What? Whoever said it had to be a weekly feature? 
Iron Man Deleted & Extended Scenes: With the second-best movie of the summer on DVD today, it’s only fitting to spotlight some of the extras we’ll be seeing. Watch ‘em before getting the DVD!
Rorschach Pickets FOX: With all the lawsuit craziness, Watchmen’s best-recognized costumed vigilante has had enough.
Watchmen Lawsuit Makes Progress: Speaking of the lawsuit, it seems like we might be getting closer to FOX’s motivations here. (And if that’s the case, then Warner Bros., please just let it go. A forty year old television property is not worth the bank you’ll pull in with this movie.)
Transformers 2 Updates: Thanks yet again to BamKapow for this new info about the movie’s characters (including an item that confirms this post).
Director found for Thor movie?: In an odd bit of news, it seems that none other than Kenneth Branagh could be slated to direct the film adaptation of Marvel’s Norse God of Thunder.
Want to join the Evil League of Evil?: The organization from Dr. Horrible fame is now accepting your applications (don’t know about Dr. Horrible? Check out this post).
Dekker/Peretti’s House is a movie: Thriller-meisters Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti teamed up a few years back on a novel called House that I never read. Now, I think I might have to. The book is a movie coming soon, and the trailer is out. A Christian movie…rated R? Interesting…and creepy!
John Carter to finally make it to film?: Pixar seems to be slated to helm the first film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars series. Yes, the creator and author of all the Tarzan adventures wrote other things, and fans have been waiting for a while. Disturbingly, the proposed director says he’s planning to adapt what he “remembers more than what they exactly do” in the books. I love Pixar, but hasn’t Hollywood learned yet that these days, the more faithful an adaptation is, the happier the audiences are?
Call me a cynic but House looks like a bad combination of heavy handed Christianity and stereotypical Ring style horror.*
I really don’t think Peretti has rocked anything since the Oath (maybe the Visitation), his last movie was terrible, as was the book. Monster was also mediocre, okay, so I liked the second teen series book, but that doesn’t make me to excited about House. Dekker, I haven’t read so maybe.
On another note, the Watchmen stuff is interesting. it’s too bad we have so many great stories held up in courtrooms, Watchmen, The Hobbit, etc. It’s also too bad we live in a world where creative and intellectual value needs to be protected from scum.
*Retweating myself
If they put the kind of budget into The Oath that they clearly have into House, it’d rock. The upside is that Peretti is getting more and more films funded with bigger and bigger budgets. When I met him a few years back, he said the goal was to ultimately work up to The Oath and even The Darkness books if possible. So there’s that.
Dekker…as you can see, I’m currently trying him out. I didn’t realize this particular series I picked up was fantasy, and I’m not loving it so far. I’ll have to try one of his thrillers (which I thought was the only genre he wrote) and see how it compares.
I’m totally looking forward to House; been waiting for movie news since I first heard about it, oh I don’t know, at least a year ago. I’ve read most of Dekker’s books (I recommend Three if you want thriller. Also a movie, which wasn’t bad.), and some of Peretti, and love them both.
And thanks. Now I can’t get the Bad Horse music out of my head.
“The Eveil League of Evil, is watching so beware…”
Gah!
I have to agree with you that I would hope Pixar would be a little more careful with their adaptation of John Carter. I think if more people realized that was Gene Roddenberry’s inspiration for Star Trek they’d HAVE to be more faithful.
House, is going to to good. It hit’s theaters November 7th and the trailer is pretty awesome. The ‘R’ rating is sure to stir up some controversy. I’m excited to see how this plays out. One things for sure, I’ll be in the theater hope to see you there!