It’s been a few weeks since our last installation of Entry Level Geek, so it’s time to catch up!
MovieMiscellany has posted the recipe used for the fake blood in The Evil Dead. So if you happened to not have anything going on today, now you’ve got something to do!
My wife (of ‘Thoughts From The Better Half’ fame from my movie reviews) just recently finished watching the entire Quantum Leap series. Now Scott Bakula is talking about an upcoming Quantum Leap movie. It doesn’t sound like he’ll reprise his role, but he’ll be involved somehow.
The good news is that Don [Quantum Leap creator Donald P. Bellisario] is working on the film script and has a big time Hollywood producer who wants to do it … It’s about time. But what I always thought would happen, happened … [that he’s now too old for the role]. But Dean [Stockwell, who played Al] and I will have a part in it somehow.
Don did say that as he was writing, he told me he was having trouble, ‘getting you and Dean out of my head.’ But I know he will do it.
Click through the jump for the rest of the recent stories.
Comicbookmovie.com has an exclusive: Although Warner Bros’ superhero film, Green Lantern, has just wrapped it’s principal photography, the hardest part has just begun. The film’s director and crew will be moving back to Los Angeles this week to begin the long process of post production, which for his movie in particular is a daunting task. Not only is the Green Lantern suit Ryan Reynolds wears in the movie completely computer generated, but the majority of alien Lantern Corps members are as well. And speaking of Corps members… eager Green Lantern fans have been waiting a long time to see him, and here he is now. The Poozer-stopping Kilowog!
This is the part where you say, “umm.. who?” I know, I thought the same thing at first, so here’s a quick rundown on what exactly he does courtesy of GeekTyrant:
A towering alien with a brutish and porcine appearance, Kilowog is renowned throughout the Green Lantern Corps as the primary trainer of the Corps’ newest recruits. The Guardians of the Universe recruited Kilowog, a gifted genetic scientist, from the planet Bolovax Vik, located in Space Sector 674. Kilowog was trained by Lantern Ermey, who would often use the word “Poozer”, which meant “useless rookies” (A word Kilowog would later adopt, albeit in a friendlier way). In the middle of a particularly arduous training session, Ermey had Kilowog and his fellow rookies help stop an attack on a group of Lanterns, one of whom was the future renegade Sinestro. Ermey, fatally wounded in battle, commended Kilowog on his abilities, telling him that he had the makings of a great leader. In addition to serving with distinction as the Green Lantern of that sector, Kilowog also began to spend extensive periods of time on the Green Lantern Corps’ home planet of Oa instructing new recruits on how to handle and best utilize their power rings. In this capacity, Kilowog acted as the first trainer to a young Hal Jordan, the ring-recruited successor to the slain Abin Sur of Ungara, the Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814. Kilowog and his new recruit helped the Guardians confront Abin Sur’s murderer, the hive mind interstellar malefactor known as Legion.
…so now you know who he is, what do you think of his picture?
SuperHeroHype has learned that Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios are planning to start shooting The Avengers in February, 2011 for a May 4, 2012 release. Directed by Joss Whedon, the anticipated film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson. The February start is just a few months after Sony’s untitled Spider-Man reboot gets underway this December. Both films are expected to shoot in Los Angeles.
Hopefully, this turns out to be just as innocent as a blogger reading too much into an off the cuff tweet from the Hollywood types, but as GeekTyrant points out, the Deadpool movie might be in trouble. A tweet from Deadpool’s creator Rob Liefeld:
Warner Bros. just trying to protect their investment. They don’t want Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool AND Green Lantern. Interesting 2 watch
The article incorrectly states that Fox would keep the movie from happening, but I interpret that tweet as Warner Bros. not wanting their star to be identified as another superhero. Fox would want Green Lantern to be successful so that more people want to see Reynolds in another superhero movie. Either way, Reynolds involvement has been the main force behind the Deadpool movie, and he’s been the one keeping the movie along the right storyline, instead of screwing it up like they did in Wolverine. As it stands, I’m really excited for this movie with Reynolds and possibly Robert Rodriguez attached, but if Reynolds leaves this movie, I have zero interest in seeing it.
And lastly, Slashfilm has a story about how Marvel has some future movie possibilities in mind (among them Ant Man, Iron Fist, Black Panther, Doctor Strange). Meanwhile, Movieweb reports that Andrew W. Marlowe, creator of Castle (one of my favorite shows), wrote the script for Nick Fury, a film that centers on the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the Marvel universe, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Click on the video interview below to see what Marlowe has to say about this film in development. Video courtesy of Movieweb.com.
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