Geeky movie round up

Here's some random comic book movie news from the last week or so accompanied by random comic book-ish pictures.


Lets start with former Marvel comics artist and Deadpool creator, Rob Liefeld leaking some news via twitter about a possible Wolverine/X-Men spin-off staring Deadpool.

Walking into Deadpool movie meeting!!! Yowza!

Great Deadpool movie meeting! Lauren Schuler Donner and her team are headed in the right direction!

Deadpool movie- YES! Ryan Reynolds is on board!!!

Deadpool movie checklist- DP in costume-check! Breaking 4th wall-check! Loads of killing-double check!

Also excited to discuss possibilities of Cable in future X-films!!!
~ Rob Liefeld via twitter (ugh)

Dang that's a lot of exclamation points... Ryan Reynolds was excellent as Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but he was also in the movie for like 3 minutes and by the end of the film they had completely botched the Deadpool character. I want to believe this movie could be awesome, but seeing how it'll be made by Fox I'm not holding my breath.


Here's some news on a Spider-man 3 spin-off no one wants

Now Sony is going forward with a Venom spinoff movie, which pretty much has fans split down the middle. Will it finally do the fanged black-ooze baddie justice, or will it be more of the same? The good news is that Zombieland co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have been tasked with penning the project (Zombieland is awesome, so fingers crossed).

Today Wernick confirmed to us that the project is still moving forward and the writing team has turned the script in to the suits at Sony. "We've written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they're pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward," Wernick told SCI FI Wire in an exclusive interview.
~ Sci-Fi Wire

Venom can be a great villain, but all through the 90s Marvel proved that he's an awful good guy. If Sony wants to make a Venom movie in the horror/action mold akin to something like Predator or Aliens it would be sweet. However, If they try to do the whole anti-hero thing with Venom you might as well subtitle the movie Venom: Box Office Poison.


And lastly and oldie but a goodie. From the Iron Man 2 Mickey Rourke explains how he brings a little something extra to the character of Whiplash...

Rourke, for his part, wanted to instill some lightness into the role. “I told Favreau, ‘I don’t want to just play him as a one-dimensional pussy’” he says. “He let me have a cockatoo, who I talk to and get drunk with while I’m making my suit.”
~ Cinematical

That's right, nothing says fully dimensional characterization like giving a character a random pet for a side-kick. Thanks Mickey, you're a gift that keeps on giving.

Twits!

Call me old fashioned, but I just don't get twitter. And not like "it's a series of tubes" don't get it. I understand how and why it works, I just don't understand why 3 million people would care about what Ashton Kutcher is doing at any given moment. Of course as much as I can't stand twitter I absolutely love this youtube series Twits. So I guess everyone is a winner here. Except maybe Brooke Hogan, I'm no doctor but from the sounds of her symptoms I'm pretty sure she has swine flu.

The best worst thing ever

I'm sure the inventor of the PS3's sixaxis controller totally had this in mind when he was working on the motion control features. No really, I'm sure this is exactally what he had in mind.


... and yes if you're not sure you just saw what you just saw. In the new Ninja Gaiden game you can control how much your character's giant boobs shake by shaking the controller.

Passive Aggressive Monday

I'm really to busy to post anything good today, not that it matters what with all 5 of you that have signed up to be followers of this blog. Go check out passiveaggressivenotes.com while I work on my tps reports.

Dead Rising 2 just went off the deep end

Apparently the multiplayer portion of Dead Rising 2 is going to be like an American Gladiators style show with zombies. I'm pretty sure about the only thing left for the developers could throw into this game is some sort of mode where the DVD will wash my car.

I'm pretty sure that if I end up missing my child's first steps its going to be because I was playing this game.

Cash for Clunkers still sucks

Jalopnik had a great article the other day detailing the Ten Most Exotic Cars Destroyed By Cash For Clunkers. On it's surface the article highlights just how stupid some auto buyers can be. Who in their right mind would "junk" an '87 Buick GNX? And that's when it hit me. No one junked a Buick GNX. There were only 500 of these beauties ever made and in mint condition they can go for $50,000 plus. Even if the car is barely running you could part it out for $10,000 easy. There isn't a dealership alive that would kill one of these things, much less a Bentley Continental R or a Rouch Stage 3 F-150 or a BMW 850i. However, I'm sure there are plenty of shady auto dealers out there that would gladly fill out a few forms and cash a 4500 dollar check from the government.

This whole program has really shaken my faith in the current administration. It's such a bad idea compounded by terrible execution how come no there realizes it? Why do they all chalk it up as a big win? Whatever man.. I voted for Kodos.

Sexpresso stand is heavy on the sex.. not so much on the espresso part

that my friends is a rape van, those ladies better cover up or start running!
Bikini Baristas! Prostitution! Undercover Police Stings! Naked Basetball! This story really has it all. Take it away Seattle times.

EVERETT — Five baristas have been charging customers to touch their breasts and buttocks at an espresso stand where servers wear bikinis to draw business, police said. The five were charged Wednesday with prostitution. Charging money for that kind of touching falls under the city's definition of prostitution.

The Everett Herald reports the women were charging up to $80 to strip down while fixing lattes and mochas.

During a two-month investigation, detectives also saw the women lick whipped cream off each other and pose naked for pictures at the Grab-n-Go Espresso stand in Everett, about 30 miles north of Seattle

I love the idea that this investigation took two months and that the stand is called "grab-n-go".

During one visit, a barista allegedly told a (undercover) detective that for $20, she and another barista would give him a show. He paid and they bared their breasts and pulled down their undergarments.

again the police did this for 2 months

The women also charged customers to play "basketball," a game in which customers threw wadded up money at the women, who caught the money in their underwear, detectives said.

Wait a minute? They charged customers money for the right to throw even more money at them? Did these ladies work for Enron? That's shear genius! Forget charging them with prostitution, I think the governor needs to hire these gals as consultants for the state budget department. There has to be some way we can trick Canada into giving us some of that sweet Olympics cash they're gonna be rolling in this winter.

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