Comic Book Resources: TRANSFORMERS, AQUAMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR 2, ALIENS VS. PREDATOR 2: JUNE 8TH COMIC REEL WRAP
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TRANSFORMERS, AQUAMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR 2, ALIENS VS. PREDATOR 2: JUNE 8TH COMIC REEL WRAP
by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer
Posted: June 8, 2006
TRANSFORMERSAccording to a scooper at Superhero Hype,
Michael Bay and crew will be taking the production to Hoover Dam, 30
miles southeast of Las Vegas. He wrote: “My wife and I will be heading
to Hoover Dam tomorrow to play tourists in the upcoming movie. The crew
will be shooting in that area Thursday and Friday. Some of the other
roles that they were casting were Secret Service Agents, Cops,
Medics/Med Evac, SWAT Team type, and more tourists. Hopefully I’ll get
a chance to snap some pics. Oh yea, we ran into John Voight, who in
real life is pretty damn tall, and looks way younger in person.”
AQUAMAN
What about the show that never was? The blog Televisionary has a less-than-positive review of the first episode, which failed to make the cut for the CW’s fall lineup.
FANTASTIC FOUR
Superhero Hype has also summarized disparate reports to create a fairly effective look at the behind-the-scenes talent working on the sequel.
ALIENS VS. PREDATORS 2
Not a typo! Not Hypertime! Not Superboy PUNCH! Not even an imaginary story! IGN’s FilmForce has confirmed
that special effects artists-turned-directors Greg and Colin Strause
(aka the Brothers Strause) have been signed to bring the Aliens and
Predators together for one more go-round. The studio has the sequel
scheduled for an August 10, 2007 release.
SUPERMAN RETURNS
Actress Noel Neill talked to Wizard Magazine
about her work on the Bryan Singer-helmed film, saying, “I had met the
director [Bryan Singer] and asked to come out to Warner Bros. for an
interview a while back. I met Bryan and his little entourage and all
that and his friends. I dragged a lot of my junk out and showed him
what I did. I think they used Jack [Larson] and I for publicity. And of
course everybody always asks about it, and we heard about it. But I
can’t tell them. [laughs]. The first thing Jack Larson, when he knew he
was going to do it, he called and said he’d like this little bit of
script for whatever he was going to do. And there was silence. He said,
“You can’t have anything.” But if he really wanted to see it he could
come out to Warner Bros. and ask for a certain person who was signed to
silence until death. And he said, ‘Oh to heck with it.’ It was fun.”
Meanwhile, the studio has let slip an amazingly complex PDF file called “Superman Returns” production notes that apparently talks about how they made everything in the film happen. Yowza!
Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter
has an interview with Bryan Singer, which discusses getting the
assignment at all. “The director fell out of ‘Superman’ and Warner
Bros. was willing to take a lot of development — nine years of
development — and a lot of dollars and sort of toss them away and
write them off and go with this new idea, which I ultimately developed
with Dan and Mike, my writers. It happened very quickly. I think we
developed the initial concept over a long weekend in Hawaii and
presented it to Warner Bros. and closed a deal in about 72 hours. That
was right after Fourth of July weekend ’04.”
Finally, we got an email from Derek McCaw, alerting us to a two part interview
with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, who created a companion
documentary, “Look Up In The Sky,” to coincide with “Superman Returns.”
SANDY, CAN WE ROLL THAT CLIP?
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, check for fresh comics reviews today, and [tagline sent back to development hell until something hipper can be dreamed up].
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