New Serenity Comic

Serenity Better Days #1 Comic Book


Yup, pre-orders are starting for Joss Whedon's return to the Serenity 'verse. All those tales he was itching to tell with his Firefly TV show before Fox proved they can't see past the edge of their noses are finally being told in the small sequential boxes of the comic book pages.


But if you're not interested in waiting for those tales, check out the ones you probably missed.
Serenity - Those Left Behind
bridges the story between the end of the show and the start of the movie, including such tidbits as why Shepherd and Inara weren't on the Firefly any more.

Even More G.I.Joe Casting News

IESB.net has news that both Storm Shadow and Scarlett have been cast in the new G.I.Joe movie, and with more people I've never heard of!

Scarlett will apparently be played by Rachel Nichols, who has never been in anything I've seen, but who was in 17 episodes of Alias, which I have thought about watching some day.

Storm Shadow will be played by Byung-Hun Lee, a hot actor in Asian films I've never seen, and that you've probably never seen either.

Taking the directorial reigns will be Stephen Somers, who has directed movies I have seen, like the Mummy movies and Van Helsing. The IMDB also lists him as the director of "The Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride," which means he should be able to put in a good word for a "Battlin' Joes Stunt Spectacular" show at Universal.

Just to round out what we know, the screenplay is by written by two guys who have the tough-sounding names necessary to credit such a tough-guy movie: Stuart Beattie and Skip Woods. Actually, Stuart worked on Collateral and the first Pirates movie, and some people think Skip is a pseudonym for Quentin Tarantino, so there is some hope there. But on the other hand, Stuart also worked on Joey and the last two Pirates movies, and some people think Skip is a pseudonym for Quentin Tarantino, so we could be doomed.

G.I.Joe Movie Casting News

Just a quick update on the casting news for the new G.I.Joe movie:

Snake Eyes, everybody's favorite lovable mute ninja, will be played by everybody's favorite lovable horned almost-mute Sith, Ray Park.

And the Baroness will be played by Sierra Miller, who, apparently, I would have heard of if I read more gossip magazines.

(Yay. The G.I.Joe movies are going to be covered in the gossip magazines.)

New Dark Knight Trailer Online

Yup. The new Dark Knight trailer is posted online all over the place.

It's got lots of things going fast and things going boom, but it's not staying up anywhere for very long.

Where's it going to officially appear?

Here:

http://atasteforthetheatrical.com/

JLA movie renamed "American Heroes?" I Don't Think So.

So this is how rumors get started.

It's all over the internet that the Justice League of America movie has been renamed "American Heroes."

It all started when Ain't It Cool News reported that Christian Bale was talking about the film (and how its going to be different from Batman Begins), and instead of giving it the name we all know, he called it, "American Heroes."

Personally, I think this is the equivalent of somebody interviewing Dan Castanella about the Simpsons movie, and him calling it, "Matt Groening's big dream project," and people thinking that "Matt Groening's Big Dream Project" was the new title.

The other possibility is that American Heroes is an international title. Remember how, in Britain, they used to call G.I.Joe "Action Force?" Same thing, I think. In fact, I'll bet when the G.I.Joe movie does come out, they will call it Action Force in the UK.

So don't sweat it. Nobody's going to change the name. Justice League it was, and Justice League it will stay.

New Dark Knight Teaser Poster

The new Dark Knight teaser poster is up over at Superhero Hype, and people around the interweb are pretty happy with it.

Are we?

Oh, yeah.

In other Dark Knight news, apparently I Am Legend is now the official movie to promote Dark Knight. Not only is the movie going to have the trailer for Dark Knight in front of it, but the IMAX version of I Am Legend is going to feature the whole first seven minutes of the movie--the introduction of the Joker.

Apparently, they're filming tons of the key scenes using IMAX cameras, so they're not just blowing up 35mm stuff for the big screen.

Is there any way this movie can possibly live up to all this hype?

I hope so.

Studios Turning To Fans For Art And Promos

Now that the Joker has sent kids all over the world out to take pictures of themselves in makeup, now other projects are trying to get the fans involved.

Over at the new Terminator TV show, they're doing a contest to design a poster for the show. They've got some .zip files of .tif artwork and photos of the characters from the show for you to use in designing your masterpiece. The top ten posters will be selected by the show's staff, and those top ten will be voted on by the people who visit fox.com.

And while there doesn't seem to be any prize involved, the Iron Man Movie website is looking for fan art to post, to be rated by the folks stopping by their site.

So crank up your image editors and show what you've got.