Sure the first episode (let alone season) for the upcoming television adaptation of The Walking Dead has yet to reach a TV set near you, but AMC has already decided to renewed the series for a second season. While this is most likely due to the enormous following that the series has already gotten after being shown off at San Diego Comic-Con and then being released online sometime later, you have to imagine that AMC has been possibly won over by the end result of Frank Darabont and Robert Kirkman’s work on the debut season of the show enough to support it… well, blindly.
Fans of Terry McGinnis that were in attendance at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con were certainly pleased to learn that the current Batman Beyond mini-series won’t be the last we see of the future Batman as DC has definitive plans to turn it into an ongoing series. What’s still unknown is firstly if the current creative team working on the mini, namely writer Adam Beechen and artist Ryan Benjamin, will be returning to helm the new series once it takes off. Secondly, DC has yet to announce exactly when the new series is set for release.
According to Deadline, Marvel has brought a screenwriter on board for their new movie project: ‘Iron Fist’. Nothing against the character but should a fairly unknown (to the general public anyway) character like Iron Fist be tossed into the movie making queue? That being said, this certainly makes sense what with Disney & Marvel’s plan to start making movies based on lesser known characters but I can’t help but think that there are some better known characters that would benefit more from the silver screen treatment and potentially earn the company a larger paycheck.
Some time ago, Ray Park (Snake Eyes from the recently released GI Joe movie) had expressed interest in playing the character but with nothing confirmed other than xXx screenwriter Ray Wilkes being brought on to get the ball rolling, nothing is known about which direction the company will take with casting or story.
For more info on this announcement, check out Deadline.com.
Couldn’t make it San Diego this year and are wondering what to expect when the upcoming television adaptation of The Walking Dead arrives this Halloween? Well AMC knows just how to cure your hunger for human flesh, as well as a zombie drama TV series, and now they’re delivering in the form of the 4 minute long trailer first unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con this past July.
For more info on The Walking Dead TV series, check out AMCTV.com.
If the DC solicits for November are any indication, things are about to get a whole lot… battier this November as Batman (presumably Bruce Wayne) makes his return to the DCU proper official with an appearance in Brightest Day #13 / #14.
With the release of the movie just around the corner, Scott Pilgrim and friends make their way to iPads, iPhone and iPod Touches around the world with the release of all six volumes of the acclaimed series, as well as the Free Comic Book Day issue, in one handy App available now on Apple’s App Store. Pricing for the series is pretty reasonable as well with the first five books selling for $6.99 and the final volume for $11.99. Naturally the Free Comic Book Day issue is, well, free and if you for some reason haven’t read the books and are unsure about them, you can download the first chapter of book one for free as well.
For more info and a screenshot of said App, be sure to check out Robot 6.
While with Mark Millar’s tactic of selling movie rights to comics he’s barely written (see Kick-Ass) is hardly a surprise to most people, the fact that Tony Scott, director of such films as Top Gun, Days of Thunder, True Romance, Enemy of the State and The Taking of Pelham 123 to name a few, has been signed on to direct the recently announced big screen adaption of Millar and artist Steve McNiven’s Nemesis comic should be.
According to Bleeding Cool, the film has been officially picked up by 20th Century Fox with Scott selected to direct. Word is that the movie is being rushed by Fox with the intent to get it into production as soon as possible.
With only 2 issues of Nemesis released so far, is anyone else getting the feeling that this whole movie adaptation thing might be a little premature? I mean, with Kick-Ass at least the series had hype and a pretty big fan base early-on. Nemesis thus far has received pretty lukewarm reviews from critics and, from what I can tell, doesn’t appear to have sold quite as well as the first couple issues of Kick-Ass.
