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Last weekend, the cast of The Walking Dead took the stage at Dragon*Con and fielded questions from the audience — with one big restriction. Dragon*Con attendees were told eight times not to ask about former showrunner Frank Darabont. More »
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Something about this Iron Man-ettes reconstruction seems... off. Instead of channeling that great Tony Stark feeling of excess, this plays out like a joyless slave dance for the master in the metal suit. Dance slave girls, dance for your maker! More »
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The animated adaptation of Frank Miller's comic Batman: Year One has an impressive voice cast. From Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston to Eliza Dushku and Katee Sackhoff, this could be one of the coolest animated voice casts yet. More »
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This rumor is up there with the Cher is Catwoman and Eddie Murphy is the Riddler whoppers. TMZ is reporting that Lindsay's people have had multiple phone conversations with the folks behind the new Superman movie. Apparently she's in the running for a "major character," but not Lois Lane — and lots of sites have jumped to the conclusion that it's Supergirl. Uh, no. More »
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And the hits for the Spidey musical just keep coming. After a few weeks without any reported injuries, Julie Taymor's Spider-Man musical takes another swipe, this time from the New Yorker. Plus, more skits poking fun at the troubled production. More »
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Last week on Batman: The Brave and The Bold, the Birds of Prey ranked the sexual prowess of DC's superheroes, in song. Batman landed on top, but Aquaman and the Flash didn't fare so well. You're going to enjoy this. More »
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No more spidey speculation. Sony and Marvel have officially announced the next Spider-Man, and it's that kid from the Parnassus movies: Andrew Garfield. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5577950&view=rss&microfeed=true We're already reeling from Nic Cage's Adam West impersonation in Kick-Ass. But when his movie daughter/superhero Chloe Moretz, aka Hit-Girl, told us Cage sang in one deleted scene, we couldn't believe it. Until she sang it for us. More »
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The ab-riffic Green Lantern star is ramping up his comic book-flick profile by playing a dead guy trying to keep other dead guys from running riot. More »
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Alan Moore's Watchmen is revolutionary for its "real world" conceit, and Garth Ennis' and Darick Robertson'sThe Boys uses a similar conceit, but with a twist - what if the superheroes were a bunch of assholes? Minor spoilers below. More »
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Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption has been given the go-ahead from AMC to adapt the astounding zombie comic The Walking Dead for television. Time to get excited, and prepare your anti-zombie shelter. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5453390&view=rss&microfeed=true We thought the Spider-Man musical fiasco was finished, crushed to death under its $45 million budget. But it seems the sunglassed superstar Bono, who wrote the show's score, has stepped in to save the day. [New York Post] More »
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Sounds like the live-action movie adaptation of the Dylan Dog comic book, called Dead Of Night, will have a supernatural world that's as realistic as possible - including providing the zombie citizens with their own flesh Gap. More »
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Not only is Denzel wielding two fat barrels in your direction, but in the other comics-inspired movie poster for his post-apocalyptic film The Book Of Eli, he's done a lotta serious damage with a bloody machete. Check out the carnage. More »
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In Bill Willngham’s comic book epic Fables, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and scores of other characters from folklore are forced to live together in exile in Manhattan. Now ABC is offering them all a chance at life on television. The network has ordered a pilot based on the trials and tribulations of these legendary characters living in our modern world. More »
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Halfway through new comics trade The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home—in which our gunslinging hero is transported to an ominous netherworld, where he’s banged up and taunted but never killed—writer Peter David’s narrator breaks out with this head-scratching line: “After all, what point is there in great villains attempting evil deeds…if great heroes aren’t around to try and stop them?” Intriguing! If only Roland, a descendant of a line of kickass gunslingers, were actually there to stop something in this second, more ponderous installment of Marvel’s adaptation of the Stephen King epic. More »
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If you've been browsing the cable airwaves, you might have noticed the 1993 film The Meteor Man has been playing on Showtime, usually as late-night filler material. Although it's 15 years old, it didn't even stand up for 15 minutes at the box office, grossing only $8 million dollars despite a wealth of talented actors. If you really want to torture yourself, strap yourself in Clockwork Orange-style and try watching it. We dare you. Or just check out the full story behind the movie that makes Blankman seem bearable by comparison. More »
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You can finally take a gander at photos of "Darth Maul/The Toad" Ray Park in his full Snake-Eyes costume from the upcoming G.I. Joe film, and we grudgingly have to admit that he looks fairly badass. Even though his visor looks a bit like Geordi's from Star Trek: The Next Generation, we'd never tell him that to his face. If we did, he'd either gut us with his sword, pop a cap in our ass with his gun, or possibly do both. Check out another Snake-tastic picture after the jump. More »
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Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright says his new Ant-Man movie will be less overtly comedic than any movie he's ever made, and that he's working on a second draft right now. Despite featuring one of Marvel Comics' goofiest heroes, it'll be a full-on action film with some comedic elements tossed in. But who will be wearing the Ant-Man suit, shrinking to ant-size and communicating with ants? Click through to find out. More »
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Director David Fincher is going to direct Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole, based on a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, which is a creepy quartet in itself. If you haven't picked it up by now, Burns' black-ink heavy story deals with a group of teenagers who catch a bizarre STD called The Bug, which causes extreme physical mutations. Eventually the kids become outcasts, creating their own small societies at the fringes of cities and towns. This sounds intriguing, although hopefully the end result will fare a bit better than Beowulf, which Avary and Gaiman also collaborated on the script for. We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing. [Hollywood Reporter] More »
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Zack Snyder reports that the "20 years in the making" Watchmen film is now in the can, although there's still the entire arduous process of post-production ahead. Given that master-of-space-and-time Dr. Manhattan is bright blue and nude half the time in the graphic novel, post-production is not an enviable task. We just hope they make antihero Rorshach's blots move around via some CGI techno-jiggery, because we need to see roving oil slicks to make us swallow this thing. Snyder posted the above image as a gift, and while it doesn't look identical to the comic panels, it's close enough to the storyboards. Just keep your fingers crossed for this comic book flick. Watchmen Wrapped [Thanks Timothy] More »
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This cover image from the comic-book adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull looks way cooler than the teaser poster we've been seeing. And it gives you more of a flavor of the movie, both good and bad. Good: Karen Allen, Dominatrix Cate Blanchett, and a whip-swinging Indy. Plus there's that pesky extraterrestrial-looking crystal skull staring at you, asking you why you stopped reading Whitley Streiber novels. Bad: Ray Winstone looks like Jack Black with his Nacho Libre mustache, and the image of Shia LaBoeuf driving Indy in his "I'm a teacher!" suit makes us cringe a bit. Click through for more info. More »
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Director Luc Besson's company EuropaCorp announced today that they have acquired the rights to Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec, a French graphic novel series that's been published since 1976. Adele Blanc-Sec, a popular novelist turned journalist, investigates mysterious happenings as a sort of one-woman X-Files unit who wasn't afraid to "drink, smoke, and shoot like a man." More »
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Jason Statham, who seems to have made a career out of kicking down doors, screaming, and shooting people, took a meeting with Marvel as part of an audition process for Namor, The Sub-Mariner. We'll pause while you process that for a bit. Just imagine the smooth-headed, Cockney-slinging Statham as the Prince of the Seas. Complete with a little speedo and wings on his ankles. Oh and the Spock ears, and those pointed eyebrows. Can you picture it? Neither can we. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be happening. Another near movie disaster, narrowly averted. [IESB] More »
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The hammer came down yesterday for the Justice League movie, and Warner Bros. has now officially put the project on "indefinite hold." That sound you may have heard was a billion JLA fans around the globe sighing in relief. But what, aside from the writers' strike, made studio execs decide to activate the lasers and eradicate this project? More »
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Kevin Smith is admittedly a fan of science fiction (io9 spied him at the William S. Paley Festival's Battlestar Galactica event in Beverly Hills), and his love for Star Wars and comic books is pretty well-documented. However, other than his Flying Car short film, he hasn't directed anything down that road. Once his film load lightens, however, he plans on making Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers. We've just learned more about the project. More »
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Marvel Comics has made some high quality wallpapers from the upcoming Iron Man movie available on the web, and we won't argue that they are spiffy, shiny, and gorgeous. However, did they really need to brand the things four times? In the shot above (mega-version here) you've got an awkwardly placed Iron Man logo right under Tony's fist, along with the release date. Do you really want a release date on our computer's desktop? Check out what else is wrong with this picture inside. More »
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Click to view io9 took a spin through Gallery 1988 and Golden Apple Comics last night in Los Angeles as artists like Ruben Rude, Travis Lampe, Brandon Bird, Patrick Gannon, Misha, Angry Woebots, Jeff McMillan, Sarah Coleman and Daniel Danger paid tribute to Stan "The Man" Lee through reinterpretations of some of his most famous characters. The result was some seriously trippy artwork ranging from X-Men plushies to a sort of wacky Mickey Mouse meets The Hulk on acid painting. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below. More »
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Artist Ashley Wood has worked on everything from Judge Dredd to Spawn, has brought life back to Tank Girl, and is now working on World War Robot. Writer Jon Gibson (of I Am 8 Bit and Nerdcore fame) describes it as "Band of Brothers with gun-toting machines." Check out the details beyond the jump. More »
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Beloved scifi-Western series Firefly has been off the air for five years, and it's been more than two years since the spinoff feature film Serenity hit the screens. Now all you junkies who miss Joss Whedon's show about misfits and rebels in space can get your fix at the local comic book shoppe. A three-issue series called Serenity: Better Days comes out in March, and after the jump we have a look at the first four pages. We're looking forward to this one. More »
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Heroes 360 is a lot more than your basic network half-assed attempt at a web presence for a show. This site for NBC's mutant soap opera is packed with original content like Heroes web comics, blogs, stories, and interviews. New stuff goes up every week, and this is only going to happen more now that the writer's strike has made comics one of the only formats where you'll be able to see your favorite Heroes characters for the next three months. Here's our quick guide to getting started with the Heroes site. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337850&view=rss&microfeed=true There's nothing like the delight on a child's face when they unwrap a present and behold the wonder of an extremely cool toy. Unfortunately, Rom the Spaceknight wasn't one of them. He looked like a bulimic Cylon who couldn't bend his arms or legs, and came with three clunky accessories to help him in his quest for lameness. And that's just the beginning of the the retarditude. Wait 'til you hear the backstory on this 1979 stinker. More »
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Stephen King's The Mist is vaporizing from theaters left and right, but there's already another fog-shrouded mutant mist movie heading to your multiplex. Night & Fog, which is in production with Myriad Pictures, has a very familiar-sounding plot: military experiment on a remote island results in monsters in the mist. Got your lawyer on speed dial, Mr. King? More »
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The movie version of Alan Moore's classic dysfunctional superhero comic book Watchmen continues to move forward, although one key element might be coming to your DVD player before the film comes out. More »
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