Although you can see where they're going with the X-Books as far as mutants are concerned. I do applaud it going as long as it is.

I haven't read anything beyond Dec 2007. So I am not in the loop, rn. Last shit I read was Wolverine decapitating Sabretooth.

It's a mess, don't worry about it.

Seriously looking foward to the Wolverine film but then I was really looking foward to X-Men 3, so we'll see.

Anyone else been watching the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon?

Yes. I enjoy it quite a bit.

Iron Man 2's sets are getting put together as filming creeps up around Spring. Mickey Rourke is back in the movie playing a villain.

Bit of slippage Marvel wise, old dates and new dates below:

Thor
July 16, 2010 > June 17, 2011

The First Avenger: Captain America

May 6, 2011 > July 22, 2011

Avengers

July 15, 2011 > May 4, 2012

edit - the Captain America slip is probably to avoid a clash with Spider-Man 4, which is aiming for a May 6th release in '11.

Iron Man 2 is still on schedule for May 2010. Rourke casting is confirmed, will seemingly be playing Whiplash with elements of the Crimson Dynamo mixed in, which was rumoured already I think.

Scarlett Johannson is confirmed too.

Could be quite a cluttered film - more Rhodes, more Fury, plus Whiplash/Dynamo, Justin Hammer and Black Widow. Let's hope they're not doing a Spider-Man 3 and packing in too much.

I trust them.

Yeah, Marvel are doing this themselves. I'm sure they won't let it be a total clusterfuck.

And given what they're building toward in the grand sense, they can afford a misstep anyway. But so far, everything's been okay.

Wow. Mrs. Ryan Reynolds is the Black Widow. Hopefully she shows up with an accent. But I would have went the other way and got Olga Kurylenko.

I dunno, I can't really picture Kurylenko as a redhead, but I can picture Johannson as one.

I can picture Johannson as anything.

They'll just keep her blonde and make her Yelena Belova instead. :shifty:

March 26, 2009 - Marvel Studios is looking for a few good screenwriters.

Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Marvel has established a writers program to build an in-house stable of screenwriters to work on their comic book movies. "The goal is to put more than half a dozen film writers on staff, give them an office, and 'work them like horses!'," according to DHD's source.

Marvel's comic book writers are not excluded from the program.

The site's source adds: "'Before the writers are even allowed to come in and meet, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement and a 70-page, non-negotiable contract. Among other things, the contract gives Marvel ownership over everything the writers create during the one year term of [the] deal, plus a first look and last refusal to any and all projects the writers have previously written or will write for 24 months in the future.'"

So is this a good move for Marvel? Or a bad move for writers?
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Well... if you say so, Marvel.

http://www.earthsmightiest.com/image...n-black-wi.jpg

she is getting ready for us..

Very fucking nice.

Mind you, I don't agree with this particular casting (Scarlett's just not super-spy material), but I can give a shit when it means a hot bitch like her getting screen time.

I agree. I still can't really picture her as the black widow but whatever..like you said, a hot bitch on the screen is never a bad thing.

Iron Man 2 starts filming Monday.

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Dammit, Hugh, stop looking badass. Such a cock blocker.

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Black is In:

Apparently a draft for Venom was turned in a while ago and Sony liked it enough to ask for some revisions, including some parameters the studio wanted in the story. The whole thing about plot-related stipulations for a Venom movie is that Venom himself is a plot stipulation from Sony, so I'm guessing Sony's gaga for Venom for some reason.

Stan Lee is the only confirmed cast member. Yeah you probably wanna hit me for 'reporting' that.

Stan Lee's playing Venom? :wtf:

No.

that would be awesome

I dont follow

Sony wanted Venom in Spider-Man 3. Now with his own movie they hacking drafts and telling the writers what they wanna see. Sony has some hands on fetish for the Venom character. Perhaps more so since... DARK CHARACTERS ARE IN (thanks TDK).

I'm not a fan of a studio running that much shit. Almost never works out.

Seriously. Wonder how much better Spidey 3 would have been, if sony hadn't forced venom into the picture.

Also, anyone else reading and enjoying x-force? The new one, not the old cable x-force.

I keep up with it. I like the idea of an assassin X-group. Hugh should push for that as a third Wolverine movie. Somebody bring it to his attention!

X-Force has been great.

X-23 rules.

I do.

And her miniseries that introduced her to the 616 canon was a critical success, BTW. So take that dogma shit somewhere else.

Go watch Moon or some shit.

Maybe discuss the dichotomy between Kain and Abel in some book report for your suger daddy.

Sure, the comic selling well means she's not a shitty concept for a character

"Nerds love tits and Wolverine so let's put some tits on Wolverine. EXCELSIOR"