Comments on: Studio coffee run: Branagh, Green Lantern, MJ, etc. http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:57:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mark Coale http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2397235 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:19:44 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2397235 It would be cool if Branaugh himself played Loki. I mean, if he can play Iago... It would be cool if Branaugh himself played Loki. I mean, if he can play Iago…

]]> by: Cary Coatney http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396861 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:31:59 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396861 It would be feasible if they can get the Hulk to be in on that Avengers film - that is, if Universal doesn't object ( and co-produces it) - since Robert Downey did pull in a cameo in the Incredible Hulk film. Also - I spoke to someone from WB Animation over the weekend that there's going to be a Green Lantern Warner Premiere animated film and a Flash one soon after. I don't know when they're scheduled to come out, though. ~ Coat It would be feasible if they can get the Hulk to be in on that Avengers film - that is, if Universal doesn’t object ( and co-produces it) - since Robert Downey did pull in a cameo in the Incredible Hulk film.

Also - I spoke to someone from WB Animation over the weekend that there’s going to be a Green Lantern Warner Premiere animated film and a Flash one soon after. I don’t know when they’re scheduled to come out, though.

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Coat

]]> by: michael http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396816 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:25:19 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396816 Go famous Heidi! :D Go famous Heidi! :D

]]> by: Matt. Murray http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396771 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:18:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396771 Blah, blah, Shakespearean language, Branagh, yes. He actually has a better pedigree than that - Mel Gibson freely admits to ripping off "Henry V" for the battle scenes in "Braveheart" basically making Branagh the grandaddy of the modern medieval battle epic. As for Frankenstein being "bad"... It was actually ahead of it's time, and Tim Burton owes the success of "Sleepy Hollow" and subsequently "Sweeney Todd" to it. At best it will be a fun Norse mythology/adventure/epic (hopefully with Brian Blessed as Odin.) At worst, it will end up a failure more noble than the Ang Lee Hulk, that people will rip-off and honor years down the line. Blah, blah, Shakespearean language, Branagh, yes. He actually has a better pedigree than that - Mel Gibson freely admits to ripping off “Henry V” for the battle scenes in “Braveheart” basically making Branagh the grandaddy of the modern medieval battle epic. As for Frankenstein being “bad”… It was actually ahead of it’s time, and Tim Burton owes the success of “Sleepy Hollow” and subsequently “Sweeney Todd” to it. At best it will be a fun Norse mythology/adventure/epic (hopefully with Brian Blessed as Odin.) At worst, it will end up a failure more noble than the Ang Lee Hulk, that people will rip-off and honor years down the line.

]]> by: Ralph Mathieu http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396658 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:53:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2396658 I don't know why everyone's getting all excited about The Avengers as a movie, really the very earliest that can happen is 2013, not 2011. We're not even going to see the second Iron Man movie until 2010 and that's the earliest we'll see Captain America or Thor as the only Marvel movie slated for next year is Wolverine. I don't see Marvel having both Cap and Thor coming out the same year. I don’t know why everyone’s getting all excited about The Avengers as a movie, really the very earliest that can happen is 2013, not 2011. We’re not even going to see the second Iron Man movie until 2010 and that’s the earliest we’ll see Captain America or Thor as the only Marvel movie slated for next year is Wolverine. I don’t see Marvel having both Cap and Thor coming out the same year.

]]> by: cbrown http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2395176 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:41:24 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2395176 Branagh on a superhero film doesn't sound like any more of a stretch to me than Christopher Nolan or Guillermo del Toro or Jon Favreau. Shakespearean actors have had a pretty good track record in genre work: Alec Guiness, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan . . . And Branagh has already directed one genre film, 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Though, maybe it's better to forget that one. Branagh on a superhero film doesn’t sound like any more of a stretch to me than Christopher Nolan or Guillermo del Toro or Jon Favreau. Shakespearean actors have had a pretty good track record in genre work: Alec Guiness, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan . . . And Branagh has already directed one genre film, 1994’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Though, maybe it’s better to forget that one.

]]> by: Lea Hernandez http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2395164 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:39:55 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2395164 Branagh makes great sense. Shakespeare is epic, the better parts of Thor have been epic. I'm looking forward to it. Branagh makes great sense. Shakespeare is epic, the better parts of Thor have been epic. I’m looking forward to it.

]]> by: Torsten Adair http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2394789 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:52:35 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/30/studio-coffee-run-branagh-green-lantern-mj-etc/#comment-2394789 So... Does Marvel have enough financing to film this slate? Here's my Green Lantern pitch: 60s astronaut goes up mercury test launch. strange cosmological energies cause his capsule to malfunction, and he crashes off course, winding up on a deserted subantarctic island. He discovers an ancient temple and a mystical ring. It contains the spirit of a genie, who latches herself and the ring to her new master. Major Hal Jordan must maintain his normal identity as an astronaut, his secret identity as a superhero, and the crazy triangle of himself, his fiance, and the genie. So… Does Marvel have enough financing to film this slate?
Here’s my Green Lantern pitch: 60s astronaut goes up mercury test launch. strange cosmological energies cause his capsule to malfunction, and he crashes off course, winding up on a deserted subantarctic island. He discovers an ancient temple and a mystical ring. It contains the spirit of a genie, who latches herself and the ring to her new master. Major Hal Jordan must maintain his normal identity as an astronaut, his secret identity as a superhero, and the crazy triangle of himself, his fiance, and the genie.

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