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Comic News Roundup – January 2010 – Week 1

Green Lantern Gets the Official Green Light 
Visual effects supervisor Karen Goulekas (The Day After Tomorrow, Spider-Man) has announced on her Blog that Green Lantern got the official green light yesterday (Wednesday) and that filming will start in 10 weeks (sometime in March): “Green Lantern got the official green light today! And not a second too soon – only 10 weeks out from shooting!”

Marvel Decade: Kevin Feige
The President of Marvel Studios relives 10 years in the life of Marvel on the big screen
To be honest the thing that I’m most excited about right now though, is the screen test we just finished for "Thor." We’ve done some costume tests and watching the Asgardians walk onto the sound stage takes me back to that first time I saw the X-Men on the set all together in Toronto. Only it was unlike anything we’ve ever put on film before! It’s great to be starting the next decade in such an exciting way just as we did last decade. We’re really redefining the comic book genre and what a Marvel movie can be. It’s going to be great.

GHOST RIDER 2 Update from Producer Mike De Luca; Sequel Title May Be GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE
“…the idea was because Ghost Rider is a unique blend of theology and action and the character deals with the kind of battle of good vs. evil in a theological sense, that Europe you could avail yourself of a lot of religious sites and kind ancient religious site and a history of theology as a setting that isn’t available in the U.S.  We wanted to kind of signal that we’re as different from the first movie just because we want to be fresh and new as you can get in terms of getting away from southwestern kind of pseudo-western thing.”

Stuart Townsend leaves Marvel’s ‘Thor’
Joshua Dallas takes over role after creative differences
Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics’ movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production. Townsend had been cast as Fandral, an ally of Norse god Thor. He was replaced by Joshua Dallas, according to the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

NBC leaves door open for more Heroes
NBC executive Angela Bromstad said no decision has been made on the show’s fifth season and added that the network will hear a pitch from creator Tim Kring before making one. It’s standard practice for show runners to pitch for a season renewal, Bromstad added: "They always do," she said. Should this season be Heroes’ last, the season finale will serve as the series finale, but since the show has already wrapped production on its current fourth season, there won’t be time to add anything. "No, they’re out of production," Bromstad said. "They’ve wrapped production." She did confirm that if she renews Heroes, the show can continue to operate on its current budget without any more cuts. "Actually, Heroes has already been very responsible in having a good budget, so I don’t think that we’d be looking at cutting it further," she said.

Wolverine 2 to Film in 2011
the People’s Choice Awards 2010 website has a video of Hugh Jackman, who won "Favorite Action Star," talking briefly about Wolverine 2. In the video titled ‘Hugh Jackman Backstage,’ Jackman first says that he’s going to shoot the Shawn Levy-directed Real Steel this summer, followed by this: "Wolverine’s going to be back. He’s going to Japan. We shoot that probably in a year, year-and-a-half, something like that."

We reveal some of The Book of Eli’s easter eggs
When Eli (Denzel Washington) spends the night in Carnegie’s (Gary Oldman) town, check the wall for a movie poster: It’s from A Boy and His Dog, the 1975 apocalyptic movie that starred Don Johnson. Albert Hughes admitted the homage was not in the original screenplay. "That was us," Albert said in an interview. "We put it in."

Blake Lively cast as female lead in ‘Green Lantern’
Lively will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father’s aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later becomes the intergalactic policeman Green Lantern. In the comics, the romance became complicated when an alien race bestowed her the power of a crystal called the Star Sapphire.

‘Spider-Man 4′ scrapped; reboot planned
Columbia parts ways with Sam Raimi, Maguire, Dunst
The studio is parting ways with director Sam Raimi and “Spider-Man” stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst and is taking the web slinger’s alter ego, Peter Parker, back to high school. The new movie, which will have a new director and cast but still be produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studios, is eyeing a summer 2012 release. It will use a script by James Vanderbilt and put the focus back on a teenager grappling with normal teen problems while also dealing with his superpowers.

‘Smallville’ season 10 a done deal?
CW president Dawn Ostroff is feeling very optimistic about the show’s renewal odds. “I’m really pleased with the show,” she says. “Creatively, I think they’ve done a great job. And the ratings are [strong] on Friday night. I have to commend [the producers]… It’s not easy in season 9 to keep a show fresh. And you know what I think? The fans have really liked the show this season. I don’t know which way we’ll go,” she continues, “but if you would’ve asked me [earlier whether it would end this season] I would’ve said, ‘Oh, probably.’ But I can’t say that now.”

Q&A: The Hughes Brothers, directors of ‘Book of Eli’
Allen Hughes: It was so unique. How many times do you see a movie about (the Bible)? Two guys are trying to get it, one trying to do bad with it, one just trying to preserve it. People consider this a genre, another post-apocalyptic movie, but that is beside the point. It could have been a Western or taken place on the moon. But the setting was exciting. You want the audience to go in and say, "Wow, I’ve never seen that before." No matter what you do. Nine times out of 10 you’ll probably not do that, but there is that one time you may get lucky. Hopefully we got lucky.

John Malkovich signs on for ‘Red’
John Malkovich has signed to star opposite Bruce Willis in "Red," Summit’s all-star adaptation of the Wildstorm/DC Comics miniseries being directed by Robert Schwenke. Malkovich is stepping in for John C. Reilly, who exited the role in late December. "Red" is the tale of a retired black-ops agent (Willis) who must contend with younger, more high-tech assassins who show up to kill him.

‘Jonah Hex’ back in action for reshoots
Warner Bros. and Legendary are assembling Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender for a roughly 10-day shoot in the Los Angeles area for the movie, beginning at month’s end. Although no test screenings have taken place, the studio has decided to work on story and action during the shoots, working in 12 pages of additional script mixed in with some reshoots.

It’s Going to Take Two Writers to Bring the G.I. JOE Sequel to Life
IESB has exclusively learned that not only are these two writing the script for the Merc with the Mouth, they’ve also just been handed the sequel to G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA that hit theaters this past August with Stephen Sommers at the helm.

War Machine Creator Says ‘Iron Man 3′ Could Use ‘Demon In A Bottle’ Story, Debunks ‘Iron Man 2′ Rumor
“I think there are a variety of reasons to have the War Machine character in there,” offered Layton. “If they’re doing the ‘Avengers’ film, they always have the option of using War Machine instead of Iron Man depending upon what happens contractually. I’m just speculating, I have no idea… But there’s always the possibility that if it does well, it can spinoff. Because obviously there’s a different character and a different motivation with War Machine than there is with Tony Stark.”

Meanwhile, Back at The Hall of Justice…

The Fine Print
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Scott From LA

Scott is an art director, writer and comics creator living in Los Angeles. He has been a pop culture maven from a very young age. His very first job was as a manager of a comic book store. He spent several years working in a video store, and yes, we are talking VHS tapes. A student of literature and Writing, he brings his obsessive love of comic book trivia, movie history and science fiction/fantasy writing to bear on the work he does for CoolShite.

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