GRANT MORRISON ON FINAL CRISIS – NEWSARAMA
GRANT MORRISON ON FINAL CRISIS
by Zack Smith
Final Crisis is DC’s biggest event of this year…and writer Grant Morrison is poised to shake the universe to its core. So when we had a chance to do a spontaneous interview with Morrison, we jumped at the chance to find out the secrets of this cataclysmic storyline.
In the first of a two-part talk on his DC work, Morrison gives some hints at what readers can expect from Final Crisis, and why it pits DC’s heroes against a threat greater than anything before. Also, the return of a very obscure Martian Manhunter villain.
KEITH GIFFEN ON REIGN IN HELL – NEWSARAMA
KEITH GIFFEN ON REIGN IN HELL
by Vaneta Rogers
Keith Giffen’s doing it again.
When Marvel wanted to dust off and revive their cosmic characters, Giffen was handed the vastness of the cosmos and given the opportunity to use Marvel’s most obscure space characters for an epic story called Annihilation. The story was successful enough for the publisher that it spawned several other series and gave new life to characters rarely used before.
Now DC is giving Giffen a similar task, handing him any and all of their mystical characters – both the well-known magicians and the most obscure characters in the catalogue – and asking him to develop the vast world of magic in the epic mini-series Reign in Hell.
In a story that Giffen says will span eight issues, Reign in Hell will establish some of the ground rules for magic in the DCU while redefining what DC’s concept of Hell really is. Newsarama talked to Giffen about the series, which was officially announced this past weekend at the DC RRP meeting. And while Giffen is hoping to keep many of the surprises of the series to himself, he did tell us some of the characters who will show up and how he’s approaching their reappearance.
STAR TREK RELEASE MOVED TO MAY, 2009 – NEWSARAMA
STAR TREK RELEASE MOVED TO MAY, 2009
According to Paramount, Star Trek, the newest film which is to be a re-imagining/restart of the franchise by J.J. Abrams has seen its opening date move by over five months.
The film was originally supposed to open this Christmas Day (December 25th), but is now slated to open on May 8, 2009.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount is making several changes in its upcoming film slate as the studio reviews its movie plans post writers’ strike. As THR reports:
”Star Trek” arguably was the biggest film moved, with the intended Christmas Day release now set for the first prime date in the following summer boxoffice season: May 8, 2009. But “Trek” appears something of an exception in the mix of itinerant pics, with its shift unrelated to script or cast considerations.“‘Star Trek’ is moving to summer because its has so much boxoffice potential,” Par spokesman Michael Vollman said. “It does not need any script tweaks. They’re two-thirds of the way through shooting, and we would have delivered a great movie at Christmas.”
The studio has now moved The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from a November 26th release to December 19th, most likely to boost its holiday box office. Not that Button (based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who lives backwards and is aging in reverse, and growing younger) will pull in the same audience as Trek would have, but it has Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in it.
Star Trek is now poised a the third of the “summer” movies of 2009 – Wolverine is due to open on May 1st, and Watchmen is slated for a May 6th release.
