The film industry conducted a raid on the gaming industry recently, taking with them Painkiller, the acclaimed shooter for PC and Xbox. The “old-skool” sort of game will now be turned into a movie by Guy Walks Into a Bar, the guys behind Starship Dave, starring Eddie Murphy which will be released next year.
Jon Berg and Todd Komarnicki, big guys at Guy Walks Into a Bar will be handling production, along with Matthew Weinberg. No director announced and pretty much no other details divulged as of yet. Berg decided he wanted a movie on the game when he watched a “60 minute” segment on competitive gaming. Uwe Boll refused to comment.
The rights were eventually sold because, according to the DreamCatcher VP, Guy Walks Into a Bar were going “to blend the fast-paced action, the wide array of weaponry and cast of demonic characters in the feature adaptation.” Gee, I was hoping for a nice date movie to cuddle into. Thanks for telling us, genius.
I attended Comic-Con last week and went to tons of conferences. One of the conferences that I attended was Smallville, the show about a teenage Superman that should have ended three seasons ago. Now the Comic-Con panel included the series executive producers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough as well as several of the series’ actors.
Back when Smallville was first created, there was a lot going for it. Overall the twist of watching Clark Kent being raised on a farm was a lot of fun, but as the series progressed it lost its train of thought. Beginning in season 4 and definitely in season 5 the plotline consisted of getting Clark with as many super-kyrptonite girls as possible – if you know what I mean.
Hey, WB/CW is just targeting its audience. It was during this time period that Smallville truly started to alter the Superman legacy. Even to date Clark still has yet to consciously fly, his father didn’t die before Clark graduated from high school, etc, etc, etc.
So with all these changes it has angered some Superman fans. Both Millar and Gough answered the fans issues with the series by simply stating that they see the Smallville series as a spin-off, nothing more than another comic book interpretation. That one statement made me feel much better about this show. It was like an epiphany, now I finally understood where these writers are coming from.
As viewers know, one of the best parts about Smallville is that it has been the place to see a good amount of other DC super heroes such as Aquaman and Green Arrow. For the longest time Bruce Wayne who’s alter-ego Batman was rumored to appear on the show. Millar and Gough said that they both wanted Bruce to appear, but due to the Batman franchise revamping with Batman Begins, Warner Bros. would not allow them to have any episodes featuring the Dark Knight after the movie was released. So ultimately Batman did not and will not ever appear on the show.
Now this is why I hate Warner Bros.: if Smallville is a spin-off of Superman and any DC super-hero can be pulled in and out of this show as need be – why the hell can’t Batman be shown?! If the reason is because the show and movie wouldn’t tie in properly, all that I have to say is WTF are Smallville and Superman Returns doing on the air together?! I thought Superman Returns was the jump-start to Superman franchise again!
Seriously Warner Bros. get your head out of your ass and wake up! Stop running around in circles pissing off your fans.
This is why I’m a Marvel fanboy. Cross-overs are a good thing, that will bring in larger audiences. Embrace them.
If using DC properties correctly was Warner Bros. only issue, I wouldn’t care, but when they can’t even get their oldest franchise Looney Tunes to amass to any success, I come to the conclusion that Warner Bros. is the devil.
Hans Zimmer is a name you might want to know, if you don’t know already. Zimmer worked on the awesome soundtrack of Batman Begins and is currently working on The Dark Knight, the much-talked-about sequel to Batman Begins.
Zimmer was working on an all-new theme for Batman in the first movie, but decided that the character wasn’t completely ready for that. He “played around” and decided that the old idea was better for the new movie. What does the equation sum up to? Batman is getting a brand new, flashy theme for The Dark Knight. Of special note is when he said “It’s going to evolve.”
If you ever look at the top of this website you might notice some tabs. Before today there were only 3 of these tabs: Blog, Videos, and Forum. Today I’d like to introduce the world to our 4th tab: Store. By introducing a store onto this website, you can now read about the products we discuss and go directly to the Store and pick purchase them!
If you’re one of those people that think that we don’t give enough information on product, especially during The Pipeline’s Product Video Reviews, then check out the Store and select an item. By doing so a ton of information will be listed everything from descriptions to reviews to related product suggestions.
At the Store you’ll be able to find video games, DVDs, music, and electronics.
Okay, I’m not shy to admit this, I’ve seen a few episodes of Star Trek, I enjoyed them. Next Generation I found more entertaining than the original series, but I can’t say I’m too much of a fan for the entire series as a whole. That being said, I’m posting this because I know David would probably enjoy it.
Yesterday at the Paramount Comic-Con board one character for the upcoming Star Trek movie directed and produced by J.J. Abrams was confirmed. Zachary Quinto, more popularly known as “Sylar” on the very awesome Heroes and “Adam Kaufman” on 24, was confirmed to be the actor to portray Spock.
Now here’s the thing, I know Star Trek fans, like every other fan group out there, are very particular about the characters. Will Trekkers/Trekkies support Abram’s choice to cast anyone but Nimoy(although I hear that he will play as an older Spock in the movie) in the roll of Spock? Will the fans believe that this choice is correct after Nimoy gives the script and casting his approval? Will Quinto finally shave? Why am I asking all of these questions? Well Comic-Con’s not over, and there’s still quite a long time to go until Star Trek comes out.
Yesterday I posted an article about some Cloverfield information, along with a poster with a possible title. Well during the Paramount board at Comic-Con Abrams briefly touched on the subject of the movie. First off, it’s not called Monstrous, but that poster IS indeed the official poster. Secondly, there’s no way that it’s anything but a unique character. It’s not Godzilla, King Kong, Cthulhu, Voltron, Ghostbusters 4, or even Blair Witch 3. Its a unique creature that’s going to be America’s monster movie monster.
So for now we have no name, no pictures of the monster, nothing really new. What we do have is a rumor debunked, and confirmation that it’s not a preexisting creature. If anything new comes out about the movie, I’ll post it here as soon as possible.
