Superhero Bits: Captain America, Green Lantern, Mark Hamill, The Avengers, X-Men
Will The Hulk be naked inThe Avengers? What’s the otherCaptain Americamovie coming out next month? Just how extensive were the changes toSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark? How doesRyan Reynoldsfeel about negative reviews ofGreen Lantern? Want to watch whatSiskel and Ebertthought of every single DC Comic book movie? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.
July 22 might mark the opening ofCaptain America: The First Avenger, butSuperhero Hypehas the press release announcing that July 19 marks the release of the originalMatt Salinger-starringCaptain Americafrom 1990.
Don’t sleep on that OTHER comic book adaptation coming out in late July,Cowboys & Aliens.Superhero Hypeposted this new TV spot.
DC Comics employees hopped on a bus this week and got a free screening ofGreen Lantern, according toBleeding Cool. No word on if they liked it or not.
Will the Hulk be naked inThe Avengers?Mark Ruffalotweeted(thanks toCBM) on the subject. Is he being serious? Spelling mistakes are his own.
I have to inform the wolrd that the Hulk may be completely bare assed in this AVengers.
A NASA telescope has captured a green, ring shaped nebula in space. Viral marketing forGreen Lantern? Not likely, but stillBleeding Cool.
X-Men: The Last StanddirectorBrett Ratner, Stan Leeand others arelooking for talent througha new social media calledTalenthouse.The Los Angeles Timesspoke to both directorMartin Campbelland starRyan Reynoldsabout the negative buzz that has been surrounding their films. That’s Reynolds above, check out Campbell at the link.The WrapsaysGreen Lanternis on track to make around $60 million this weekend. Did they think it would make$3.4 millionat midnights?ThorFrog. What else do you need to know?The Smoking Jacketpicks the five thingsX-Men First Classgot wrong about 1960s women.
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MTVhas come up with a list of Easter Eggs that views should look for inGreen Lanternincluding a post credits surprise.
This is kind of old but we never got around to running it.According to Hitfix,Matthew Vaughnthinks opening a sequel toX-Men First Classwith the Kennedy Assassination, controlled by Magneto, would be awesome.
I thought it would be fun to open with the Kennedy assassination, and we reveal that the magic bullet was controlled by Magneto. That would explain the physics of it, and we see that he’s pissed off because Kennedy took all the credit for saving the world and mutants weren’t even mentioned.
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Comic Book Moviehas scanned a bunch ofCaptain America: The First Avengercards including this one of his USO outfit. There’s also a very spoilery image about the location of theCosmic Cube.
Over onNerd Bastards, they already us to the fact thatTrue BloodstarRyan Kwantenstars in a superhero romantic comedy calledGriff The Invisible. That’s the trailer. Seems pretty cool.
As per that tweet,Mark Hamillwill continue to voice The Joker afterBatman Arkham Citydespite misconceptions that he’d retire.
Just how extensive were the changes made in the several week hiatus beforeSpider-Man: Turn Off the Darkfinally opened?MTV spoketo the show’s new writers all about it.
In a story onBlastr,Blake Livelysays if aGreen Lanternsequel happens, she might get her super villain on:
If this movie is successful and we did a few more films, I’m pretty confident that Star Sapphire would show up.
Superhero Hypehas a couple old photos fromCaptain America: The First Avengerin high-res, and a couple new ones such as the one above.Kevin Feigespoke toTotal Film(viaCBM) about the costume and shield inCaptain America: The First Avenger. Here’s a sample:
Ain’t It Cool Newshas compiled all of theSiskel & Ebertreviews for DC Comic movies such Burton’sBatman(above)Superman 3, Supergirl, and then all the way through newer criticsRichard RoeperandMichael PhillipstalkingThe Dark Knight.Topless Robothas a great list of the “8 Hilariously Awful Attempts to Get Non-Comic Book Fans to Read Comics” including that terribleBilly Ray Cyruscomic.
