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“But you didn’t hear it from me,” he told the crowd during the Warner Bros. “Book of Eli” panel. It’ll be for a 2011 release.
The convention center’s roof will land somewhere in La Jolla later this afternoon. Christopher Nolan is fuming somewhere.
Gary Oldman at Comic-Con: The next Batman film starts shooting next year
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:08 am · July 24th, 2009
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‘Jonah Hex’ poster
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:45 am · July 24th, 2009
I Tweeted a far-away shot of the new “Jonah Hex” poster from the exhibition hall yesterday, but luckily there’s a better image floating around the net now. I kind of dig it:
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Comic-Con on the way
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:31 am · July 20th, 2009
Like the rest of the web geek world, I guess, I’m gearing up for this year’s San Diego Comic Con International, which begins with preview night on Wednesday.
All eyes, of course, are on Thursday’s slew of events, a treasure trove of goodies that made for a ton of Sophie’s choices when putting together my personal [...]
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Ryan Reynolds cast in ‘Green Lantern’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:13 pm · July 10th, 2009
It all started with a recent Hollywood Reporter piece claiming that Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Timberlake (WTF) were up for the lead role in WB’s “The Green Lantern” (a script I’ve had for a while but preferred to satisfy the inner geek in me by reading the Geoff Johns saga in full, leading [...]
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Original ‘Batman’ producer looks back
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:57 pm · June 26th, 2009
On Tuesday we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Tim Burton’s “Batman” around these parts with a personal retrospective. There are a number of similar remembrances around the web, many of them linked in that entry, but one guy who really deserves a “huzzah” this week is film producer, pop culture professor and all around comic [...]
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Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ — 20 years later
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:49 am · June 23rd, 2009
There is a reason I am such an embarrassingly devoted Batman fan.
It’s not because I’m a life-long comic book reader. That came later. And it’s not because I grew up watching reruns of the old ABC television series. Though I certainly did. It’s because Tim Burton’s “Batman,” released in theaters 20 years ago today, was [...]
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Nolan out for third Batman? Who could step in?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:54 am · June 17th, 2009
Bill Ramey over at Batman on Film has posted a rather disconcerting report this morning regarding the status of Christopher Nolan’s involvement with a third film in the lucrative Batman franchise. The info, which is hardly concrete, comes from one of the numerous Bat-related sources Ramey has acquired over 12 years of focusing his site [...]
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First look at Josh Brolin as ‘Jonah Hex’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:15 am · June 3rd, 2009
You probably know we’ve been following the upcoming adaptation of DC Comics’ “Jonah Hex” pretty closely around these parts. It’s the intersection of westerns and comic books. How could I not be all over that? Then again, despite having each of the 40-some issues of the recently re-booted “Jonah Hex” comics series, I’ve only read [...]
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Deadpool will get his own movie and ‘Green Lantern’ might have its star
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:54 pm · May 5th, 2009
“X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE” SPOILERS THROUGHOUT THIS POST. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
If you saw “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend, then you know this is most certainly not what comic fans know as Deadpool. I don’t know what the hell it was, to be honest, but then again, Ryan Reynolds wasn’t the guy playing…it. Scott Adkins from [...]
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REVIEW: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (**)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:36 pm · April 29th, 2009
After weeks of bad press following an unanticipated work print leak and rampant speculation that the film was likely to be D.O.A., both financially and creatively, the best thing one can say about “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is that it wasn’t as awful as expected. But positivity hits a brick wall after that concession.
In a genre [...]
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Bored?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:39 pm · April 28th, 2009
I figured I’d come home tonight and throw in the “X-Men” Blu-ray trilogy as “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (which I saw this afternoon) makes for a nice lead-in to the series. For no reason whatsoever, I’m thinking I’ll live Tweet the proceedings, so if you’re bored and/or have no life like yours truly, feel free to [...]
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Gaiman: Cast David Bowie as the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight Returns’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:02 pm · April 22nd, 2009
I forgot to mention this in the item below regarding that Wired piece featuring Neil Gaiman and the current goings-on in the comic world. The subject of “unfilmable” comics came up, with “Watchmen” having landed in March and Gaiman’s own “Sandman” at the top of such a list for some fans.
Regarding Frank Miller’s “The Dark [...]
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Troubling details of Nolan’s ‘Shadow of the Bat’ revealed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:34 am · April 1st, 2009
I really don’t know what to say about this. I understand Christopher Nolan is a progressive artist, a guy who understands both the necessity of shunning convention and the idea that what one may expect isn’t always the best solution. He’s proven it time and again with the films in his re-booted Batman franchise, starting [...]
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Hollywood uses the comic book rack for added buzz
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:12 am · February 4th, 2009
I’ve kind of been expecting a piece along these lines for quite a while now. Every time I go into my local comic book store (guilty), I see some series lining the shelves based on either a film or television show, sometimes in form of a prequel. I generally refrain from picking up, say, “C.S.I.” [...]
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Speaking of Bat fans
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:17 am · January 8th, 2009
I have to give props to Bill Ramey, better know as “Jett,” and the hard work he’s been putting into Batman On Film for well over a decade now. This is the kind of fan Christopher Nolan and company set out to apease to a certain extent when they marched into this franchise less than [...]
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