Crap, I picked the wrong day to be offline all day (and then out drinking with the cow-orkers after the conference that kept me offline all day).
Slightly too fried to meara the whole farking comic book movie thread.
L&R movie would be one of the few things that would make me camp out for a movie.
Return of Marion Ravenwood? O. M. G. THAT WOMAN WAS MY SEXUAL AWAKENING. (I mean, Indy was okay too, but really).
As for the Spirit movie, actual conversation from last night's graphic novel book group meeting:
"Wait, they're doing a movie?"
"Yeah, it's got blahblan and blahblah and blahblah in it."
"Who. Had no idea. So who's directing?
"Frank Miller"
"Oh... well, FUCK."
Oh, it's a movie. I thought he might have been doing a new Spirit comic.
Actually, there is a new Spirit comic. It's not Miller, thank the gods. The first 12 are written/pencilled by Darwyn Cooke (first 6 are collected in hardcover -- gorgeous cover, but otherwise I'd wait for the trade paper), and they're decent, but nowhere near the originals; after that I gather it's gone way downhill, but I haven't read them since I'm another who has pretty much gone to trades. (And we're out of room even for those)
"Who. Had no idea. So who's directing?
"Frank Miller"
"Oh... well, FUCK."
That was my reaction as well.
Miller's directing? Hokay then.
*gagging noise*
New Bats poster and I read over at Scifi Wire that Del Toro is now actually signed to direct the Hobbit movies.
New Bats poster
Niiiiiice. (Though my favorite part of the poster is where Maggie Gyllenhaal's name is, because it replaces Katie Holmes' name.)
Huh, I somehow missed that Aaron Eckhart is in it. Interesting.
IIRC, Eckhart is Harvey Dent.
Yeah, I checked IMDB after seeing the poster. Wasn't sure if that would be considered spoilery or not, but I guess name cast probably isn't.
Now whether he ends up as Two-face by the end of the movie or not would be a whole other thing.
So let's see: Billy Dee Williams begat Tommy Lee Jones begat Aaron Eckhart
Almost as many iterations as Batman.
A section of my forthcoming book talks about Philippe Petit's walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 (this walk happened between the recording and release of Richard & Linda Thompson's excellent "The Great Valerio," one of their two great highwire-as-metaphor songs). Anyway, I was surprised to read that there's a movie about Petit playing now in NYC: [link] I wish I lived there! I'd love to see this movie.
Corwood's post had me wondering how that related to comics until I realized what thread we were in. Oops.
