works AT ALL are the people in it.

Columbia Pictures has this spy movie that they want to make - Edwin A. Salt. It was expected to star Tom Cruise. That won't be happening. So, check this out. It is apparently going to be rewritten by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer for a new star. That star? Angelina Jolie. Interesting choice.

An interesting and fun list of comics is over here: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/08/11/comics-should-be-good-top-50-countdown-master-list/

And now that I see there is a HUGE kerfuffle amongst the Twilight fans about the new book, I might have to do some research on the newest one. (AKA, reading Wiki.) To quote from the Slog article I was reading: "There’s an interesting postscript to this midnight sale madness: half the fans hate Breaking Dawn with a disturbing passion. I’m not talking about snarky people who are reading the books for a laugh, I’m talking about the serious fans of the first three books. The response to the book has been so bad that fans are organizing online to return copies of Breaking Dawn in protest. Fans on Amazon are announcing that they don’t consider Breaking Dawn canon, and that the Twilight series is a trilogy that ended with the last book. Some are calling for Meyer to rewrite the ending." That's a hell of a thing.

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[ocvictor.livejournal.com]

Seth Green on "Heroes." Awesome.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I completely agree.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

ABC is looking to do a tv series based on The Witches of Eastwick.

What, again? I think they (or one of the other networks) tried that shortly after the movie came out. It involved the titular witches moving away from Eastwick (and sharing a townhouse together) and Darryl acting as their pet demon/genie. Bleah.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I that entirely out of my head. Kris remembers it too but not I. I admit that it could be a fun show but man...

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

It deserves to be forgotten. What I remember the most is that Alex in particular seemed very wimpy. You can't do an Eastwick project and have the witches be wimps.

I have my issues with the original novel, but SHEESH.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

That and never forget WHO exactly, Daryl is. I mean.... C'mon. I need to re-read the book. It has been a very long time.

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

And now that I see there is a HUGE kerfuffle amongst the Twilight fans about the new book

Twilight fans are even more fucking demented than Harry Potter fans, which is kind of amazing, but when you think about the willful delusion needed to pretend that the Twilight books are actually not terrible dogshit, it kind of makes sense.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

The bits of them I've read (mostly in articles about them) have helped me shake off the delusion that I might ever actually need to read them. It seems like 'magical boyfriend' fiction at its worst and that's rarely been something I enjoy by itself. With some sort of quality story telling around it I'll indulge from time to time.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

I'd never even heard of them until a month or so back, and what I've heard has not convinced me to go out and read them. But then, I suspect I'm far away from the target demographic. There are times I'm grateful to be an Old Cootessa.

So Um. :)

[arian1.livejournal.com]

So I pasted your bit on Morrison and Superman into an IRC channel I hang out on. This is what ensued, please don't beat me. (I swapped their LJ names in):

(10:15:01) palecur: Grant Morrison Superman?
(10:15:57) palecur: "My pitch is this: 'Superman' is not an individual alien, but a 3-dimensional cross-section of a higher-dimensional overmind that calls itself 'Krypt-on', sent to Earth to realign a cosmic flow of energy from the future. Also, everyone takes lots of drugs and fucks all the time."
(10:16:05) palecur: There, give me lots of money.
(10:16:15) ronebofh: palecur: not Morrisonian enough
(10:16:23) arian1: but that was a good try
(10:16:23) palecur: I think I got all the major tropes.
(10:16:35) arian1: I'm holding out for Garth Ennis' Superman
(10:16:52) ronebofh: palecur: you should've thrown 'hermaphrodite' in there
(10:17:07) palecur: damn, you're right. And not nearly enough chaos magick references
(10:20:46) palecur: Garth Ennis Superman: "Superman totally pokes a 'ole in this bloke's bonce, see, wif 'is finger, roight, then 'e pulls down 'is, loike, super trousers and gives the poor bastard a roight proper skullfucking, see?" [Drains pint glass, throws up on script, passes out]
(10:21:06) ronebofh: that's better than what i was writing.
(10:21:28) ronebofh: "Because Superman is a wee bollix."
(10:40:57) palecur: Warren Ellis Superman: "Superman and Lex Luthor are in it together, generating fear and hate. Hate and fear. It makes the population easier to control, and mold, and guide in a direction more to their liking. Global warming? Luthor's using Kryptonian technology to accelerate climate change, making a hot, swampy Earth that's more hospitable for his reptoid masters. Superman is just a force-grown biological abomination made of combined reptoid and human DNA -- the reason his skin is so tough is because there's scales underneath it. Why do you think he's 'solar powered'? His reptoid heritage makes him crave the sun." [searches venue for hidden recording devices]
(10:41:41) palecur: "Also, Lois Lane injects saline solution into her labia in a prolonged scene that has nothing to do with the plot."
(10:42:54) arian1: hahaha
(10:43:31) arian1: Ok sooo...Superman by Joss Whedon
(10:43:34) arian1: Go
(10:45:31) palecur: "Superman fights a skinny barefoot chick, played by Summer Glau. She throws him against a building and debris falls off, impaling Jimmy Olsen."
(10:45:32) palecur: next

Re: So Um. :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Ehn.

He wrote All-Star Superman which is, quite frankly, the only Superman story that I've ever consistently liked.

[yellowseptember.livejournal.com]

I was a big Five-O fan when I was a kid. I can't help but remember my reaction when they announced they were making ST: The Next Gen. *double thumbs down*