Darren Aronofsky on ‘Wolverine 2′?
By FavaBeans | September 2, 2010
Source: DarkHorizons
Darren Aronofsky has emerged as a contender to direct “X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2″ for 20th Century Fox according to Deadline New York.
At last report David Slade (”The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”) and Robert Schwentke (”RED”) were in the running for the job, but now Schwentke has dropped out and Aronofsky has stepped in.
Slade is still considered the favourite to direct, but Hugh Jackman has a major influence on the decision and worked with Aronofsky on “The Fountain” several years ago.
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Best CBM Casting of All Time – John Leguizamo VS. Brandon Lee
By FavaBeans | September 2, 2010
Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler defeats Gerard Butler’s King Leonidas 18-8! We now have our TOP 8!
The game works like this – Each week 2 actors/actresses will be matched up against one another (randomnly, there’s is no bias in the match-ups), and it’s up to you, the fans, to decide who was the better choice to play the part. At the end, the winner with the most votes moves on to the next round. A new match up will be posted every week and will last one week!
Continue on to learn more and vote on this week’s match up!
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‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot Rumors!
By FavaBeans | August 30, 2010
Source: DarkHorizons
20th Century Fox’s plan to reboot the “Fantastic Four” franchise continues to gain momentum ahead of its planned production sometime next year for release Summer 2012.
Rumours began last week that Adrien Brody and Amber Heard were being pursued to star as Mr. Fantastic and Sue Storm respectively.
Then on Satuday came online buzz (via Latino Review) that “True Blood” star Stephen Moyer is up for Doctor Doom who will be shown as the ruler of Latveria in the property.
The report also said Alice Eve is in contention for Sue Storm, while “90210″ star Kevin Pennington would be up for playing Johnny Storm.
Then today Comic Book Movie reported that Fox is pursuing Joe Carnahan (”The A-Team,” “Smokin’ Aces”), David Yates (”Harry Potter 5-7,” “State of Play: The Mini-Series”) and James McTeigue (”Ninja Assassin,” “V for Vendetta”) as potential directing candidates with one of the trio to get an offer soon.
The site also claims Fox is interested in having Bruce Willis voice The Thing which will be a CG animated character for much of the film.
Of course, all this is speculation and nothing is locked in. We’ll keep you posted. What do you think of some of these choices?
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Best CBM Casting of All Time – Alan Cumming VS. Gerard Butler
By FavaBeans | August 29, 2010
Kelsey Grammer’s Beast easily defeats Viggo Mortensen’s Tom Stall, 19-2!
The game works like this – Each week 2 actors/actresses will be matched up against one another (randomnly, there’s is no bias in the match-ups), and it’s up to you, the fans, to decide who was the better choice to play the part. At the end, the winner with the most votes moves on to the next round. A new match up will be posted every week and will last one week!
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Best CBM Casting of All Time – Kelsey Grammer VS. Viggo Mortensen
By FavaBeans | August 27, 2010
Wow, what a 3-way battle that was! It was tight all the way through. The two moving on are Ian McKellen and Brandon Lee, scoring 21 and 19, respectively. Mickey Rourke came close with 18 votes!
We will have 2 more match ups in this round, before moving on, in order to get to our TOP 8!
The game works like this – Each week 2 actors/actresses will be matched up against one another (randomnly, there’s is no bias in the match-ups), and it’s up to you, the fans, to decide who was the better choice to play the part. At the end, the winner with the most votes moves on to the next round. A new match up will be posted every week and will last one week!
Continue on to learn more and vote on this week’s match up!
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New Upcoming CBM: ‘Nightfall’
By FavaBeans | August 26, 2010
Source: DarkHorizons
James Wan (”Saw,” “Death Sentence”) is set to direct a film adaptation of the graphic novel “Nightfall” for Platinum Studios and Aurora Productions says Deadline.
Scott O. Brown’s comic follows a man sentenced to a prison run by vampires. Wan will also oversee the script’s development.
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and William Stuart will produce. Wan’s most recent film, “Insidious”, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival next month.
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‘Iron Fist’ Moves Forward!
By FavaBeans | August 26, 2010
Marvel Studios has hired XXX creator/writer, Rich Wilkes, to pen the first draft of Iron Fist, a film featuring the long-running Marvel second-stringer hero who fights with a combination of martial arts and supernatural power.
Iron Fist’s bio goes somthing like this:
Daniel Rand was the son of businessman Wendell Rand, who had once lived in the fabled city of K’un-Lun, which exists in an other dimensional realm…Wendell sought to return to K’un-Lun, which ordinarily was only accessible from Earth through an interdimensional nexus that opened once every ten years. When Daniel was nine, his father traveled to Tibet along with Heather and his business partner Harold Meachum in search of the nexus to K’un-Lun. Toppling off a treacherous mountain passage, Daniel dragged his mother and father over the ice shelf with him…Soon thereafter, denizens of K’un-Lun found the boy and took him to their city. There Daniel was brought before Yu-Ti, who had secretly plotted the murder of both Wendell and Heather. Yu-Ti apprenticed Daniel to the martial arts master Lei Kung the Thunderer. Rand’s training under Lei Kung was rigorous. At age sixteen Rand earned the Crown of Fu-Hsi, king of the vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, and defeated Shu-Hu, a mechanical being whose name means “Lightning.” Rand diligently conditioned his hands by thrusting them into tubs of hot sand, then gravel, and finally rock. At age nineteen Rand was given the opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. He was sent to battle the enormous fire-breathing serpent called Shou-Lao the Undying which lived in a cave outside the city and which ferociously guarded a brazier containing its heart, which had mystically been removed from its body. In their battle Rand grabbed the serpent’s body, which bore a scar which imprinted itself upon Rand’s chest. Killing the serpent, Rand plunged his hands into the now unguarded brazier containing Shou-Lao’s molten heart when he was through his hands shone with a quasi-mystical force and he earned the title “Iron Fist,” for he could now summon superhuman energy to reinforce the power of blows struck by his hands.
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Best CBM Casting of All Time – Mickey Rourke VS. Ian Mckellen VS. Brandon Lee
By FavaBeans | August 25, 2010
Ian McKellen defeats Rebbeca Romijn 19-1 in the last match up!
Below are the TOP 11!
In order to even out the list for the next round, in the following three-way match up, you are voting for the TWO that you think should continue!
The game works like this – Each week 2 actors/actresses will be matched up against one another (randomnly, there’s is no bias in the match-ups), and it’s up to you, the fans, to decide who was the better choice to play the part. At the end, the winner with the most votes moves on to the next round. A new match up will be posted every week and will last one week!
Continue on to learn more and vote on this week’s match up!
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‘Ghost Rider 2′ Set to Film this Fall in 3D!
By FavaBeans | August 24, 2010
Source: ScreenRant
The sequel to 2007’s Ghost Rider will begin production this Fall and will be shot in 3D. The Nicholas Cage comic book flick debuted to awful reviews and will be getting a quasi-reboot of sorts while still remaining a sequel as well as new directors in the form of Crank’s Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Ghost Rider 2′s official title is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, intentionally dropping the number from its name. While there was talk of Cage returning for the sequel for years, it wasn’t confirmed by him officially until he said so himself on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson last month.
As for the story of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Cage made it clear over a year ago that with the sequel, he wants to take the story and style in another direction:
“I would like to do a reconceive… I would like to go in a whole other direction, and I think that’s what they’re talking about.”
“I would make it much less of a Western and more of an international story”
David Goyer jumped in to handle the Ghost Rider 2 script and the rumors at the time were that the story would follow Cage’s flaming skull chain-bearing biker as he takes on a demon biker gang seeking to resurrect the demon lord Zarathos.
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International ‘Red’ Trailer!
By FavaBeans | August 24, 2010
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Best CBM Casting of All Time – Ian McKellen VS. Rebecca Romijn
By FavaBeans | August 23, 2010
Brandon Lee’s Crow defeats Wesley Snipes’ Blade, 16-7!
Here is the last match up of this round. In the next round, there will be a 3-way match up in order to even out the list.
The game works like this – Each week 2 actors/actresses will be matched up against one another (randomnly, there’s is no bias in the match-ups), and it’s up to you, the fans, to decide who was the better choice to play the part. At the end, the winner with the most votes moves on to the next round. A new match up will be posted every week and will last one week!
Continue on to learn more and vote on this week’s match up!
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Slade or Schwentke Set to Direct ‘Wolverine 2′!
By FavaBeans | August 21, 2010
Source: Superherohype
New York Magazine’s Vulture is claiming that 20th Century Fox has approved two directors to helm the untitled sequel to their 2009 hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first being The Twilight Saga: Eclipse helmer David Slade, the second being Robert Schwentke, the director of the upcoming comic movie Red for Summit Entertainment. The final decision will be up to the movie’s star Hugh Jackman, who is said to be meeting with both directors next week although their insiders seem to think the gig is going to Slade, who has less on his immediate plate than Schwentke, who has already been circling other projects to do next.
According to the story, the plot in the script written by Christopher McQuarrie involves Logan beginning a “forbidden romance with a Japanese woman whose hand in marriage is, unfortunately, promised to another man.” Since Logan won’t take “no” for an answer, it puts him into battle with her father and her “samurai-sword-wielding brothers.” We fully expect the Silver Samurai to be one of those brothers. His father is Lord Shingen Yashida, a Yakuza crime boss and a mutant himself.
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