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After much speculation the role of Superman’s love interest and co-worker Lois Lane has been cast! Amy Adams who has appeared in The Figher, Enchanted, and much more has won the role! The film will be directed by Zack Snyder and is set for a December 2012 release. Does she have what it takes to play our Lois? Could this be the best Lois yet? Discuss!

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DISCUSSION

Television

• Michael Rosenbaum will return to play Lex Luthor in the Smallville series finale
• Persons of Interest gets greenlit from JJ Abrams and Jonathan Nolan
• Ron Moore and Jamie Bamber 17th Precinct

Quick Hits:

• The remainder of the Stargate Universe episodes will begin airing on March 7th

Movies

• Spider-Man reboot will be titled The Amazing Spider-Man, plus a new photo
• DJ Caruso may direct Preacher
• Marion Cotillard cast in The Dark Knight Rises as possibly Talia Al Ghul, Levitt may be Alberto Falcone
• Superman could be in trouble
• Emma Watson and Logan Lerman to star in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Quick Hits:

• Men In Black 3 production restart delayed to March
• Sherlock Holmes sequel will be called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Joe Dante to direct Monster Love
• Roberto Orci says that they plan to submit the Star Trek 2 script in about 6 weeks
• Nicholas Hoult cast as Jack the Giant Killer
• Ryan Gosling will star in a Logan’s Run remake
• Rumors are saying Universal wants Schwarzenegger back for Terminator 5, along with Justin Lin directing
• Two roles have been reportedly cast in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows remake; Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, and Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman

Video Games

• Batman: Arkham City will be a Single Player experience. No Co-op

Other

• Felicia Day will star in the new web series Dragonage: Redemption
• Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark gets booed by critics, Spider-Man and Green Goblin get stuck, and gets issued two safety violations
• World of Warcraft and Starcraft theme parks being built as part of JoyLand in China
• Borders claims bankruptcy and will be closing 30% of it’s stores in the coming weeks
• Detroit is getting Robocop statue

GEEK JERK REACTION: Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, I Am Number Four, Unknown

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DISCUSSION

Television

• Wonder Woman pilot script review
• The Cape’s order went from 13 episodes to 10 episodes, and the Summer Glau centric episodes may have been cut as a result

Quick Hits:

• Will Ferrel will be guesting on four episodes of The Office
• New webseries spin-off “Becoming Human”
• CW developing zombie series The Awakening
• Sometime in the final 5 episodes of Smallville, Callum Blue and Laura Vandervoort will be reprising their roles as General Zod and Supergirl

Movies

• Henry Cavill is Superman
• Anne Hathaway was rumored to be a lock for Lois Lane. Now that she’s playing Selina Kyle, the rumored choices are: Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, Watchmen’s Malin Ackerman (who is five years older than Cavill), Glee’s Dianna Agron, Jessica Biel, and Rachel McAdams. Other rumors list The Town’s Rebecca Hall.

Quick Hits:

• Wham-O signs with ICM
• Warner Bros wins rights to produce The Stand
• Mark Waters to direct Get Back, a Beatles time travel comedy
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be joining the Dark Knight Rises after all, but likely not as a villian; Catwoman will be in the movie, not just Selina Kyle
• James Cameron still wants to do his Battle Angel movie, but will be busy for the next 5 years, will be shooting Avatar 2 & 3 at 60fps
• Mark Millar insists that they are definitely still doing Kick Ass 2, they just have to wait until everyone has the time, and says that they can’t wait until the actors are too old. Chloe Moretz in particular. They don’t want to wait until she’s 15
• Saoirse Ronan is rumored to be playing Silvan elf Itaril in The Hobbit, possibly due to her connection with Peter Jackson

Video Games

• Telltale Games’ next game property: The Walking Dead
• Sony announces their next portable as the NGP (Next Generation Portable). 4 processing cores, front and back touch sensitive areas, 2 cameras, six-axis motion sensing, GPS, Wi-fi, 3g, dual analog sticks, flash-memory based cards for games

Geek Jerk Reaction: The Roommate, Sanctum

It was announced a few hours ago that Warner Bros and Zack Snyder have cast the new Superman. A press release was sent out this morning announcing that Henry Cavill (The Tudors, Stardust) will be playing Clark Kent in the new film.

Press release:

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that Henry Cavill has won the coveted role of Superman, the iconic superhero.

The film will be directed by Zack Snyder, who stated, “In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time, and I am honored to be a part of his return to the big screen. I also join Warner Bros., Legendary and the producers in saying how excited we are about the casting of Henry. He is the perfect choice to don the cape and S shield.”

Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder are the producers of the film. The screenplay is being written by David S. Goyer based on a story by Goyer and Nolan. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.

Cavill recently wrapped production on “The Cold Light of Day” and stars in the upcoming “Immortals,” opening this fall.

Targeted for release in December 2012, the new Superman movie will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Cool photoshopped image of Cavill as Superman:

What do you guys think?

• Trailer released for Doctor Who – A Christmas Carol, same day US premiere announced, Rumors of Captain Jack’s return
• Jorge Garcia cast in JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz pilot, plot details emerge
• Guillermo Del Toro and David Eick producing ABC’s Hulk series

• Mark Romanek will direct the pilot for Locke and Key
• Fox moves Fringe to Friday Night death slot
• Community’s Christmas episode will be stop-motion animated (Dec. 9)
• RUMOR: Warner developing TV series sequel to Nolan’s Batman trilogy, to star Karl Urban
• Gore Verbinski developing “Magical Law” for Fox
• Trailers for Showtime’s “Episodes” and MTV’s “Teen Wolf” released

• Warner actively developing Buffy reboot from writer/actress Whit Anderson
• Warner interested in remake Wizard of Oz using original script
• Superman reboot
  • Matthew Goode is frontrunner to play Clark
  • Anne Hathaway is frontrunner to play Lois
  • Snyder may use CGI for Superman
  • Plot may follow closely to Birthright comic
• Aronofsky-directed Wolverine sequel to be called “The Wolverine”, will have stand-alone plot
• Pixar revitalizes plans for a video game movie once titled “Joe Jump”, now retitled “Reboot Ralph”

• Christian Bale says The Dark Knight Rises will be his final Batman film
• Chris Zylka cast as Flash Thompson in Spider-Man
• Denis Leary cast as Captain George Stacey
• First image of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd emerges
• Paranormal Activity 3 set for October 2011

• Netflix debuts streaming only service for $7.99, raises prices of other plans
• Hulu Plus drops price to $7.99
• SDCC 2011 site overloaded… AGAIN
• Amazon opens Amazon Studios, first look deal with Warner Bros

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• FX picks up “Wilfred” starring Elijah Wood
• Comedy Central is pursuing a “Waiting” TV series
• SyFy making another Battlestar Galactica spin-off called “Blood & Chrome”
• Trailers released for Showtimes’ “Shameless” and MTV’s “Skins”, both remakes of UK series
• ABC gives a full season pick up to No Ordinary Family
• NBC orders more Chuck, bringing the season total to 24
• Christmas episode of Glee to air Dec. 7th, Christmas album to be released Nov. 16th

• Warner Bros. picks up “ACME Warehouse” pitch
• Mark Wahlberg cast as lead in Seth McFarlane’s “Ted”
• Matthew Weiner to direct “You Are Here” with Jack Black, Matt Dillon, and Renee Zellweger
• Rumor: George Lucas plotting a new Star Wars trilogy
• Jack Black and director Steve Pink developing “How To Survive a Robot Uprising”
• “Runaways” is put on hiatus by Marvel Studios
• Steven Spielberg’s next film will be “Robopocalypse”, written by Drew Goddard
• Contradicting reports from Zach Snyder’s “Superman”
• “The Crow” remake gains a star (Mark Wahlberg) and loses a director (Stephan Norrington)
• Teaser trailer released for Scream 4 (or Scre4m)
• M. Night Shayamalan’s next film will be “One Thousand A.E.” starring Jaden Smith

• Life Unexpected gets two additional episodes (from 13)
• Catherine Hardwicke will direct the pilot for Romeo and Juliet, a new TV series for ABC
• Doctor Who will shoot a two-part story for the opener in the USA
• Doctor Who Christmas special will follow A Christmas Carol
• Sarah Jane Adventures will answer many continuity questions in “Death of the Doctor” starring Matt Smith
• Upcoming Bruce Timm Green Lantern TV series will be “CGI 3D”
• V will return Janurary 4th, Greek returns for final season Jan 3rd, Transformers: Prime starts Nov 29th, Young Justice gets 1 hour pilot Nov 26th, full season in Spring of 2011
• Ashton Kutcher developing two sitcoms based on Twitter pages “Dear Girls Above Me” and “Shh… Don’t Tell Steve” for CBS
• Marvel is working on a new Hulk TV series for ABC, and a Cloak and Dagger series for ABC Family
• How To Train Your Dragon animated series coming to Cartoon Network
• Terry Hatcher cast as Lois’ mother on Smallville
• Ronald Moore producing a Wild Wild West remake
• Josh Schwartz creating a supernatural romantic comedy series starring Rachel Bilson called Ghost Angeles for NBC
• David Tennant starring in Single Father series for BBC

• Superman gets a director and a villain, focuses on the early days for Superman
• The Hobbit is officially greenlit, Jackson directing, Martin Freeman starring, shoots in February
• Tom Hardy cast in Batman 3 in unknown role, villain rumor via Mark Millar
• Rhys Ifans is playing The Lizard in the Spider-Man Reboot
• Emma Stone cast as Gwen Stacy NOT Mary Jane Watson
• Bumblebee hits a police SUV on Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon set, disintegrates
• Green Lantern teaser trailer will be attached to Harry Potter in November
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 will not be in 3D
• Rumor: Bradley Cooper up for The Flash
• Karl Urban is pretty sure Star Trek 2 will begin filming next August, script has been confirmed to be in the writing stage
• Rumor: Morena Baccarin up for Wasp in The Avengers
• Ghostbusters 3 script has been approved
• Darren Aronofsky is directing Wolverine 2? Production begins in March
• The Hunger Games script is reportedly finished. Two actresses have confirmed receiving the script: Lyndsy Fonseca and Kaya Scodelari
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to star Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper and be directed by David Slade?
• Paranormal Activity 2 gets IMAX release
• Nathan Fillion has started a twitter campaign to get the role of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie

• Verizon is releasing iPhones and iPad

GeekJerk Reaction: Paranormal Activity 2, Hereafter

• Aardman Animation developing a Raving Rabbids live-action/CGI series
• Mel Gibson in talks for a recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men next season
• NBC picks up Odd Jobs
• Goodfellas TV series in development
• Summer Glau gets cast in an episode of Chuck?
• Steven S DeKnight, executive producer for Spartacus says that they will either re-cast or end production, and they plan to ask Andy Whitfield for his opinion
• Kristin Bell wants a Veronica Mars movie bad enough, she may finance it herself

• Christopher Nolan has narrowed down his choices for director of Superman: Tony Scott, Matt Reeves, Jonathon Liebesman, Duncan Jones, and Zach Snyder
• Emma Stone and Mia Wasikowska up for Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man reboot
• Stephan Fry cast as Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock Holmes 2
• Mark Ruffalo will play the Hulk via motion capture suit
• Emma Stone considering lead female role in 21 Jump Street
• First Captain America set pictures released
• Kate Beckinsale will return for fourth Underworld film
• Chloe Moretz attached to play Emily the Strange
• Rob Zombie’s next is The Lords of Salem and claims he will never do another remake
• Black Widow spin-off film coming after The Avengers
• Gavin Hood developing Ender’s Game adaptation
• Amanda Michalka added to Super 8 cast, confirms casting
• Steven Speilberg is considering directing the movie based on the Robopocalypse book
• Greg Berlanti calls the tone of The Flash somewhere between The Dark Knight and Green Lantern

• DC Entertainment splits offices between coasts (New York and Burbank), closes Wildstorm, cuts staff by 20%
• DC films will not mirror Marvel’s game plan, smaller films will not lead to Justice League
• Kevin Smith’s SModcast will replace Howard Stern on Sirius XM radio
• Scott Pilgrim comes to DVD and Blu-Ray November 9
• Netflix makes a deal to stream every episode of SNL ever, plus Universal shows Eureka, BSG, Psych, Monk, and more

Geek Jerk Reaction – Case 39, Let Me In, and The Social Network

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• Steven Moffat will be writing the Doctor Who Christmas special as well as five episodes next season
• Russell T Davies says “the series is going very dark places” much like Children of Earth and that is working with an American style writing room
• Stargate Universe season 2 starts September 28th
• The Walking Dead – Second season and B&W version on DVD releases confirmed

• JJ Abrams and Bad Robots to produce “Boilerplate”, a graphical novel adaptation
• Del Toro’s next project “At the Mountains of Madness”? James Cameron’s involvement to get the studio moving?
• Robert Rodriguez in negotiations for the Deadpool movie? Next movie is Spy Kids 4. Deadpool will break the fourth wall
• Matt Reeves says Let Me In will be a “closer tonal match to the book” than the Swedish version of the movie was; may direct Wolverine 2
• Joss Whedon wanted Mark Ruffalo because he reminds him of a personal quality not seen in Bruce Banner since Bill Bixby
• Liam Neeson no longer attached to Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic.
• Disney sells Miramax for $660 Million
• Edgar Wright says one of the reasons Ant Man isn’t in The Avengers is because he is writing an origin story, which doesn’t fit in chronologically with The Avengers
• In addition to scoring Tron Legacy, Daft Punk will appear in the movie. Several of their tracks have leaked
• Damon Lindelof rewriting Alien prequel for Ridley Scott
• Mad Men star Jon Hamm being “seriously considered” for the Superman role
• Zack Snyder is working on his adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300 follow-Up “Xerxes” as fast as Miller can write it
• Green Lantern character posters gives first look at Sinestro

• Josh Hutcherson made his own Spider-Man audition tape
• Microsoft develops software algorithm to remove motion blur from photographs taken with shaky hands using accelerometers and gyroscopes

Geek Jerk Reaction: The Other Guys, Step Up 3D, Flipped, Middle Men

• Chuck Season 4 will premiere September 20th
• New episodes of Beavis and Butthead are coming to MTV
• Game of Thrones casting pretty much complete

• First images from The Green Lantern released in EW
• Kevin Bacon’s X-Men villian to be Sebastian Shaw?
• Runaways will film January to July 2011, for release in 2012
• Bruce Banner/Hulk finalists reportedly include Mark Ruffalo and David Tennant
• Will Smith to star in The Legend of Cain?
• Zachary Levi has auditioned for new Superman, which will apparently be directed by Jonathan Nolan
• McG’s live-action Tinkerbell movie to star Elizabeth Banks as Tinkerbell?
• Nicholas Cage confirmed to return in Ghost Rider 2: The Spirit of Vengence, directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor from a script by David Goyer
• Pixar was brought in to help touch up Tron Legacy
• Pixar to dive into the direct to DVD market with the Cars spinoff “Planes”
• Pixar plans to rerelease some of their catalog of films in 3D
• Mission Impossible IV being reworked to include a young rookie, also Simon Pegg will be returning

Geek Jerk Reaction: Salt, Ramona and Beezus

Now, this doesn’t mean that Routh can’t play Superman when a new film project finally gets off the ground. In fact, Routh is still very interested in playing the charecter.

“The term of the contract expired. But if they call me again, I’ll go back to the character without thinking twice,” Routh told Omelette during an interview on the Scott Pilgrim set.

What this does mean is, when and if Bryan Singer or Mark Millar whoever the hell actually ends up making a Superman movie in the next couple of years finally gets to the casting process and wants to cast Routh, a new contract will have to be written.

I really loved Routh as Superman and I think the dude himself is very cool. I hope that whenever we get a new Superman movie, it’ll be him in the tights.

United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a
kryptonite asteroid to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty
on the heads of the Man of Steel and his “partner in crime” Batman.
Super heroes and super villains alike launch a relentless pursuit of
Superman and Batman, who must unite – and recruit super help – to
stave off the action-packed onslaught, stop the asteroid, and uncover
Luthor’s devious plot to take command of far more than North America.

Am I the only one who thought “Supergirl” as soon as I read “super help?”

Discussion:

Heroes Volume IV: Fugitives

Chuck vs. The Third Dimension

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

News:

Ratner to direct Youngblood

Nolan to direct Inception

Samuel Bayer to direct Elm Street

Dev Patel to play Zuko

Martin Campbell to direct Green Lantern

Powers headed to FX

Kevin Williamson bringing Vampire Diaries to CW

Marvel Motion Comics

Wachowski Bros and Superman

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The Education of Charlie Banks

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Inglorious Basterds

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Who’s directing Superman?

It’s the big question on the minds of a lot of comic fans. After the mostly disappointing performance of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, a 150 minute love letter to Richard Donner’s 1978 original film, Warner has been dancing with the idea of a complete relauch of the character.

Then, a few months ago, it was revealed that comic scribe Mark Millar (Wanted, Ultimates, Superman: Red Son) had an idea for a Superman trilogy that he was trying to sell to Warner Bros. It would tell the story of Superman from his birth on Krypton, to his eventual death on Earth thousands of years in the future. Not only that, but Millar claimed to have a “big time action director” interested in his take on the project.

Today, a rumor making the rounds claims that not only is a Superman trilogy on the fast track at Warner, but they’ve chosen a director to bring Big Blue back to the big screen. Or should I say… directors?

The Wachowski Brothers are directing Superman.

Director James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) spilled the beans during an interview in Berlin to chat about the progress of his new film, the Wachowski produced Ninja Assassin. When asked what was next for him, he confirmed that he had signed on for second unit support of the Wachowski’s next film, Plastic Man, which is a script they’ve been trying to get produced since before The Matrix. But, the film has been delayed indefinitely due to Warner’s current shake-up in the DC movie department.

He then stated that Bryan Singer has refused to get behind  a Superman reboot of any kind, leaving executives at WB with no choice but to turn elsewhere for a fresh creative direction.

The Wachowski Brothers have been approached by Warner Bros to helm a reboot of the Superman franchise as a trilogy. He said that they haven’t signed everything quite yet, but if they do, he will either move to second unit duties on that film, or be promoted to direct Plastic Man.

Bryan Singer, meanwhile, will be moving on to his remake of Logan’s Run that he’s been trying to get off the ground for a long time.

Is the Wachowski Superman trilogy and the Mark Millar Superman trilogy one in the same? Nothing is known for sure, but I for one, am excited at the prospect of the Wachowski Brothers directing Superman. I just hope they’re not writing the script.

SUPERMAN LAST SON

Written by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner

Artwork by Adam Kubert

Published by DC Comics

Who is Superman?

That is something that is not easily answered for many a comic book fan. If you were to ask any normal person they might laugh at you and say Clark Kent, and they may be right, however Superman is not any one thing for everyone. Everyone seems to have their own characteristics that make up their interpretation of the Man of Steel, and if there were a team of writers that reflected my own love of Superman, they would be Geoff Johns and Richard Donner.

Already famous as the director of the acclaimed Superman: The Movie Richard Donner has been a fan favorite in the Superman mythos for decades, and so his decision to work on Action Comics in 2006 was met with excitement. Even after the success of the original Superman movie, Donner was removed as direct for all the sequels, a decision that has always been a disappointment for many fans. Like the release of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut in 2006, Superman Last Son allowed fans to get a glimpse of what could have been, and it was sweet.

The decision to team up with superstar writer Geoff Johns didn’t hurt either.  Fresh off the heels of his popular limited series Infinite Crisis, Johns teamed his writing talents with Donner and their obvious love of the character to bring one of the freshest Superman stories in years. One of the themes of Infinite Crisis was to show that the DC Universe had become stale, and its characters were no longer the beacons of Truth, Justice and the American way they had once been. With Donner, Johns was able to craft a story that would bring Superman back and bring critical acclaim back to the book that started it all, Action Comics.

The story itself is nothing short of a summer blockbuster, worthy of Donner himself. Along with the Man of Steel their are appearances by Lex Luthor, Bizarro, General Zod, Ursa, Non, Metallo, Parasite, and Sarge Steel just to name a few. When a meteor show brings a young Kryptonian boy to Earth it means big things for Superman, but even bigger things for Clark Kent. Convinced that the boy is in danger from not only villains but the government alike, Clark and Lois decide to adopt the young Kryptonian, and Christopher Kent is born. Little do they know that his real parents are on their way and are determined to turn Clark’s world upside down.

When reading the story, I can’t help but be reminded of Superman The Movie, because there are so many similarities in how the characters are portrayed. Bringing back Zod, Ursa, and Non, characters heavily influenced by their appearance in  Superman II, may have seemed risky, but it paid off. They were brought back in a very intriguing way, but it still made sense in the context of the story. Not only did we get to see the return of Zod, but we also saw the return of Mon-el. A friend of Clark’s who is trapped in the Phantom Zone.

One can not talk about this story without taking time to talk about the amazing work of Adam Kubert on pencils. There has been some debate about his involvement on the project since an illness caused the last two issues to be delayed. As a result the story took 19 months to come out in issues, but all I can say is that it was totally worth the wait. I especially love his treatment of Clark and Lois in the book. Lois has been portrayed by many artists over the years, however I really like how Adam handles her, she looks very sophisticated, but at the same time shows the kindness that defines her character. I just love how Clark is portrayed, he looks like a big country boy, but I can see that there is more to him in his eyes, and Superman looks fantastic. A good balance between big and muscular, while not looking obscenely big. Also in my opinion on of Adam’s biggest strengths his his backgrounds, you can see that he spends a great deal of time getting all the details in there.

There is another special feature in this series that makes it unique, chapter four is presented in 3-D. This may sound like a gimmick, and I’m sure it was to an extent, but its explained in the series. In this issue most of it takes place with in the Phantom Zone, and the 3-D glasses act like protection goggles, and give the Zone a nice look to it. It was a really awesome affect, and I hope if we ever travel into the Phantom Zone in a movie, that it is in 3-D as well.

For me this series is all about Superman and how he fits into our world. An outsider from the moment he crashes here as a baby, Clark finds and instant connection to Chris, the boy from Krypton. And even though Superman has saved the world who knows how many times, he is still seen as an alien by the government. No matter how many lives he saves or how many friends he makes, he will always be alone, and that is the tragedy of Superman.

At the end of the day what we have here is just a great Superman story from two of the men that know him best. As Scott and I have said I’m sure hundreds of times anything that Geoff Johns touches turns to gold, and Richard Donner is the man that brought Superman to the world back in 1978. Everyone has their own interpretation of who Superman is and who he should be. I’ve never seen my Superman, but this is about as close as anyone has ever gotten.

I do believe a man can fly.

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Click the pics in the gallery to bring on the BIG-ness…

What does this mean for the proposed Martian Manhunter show?

With the way season eight has been going this is awesome news, and maybe they’ll go for ten seasons since they’re so close.

(EW)

True Believer’s Best of 2008
•    Y-The Last Man
•    All Star Superman
•    Joker
•    Echo
•    Ex Machina
•    Invincible
•    Astounding Wolf-Man
•    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
•    Umbrella Academy
•    KICK-ASS
•    Astonishing X-Men

I made this decision as I was leaving a sold out screening of Valkyrie, Singer’s first directorial effort since Superman Returns. I don’t want this to be a review of Valkyrie, mostly because Will and I are probably going to talk about it on the next Geekeasy (Episode 7 for guys, we recorded episode 6 right before we went to go see the flick.) but I will say that I had a blast watching the film and it reminded me what a fantastic filmmaker Singer is. There are shots in this film-little tricks with the camera and whatnot- that could only have been done by the guy that made The Usual Suspects and X2:X Men United. Singer has this really interesting visual style and imagination that I forgot how much I admired until watching Valkyrie. Now I’m fully aware that Warner Bros. has officially stated that they want to “reboot” the Superman franchise a la The Incredible Hulk. I think this is a great idea, even though I admired the hell out of Superman Returns. The movie was weird love letter to Richard Donnor’s Superman and even though it the franchise back a few years, I’m glad Singer made the film that he wanted to make, if only because he now has it out of his system.

Look, Singer’s a smart guy. He knows that the popular consensus with Superman Returns was that it was long, boring and “artsy”  (see, intelligent.) And when he says he wants to go Wrath of Kahn on the sequel, I believe him and I believe its what’s best for the franchise. What I don’t believe is good for the franchise is Mark Millar’s Lord of the Rings meets The Godfather saga. Don’t get me wrong, its a really cool concept….for a graphic novel. But if Warner Bros. thinks that Singer’s “Superman as Jesus” killed the franchise, wait ’till they get a load of “Superman as Michael Coreleone meets The Omega man in this epic three part saga that ends with the world dying.”  And this whole “top secret action director” bothers me as well. When I think “action director,” I think Paul W.S. Anderson, Louis Leterrier and those other guys that make unambitious, hyper-edited gun fight-a-thons that come out in August. (I dug The Incredible Hulk, btw) I don’t want an “action director” to handle Superman, I want a “filmmaker” which Singer is and always has been. I want someone who knows how to excite an audience with thrills and chills, but not the expense off story and character.

I believe in second chances, even when it comes to billion-dollar industry like film. And I think that Singer deserves a second crack at a badass, epic Superman movie with Brandon Routh back in     the costume that he was born to wear.  To me, we as moviegoers shouldn’t have to choose between action-packed or deep.  Look at Iron Man and The Dark Knight; guys, we can have both. And we know that Singer can deliver both, just look at X2. So as little as it matters, I’m letting my opinion known; I think Bryan Singer is the right man for the job. With him behind the camera, I can believe a man can fly.

Over at CW you can watch the trailer for the next episode of Smallville, Legion, or you can watch it right here. This season has been nothing short of amazing, and this episode looks like it may be the best of the entire show so far, I cannot wait. The episode premieres Thursday January 15 on the CW.

There is some interesting news for the Iron Man sequel, and there is also some interesting things upcoming for the Man of Steel. Also there maybe not be one but two bright spots in Kevin McKidd’s future, who was right about that one? And Rob Thomas updates his fans on his holiday plans. Trailers this week are for: Knowing, What Doesn’t Kill You, He’s Just Not That Into You, Friday the 13th, I Love You Phillip Morris. This and a lot more on the latest episode of Two Geeks a Mic and a Podcast.

Citing “actor availability” issues Executive Producer Darren Swimmer is saying that Smallville’s proposed ninth season may not happen. Since Lana Lang and Lex Luthor have already left the show than one must assume that this is all about Clark Kent and actor Tom Welling.

Its also being reported over at TVGuide that the climax of the show, Clark assuming the mantle of Superman may not even happen. Saying that issue with the main film series as a possible conflict. That is surprising since that really seems like that is the new direction of the show.

(Kryptonsite and TVGuide)

Once again it seems that Warner Bros. and DC Comics, cannot seem to get their act together with any other franchises, excluding Batman.

UPDATE: Apparently this wasn’t true at all. Get the real story here.

Watch out at about the 23 minute mark, Scott and I were visited by some ghosts that brought along some white noise…

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In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world’s most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.

In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world’s greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain’s murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.

Until now.

Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family’s greatest secret: his long-lost father, who’s been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel’s 1932 murder. But before Cal can ask a single question, he and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the anicent markings of Cain. And so begins the chase for the world’s first murder weapon.

What does Cain, history’s greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world’s greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Brad Meltzer’s riveting and utterly intriguing new thriller.

The trailer itself seems like something from out of a conspiracy-theory documentary and features the likes of Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan, and Damon Lindelof drawing a link between the murder of the biblical Abel and the murder of Jerry Siegel’s father.