Another new trailer has been released for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the more I see, the more I am ready for the movie to get here! Fox doesn’t seem to have given the film its own web site yet, hope they at least promote it as the release date draws closer.
I can’t wait to see Joss’s version of a Marvel movie, meaning the Avenger’s film due out later this year. But the good news is there is a new trailer for it… enjoy! My favorite quote from this one has to be We’re Not A Team… We’re A Time Bomb! How Wheedonesque!
Yep, Stan the Man finally has his own personal web site for all the true comic fans: The Real Stan Lee went online a week or two back. It has all the usual; news, forum, social networking interface, multimedia, and so forth. And to get it launched properly, he sat down with the ever delectable Alison Haislip to do a TV style interview. I should warn you, if you had ever assumed that Stan was in any way shy about promoting himself, or perhaps even humble, this video segment should put paid to your illusions.
The new Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance movie will be on the big screen in a month or two, so I figured a few folks might be up for watching the latest trailer. I am sure it is obvious this is not exactly a movie you have to concentrate your attention on, since it is just for fun, but we all need that every so often.
The Avengers film isn’t coming out until May of next year, but there is already another trailer for it that makes me wish it was coming out this weekend. I would be worried that it might not live up to the hype surrounding it, but it is Joss at the helm this time, so I feel confident.
The good news is that the shared universe multi-author ongoing masterpiece Wild Cards is going to be made into a film of some flavor, and original authors George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass are both involved. In fact, Melinda Snodgrass will be writing the screenplay for the production, according to the Hollywood Reporter. I would be a bit concerned about this since the project belongs to the Syfy Channel, who has made consistently excellent miniseries and consistently dreadful TV Movies. But this is the very first project for the new Syfy Films (a new joint venture between Syfy and Universal Pictures), so there is hope this could be treated as it deserves. If you are not familiar with the series, do yourself a favor and go out and buy the first 10 books in the series now, and read them in one non-stop marathon. The story opens not long after WWII, when an alien spaceship comes to use a biologic weapon to eradicate the human race, but is engaged in aerial combat by Jetboy, who defeats them to the point where only a single bomb goes off. That bomb impacts on New York City, where the virus kills 99% of everyone it touches. Of those who survive, 99% have bizarre physical and mental modifications, sometimes with a power to counteract their loss: the Jokers. The one percent of one percent who are left are the Aces, blessed with superhuman powers. This series has been going on since its inception in 1987, with some of the best science fiction authors on the planet contributing characters and stories. It treats its superheroes and villains even more like real people than the graphic novels do, although there are graphic novel versions available as well. I can’t wait to see how they do with this one!