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Michael Bay keeps denying that he's really going to do a fourth Transformers movie. Which shows that he hasn't completely lost his mind. Michael Bay is an artist, who needs to branch out and try something new, before he loses all his cred. Michael Bay should spread his groovy wings, man. More »
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We heard about all the scenes that were cut from Star Wars for years. And then, with the Blu-ray release, we finally got to see all of them... and we learned just why they were cut in the first place. More »
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Who will be the ultimate villains in Joss Whedon's Avengers movie? Nobody really knows, even though speculation and rumors have been flying faster than a million quinjets. More »
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It's a high-fashion beatdown, with Sarah and a supermodel spy trashing each other in the dressing room and on the catwalk. Just one of two all-time-great moments in last night's Chuck. The other being Morgan Grimes' management seminar. Spoilers ahead... More »
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There's never been an Incredible Hulk movie that approached the batshit freakosity of the comics — until now. This new Bangladeshi movie, called HALKa, packs as much pants-dropping, tank-wheelie-popping craziness as both U.S. Hulk films. Watch the fun unfold. [Urlesque, via NYMag] More »
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Looking at all the fan-made poster for The Avengers last night, a thought struck me: Maybe the best way to film the sprawling ensemble piece that is Alan Moore's Watchmen would have been to borrow from Marvel's approach? More »
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James Bond saves the world sometimes. So does Captain Kirk. But at least in the movies, superheroes don't - they're too busy fighting personal spats. Here's why superheroes on the big screen should save the damn world now and then. More »
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Will Joss Whedon ruin your superhero-gasm? Some fans seem worried that the Buffy/Firefly creator will spoil The Avengers, which might be the most important superhero film ever. But they're wrong — Whedon will save The Avengers from wretched excess. More »
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Learn why the Predators want Adrien Brody's company, and the possible villain of The Avengers. Fringe pics reveal a startling Walter Bishop makeover. Ron Moore promises Caprica explanations. Annabeth Gish joins FlashForward! Plus Doctor Who, Supernatural, Lost and The Phantom. More »
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Uh oh, the Incredible Hulk's massive green hands are being used to hawk phones and Band Aids in the Middle East. This will only get the Hulk angry, and trust us, you won't like him when he's angry. More »
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We loved Greg Pak's robot-themed anthology film Robot Stories, and now he's crafted a bizarre, clever short film set in our eco-apocalyptic near future. "Mister Green" is one of 11 movies about future America that you can watch for free. More »
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Spoiler Monday! There's another Captain America casting rumor, and Marvel actors talk about appearing in The Avengers. Plus some witty Doctor Who dialogue, Lost set reports and a Last Airbender TV spot. Also: Green Lantern, Crazies, Fringe, Chuck and V. More »
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How does Iron Man 2 mesh with Incredible Hulk? Jon Favreau explains. Also, there are John Carter/Captain America filming locations. Lost actors expostulate "flash-sideways." Awesome V/True Blood casting! Plus Dune, Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, Wolfman, Percy Jackson, Caprica, FlashForward and Smallville! More »
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The Earth and the Moon are about to collide, so it's a good thing Lou Ferrigno has been blown up to giant-size. If you thought Ferrigno's Hercules was batty, the sequel Adventures Of Hercules goes much, much further. More »
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Could 1983's Hercules be the perfect movie? Consider the evidence: It stars Lou "Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno. He fights robot centaurs, travels to other planets by throwing a big rock tied to a chariot, and grapples with a bear. More »
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Last spoilers of 2009! We've got confirmation that Marvel at least considered putting a previously unseen Avenger into Thor. And Denzel Washington gives too much Book Of Eli information. Plus Doctor Who, Lost, The Avengers, James Bond, Dollhouse and Daybreakers. More »
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Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss... Well, kind of. Marvel yesterday named Louis D'Esposito as the new "Co-President" of Marvel Studios, meaning that he'll share current prez Kevin Feige's role as head honcho at the soon-to-be-Disney-fied studio. More »
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It's the ultimate brains versus brawn contest in Marvel Comics' just-announced World War Hulks: Alpha, as the smartest men in the Marvel Universe stop to think about the newly-formed Hulk family. Well, the smartest villains, at least. More »
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Wolverine battles the Hulk, in three exclusive stills from the Wolverine And The X-Men DVD — and it's the awesome gray version. Mr. Fixit is going to get his hands dirty. Just like Hulk #340! And there's an exclusive clip. More »
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Check out this Star Trek TV spot — notice something that wasn't in the movie? That's right: around 0:15, there's baby Spock, complete with teeny Vulcan ears! Why do studios throw cool scenes into trailers, then cut them out of the final movies? Here's a list. More »
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War movies from Apocalypse Now to Rambo used to be where we dealt with issues like the morality of violence and the meaning of honor. Now superhero flicks like Wolverine and Watchmen are replacing them. More »
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Click to viewThis wasn't just the year that science fiction dominated the movies - it also featured an amazing diversity of SF stories. Here's our list of the greatest - and most horrendous - films of 2008. More »
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Gird your loins with spoilers! We've got the full low-down on James Cameron's Avatar, and a major hint for the future of the Hulk movies. Also, one of the writers of Battlestar Galactica answered all your questions about what to expect in the show's final half season — including a startling return. And I got hold of a ton of pages from the script to another Chuck episode, where we meet another family member — and it's not who you'd expect. Plus the first pics from Stargate Atlantis' high-rolling "Vegas" episode. And some spoilers for Futurama, Life On Mars, Smallville, Heroes and Sarah Connor Chronicles. Spoilers are just the best loin-girders. You know it's true. More »
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So the new Star Trek movie isn't exactly a reboot, or a prequel. It's more like a "preboot." And the recent Incredible Hulk was sort of a sequel to Hulk, but sort of a reboot. So everyone described it as a "requel." What's wrong with the world when we need to speak crazy jargon just to understand what's going on with our favorite stories? It's all part of a deliberate strategy to confuse hardcore fans on purpose, but keep the casual audiences from noticing. More »
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It's official: there's no director's cut of The Incredible Hulk coming to DVD, at least not any time soon. Even though star and scriptwriter Ed Norton complained bitterly about all the vital material that was cut from the film, we're not getting to see the version he wanted us to watch. (Instead, there'll be 14 minutes of deleted scenes on the regular DVD, half an hour on the special edition, and 43 minutes on the Blu-Ray.) But just what was in Norton's Hulk-sized version that didn't make it into the theatrical release? We read Norton's script and found out. More »
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They don't make supervillains like they used to, as we mentioned the other day. Today's super-villains are more like super-kittens, that you just want to scritch behind the ears. Or else, they're the hero's friend, until the script suddenly needs them to glue on a giant mustache and become evil. But who's the wobbliest recent villain of them all? Vote for your favorite. More »
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What kind of a world is this? Tobey Maguire's mask from Spider-Man is valued at $55,000 in an auction of superhero props. Ben Affleck's entire costume from the wretched Daredevil could pull in up to $70,000. But the prosthetic nose that Lou Ferrigno wore every week as the Hulk is valued at between $300 and $500. Are you serious? The Hulk's nose is only worth $300? A certain auction house is asking to be smashed, that's all I'm saying. [Coventry Telegraph] More »
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The spiritual father of Marvel's Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk aren't necessarily who you might expect. At today's Adapting Comics To Screen panel, Stan Lee may have been happy to accept his share of the glories, but Incredible Hulk screenwriter has someone much more recent in mind: Ultimates writer Mark Millar. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5029308&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're enjoying Jeph Loeb's brand new Red Hulk, then the announcement that Marvel's Hulk series is to become a "split book" with two regular, shorter stories each issue will probably make you very happy. Loeb assured fans that, while we're going to be seeing a lot more of Bruce Banner's smashing alter-ego in the future, the Red Hulk isn't going anywhere any time soon: Starting with the seventh issue of Loeb's series, fan-favorite artists Frank Cho and Art Adams will take on an individual story each issue for the Red Hulk and the traditional green Hulk. More »
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Sometimes you just want to escape into a heroic universe of wish fulfillment, with just the right kind of angst. And let's face it, some heroes do a better job of hitting your escapism sweet spots than others. We've put together a chart comparing the great action heroes, and seeing which ones hit most of the sweet spots of escapism. The categories in the chart should be pretty self-explanatory. But here's some explanation anyway: We love our heroes to be super rich, and to have an excuse for self-pity. If your fabulously wealthy parents got killed in front of you when you're a kid, so much the better. (Seriously, a tragic past seems to be a crucial ingredient for many escapist heroes, because it lets you project all your own real-life pain onto your hero, even as you're imagining rising about that pain and becoming a mega-adventurer. ) And it makes us happy when our heroes have two or more devoted acolytes/sidekicks, who follow almost without question, and awesome gadgets. Superhuman powers means what it says. "Gets laid" doesn't just mean your hero hooked up one time. "Marked for greatness" requires slightly more explanation. If your hero is the subject of a prophecy (like Starbuck), or is "the One" like Neo, then he/she is marked for greatness. Captain Kirk wasn't marked for greatness on the original Star Trek TV show, but we have a strong suspicion that the new Trek movie, by revisiting his origins, will show that he was marked for great things from the beginning. "Not tied down" doesn't just mean being single: it means that you get to roam around having adventures. And at the end of an adventure, you jump in your spaceship and zoom off to the next adventure somewhere else. Captain Kirk wasn't tied down, but Captain Sisko was. "Becomes a god or king" means your character ends up with a lot of people looking up to him/her. The Hulk, for example, is destined either to become a ruler, the Maestro, or the last survivor of Earth. Captain Kirk becomes an admiral, but more importantly he becomes a legend in his own time. The Doctor becomes the last of the Time Lords, and gets called a god a lot. Neo turns into the blind buddha Jesus monster, or something. More »
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Apparently, the Hulk can't help but get smashed at the box office, according to a recent Reuters story. Five years after Ang Lee's psychoanalytic take on the Jade Giant, Ed Norton's remake of The Incredible Hulk is set to be just as (un)successful as its predecessor, dooming the character to guest-spots in the Avengers movie. More »
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You might have noticed a distinct lack of female heroes at the movies this summer, Sex And The City aside. It's almost as if the studios decided women couldn't carry a big movie — but nah, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Luckily, the summer's big movies have a wealth of female supporting leads, and almost any one of them could carry a movie of their own. (Let's just pretend Catwoman and Elektra never existed, 'kay?) Which one of these sidekicks deserves to kick up her heels in her own film? More »
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If you liked yesterday's freaky Heroes set pics, you'll love the followup, which includes some incestuous groping and doppelgangering. Also, it turns out the villain for the Incredible Hulk sequel (if any) may be the last person you were expecting. There are a couple of new G.I. Joe posters, and a list of the craziest moments in Wanted. All this, plus what to get psyched for in Smallville, Doctor Who, True Blood, and two different versions of Stargate. Spoilers build character! More »
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Remember how we said Incredible Hulk had to pull in an impressive second weekend box office to be considered a hit? And how the Hulk movie really had to beat Get Smart? Well, get in the lotus position and stare at a metronome — we've got some upsetting news. Get Smart pulverized TIH at the box-office, taking in $39 million to Hulk's $21 million. And preliminary estimates show Hulk scoring a roughly 62 percent drop-off from its first weekend, nearly as bad as Ang Lee's Hulk. The movie is close to making $100 million, and it'll probably do well on DVD. But the prospects of a second Incredible helping are dimming. Update: Now people are speculating Incredible Hulk's performance may actually hurt Marvel's stock. More »
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Click to viewThe designers of The Incredible Hulk spent six months before the movie started shooting, just coming up with cool visions of the Hulk and all the environments they could show him smashing. Along the way, they created some cool sequences that never made it to film, including the Hulk smashing Times Square and Thailand. We talked to Incredible Hulk production designer Kirk Petruccelli, and he explained the creative process behind the biggest street brawl in history. More »
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Sometimes fake spoilers are more fun than real ones — as in the case of a Transformers 2 script treatment that's probably fake, but hilarious. It can also be fun to watch people speculate wildly, as one insider has about the plot of the Avengers movie. And there's nothing more fun than a passel of G.I. Joe rumors. But then again, it's sometimes cool to have actual facts, like what was the deal in last Friday's Battlestar Galactica, or what's coming up next on Heroes, Lost, Chuck or The Middleman. We also have a new Wanted clip, and the first pic of the monster from The Descent 2. A bevy of fake and real spoilers await. More »
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While The Incredible Hulk didn't bomb at the box office, it didn't quite manage to outperform the outrageously sucky previous Hulk flick, directed by Ang Lee. This might not be such a big deal, as we pointed out earlier, since movies like Batman Returns have recovered from so-so openings based on word of mouth. My guess is that Incredible Hulk isn't going to get that word of mouth, largely because critics and movie-goers alike have been lukewarm about the flick. But if there's one thing that could have made this movie a smash, it would have been splicing a chunk of the Jekyll and Hyde mythos into its narrative structure. It's not as if Hulk and Hyde haven't met before (see image above), and we've got five good reasons why a Hyde-ier Hulk would have kept us watching. Spoilers ahead. More »
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It seems like the superhero movies are an unstoppable force, their radiation-blasted muscles pushing past all obstacles. Increasingly, the summer belongs to men and women in silly outfits flying around zapping each other. But every fad has to end sometime, and the superpowered epic trend is no different. What could bring the reign of the superheroes to an end? More »
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So, first we have Incredible Hulk director Louis Letterier saying that we "might see" Captain America in the new Hulk movie, then we hear that that scene's been cut from the theatrical release. Now we have the movie's producer telling us that Captain America is in the theatrical version of the movie after all... sort of. More »
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Spoiler alert: A new Hancock clip reveals the movie's final big twist, and a ton of new Hulk clips show exactly what Liv Tyler is doing in this movie. A new Dark Knight TV spot reveals that... ummm, the Joker is weird, I guess. And a new Doctor Who clip is just plain intriguing. There are also new details about M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Chuck, and Smallville. Jorge Garcia shares his wild-and-crazy vision for Lost season five, and it sounds jam-packed with awesome. New pics from Clone Wars, Sarah Connor Chronicles and Spectacular Spider-Man give us new glimpses of new Jedi, monsters and punk-rock software execs. But weirdest, and most alarming of all, is the news of where Optimus Prime hangs out in Transformers 2. Spoiler whores, assemble! More »
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