So. Things.

[lithera]

Punisher: War Zone has received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Tom Rothman, co-chairman of 20th Century Fox, says the studio is “thinking very seriously about” about a reboot of 2003’s Daredevil. Because it sucked. No. Really. There were cool bits in it but cool bits do not make a cool movie.

Rumors abound that Superman looks to be starting up next year. Well. Who knows, really.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times , Harrison Ford said Friday that momentum is building for a fifth movie in the "Indiana Jones" franchise and that George Lucas is already cooking up a suitable plot. *sigh*

ShockTillYouDrop.com reports that Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and award-winning "Dracula" documentarian and historian Ian Holt have sold North American-English publishing rights of the Stoker-family-authorized sequel to Bram's classic novel "Dracula". Because we all need that.

And... Something... or other.

Comments

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

Dear George:

You cannot write. I say this as a writer. I say this as a fan. I say this as a rational human being. You. Cannot. Write. Please let someone skilled do a script.

Respectfully,
Pamela Shaw

[lithera.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

[antonstrout.livejournal.com]

I'd be a little suspect of a Punisher movie that didn't get at least an R rating..

[lithera.livejournal.com]

After Dark Knight was PG 13, there were a lot of rumors of them trying to go that route.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

The DAREDEVIL director's cut is slightly less crappy but it's still pretty crappy so I'm really pleased to hear this (even though I am entirely SICK of the term 'reboot'). Why was it necessary for, say, INCREDIBLE HULK to be an all-new mythology? Would've worked fine as a sequel. Didn't like the first one? Fine. Here's a BETTER one. I happen to be a fan of the Ang Lee movie so I don't see what the brouhaha is.

So, with Daredevil, honestly, why try to wipe people's minds of the first one? SOME people are FANS of that film. Don't know WHO or WHY but whatever. Just don't mention it. OR, for people who enjoyed the firs, make a brief mention of it and move on. The only thing I DID like was the costume I thought DD's costume looked great in the movie and made perfect sense.

There are people out there - a LOT of them, actually (it's sad) - who can't tell when a reboot is a reboot. Every time I saw DARK KNIGHT (four) there were people coming out of the theater wondering HOW the Joker could be in it when he "Died in the first one".

It's true. Sad, but true.

As for SUPERMAN? If they don't follow-up in the SUPERMAN RETURNS continuity with the same cast and crew I'm out. Not interested. To me, SUPERMAN RETURNS was nearly-perfect. It was smart and touching and looked gorgeous. I love it with all of my heart and I am a GIGANTIC Superman fan.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I liked parts of Returns but some of it just didn't work at all for me.

I don't know. I think the idea is that you don't want to build upon a flawed base, even though that's pretty much what all of comics IS - building on what has come before, even if you think it was absolute trash.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really thought that despite calling it a reboot, or whatever they called it, that ...

... sorry, I gt distracted by your icon. *shakes self*

Uh. Oh. Right. That the new Hulk movie was in fact basically a sequel. They summarized the important bits of the first movie during the credits, then picked up *in* South America, where Banner'd gone at the end of the first film... I really thought it was essentially continuity. So I'm pretty much there with you on just picking up with a new storyline for a new Daredevil movie (I actually reasonably liked the film, although in re-watching it, God, poor Ben Affleck looks like a stiff next t Garner's smooth-moving Elektra). It's been five+ years IRL, it can be that much time in character, so they should just go for it. If you want a throwback to the first film, have Elektra's necklace hanging from Matt's fridge door or something. Et voila. :)

I really liked Superman Returns, although having eventually seen the original Superman movies I at least then understood why (for example) my husband was so annoyed at the lack of an original thought in SR. There are continuity things that drive me batshit if it's supposed to be a sequel to the 2nd Superman movie, but I did like it.

On the other hand, I really want Tom Welling to have a shot at the big-screen Supes. :)

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

Oh good LORD, I hope not.

As a life-long fan of the classic, iconical (is that even a word? Spell-check says no but I say YES) Superman, I feel - I'm soorry...I need to run downstairs and get my soapbox...BRB...

OKAY...as a life-long fan of Superman I feel as if SSMALLVILLE is a blight on the history of the character. More so than LOIS AND CLARK, even, and that was...Wow...But SMALLVILLE? I tried. I did. I've watched quite a few episodes and I just don't understand the appeal.

"Let's do a TV show about Superman's early years. Before he was Superman! Like when he was in High School!"

"OK! Sounds great! Have you ever read a Superman comic?"

"Ummm....No. Have you?"

"Not really. But what's there to know? He's from Krypton, right? Dad's name was Jor-El, landed in Kansas, taken in by the Kents. Bad guy's name is Lex and he's bald."

"Hmm...That seems about right to me. LET'S DO IT!"

I need to politely, yet passionately, disagree with you on the Tom Welling thing. Why? Well, to start, Welling doesn't even look the part. He does more than, say, Dean Cain, granted, but he just isn't right. And they have already screwed the story up so much on the show that it's barely recognizable as Superman anymore and since he is ON the show he'd be associated WITH the show and it would be SMALLVILLE: THE MOVIE and I'd have to kill myself and then my daughter would be fatherless and my wife would be bereft of my red-hot lovin' and that's just bad all-around.

That whole show is just...sigh...

...it hurts.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

OH, and by the way, I've decided to slap you on my friend's list because the more people I can chit-chat with about this kind of stuff the less I have to trouble my beloved betrothed who is not in the least bit interested in any of it.

You now have access to all of my nonsense. Yay for you!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs out loud* Well, thank you. :)

I actually do understand perfectly well the reasons not to cast Tom Welling as a big-screen Superman, and, in fact, although I like the idea of Meteor Freaks so much that I forget they're *not* canon, I don't want the Smallville universe mixed up with the Real universe either. But I *would* like to see Welling get a chance at the character with a really good script, because unlike you, I think he *does* look the part (I was astounded when I saw him and Christopher Reeve actually sitting next to one another) and I think he may be a better actor than the material he has to work with. Kirsten Krunk, whom I pretty much wanted to throttle all the way through the series, is a *much* better actor than she usually got to show, so I have some hope that Welling is too.

But it's never going to happen. :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Smallville... I watched that show, while I did, for one reason and one reason alone.

Michael Rosenbaum took the crap /he/ was given and spun it into snarky, snarky gold. I truly say something that I wanted him and the guy playing Green Arrow to go off somewhere and make a whole different show about people ACTUALLY being heroes and villains instead of the soap opera melodrama that was Smallville.

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

There's someone cool playing Green Arrow?

Smallville was a good idea. The writers need to be fired. It became the Lana Lang soap opera.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Please to be meeting Catie. She is a lovely, lovely person who has a comic coming out in December and is very much fun to hang out with.

[technogreek.livejournal.com]

"George Lucas is already cooking up a suitable plot."

That'll be a first.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, it'll be ... ummm... It hasn't happened in a loooooooong time.

[grymor.livejournal.com]

I think it works in the meth lab sense. It's just the last few batch have violently exploded.

[mike-mccall.livejournal.com]

As someone who really likes the last Daredevil movie, I'll wait to see if a reboot catches me or not. I'm certainly not against continuity variances and reboots, but it would take quite a bit to top the last one, IMO.