Bazooka Joe....Oh no!

Be very, very quiet.....do you hear it....shh.....there it was again.....What sound?

Why the sound of the bottom of a barrel being scraped by the Studios.

Mark Hammer has signed on to pen Bazooka Joe, a feature film adaptation of the bubble gum comic strip for Tornante Co. says The Hollywood Reporter.

That's right. The small comic strip that was wrapped around a piece of gum is going to be a film.

Joe, who wears an eye patch for reasons never explained, has child-friendly misadventures, sometime joined by various friends like Pesty, Mort, Toughie, Hungry Herman, love interest Jane and a dog named Walkie Talkie.

Oooh I wonder if it will have the reason why Joe wears an eyepatch? No doubt it will get turned into some kid friendly action film where the day is saved by chewing some gum and sticking it on the Rocketeer's rocket pack.

Mind you it would be cool if it turned out Joe was a young Snake Plissken!

Hammer, who this weekend is attending the graduation ceremony at Orange
County’s Chapman University, where he studied film, wrote a spec titled “Sonny
Takes to Peru,” which made the studio rounds but ultimately did not
sell.

That spec, however, turned into a strong writing sample that got
him into meetings as well as representation at management outfit the Safran Co.
Execs at Tornante, seeking to fill their open writing assignment,liked the spec
and brought in Hammer, who gave them his winning take.

Read that again. He wrote a script that was good enough to get him into the studio system, but as it was original it got binned and he is lucky enough to write the adventures of a kid with an eyepatch! Sonny Takes Peru is a cool name.

For God's sake! There are loads of excellent scripts out there sitting gathering dust as the studios don't think the audience can take an original idea.

Somebody get me the President on the phone......it's ringing.......Hello....Barack? Yeah, it's Phil. Just wondering...oh we're all fine....how are you?.... Nice, you liked Star Trek?.....Yep so did I....you heard about Bazooka Joe being a film.....you have?.....Can you sort it out? ..... No.....Damn....wait are you chewing gum?....You are!....What?...you're sending some people over?....Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous....

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U.S. President Barack Obama has vetoed the Mutant Registration Act.

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Obamicon - Optimus Prime and Modok

The Optimus Prime one is by Tim Doyle. You can pick it up on Nakatomi for $30. /film had it.

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Spike Lee talks about Obama and Sundance

Jill Martin had a minute to speak with Spike Lee, at last night's Knicks vs. Rockets game.

Not only does he speak about his party he hosted for the inauguration party for President Barack Obama, but also his new movie, Passing Strange, that he promoted at Sundance. Apparantly it was his first time at the Sundance Film Festival.

Thanks to Adriana for passing me the link.

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Obama vs Vader - Who will win?

I spotted this photo over on Boing Boing and thought it was cool. Then there is the full set of photos for the Obama action figure, including one where he is all ready for ninja action with a couple of Katanas.

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Zombie swarm or Presidential Inauguration

Some amazing satellite images from GeoEye show just how many people attended Barack Obama's inauguration yesterday.

Is it just me though or would that be what a zombie apocalypse would look like from space? If you've read World War Z you'll know the chapter I'm getting at.

Great photos and cheers to Del for pointing them out.

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How I Feel Today

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Will Smith to play Barack Obama

Movieweb spoke to Will Smith and Rosario Dawson about their work on Seven Pounds. However, during the conversation Dawson let slip that Smith may be playing Obama at some point.

Smith said that he was definitely considering playing the president elect sometime in the future, and then remarked that his ears made him a lock for the role. It's a joke he has shared many times. He explained that a Barack Obama biopic excited him because the film, "Already has one heck of an ending!" For anyone that is expecting to see this within the next couple of years might have to hold their breath, though. If Mr. Smith has it his way, he'd want to wait eight years before producing and starring in a film about America's first black president. He also commented that he'd want to wait until at least six months after Obama was out of office before releasing it, which he felt should have been done with Oliver Stone's W.

Will Smith as Obama? Good thing or bad thing?

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Barack Obama's first address to his nation

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Oh No! Barack is a Mac User!

Why Barack why? It was all going so well! Cool Pac Man sticker though. Here are 50 things about Barack Obama you may not have known.

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball

• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't

• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs

• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived

• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books

• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck

• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)

• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal

• His house in Chicago has four fire places

• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300

• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits

• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers

• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

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South Parks thoughts on Barack Obama winning

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Obama Won

Fingers crossed that things get better

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The New President will soon be with us - Some

The US Presidential election is due tomorrow. I've posted a few of the stories and cool ideas to come out of the election race. Here are a few more. If you know of any more add the link in the comments. Let me know which is your favourite.

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Obama-Man - He came from Krypton to save us apparantly

CBR have news on this one - Favored U.S. Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama continued his historical campaign last night at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City, where he once again courted the coveted “geek vote” by including in his speech the revelation that he was born on Krypton and sent by his father, Jor-El, to “save the planet Earth,” a clear reference to Superman.

The Superman bit is near 5:20

The Democratic Senator from Illinois also referenced geek paragon Mad Magazine, remarking, “It’s been said that I share the politics of Alfred E. Smith and the ears of Alfred E. Neuman.” Additionally, Obama has been endorsed by indie comics mainstay The Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen as well as Comics Industry for...Obama!, an organized group of comics professionals. Further, the Senator was reported to have identified "Star Trek" actor Leonard "Mr. Spock" Nimoy at a campaign event and acknowledged him with the Vulcan gesture of respect.

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Barack Says Chill - please excuse the swearing but it made me chuckle

I know it is not movie related (well all the speeches are scripted and they no doubt have stage directions) but this made me laugh. Apologies for the swearing on it.

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