Geek Talk

Lots of comic movie news so I thought I’d put it in one post

Bitter Lex?
IGN Comics posted this little nugget from a Wizard Mag

Spacey takes over the role from another two-time Oscar winner, Gene Hackman, who played Luthor in the Christopher Reeve films.

“To me, it’s one of those great, iconic parts,” Spacey informed Wizard during a set visit to Sydney, Australia. “(Director Bryan Singer’s) been very attentive and respectful to the genre and what the fan base really wants, but he also brings a new direction to the character and how people deal with each other. This film is a much darker Lex than the Gene Hackman character. This is a bitter Lex. This is a Lex after a long time in prison. But there’s still a lot of humor to it.”

I’m glad we’ll have a darker Lex, thats one of the things I like so much about Smallville is the evil Lex comes out now and then.

Ghost Rider Revealed Today!
SHH had this to say:

Columbia Pictures will launch the first reveal of Ghost Rider on Tuesday (Dec. 20) at 12:00pm (noon) PST! The studio will update the film’s official website at GhostRider-Movie.com with a 10 second piece in which you’ll see the blazing Ghost Rider for the first time. The Flash animation of the Ghost Rider will also be worth checking out.

Watchmen a WB movie
SHH is reporting that the WB has the rights to the Watchmen movie. I really really hope they don’t make this into a catwoman-like movie.

Not sure if anyone knows of “Lying In The Gutters”, but its pretty much a comic book rumors article published on mondays, its pretty good. Some rumors are dead on and others never happen, still a fun read. Anyway here’s some highlights from this weeks article.

LEATHER BOUND

Batman analogue created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch for “Stormwatch,” before he made “The Authority” title his own and Mark Millar and Frank Quitely got him splashed across the world media as a gay icon, The Midnighter… is getting his own series from Wildstorm. There. Nothing like a ridiculously long run on sentence to announce an LITG scoop.

But, nevertheless, this is the first solo superhero series from the DC Universe starring an openly gay character. Trust it to be the one who runs around in leather all the time.

I haven’t read this in awhile, but I always liked Midnighter. He’s like a more pissed off Batman who happens to like men… so REALLY like a pissed off Batman with too much robin time.

GREEN MEMORY

Talking of new series, Marvel recently announced “Busting out from the pages of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, Doc Samson gets his first mini-series!”

Aside from the four-issue Marvel mini-series “Doc Samson” from 1996, of course, written by modern Marvel wonderboy and tenterrific Dan Slott, no less.

Mind you, even Dan probably wants to forget that one…

I can’t even get into the Hulk anymore how can I get into a weaker (I mean by both strength and character wise) character?