Everyday Hero, your fanboy news roundup
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All the fanboys want to hear about the next Batman movie, but director Christopher Nolan is on a ‘long, long vacation and wants to purge himself.’ In celebration of tropical respites from gritty Gotham, we went to the vault and found this rarity on the right; it’s a 1966 trading card that depicts the Dynamic Duo riding the waves in pursuit of some lame bad crook named Tiger Shark. Surf’s up, Dark Knight!
Now here are your hand-picked fanboy headlines for today...
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner on the ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ film with Hugh Jackman due in May 2009: ‘It’s darker and sadder and it’s kick-ass.’ She also says there are hopes that the performance by Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool will lead to a spin-off movie. [Superhero Hype]
Mary McNamara reviews ‘Eleventh Hour,’ which premieres tonight on CBS, and says it has ‘an air of creepiness that is both promising and unsettling.’ [Los Angeles Times]...but Robert Bianco damns the same show with faint praise: ‘It’s never less than adequate.’ [USA Today]
Manohla Dargis writes that Guy Ritchie ‘reshuffles a worn-out deck’ with ‘RocknRolla,’ which opens in theaters on Friday [New York Times]...while Kurt Loder says the caper flick ‘mopes and drags.’ [MTV]
David Plotz revisists a 1984 paramilitary classic on DVD and experiences some battlefield trauma. ‘‘Red Dawn’ did not conjure up the chest-swelling patriotism I felt as a 14-year-old. Instead, it turned out to be disturbing in an entirely unexpected way.’ [Slate]
Old-school for mutants: Chris Claremont and Len Wein talk about upcoming projects. One tidbit: Wein is the writer on the ‘Watchmen’ video game, which is set 10 years before the film’s events. ‘It involves things that were just discussed or mentioned in the book.’ [Newsarama]
A 50-part (yes, a 50-part) prime-time series on the life of beloved son Bruce Lee has begun airing in China. A pair of one-hour episodes will be broadcast every night until its conclusion. An official with China’s CCTV: ‘He wrote the word ‘Kung Fu’ into English dictionaries. He made people aware of China.’ [Associated Press, via CNN]
There’s a new trailer for ‘The Uninvited.’ (And no, it’s not a remake of the 1944 Ray Milland classic of the same title, but it is a remake of the highest-grossing Korean horror film ever, ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’) [Dreamworks website]
The USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D vs the Battlestar Galactica in open space -- who wins? Or how about a metallic smackdown between Robocop and the Terminator Model T-800? These are some of the questions that Marc Bernardin is asking in his fun Ultimate Sci-Fi Showdown poll. [Entertainment Weekly]
-- Geoff Boucher
Image from a vintage trading card, character used with permission of DC Comics.