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Variant Entertainment Weekly cover celebrating next week’s release of The Hobbit
There’s hobbitses just around the corner, people. Peter Jackson’s Hobbit opus opens next Friday to so far mildly positive reviews (it’s currently clocking in at 71% Fresh over at Rotten Tomatoes). In celebration, EW has released four variant covers for this week’s issue, featuring different Hobbit principals. Peter Jackson is preparing for the release by defending his choice to show the film at 48 Frames per second while Warner Brothers is already teasing audiences with pics of the second Hobbit movie, in which Orlando Bloom, “returns” (or is it seen for the first time?) as Legolas (via Rotten Tomatoes, EW, and Comingsoon.net)
Get ready! There is a big plot twist coming up on the next episode of Arrow. It’s the mid-season finale though, so shouldn’t that be expected? In other Arrow related news, casting is underway for an actress to play the DCU character, Shado, an archer and assassin who becomes Oliver Queen’s lover. (via InsideTV and CBR)
Joss Whedon was named Entertainer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly. In this naming ceremony, newsy tidbit, EW reveals that Joss’ brother, Jed Whedon, and sister-in-law, Maurissa Tancharoen (who were the showrunners of Dollhouse and have co-production credits on Dr. Horrible) will be the showrunners for S.H.I.E.L.D., along with Jeffrey Bell (who has co-production credits on another Whedon show, Angel). The piece also says that Whedon already turned in an outline for Avengers 2 (EW)
Anne Hathaway would love to play Catwoman again. I could get into that. (via Access Hollywood)
And while we’re on the subject of Anne Hathaway’s turn as Catwoman, it is worth mentioning that Indiewire talked to Christopher Nolan who answered questions about Man of Steel (he’s producing) but skirted around any Justice League related inquiries (via Indiewire’s The Playlist)
Entertainment Weekly got a first look at the live action adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Enders Game.
Enders Game first look (Image via EW)
Here is a picture of Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff and Asa Butterfield as Ender. The film will be released November 1st, 2013. Enders Game Director, Gavin Hood told EW that they have upped the ages of the children from 6 to 12 because it’s just, well, easier all around for everyone. Plus, middle grades are where it’s at, just ask any YA author you might know about their latest editorial revisions (via EW)
THR has an interesting read about X-Men: Days of Future Past which speculates as to how Fox might bring back all the now very busy and totally famous X-Men from the original films. It is unconfirmed but rumored, for example, that Halle Barry and James Marsden will be reprising their roles as Storm and Cyclops (via THR)
The USA Network has picked up a World War 2 alien space drama called Horizon, which will be produced by The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd (via Deadline)
And, even though this came out a few weeks ago, just in case you missed it – here is a trailer for Season 2 of Derek Kirk Kim’s web series, Mythomania (via Mythomaniashow YouTube Channel)
Have a nice weekend!
@shannonsplanet
0 Comments on Studio Coffee Run: The Hobbit, Arrow, S.H.I.E.L.D., Enders Game, etc. as of 12/8/2012 12:09:00 AM
Arrow transmogrifies into The Green Arrow (Image via Spoiler TV)
Andrew Kreisberg, Executive Producer of the CW’s Arrow, has been doing the interview circuit this week. In interviews with TV Line and TV Guide, he discusses Oliver Queen’s love life as well as the character’s evolution from Arrow to The Green Arrow (via TV Line and TV Guide)
In other CW DCU news, casting for the network’s new Wonder Woman origin series, Amazon, is underway. A casting notice was leaked to Deadline, then later confirmed by the show’s producer, Allan Heinberg, and DCE’s CCO, Geoff Johns (via Deadline and /Film)
In DCU casting news that’s outside of the CW network, Joseph Gordon Levitt’s people have shot down the rumor that he will be playing Batman in the upcoming Justice League movie (via Hollywood.com)
Over on the Marvel end of the casting spectrum, Ian McKellen is totally psyched to be reprising the role of Magneto in X-Men:Days of Future Past, while Hugh Jackman will reportedly return as Wolverine (via Huffpo and Heatvision)
In Guardians of the Galaxy news, Marvel is currently testing actors to play Peter Quill (via Deadline)
And super pretty boy newcomer, Brett Dalton, has been cast as Agent Grant on Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. (via TVLine)
Kevin Fiege talked to Empire Magazine about Iron Man 3 and says that Ben Kingsley makes for a totally awesome Mandarin (via Empire Magazine via ComicBookMovie.com)
Chris Hemsworth also spoke with ComicBookMovie.com. He likens the “Viking element” in Thor: The Dark World to the backdrop of Game of Thrones (via ComicBookMovie.com)
The Walking Dead’s mid-season finale airs this Sunday, December 2nd. There is a Latin American television promo which features the debut of comic book canon fan-favorite character, Tyrese, as played by The Wire’s Chad Coleman. Also, here’s an interview with Milton, the mad scientist of Woodbury, in which he discusses how he was cast in the role and teases that viewers can expect an ongoing power struggle with him and Merle (via Spinoff Online and ComicBookMovie.com)
Andrea whips it out in The Walking Dead mid-season finale (Image via Spoiler TV)
Lastly, Brian K. Vaughan is on a quest for world domination of all media. I sincerely hope that it does not disrupt the delivery of Saga in any way shape or form that he is now signed on to produce as well as write the CBS TV adaptation of Stephen King’s 2009 bestseller, Under the Dome (via Collider)
I’m disappointed that Under the Dome is going to be on broadcast television. It would have done much better on one of the premium networks or even a cable network like FX.
That said, congrats to BKV on the project finally making some headway!
Jerry Smith said, on 12/4/2012 6:20:00 AM
Man, how dumbed down is BKV’s script going to have to be for CBS? Will a CBS intern go in and remove all words over three syllables? Good luck, Brian, but network TV? Yeesh!
BradyDale said, on 12/4/2012 6:29:00 AM
As nerd culture expands and sweeps into many other walks of life, I am finding myself taking a certain pride in not taking in part in quite all of it.
“You’ve been THE WALKING DEAD, right?”
Nope. Not one episode.
I’m sure it’s great, but as our little chunk of the cultural landscape expands, I don’t feel a responsibility to take part in all of it any more. It will be fine without me. I’ve other things to do.
It’s great to see some stability in our bailiwick.
And that’s why I don’t feel bad about the fact that I’ll be skipping THE HOBBIT, too. But hey! A WONDER WOMAN show? I’m all about it. AMAZON is a great title. Smart move, crew!
Save the Date Artwork by Jeffrey Brown (Image via BadassDigest.com)
Nice!IFC has picked up Save the Date for distribution. The romantic comedy was co-written by Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich and Michael Mohan. The film, which also features artwork by Brown as well, has no release date as of yet but is already slated for limited release in New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Chicago (via Deadline)
Christopher Nolan talked to Total Film Magazine about the challenges he’s facing as he finishes off The Dark Knight trilogy without mentioning the pissing contest Hollywood is insisting he get into with The Avengers as he completes his task (via ComicBookMovie.com)
Speaking of DCU super-dude movies, someone is spoiling The Man of Steel for everyone over on the IMDB forums with the unsurprising and unsubstantiated though likely news that the film will have a “comic book look and feel” (via FilmSchoolRejects.com)
In stalled DCU movie news, The Answer Bitch over E! Online takes a stab at telling us why there will be no Justice League Movie from Warner Brothers anytime soon. No offense, Answer Bitch, but I’m sure Beat readers will have far more news and theories on this than you. If any of you would care to share them in the comments section, I would like to hear them.
The Arrow Pilot, however is a total GO. DC Entertainment CCO, Geoff Johns and all around Green Lantern champion, tweeted CW’s first look at the pilot today.
Adult Swim, on the other hand, is greenlighting seven new pilots- one by Dan Harmon and one that will feature a cartoon version of my boyfriend, Kal Penn, in an animated version of a Harlold and Kumar (via Deadline)
9 Comments on Studio Coffee Run 5/18/12: Sin City 2, Man of Steel and Save the Date, last added: 5/20/2012
At 2:45, doesn’t it kinda look like there are some Doc Ock’esqu arms hitting the floor around whatever feet stomp down there?
Richard Caldwell said, on 5/18/2012 4:22:00 PM
The Avengers grew from the success of the Iron Man franchise. Everything else was satellite. For DC to do a JL film they’d need a successful franchise to build from. Superman continuously updating won’t be it. And with Dark Knight being not the third installment that was promised, it won’t be the Batman movies either.
Nolan and Bale had both said many times that this movie wouldn’t include villains that had previously appeared in live action, which now has been completely reneged. And of course Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be Robin- they’re calling it something else now for some surprise value. I think this entire direction is too “poppy” and will not serve to advance anything new, not really.
Thematically, if a Justice League film had been possible, they should’ve used the third film to spotlight the more lesser known and inhuman of Batman’s rogues gallery- like Clayface, KGBeast, Manbat, etc. Upping the ante. Tie the plot into underground genetic researching being funded by Lex Luthor perhaps. Then launch full on with Superman and Wonder Woman movies ala Thor and Captain America, and onto JLA. But Warners just missed the boat, by pushing Dark Knight to be a rehash of things seen before for the easier buck.
Of course, I’m likely completely wrong, but it makes sense to me.
Shannon OLeary said, on 5/19/2012 9:40:00 AM
@Richard Caldwell That breakdown seems viable to me! I think WB just didn’t grok, and therefore didn’t commit, to making a JLA franchise in the same way that Marvel has with The Avengers (although I’m sure they’re thinking about it now!). They’ve been struggling too hard to replicate Marvel’s successful movie formula in their approach to the individual pieces of it.
That’s been a great thing in the case of The Dark Knight movies, which are distinctly DC but also have that anti-hero vibe that modern audiences respond to so well in Marvel movies. But that approach has obviously not worked so well when they’re straight up trying to imitate Marvel’s approach by putting DC’s version of a grittier sassier superheroes like Green Lantern before more recognizable properties such as Wonder Woman, which resulted in an ill fated project with no clear voice.
And, you’re absolutely right, by continuing to re-boot Superman they’re just confusing things and making forgettable films. While in the meantime, EVERYONE is wondering,”where my Wonder Woman at?” – like it’s that complicated to make an action movie about a smart, modern amazon woman with an invisible plane and an unacknowledged but compulsive bondage fetish who fights evil in her underwear.
They’re just far too confused in terms of overall vision as to what to do with their individual IP’s while Marvel has been pretty clear and steady in intent and execution all along. It’s going to be interesting to see what DCE does next in terms of big movies after Man of Steel and Dark Knight Returns for sheezy. But with the current vision at the top, I’m not all that sold that what they choose is going to be any good. But I hope they surprise me. I do like surprises.
Shannon OLeary said, on 5/19/2012 9:44:00 AM
@ Richard Caldwell PS: I love your Lex Luthor underground genetic research plot tie in idea.
Richard Caldwell said, on 5/19/2012 11:25:00 AM
@Shannon OLeary
I would love to see a Wonder Woman film, and soon. The animated flick was fun, but I was worried by both the Whedon movie and the David Kelley TV series, as while I like each of their respective works I just don’t think either “got” the character. But she is a third of DC’s holy trinity and needs major representation. And Marvel has yet to do a solo female feature film so Warners could beat them to the punch there.
And since he’s grown too big for his britches regarding comic work, I would kill to see Neil Gaiman write a WW film. He can certainly handle strong and compelling women, and he understands the mythology.
Shannon OLeary said, on 5/19/2012 2:18:00 PM
See, I knew it. Congratulations, @Richard Caldwell! You have officially out-answered the Answer Bitch.
Richard Caldwell said, on 5/19/2012 3:41:00 PM
HA!
Synsidar said, on 5/20/2012 6:46:00 AM
One of the bigger problems with doing Wonder Woman in a movie might be that people approach the project assuming that there will be sequels, a la comics or a TV series, and end up writing lousy scripts. A writer can’t just assume the existence of sequels to fill in gaps, unless he plans the storyline that way. The easiest route to take in writing a standalone Wonder Woman storyline would be to make the villain a sexist pig who wants to make her his possession. She defeats him, decides that Man’s world is filled with pigs, goes back home, and stays there. That approach wouldn’t satisfy her fans, but writing her as a generic superheroine wouldn’t satisfy her fans or the general public either. Azzarello’s doing a terrific job with Wonder Woman in her series, but he’s writing her as a player in an Olympian power struggle, not as a superheroine.
Another problem with writing one-shot treatments of superheroes would be thinking that each encounter with a villain is significant, as in a comics series. In comics, battles don’t happen in the background and aren’t mentioned only in passing—Reed Richards recalling his most memorable encounter with Dr. Doom, for instance. A prose writer who wanted to do one story about a hero would find it easy to say that he’s had 40 battles over the last 20 years, but the one he has now is his most significant, and have the battle change his life, or end it. That approach, though, requires both having the hero age and ending his story.
SRS
Richard Caldwell said, on 5/20/2012 1:32:00 PM
I agree. And something else filmmakers really, really need to drop are the origin stories. Characters from the Avengers or from a prospective Justice League film have generally been around for what, 40, 50 60+ years? Why not just save more of the movie for the actual adventurizing?
After a lot of misfires, the WB finally hit the target* with a pilot pick up in the form of ARROW, what they are now calling Green Arrow. We don’t know why the Green part was redacted because as you can see from the cast shot, they do wear green. Guess “**** Lantern is not a phrase that is remembered fondly beneath the water tower.
Anyway here’s the first footage of Stephen Arnell as Arrow.
Can he jump over chain link fences? Check
Can he investigate warehouses? Check
Can he appear shirtless? Check check
Can he peer anxiously through goggles while tinkering with equipment while accompanied by urgent string music? Check
Most important, here’s his archery form:
As you may recall, despite his smoldering demeanor in The Avengers, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye was a fail for his crappy archery form. To our untrained eye, Arnell has the back arm in good form, but the front one needs to be straighter. You’re missing a lot of power there, dude!
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his de
9 Comments on Arrow asks “How’s my shooting?” with first video footage of new show, last added: 5/18/2012
Amazing how he put his bags down before climbing the fence and yet they beat him to the other side.
So far so good, but I’ll need more to like it.
Richard said, on 5/17/2012 3:33:00 PM
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think his arrow is on the wrong side of his bow. Can someone confirm?
Sabrina said, on 5/17/2012 7:36:00 PM
Richard,
I’m basing my assessment on this YouTube video (http://youtu.be/zjDSs5qpZCk) which I think is the same one, because I can’t actually watch the embedded video for some reason.
I’m by no means an expert, but I have been shooting with a recurve bow myself for over 20 years. His form is fairly good. It’s some of the better TV/movie archery I have seen lately. It’s hard to really tell based on the way the clip has been cut and the video quality, but I’ve spotted only three things that I would be concerned about:
1. He stores his bow fully strung. If you this with a recurve bow, you’d stretch out the string, making the bow weaker and thus less reliable. Recurves are supposed to be stored unstrung. But to be fair, I have no idea how long that bow was sitting like that. It could also be some magic superhero bow with a string that never stretches for all I know.
2. At full draw around 1:24 it looks like his has both his pinky finger and possibly his thumb on the string. This is generally discouraged (in olympic style recurve, at least) because it makes a clean release more difficult especially when one is shooting barefingered (which is also generally discouraged because it can be hell on the fingers, especially with strong bows).
3. It looks like he has an iron grip on his bow. Good for making sure you don’t lose your bow in the heat of battle. Bad for getting a consistently accurate shot. Gripping your bow that tightly will cause muscle tension in your bow arm which will often cause an archer to “jerk” the bow on release.
As for your question. He is shooting right handed (holds the bow in his left, holds the string in his right) which is why the arrow rest is on the left side of the bow. This is correct assuming he is right-eye dominant or doesn’t have a dominant eye. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t have any type of sighting device on that bow so he is targeting by sighting down the arrow. If the arrow were on the other side of the bow, the bow itself would obscure his view of the target. And the arrow would not go where he wants it to go.
The Beat said, on 5/17/2012 9:53:00 PM
I have replaced the WB video — which has all kinds of blocks — with the Youtube one.
Cary Coatney said, on 5/17/2012 10:40:00 PM
Maybe they’re calling it just “Arrow” because “John Carter” was already taken.
~
Coat
James said, on 5/18/2012 1:00:00 AM
Stephen Arnell?? His name is Amell.
Looking forward to checking this out. He was smoking on Dante’s Cove! :)
Nate C. said, on 5/18/2012 4:55:00 AM
Sabrina – wow! Thanks for all that info. Had no idea this was so complex, and I say this as one who’s wanted to get into archery since he was a boy.
I am willing to give this a shot (ha!).
JimMacQ said, on 5/18/2012 5:18:00 PM
Hi, I’m the guy who wrote that piece about Hawkeye’s bad archery for Wired’s GeekDad blog. (There’s a follow-up piece to it at GeekDad; stuff that looks bad in still photos goes by too fast to notice in the movie, and I think they went in and fixed a few shots, so he didn’t look as bad as I feared he would.)
P.S. Anyone interested in trying archery should contact your local range or archery shop, or look at the USA Archery website (www.usarchery.org); many of them offer free lessons including equipment.
Arrow has acquired the first two books in a new thriller series by self-published American debut author Ethan Cross.
Editorial assistant Tim Vanderpump bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to The Shepherd and a second thriller through Danny Baror of Baror Inc. Cross self-published The Shepherd as an e-book in the US in March, and sold 25,000 copies in its first two weeks.
Arrow plans to publish The Shepherd in January as an Arrow paperback original, with the second instalment to follow in summer 2012.
Century and Arrow publisher Selina Walker has made her first acquistions for Cornerstone, snapping up two historical novels by journalist and author Vanora Bennett.
Walker acquired British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Natasha Fairweather at A P Watt in a pre-emptive deal. Century will publish the first, as yet untitled, novel in spring 2013.
I’m disappointed that Under the Dome is going to be on broadcast television. It would have done much better on one of the premium networks or even a cable network like FX.
That said, congrats to BKV on the project finally making some headway!
Man, how dumbed down is BKV’s script going to have to be for CBS? Will a CBS intern go in and remove all words over three syllables? Good luck, Brian, but network TV? Yeesh!
As nerd culture expands and sweeps into many other walks of life, I am finding myself taking a certain pride in not taking in part in quite all of it.
“You’ve been THE WALKING DEAD, right?”
Nope. Not one episode.
I’m sure it’s great, but as our little chunk of the cultural landscape expands, I don’t feel a responsibility to take part in all of it any more. It will be fine without me. I’ve other things to do.
It’s great to see some stability in our bailiwick.
And that’s why I don’t feel bad about the fact that I’ll be skipping THE HOBBIT, too. But hey! A WONDER WOMAN show? I’m all about it. AMAZON is a great title. Smart move, crew!