Who will be the next batman villain, fanboyism, and why everyone should try something different.
I don’t consider myself a fanboy for a number of reasons. The main reason being I like pretty much anything artistic and don’t defend things other people think is lame and/or childish. I know when my interests are bizarre and keep my protests to myself.
After all, describing the greatness of say Spring Awakening to a person who likes Glee, the merits of Jack Kerouac to someone who likes John Grisham, or Mad Men to Dexter, is pointless. I’m not saying my preferences are better…I’m really not. They’re just different.
I will say, however, that the best things in life are an acquired taste. Whether that means trying to enjoy an American Football game if you hate the sport or going to see ballet even though all your friends call it “gay”. Just trying something different is a spice of life.
Anyway, where was I? Batman..right. I’ve been obsessed with keeping up-to-date on the latest Batman film news. After all, instead of being obsessed with celebrities, like many males and females get criticized for, I’m obsessed with a fictional universe. I’d joke that they were the same, but fuck it, I’m not that lame.
The buzz on the internet is: Who is going to be the new batman villain?
Your first impression might be: Why do people care? Why do you care?
I don’t know really…I guess it is like finding out if a star player is going to come to your football team, an equally trivial and fruitless pursuit.
But get this: The Los Angles Times reported that the Riddler and Mr. Freeze will not be in the next movie.
So the scarecrow is already in the series. Heath is dead, so they won’t bring The Joker back. Ra’s Al Ghul is dead. Harvey Dent is technically dead. There have been theories that he will come back, but I just don’t buy it. So who is left?
The Penguin
Nope, this ain’t gonna’ happen.
Clayface
Clayface doesn’t fit with the style of Nolan. After all, he’s a big fucking pile of clay. He’s one of the darkest characters, but c’mon, he is ludicrous.
Bane
I honestly think Bane just might show up. I really do. But he can’t be a main villian. I don’t think he has psychological edge that Nolan loves. But if Nolan proved anything with his last film it was that he doesn’t care at all about reinventing characters, such as the Joker, to his vision.
Hush
Hmm…this would be my choice, but what do I know? I’m gonna ball out and call Hush the character Nolan will pick. But is he too unknown?
Catwoman/Posion Ivy/Any female character
I really think some kind of pop-female character will come into play. All big budget films have to have some romance, so Bruce needs a new love interest/sexual interest. I think one of these characters will come in as an ancillary character and I really don’t think it matters which one. My guess is Poison Ivy.
-Collin
By Collin, on October 20th, 2010
Darren Aronofsky has been confirmed as the director of Wolverine 2, why X-men is awesome, and why this is huge news to me
But first a little back story on me:
From about three to eight I underwent multiple surgeries in order to a fix a heart condition I was born with called pulminary valve stenosis. If gone unchecked, it would have killed me in my teenager years. The aftermath of these surgeries still ails me today, but one of the great things about all my surgeries was that I was allowed to go get a comic book or pack of cards from a store that was near the hospital. Comic books and cartoons were a big escape for me when I was young.
Moreover, because of my heart I could never play sports. I was always getting so fucking tired during my younger years that I preferred staying in and organizing comic book cards, playing video games, and watching cartoons. Most of all, X-men comic books were really, really important to me and so was the cartoon. (I owned a Wolverine special addition holographic card that got fucking ripped off from me while I was in daycare. I still remember who the fuck did it and will never forgive him.) I collected X-men action figures, cards, board games, video games, VHS tapes, everything, everything, everything.
Issue where Wolverine gets his insides ripped out. Source :http://www.comics.org/issue/84768/cover/4/
And at the center of it all: Wolverine. He was my favorite. My hero. I quit reading comics when Magneto pwned him and ripped out his insides in Fatal Attractions. Also, we find in that issue, Wolverine does indeed have bone claws. Only when I hit puberty and discovered that vaginas were more interesting did I get over this stuff.
Another story involving X-men and me is when the first one came out I decided to have a few beers on my way to the movie – I was pumped. I decided to throw the cans out the window and the sheriff at the mall saw, drove up, and threw me in bracelets. I was in the back of a cop car begging him to let me see the movie and that I’d been waiting a decade for this movie. I told him how much I loved the mythology and named off all my favorite characters and story lines. He let me off with a warning. Fact.
The Point:
The marvel masterpiece everyone wanted and the Gilbert family owned.
Anyway, I say all this to highlight the following: This shit is important to me! It is important to me and tons of other people. It isn’t just a cool idea. It is, and was, a huge part of our lives. I love the South Park episode Imaginenationland where Stan claims that Luke Skywalker is basically real because of how much he changed people’s lives. This is true. It goes for Wolverine as well. In a New York Magazine Hugh Jackman confirmed that Aronofsky would be directing Wolverine 2, which will follow the storyline of Wolv in Japan. Awesome.
This was the balling, rare card that got traded for two shitty marvel masterpieces. It still makes me angry to this day.
The Conclusion
Brian Singer hadn’t been into comics before he directed the first two X-men. Then fuck him! Let him jack off his boyfriends at home and not fuck up a great franchise. When Brian Singer’s films are the best in the series, we all know there are serious problems.
As it is, Darren Aronfosky is a mega comic book fan and has been slated to direct a graphic novel/comic book movie for a long time. Hollywood needs directors who are in love with the material - to give it homage. When I heard that the Hughes brothers might make Akira, the famous manga,I almost killed myself. (On a side note, when I wear my Akira shirt around town Asian dudes always look at me weird. I suppose it would be the equivalent of a black dude wearing a John Mayer shirt. None of that is bad, just different)
Wolverine 1 was atrocious. Not just bad, but spiritually deflating. I figured that was it, X-men was doomed. There are very few comic book movies I think do their source material justice: Iron Man, Batmans (Christopher Nolan), Hell Boy, 300, Watchmen and Spiderman. Everything else is just okay. Regardless, there is light at the end of the tunnel… Aronfosky is a hero of mine and will do the material justice. He is so uncompromising that he will do it justice or quit. That is how he rolls. Finally!
-Collin
By Collin, on October 19th, 2010
Guillermo Del Toro set to make a horror game with THQ
This might be old news, probably a couple weeks, but I couldn’t help mention something about it considering PJ just picked up The Hobbit project. Guillermo Del Toro has announced that he and THQ (the major video game publishing and developing company) are developing a horror-themed game. That’s fucking awesome. In an interview with MTV, he talked about the game being “huge” and having a three year development deal. So we might be playing a Toro game by 2013. I mean fuck, that is awesome.
Now I’m pretty big into video games, not to an unhealthy level, but I really don’t know what is cooler: The fact that The Hobbit is going into production with PJ at the helm or that Del Toro stepping down means a fucking crazy ass horror game is going to be made. He described the game as being “Lovecraftian”, now what that means is hard to describe. I hit up Google and it gave me a pretty clear definition: “The term Lovecraftian is especially used to describe fictional creatures with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy, such as misplaced organs and additional limbs. It may also describe beings with combination of features from disparate creatures normally shunned, such as combining tentacles, bat-wings, and scales.” That is fucking awesome.
I’ve heard that Del Toro is a mega nerd when is comes to gaming and I have the feeling he knows how to put something totally bad ass together. I remember hearing on the Pan’s Labyrinth commentary that he got his ideas for sound design from video games. Another thing cool about that interview was Del Toro almost alluded to the fact that he was pitching around a game in 2006 that was eerily similar to Left 4 Dead. Was that pudgy Mexican claiming that True Rock Studios stole that shit? What a fucking baller. However, he did say that he thinks Left 4 Dead is fucking awesome and that his daughter and him rape at the game. Could this silly bastard be any cooler? Moreover, THQ came out and denied anything certain, but I think that is just legal bullshit and that something is definitely set in stone. I’m looking forward to more formal announcements.
-Collin
By Collin, on October 14th, 2010
David O Russell, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and holy shit who is going to play Nathan Drake???
For once, I feel like I’m a little bit of an authority on this one. The Uncharted series is one of the best ever made and they’re only on game two. Deadline reports this:
David O Russell has signed on with Sony Pictures Entertainment to rewrite and direct a movie based on the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Russell, who last directed Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in The Fighter, takes on a vidgame that follows treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
Say whaaaat? For those who don’t know what the fuck we’re talking about: Uncharted is a video game series that follows Nathan Drake as he finds treasure and does all kinds of other Indiana Jones type stuff. The series has been compared to Tomb Raider, but I think that is just dead wrong. I think a more viable comparison is Prince of Persia mixed with Gears of War. Am I right?
Regardless, notorious douchebag David O. Russell just signed onto one of the greatest video game franchises of the modern era. ‘Uncharted 2′ was crowned best PS3 video game EVER by IGN.com as well as being crowned with the more important title: MY favorite video game.
I’m torn on whether or not I want this video game ever to reach the screen. Not because I don’t think it will be awesome – it will be – but because the film would be so easy to screw up. Rumors that Mark Wahlberg is a front-runner for the job literally makes me sick to me my stomach. Think of the fascinating mythology behind Max Payne…ruined. All ruined.
Finally, I got a little less depressed when I saw that all-around cool guy Nathan Fillion wants the part. Boya. Fillion is perfect – he’s ruggedly handsome, funny, sarcastic, manly, athletic, etc etc. His character for Firefly might even have been borrowed for Drake, who knows? But maybe an unknown would be the best option? Maybe they shouldn’t risk it? Fillion said this on his twitter, “Everyone needs to campaign for @NathanFillion for Nathan Drake.”
Aronofsky has been attached to dozens of films that ended up not happening. But maybe the greatest director of his generation is going to cash-in. I don’t really believe it, but this article from Deadline has my dick hard. The article reports that,
Word is that Aronofsky–who worked for next to nothing upfront to get Black Swan made is in the throes of landing a healthy payday in the vicinity of $5 million against 5% of gross.
Say whaaaat? 5 million with 5% gross? That’s Will Smith-type money. Considering that the first made almost 400 million bucks, while being one of the worst films ever made, as well as being downloaded a bizillion times before it even came out. If this movie is good, Aronofsky might earn up to twenty million bucks. Woot, woot.
After almost a decade of making great cult-films Aronofsky is selling out. It is about fucking time if you ask me. Aronofsky said once that he only earned fifty thousand dollars for Requiem for a Dream. Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money, but over a few years? You could make more money as a manager at McDonalds. A project which equated to about two and half to three years of work. It is also said that he earned almost nothing for The Wrestler and Black Swan as well.
My fear, however, is that Aronofsky will quit or be fired when Twenieth Century Fox wants to make a stupid, cheesy film. X-men Origins: Wolverine was proof-positive that the comic book movie-era was coming to an end, in terms of quality. And claims that Synder did justice to the X-men series is just not true.
I’m hardly a fanboy, but I was a huge comic book reader when I was young and loved the X-men animated series. No film has ever done justice to the either. Yes, the X-men series is better than its counterparts, but Wolverine was one of the worst comic book films ever made.
I don’t consider myself a fanboy for a number of reasons. The main reason being I like pretty much anything artistic and don’t defend things other people think is lame and/or childish. I know when my interests are bizarre and keep my protests to myself.
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