What's Up Wednesday!? - 8/22: "The Week In Geek"

[AZS]

Recapping the week in geek.

All the hot Pop Culture news we scoured from around the web, so you don’t have to.


This is a new ongoing article series that I’m hoping to maintain weekly.
Read and enjoy. :)

This Wednesday: New Comic industry magazine. Frank Miller here and there. Michael J. Fox goes back to 1982.



Comic Foundry (http://www.comicfoundry.com)is a new month comic magazine that brings the news and pop of Wizard to you with the flair and layout of Maxim or Blender. I haven’t seen it yet, as the first issue hits stores today, but I will check it out.


Raising the standard (or exemplifying it) for freaks and geeks everywhere, Superbad took number 1 (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superbad/news/1664490/) at the box office last weekend, exceeding most analysts expectations to easily win the weekend. In related news, writer Seth Rogan dropped the bomb on David Letterman last week that he might star as the title hero in an upcoming Green Hornet movie. That could be the best casting choice for a comic hero movie since Haley Berry as Catwoman. [/sarcasm]


What is coming 1-18-08? If you saw Transformers, you probably saw a trailer for this title-less movie by Lost creator J.J. Abrams that has tentatively been dubbed ‘Cloverfield’ online. Here are some possible details, courtesy of DarkHorizons. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070820c.php


Yes, you are really that old. Robocop has a new 20th Anniversary collectors Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Robocop-Anniversary-Collectors-Peter-Weller/dp/B000QQH4YS) out this week. And 2 decades later the movie still rocks. Just ignore the 2 lame sequels, everyone else did. (part 3 was written by Frank Miller no less!)


Speaking of Frank Miller, hot off the success of 300, Miller is set to write and direct the movie adaptation of The Spirit (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=43473&type=0). Based on the popular Will Eisner classic. Scarlet Johansson and Eva Mendes are also attached, so the movie will at least have plenty of eye candy.


Cartoons, cartoons everywhere. The Dr. Strange animated movie (http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Sorcerer-Michael-Yama/dp/B000R5OFOA/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-0484792-5869547?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187728326&sr=1-1)came out on DVD last week. I saw part of it and it looks on par with the Ultimates movies and the Iron Man movie. If you liked those, you’ll like this. If you had issue with reworked origins or storylines, you might want to just move along.
Spider-man is also getting (yet another) cartoon treatment (http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.1444.Spectacular_Spider-Man_Animated_Trailer%7Eand%7EPoster)starting this fall on the WB Kids block. (I get a kick out of Marvel cartoons airing on the Warner Brothers channel.)


Quick Bits: Kirsten Bell of Veronica Mars fame will be showing up in Heroes this season. Also in Heroes related news, Zachary Quinto (Syler) has signed on to play the part of Spock in J.J. Abrams ‘reimagining’ of Star Trek, set to begin shooting in November. I like the USA series ‘Burn Notice’, and am happy to hear it got picked up for a second season. Support one of our own, pick up Friday Night Lights on DVD, satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. (”http://www.fnlguarantee.com/) Speaking of DVD’s, if you’re a fan of the perennial 80’s vampire flick Lost Boys, or of washed up child actors, you might be interested to hear that Lost Boys 2: The Tribe is in production and set to star the two Corys. And will go straight to DVD (shock! surprise!) Alas, Kiefer Southerland is too busy saving the world one day at a time to reprise his role (besides the fact that his character kicked it in the first flick). No, you can’t travel back to the future in it, but for the first time in 25 years you can pick up a brand new DeLorean (”http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/delorean/’). Flux Capacitor and crazy scientist not included.

[Canada Maestro]

Comic Foundry (http://www.comicfoundry.com)is a new month comic magazine that brings the news and pop of Wizard to you with the flair and layout of Maxim or Blender. I haven’t seen it yet, as the first issue hits stores today, but I will check it out.

Is it monthly? Because on their website where they announce the first issue coming out it says:
"Comic Foundry will begin publishing quarterly in 2008, with our next issue in the Spring."


Yes, you are really that old. Robocop has a new 20th Anniversary collectors Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Robocop-Anniversary-Collectors-Peter-Weller/dp/B000QQH4YS) out this week. And 2 decades later the movie still rocks. Just ignore the 2 lame sequels, everyone else did. (part 3 was written by Frank Miller no less!)

Frank Miller also wrote 2 but supposedly his script was pretty hacked up by the time it made it to film.

[JackAssterson]

Regarding your 1-18-08 link: that's been (thankfully) debunked.

Check it out here: http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/21/cloverfield1-18-08-sources-say-the-monsters-are-not-raptor-like

Things have gotten so bad regarding fakes and this movie that I'd double check quotes from JJ's mother at this point.

[Canada Maestro]

Things have gotten so bad regarding fakes and this movie that I'd double check quotes from JJ's mother at this point.

Yeah, I only listen to reports from Demosthenes1's uncle. Because, you know, he works at the headquarters.

[Rokk_Krinn]

You just have to keep reminding me that Frank Miller is writing the "Spirit" movie don't you? I am -not- ready to see P'Gell or Sandy as a bunch of "I hate men but really I want them to rough me up because secretly I'm a prostitute-at-heart."-women. That seems to be Miller's only remaining view on women and it just....gah!

Oh, and I pray that the Spirit doesn't pack a gun in this (considering it was a point brought up many times in Eisner's run).

Heading off the inevitable comment, yes, I know Miller and Eisner knew each other and that Miller interviewed Eisner, becoming a friend of sorts -however- that was back before Miller seems to have gone over the deep end.

[AZS]

Yeah, and what are the chances we'll get a neo-nazi/S&M type character. (even though the story should take place in the 30's, pre-nazi.)

On the upside though, at least Frank Miller has nothing at all to do with the Watchmen movie. :)

[ReZourceman]

Superbad is out over there now...huge geeky/nerdy movie. I cannot wait for that film. I cannot wait for that film.

[Granite Moose]

You just have to keep reminding me that Frank Miller is writing the "Spirit" movie don't you? I am -not- ready to see P'Gell or Sandy as a bunch of "I hate men but really I want them to rough me up because secretly I'm a prostitute-at-heart."-women. That seems to be Miller's only remaining view on women and it just....gah!

Oh, and I pray that the Spirit doesn't pack a gun in this (considering it was a point brought up many times in Eisner's run).

Heading off the inevitable comment, yes, I know Miller and Eisner knew each other and that Miller interviewed Eisner, becoming a friend of sorts -however- that was back before Miller seems to have gone over the deep end.

You and I are so in tune on our feelings of this, Rokk, that it's just scary. To say I was disappointed in Miller as choice to write this could quite possibly be the understatement of the decade.

Of course, there's always the chance I will be pleasantly surprised, I suppose.

[scehaono]

i don't know about the rest of you....but DELOREANS!!!!

[Heathcliff]

Yes, you are really that old. Robocop has a new 20th Anniversary collectors Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Robocop-Anniversary-Collectors-Peter-Weller/dp/B000QQH4YS) out this week. And 2 decades later the movie still rocks. Just ignore the 2 lame sequels, everyone else did. (part 3 was written by Frank Miller no less!)

20 years already? Man, it seems like I went to see that and Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise at the theatre just the other day. Thanks for making me feel the crushing weight of my years :p

[Rokk_Krinn]

20 years already? Man, it seems like I went to see that and Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise at the theatre just the other day. Thanks for making me feel the crushing weight of my years :p

You want to feel "the crushing weight of years"? Try going over to visit your family, mention that you had been watching "A Hard Day's Night" the previous evening and then have your 20-some-year-old sister-in-law spazz because she doesn't think you should be mentioning "porno movies" in front of your grandmother. :ermm:

Then again, this is the same gal that tried to then argue she really likes the Beatles because back in church camp they frequently sang the hit Beatles tune, "Hey Judas"... :tired:

[Heathcliff]

You want to feel "the crushing weight of years"? Try going over to visit your family, mention that you had been watching "A Hard Day's Night" the previous evening and then have your 20-some-year-old sister-in-law spazz because she doesn't think you should be mentioning "porno movies" in front of your grandmother. :ermm:

Then again, this is the same gal that tried to then argue she really likes the Beatles because back in church camp they frequently sang the hit Beatles tune, "Hey Judas"... :tired:

I have nothing to add, other than possibly "buh?" That is a strange tale. A strange tale indeed. :speechles