Lego photographer, cinephile, geek. James is 24 and lives in Portland, OR. He writes for several websites about pop culture, film, and TV and runs a video production company with his wife called Gilded Moose Media.
Of all the DC characters that could appear on either The Flash or its sister series Arrow, I was not expecting to see Booster Gold's name on the list of possibilities. However, as a card-carrying member of the Booster Gold Fan Club, I obviously couldn't be more excited about it.
According to multiple sources, 20th Century Fox is looking to get into the superhero TV game and are in the process of bringing the X-Men from the big screen to the small screen. Bleeding Cool first broke the news, claiming that Fox was currently in "deep development" on a live-action X-Men series.
Star Trek 3 director Roberto Orci may not have any experience behind the camera, but he's found someone to help him out that will more than make up for his shortcomings. According to TrekMovie, Orci has hired Academy Award winner Claudio Miranda to be his cinematographer.
Marvel's upcoming Daredevil Netflix series may have been noticeably absent from San Diego Comic-Con this year, but that's because the studio was waiting to debut the first glimpse at the Man Without Fear at New York Comic-Con instead. Today, Marvel officially announced their plans to bring Daredevil to NYCC next weekend and released the official logo for the highly anticipated show.
It looks like another Chuck Palahniuk novel is headed to the big screen, but this time the acclaimed author will be doing the adapting himself. According to Ain't It Cool News, Palahniuk will co-write an adaptation of his 2002 novel Lullaby. This puts Palahniuk in a new club of authors-turned-screenwriters, as he joins scribes like Gillian Flynn and J.K. Rowling, who adapted their respective works Gone Girl and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for the silver screen.
Gotham has already given us a look at early incarnations of Batman villains like Penguin, Catwoman, Carmine Falcone, and the Riddler, while foes like Victor Zsasz, the Dollmaker, Sal Maroni and Mr. Freeze are on the horizon. Now, we have word that yet another famous and beloved member of the Dark Knight's rogues gallery is headed to the prequel series: Harvey Dent, the future District Attorney who becomes Two-Face.
When anyone is cast on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it raises the question of whether or not that character will then make the jump from the small screen to the silver screen and join the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. One such question arose this past summer when Friday Night Lights and G.I. Joe: Retaliation actress Adrianne Palicki joined Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Bobbi Morse a.k.a. Mockingbird, a member of the Avengers in the comics and the eventual wife of Hawkeye, who's played by Jeremy Renner.
Marvel has been courting Joaquin Phoenix to take the title role in the upcoming Doctor Strange film since before San Diego Comic-Con, but have had quite a bit of trouble getting the three-time Academy Award nominee to sign on the dotted line. Last we heard, Phoenix was in final negotiations but was reluctant to sign on for a handful of reasons, from the famous multi-picture contracts Marvel requires of its stars to the fact that he's never acted in anything quite like a big budget superhero blockbuster before.
In a way, we're trained to expect certain things from Hollywood, as the countless films released year after year exhibit certain patterns over time. For instance, we expect greatness from proven directors, and exemplary performances from talented actors and actresses. Sometimes, Hollywood lives up to the standards its set for itself, and sometimes... things just don't work out the way they were supposed to.
20th Century Fox's upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four is arguably one of the most universally derided films in recent memory, despite the fact that we have yet to see anything official from it. Fans certainly have their reasons for being upset though. Whether it's because of origin story changes, the casting of young and race-swapped actors, or a more "gritty" approach to the titular super family, this project is definitely causing controversy.