By MIKE FLEMING, Source: Deadline.com Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot have hired JD Payne and Patrick McKay to write the script for Boilerplate, based on the Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett graphic novel Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. Bad Robot will produce with Outlaw Productions’ Deborah Newmyer. The storyline:
By Dan Roth, Source: Blastr.com Superheroes might be the most popular genre in comics, but that doesn’t mean everybody wants a spandex-wearing would-be hero traipsing around their neighborhood. That seems to have become the case with Seattle’s real life caped crusader, Phoenix Jones. Phoenix, who was respected by many for
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com Stephen King needs tidy rules for time travel more than most of us. Not because he’s a time traveller (he’s not, okay) but because he’s been writing about one. In order to promote his new novel, 11/22/63, which is being adapted into a film
Welcome to yet another episode of the Earth Station One Podcast and once again we are live at Titan Comics in Duluth in what is quickly becoming our home away from the station, and surprise, surprise we actually will talking about comics, where we dive into the new DC 52,
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr.com That epic new Doc Savage movie we’ve been waiting on for eons still has some life left in it. Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout) is attached to direct the strapping hero and believes the adaptation will get his full attention once his
By Mark Cassidy, Source: Comic Book Movie.com No, not the Marvel comics character Shang-Chi, but a movie version of the ’70s Tv show which starred David Carradine and also had a comic book series. Deadline has the details.. I’m sure any CBMer of a certain age, or even those wise
By Kathie Huddleston, Source: Blastr.com American Horror Story may only be four episodes into its first season, but FX has already renewed the fright-fest for a second season of 13 episodes. The Wednesday night horror series is tracking to become the highest-rated series ever for FX. So far, American Horror
By Meredith Burdett, Kasterborous.com Canton Everett Delaware III aka actor Mark Sheppard makes a few comments about his part in the Series 6 episodes The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon in an interview with New Zealand entertainment website Stuff. The actor reflects on getting his father involved in
By Marc Bernardin, source: Blastr.com Before the Avatar mastermind James Cameron heads back to Pandora, he’s working with Reel Steel director Shawn Levy to remake Fantastic Voyage, the trippy ’60s bodyscape adventure. And, of course, Cameron’s injecting a little Titanic into the mix. Cameron and Levy are about two-thirds of
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com Before he started his landmark Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, which would spawn the Game of Thrones TV series, George R.R. Martin devised and edited Wild Cards, an ongoing anthology that built a gritty, realistic world of superpowered heroes and villains. Now
By Morgan Jeffery, Source: Digital Spy Doctor Who star Matt Smith has indicated that he has no plans to leave the show. Last week, a video emerged of the actor stating that he was keen to pursue a career in Hollywood after “another year” of the BBC sci-fi drama. However,
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com The first promises for the Beetlejuice sequel have been made. Now I’ve been told that this is what I’m going to get, I’ll probably blow a gasket if I don’t. So, here’s what the new film’s screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith has pledged: The star of
