The Flash - Who will win Dr Horrible or a Friday Night Lighter?

It looks as if Dan Mazeau has been contracted to write a screenplay for The Flash and now there is a rumour going round that the fastest man alive has been cast and it is not Ryan Reynolds (his role as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine may have killed his chances for this one)

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We've received word from a very-reliable source that actor Scott Porter (formerly of the critically-acclaimed television-series Friday Night Lights) is one of those actors.

If you'll remember back in the Fall of 2007, Porter auditioned for director George Miller for his (now dead) Justice League: Mortal and was said to be a top candidate for Superman.

The word is the studio has been quietly keeping their eye on the actor, and been keen to include him in one of their DC properties since JLM fell through

I've never seen Friday Night Lights so I don't know if this is a good or bad choice. Any of you watch the show? Will he be a good Flash?

However, the not always reliable WENN have the rumour that Neil Patrick Harris (Dr Horrible, How I Met Your Mother) could be the Flash and I could see him as Barry Allen (if that is the Flash they are going with).

Who would work best for you?

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Batman's Bad Day

The Justice League give Batman a hard time when he complains about an act of heroism taking too long and hurting too much.

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The Random - Joan Jett, Jonah Hex, Magdalena, Repo Chick, Alex Cox, Romancing the Stone, In the Hand of Dante, Captain Blood

Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Into the Wild) is to play Joan Jett in a biopic about the Runaways.

Lexi Alexander (Punisher: War Zone) has apparantly been approached to direct the Jonah Hex film.

Gale Anne Hurd says that Magdalena (based on the Top Cow comic), starring Luke Goss (Hellboy 2, Blade 2) and Jenna Dewan, is like The Da Vinci Code meets Wanted. The Magdalena has the ability to see into the human heart, to show people the error of their ways and give them the choice to redeem their sins. There is only one in a generation, and she alone stands and takes arms against the evils of the world. Apart from the powers she is born with, the Magdalena wields the Spear of Destiny, the spear that pierced the side of Christ, as a holy and formidable weapon against the twisted and the evil.

Alex Cox starts work on his sequel to Repo Man next month, David Lynch is producing it. It will be called Repo Chick. Cool fact, Alex Cox went to my school and I sometimes see him drinking in a pub near me. I must approach him about this next time our paths cross.

The "inside source" that said George Miller was off of the Justice League film was wrong, and according to official representatives Miller is still on the film and the project is still being developed.

Romancing the Stone may be getting remade.

Jonny Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil, has acquired the rights to Nick Tosches' novel "In the Hand of Dante" that was first published in 2002. The book is about Dante's "The Divine Comedy," and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy as he tries to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches, who is asked to authenticate what might be Dante's original manuscript.

Warner Brothers is remaking the 1935 swashbuckling pirate film Captain Blood that starred Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone. Philip Noyce (Patriot Games) is down to direct it.

Production Weekly have more.
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The Random - John Grisham, Shia LaBeouf, Zoolander 2, Justice League, Halloween sequel, Caeser, Agora, Back to the Future on Blu-Ray,

Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in Paramount’s big screen adaptation of John Grisham’s legal thriller The Associate.

Ben Stiller tells WENN that he is currently looking at scripts and a deal for a sequel to Zoolander 2 is finally close to being made - “I’ve been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we’ve had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first.”

Dark Horizons has confirmed that George Miller is no longer attached to Justice League in any capacity. Miller appeared on a morning talk show in Australia and confirmed that he's no longer involved , adding that if it ever gets greenlit again, it'll be recast, because "the studios seem to want bigger stars in their superhero movies now."

ShockTillYouDrop.com have news that Rob Zombie will return to make a sequel to his Halloween film. Pre-production commences in January with shooting to start sometime in March. Tyler Mane is expected to be backs as Michael Myers. Zombies's Tyrannosaurus Rex is apparently now on hold.

Caeser writer/director Scott Frank is saying that this isn't a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Sounds like a dog food for small yappy type dogs!

The first publicity stills are out from Agora in which Rachel Weisz plays Greek philospher Hypatia who has a dalliance with a slave (Max Minghella).

David Fincher is not helping the Oscar chances of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". An insider at Paramount says that "he's so abusive that it's crushing...whatever we do, it's not enough"...(full details)

Back to the Future fans will have a long wait for the Blu-ray version. Producer Bob Gale says "I have no idea what the Blu-ray plan is. I've heard both 2009 and 2010. So in other words, later rather than sooner"..." (full details)

Transporter 2 director Louis Leterrier claims he shot that sequel with Statham's Frank Martin character as gay - "If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun"..." (full details)

Fight Club's Tyler Durden, Star Wars' Darth Vader and Han Solo, The Dark Knight's The Joker, Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter and Indiana Jones have been listed as the 'Greatest Movie Characters of All Time' in an Empire poll. Check out the other 93 at Empire 100 Greatest Movie Characters

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Christopher Nolan discusses Batman, Heath Ledger and Superman

Christopher Nolan has been talking to L.A. Times Hero Complex about why we won't be seeing his Batman meeting the Justice League and Superman anytime soon. He also discusses Heath Ledgers performance and the possibility of a third Batman movie.

"I don’t think our Batman, our Gotham, lends itself to that kind of cross-fertilization,” explained Nolan in the Hero Complex piece. “If you think of ‘Batman Begins’ and you think of the philosophy of this character trying to reinvent himself as a symbol, we took the position — we didn’t address it directly in the film, but we did take the position philosophically — that superheroes simply don’t exist. If they did, if Bruce [Wayne] knew of Superman or even of comic books, then that’s a completely different decision that he’s making when he puts on a costume in an attempt to become a symbol. It’s a paradox and a conundrum, but what we did is go back to the very original concept and idea of the character. In his first appearances, he invents himself as a totally original creation.”

With regards Heath Ledger possibly being nominated for an Oscar.

“I think the thing that has always been important to me in light of Heath’s death is the responsibility I’ve felt to his work,” said Nolan. “I felt a great wave of relief, really, as people first started to see the performance and it was clear that they were getting the performance. It’s easy to forget with everything that’s happened what an enormous challenge it was for Heath to take on this iconic role. It’s been extremely satisfying for all of us already. Anything that adds to that would be wonderful.”

Boucher asks the director, given how important the franchise has become to Warner Bros., if he’s been under pressure from the studio to come back for an encore.

“[Warner Bros. are] being extremely gracious,” Nolan responded. “I have a very good relationship with the studio. They know that I really needed to go on holiday and take some time to figure what I want to do next. They’ve been very respectful of that, which is terrific and one of the reasons I enjoy working with Warner Bros.”

What do you think of that?

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Grayson - You will believe Dick is cool! Fnar!

With The Dark Knight busting through the $500 million mark there has been all sorts of talk about the third Nolan Bat movie. Various people rumoured to be The Riddler, Catwoman etc, and everyone is saying no Robin. I personally think no Robin is a bit of a shame. If written well he works as an integral part of the Bat universe and helps keep the Bat on the straight and narrow. Plus it gives Bruce a chance to be a father, something the Batman would never really let him be, but in the filmiverse it would be difficult to make it work without the camp factor creeping in. Plus it would all depend on how good an actor they got to play Robin.

This is a pretty cool trailer for a Robin movie. An actor named John Fiorella has made it and it features most of the Justice League and a few of Batman's motley crew of villians. You can get a copy of the script at John’s website.

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Superman will be rebooted

Comingsoon.net have news on this.

Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov has told The Wall Street Journal that the studio is going to be reintroducing Superman. We assume this will be similar to how Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk was a reboot of Ang Lee's Hulk. Here is what the article says:

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes -- known as "Batman vs. Superman" -- after the $215 million "Superman Returns," which had disappointing box-office returns, didn't please executives. "'Superman' didn't quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to," says Mr. Robinov. "It didn't position the character the way he needed to be positioned." "Had 'Superman' worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009," he adds. "But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all."

The article also talks about Warner Bros. adapting other DC properties over the new few years. "By 2011, Mr. Robinov plans for DC Comics to supply the material for up to two of the six to eight tent-pole films he hopes Warner Bros. will have in the pipeline by then," it says. Those projects will likely be about single characters at first, and will be darker much like The Dark Knight:

With "Batman vs. Superman" and "Justice League" stalled, Warner Bros. has quietly adopted Marvel's model of releasing a single film for each character, and then using those movies and their sequels to build up to a multicharacter film. "Along those lines, we have been developing every DC character that we own," Mr. Robinov says.

Like the recent Batman sequel -- which has become the highest-grossing film of the year thus far -- Mr. Robinov wants his next pack of superhero movies to be bathed in the same brooding tone as "The Dark Knight." Creatively, he sees exploring the evil side to characters as the key to unlocking some of Warner Bros.' DC properties. "We're going to try to go dark to the extent that the characters allow it," he says. That goes for the company's Superman franchise as well.

The studio is set to announce its plans for future DC movies in the next month. For now, though, it is focused on releasing four comic-book films in the next three years, including a third Batman film, a new film reintroducing Superman, and two movies focusing on other DC Comics characters. Movies featuring Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, and Wonder Woman are all in active development.

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