- Disney just moved the release date for Sorcerer’s Apprentice up a couple days, giving the film a Wednesday July 14th opener. That’s generally a good sign about quality, but with Nic Cage, I’m not holding my breath.
- Buried in a story about the
Warner Bros. investor meeting was a note about DC Comics movies under development. It’s not surprising that Flash is nearly greenlit for production, but what caught my eye is that Aquaman and finally, unbelievably, Wonder Woman were also under development. That’s right folks – they’re actively developing Wonder Woman for live action, big screen.
- Fresh on the heels of news that a walk-on “extra” role was up for auction on True Blood, they’ve also added another charity auction for two tickets to the red carpet premiere in Los Angeles.
- There is rumor of a Lost epilogue on the DVD set, centered around Hurley. There seems to be some skepticism. But I’ll let Michael Emerson say it, and see if you believe him.
- We’ve covered the dinosaur/time travel Steven Spielberg series Terra Nova before, and it was sent straight to series without a pilot being shot. Now it looks like they’re eyeing Alex Graves to direct, which seems an odd fit, as his most significant work was The West Wing.
- At the National Movie Awards in London, Twilight: New Moon picked up honors for Best Fantasy Film and Best Performance for Robert Pattinson. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince picked up a trophy for Best Family Film.
- Of these 9 Sizzling True Blood Spoilers, I’m most interested in what they’re
doing with Lafayette’s life, because having read the books, that’s the one part I don’t know the basic outline for, since he’s supposed to be dead-dead, as opposed to undead, or alive, which I think is where he stands.
- Somehow in all the True Blood news, and there’s a mountain of it, I missed that they were bringing back Zeljko Ivanek as the Magister for this season. He was creepy and sinister when he had the fangs broken from one vampire, then forced Bill to create baby vamp Jessica.
- Sunday, June 6th at 7pm, NBC will be airing The Making of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The show promises a deeper look at the theme park attraction than we’ve seen before, going for full hyperbole with “exclusive cast commentary and a sneak peek at the authentic detail woven through the entire environment, as well as the ground-breaking technology that will forever change the theme park experience.”
- Buried in a depressing story
about MGM’s future as a studio now being determined by hedge fund owners who don’t want to invest money in the studio is the frustration of Time Warner, who is stuck stalling production on The Hobbit until the debt holders figure it out.
- Travel company Tenerife polled 1,739 people about which fantasy world they would most like to vacation in. Topping the list is Pandora from Avatar, followed by Hogwarts, Narnia, Neverland, and El Dorado. Check them out for the rest of the list.
- Alice In Wonderland has become the sixth film to top $1 billion at the global box office. Interestingly, Johnny Depp has starred in two of the six, with Alice and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
- Here are Six Things You Never Knew about Bridget Regan from Legend of
the Seeker. I never would have guessed that she “sleeps like a dead cowboy.” Frankly, if your boyfriend tells you that, you might consider an upgrade.
- It’s official: Orlando Bloom is playing the bad guy in Three Musketeers. But I’ve become confused because his character is the Duke of Buckingham, which isn’t the story I remember. They’re describing his character as “so cool that you can chop him into cubes and serve with vodka.”
- I don’t really understand why people are upset with a new auction function on World of Warcraft, but a lot of people don’t like it. If you play the game, maybe this all means something to you.
- I hadn’t read the old official synopsis for Narnia’s Dawn Treader movie, but the people that had were worried that Disney may not have read the book before making the movie. They now have a new synopsis up for the film that has people breathing easier.
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That’s right. I remember hearing that Joss was going to be doing Wonder Woman. If this movie ever does get made…I would go see it. No ideas yet as who should play the lead role.
Hera!, I wish that I could be happy about the news about Wonder Woman but it’s been in development before. Joss Whedon took a crack at it and it even seemed to be fast-tracked until he left the project. Then it was dumped back into development Hell (or should I say Hades?).
So I have to admit, I’m hopeful but not holding my breath.
I think part of the problem WAS Joss, who had a really “different” conception of WW.
Joss specializes in flawed characters. That puts a few things off limits to his worldview: he can’t ever do Superman, and probably not Wonder Woman for the same reason. They’re ideals in so many ways, almost annoyingly so.
Ha! That’s Brent for sure - because he changed my headline. I didn’t think Wonder Woman was headline worthy at this stage. So - fantasy casting other than Regan?
Yes, throw me under the bus, Ed! But yeah that was/is my headline that confused…
Only because I’ve only written one good headline in my life, and that was elsewhere, sometime around November. All the other mistakes in the post are mine!
When I read the headline, I thought Bridget Regan was going to be playing Wonder Woman. I could see her in that role.
Ha ha, me to! :))