Comic Book Resources – BLADE, STARDUST, SAILOR MOON, X-MEN 3: APRIL 17TH COMIC REEL WRAP

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BLADE, STARDUST, SAILOR MOON, X-MEN 3: APRIL 17TH COMIC REEL WRAP

by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer

Posted: April 17, 2006
BLADE

The new Spike TV live action series has made a new foray on to the web, launching a website for one of the “vampire houses” that will be featured on the show.

STARDUST

Creator Neil Gaiman made a post on his blog
saying, “The wall of people-who-have-been-cast in ‘Stardust’ at
Pinewood now includes on it Mr Peter O’Toole, Miss Billie Whitelaw and
Mr Ricky Gervais. It starts shooting on location in Skye next week. I
don’t know if having the multitudinous readers of a blog concentrate on
making sure the weather in Skye is as unseasonably clear, warm and
sunny as possible starting next Wednesday will do any good, but it
couldn’t hurt. (I won’t be there, alas, although Skye is possibly my
favourite place in the world, whatever the weather.)”

SAILOR MOON

According to Moviehotties.com,
the scourge of the streets is looking at sliding into a schoolgirl
skirt and kicking some butt. We now pause for requisite cleanup of any
drool that may have occurred during the reading of this alleged news
item.

X-MEN 3

IGN’s FilmForce has an article
about how filmmakers focused on the Danger Room for this mutant minded
movie. “It was pretty important,” said production designer Ed Verreaux.
“This time, when we went in to the studio, we said ‘We really want to
have this! This is an X-Men thing!’ We changed it a little bit because
we wanted to open it up, otherwise you don’t see as much of the room as
you would have seen. The first set, it was really just sort of ‘a
space.’ Not much room. But now [the actors] are doing a bunch of stuff
and they’re actually all in the space.” (emphasis theirs)

Meanwhile, Zak Penn described the process of writing the film to Comics Foundry.
“Simon and I were hired separately to write two separate ideas. The
studio and the production had all these things that needed to have
done, partly because of availability, partly because of whatever. It
was a whole long list of things that had to be done in this movie. Some
of them were story points, by the way, I will admit that. Me and Simon
(Kinberg) got together and said, ‘Given this, what’s our vision?’ And
we both agreed. ‘That’s what you want to do? That’s what I want to do
too.’ And when Matthew Vaughn came in, we basically all got together
and talked about what we wanted and he said, ‘That sounds great; that’s
what I want to do. If you can show me 30 pages of that by tomorrow, I
won’t quit the movie. But otherwise I don’t think we have time to make
the movie.’ So Simon and I looked at each other, and we’re both
screenwriters in our own right — we’re not writing partners — so we
said let’s try it. We sat down and instead of writing 30 pages, we
wrote 80 pages, and we did it in six days.”

Finally, IGN has been helpful enough to collect all of the trailers for the film in one convenient place. What a swell bunch!

Y: THE LAST MAN

CHUD is reporting
that comics writer Brian K. Vaughan is working on the screenplay for
the adaptation of his Vertigo work. “Yeah, I’m really in the loop. In
fact I would upgrade it from development hell to development limbo,
maybe,” he said. “I am actually writing the screenplay right now for
‘Y: The Last Man;’ they’re letting me take a shot at it. It’s been
really good. The input I’ve gotten so far has been really positive.”

LEGION OF SUPER HEROES

Comics Continuum
notes that April Winchell is providing the voice of President Winema
Wazzo in the upcoming animated series. In the series, President Wazzo
is the mother of Phantom Girl and doesn’t approve of the Legion.

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

Here’s where you get in
on the action. Did you see a link we didn’t catch? Have you snuck into
a closed movie set, and have inside data? Maybe your cousin is dating
somebody who knows something, and they had to tell you? Whatever it is,
we wanna know it all — fire off an email
and let us know whether you want your name used or your contributions
to geekdom to go down anonymously. Broadcasting live from Los Angeles,
this is novelist/karaoke host/all-around lunatic Hannibal Tabu
saying thanks for your time and indulgence, and [tagline sent back to
development hell until something hipper can be dreamed up].