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May

30

By seekerwh 1 Comment

Categories: Comic Movie Tags: 30 Days of Night, Comic Movie.

Try it yourselves, get the first story arc of Steve Niles’ and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night and if you don’t imagine it as a film at least every a couple of pages, well I’ll be proven wrong. Every panel, every setting I was thinking what a great vampire movie it could become, all dark and claustrophobic in a way that has nothing to do with space but atmosphere. The night comes, the sun will be away for a month, a horde of hungry vampires has come for them and yes, it will soon be on the big screen. Damn I’m expecting this!

Barrow is a small Alaskan town where once every year darkness falls and stays for a whole month. 30 days with no sunlight, the vampire heaven! A group of bloodthirsty undead finds out about this tourist resort and the rest is one of the greatest horror comics ever created, still continuing through various spin-offs and sequels. The movie is directed by David Slade (he used to make videoclips and he also directed Hard Candy) with Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin, The Black Dahlia, Sin City) and Melissa George (Dark City, Mullholand Drive, Alias) in the leading roles, great actors and a much promising young creator who have the unique opportunity of putting their signatures on a thrilling horror story.

Steve Niles originally wrote 30 Days of Night as a screenplay and now, especially after his direct connection to the film, we will at last see what his vision was like. I have to admit I’m a sucker for vampire films but this will be something absolutely special, Hartnett with his cool attitude being a detective against an army of monsters, blocked in a ruined city that needs to survive what looks like an eternity, hell, how could they make a boring movie out of it?

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May

Iron

By seekerwh 2 Comments

Categories: Marvel Comics Tags: Comic Movie, Marvel Comics.

There was a time when comic movies where nothing but shameful events for us, comic fans, or best case just a good laugh, but fortunately that time has passed. Most of the movies based on comic books nowadays are carefully produced by the biggest studios and top actors, directors line up to have a chance of offering their own aspect of those modern myths. After Spider-Man, the X-Men, Hellblazer and other famous titles, the new film coming in May 2008 will be about one of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe, Iron Man!

Not much are known about the story but it seems like the first Iron Movie will be about the health problems of Tony Stark and the creation of the Iron Man suit after several different levels of development (the following picture that goes around in the web might look a little medieval but no worries, check the teaser poster and you’ll see the familiar red and yellow outfit). The bad guy is rumored to be the Mandarin which is both good and bad, he’s one of the oldest Iron Man villains but still not really well known and it might have something to do with a disturbingly politically correct storyline, West against East etc. Robert Downey Jr will play the role of Tony Stark / Iron Man in a casting that might prove the best pick in similar cases.

The next days we will try to offer you as many information as possible about this upcoming event, the cast, the plot rumors, the production steps, everything that you’d want to know a year before Iron Man’s arrival, until then patience!

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Apr

Hellblazer

By seekerwh 0 Comments

Categories: New Story Arc Tags: Comic Movie, New Story Arc.

There are many disputable facts when you talk about comics, some of them though gather around them too many supporters to be ignored. Like who’s the best comics character in an ongoing series the last 20 years, if you ask me and some more thousands of readers we’ll tell you John Constantine, the Hellblazer. Many writers and artists of the best in the field have worked with this historical character and considered it an honour (Gaiman, Moore, Azarello, Risso, Ennis, Delano, Ellis, Carey, McKean, Frusin, god I can keep up all night) offering us some of the best stories we ever read about the absolute antihero, the cynic bastard whose friends always end up badly, the magus whose soul will be claimed by Satan himself, he’s John bloody Constantine and he’s the man!

Hellblazer is something more than a comic series just like Sandman was something more than a fairy tale, but in a profoundly different way. It started in the 80’s, an era of neo-conservatism and numerous changes and it found its unique way of commenting on serious stuff like religion, politics, economics, hooligans and criminality through a satiric filter of black magic, demons, angels and magicians. It even made it to the big screen recently (Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves) in a totally different from the comic, though pretty decent edition.

After the last story arc written by Denise Mina and the one-shot issue by Mike Carey this is a new chapter in the series with a whole new creative team. Andy Diggle (The Losers, Batman Confidential, Swamp Thing) writing it and Leonardo Manco (Archangel, Doom) as the artist promise “some old-school supernatural horror with a social conscience”. In this first issue of “In at the Deep End” John wakes up cuffed to a post in the river Thames while the tide is rising, if he’s going to survive this he’ll have to do some smooth talking, and pretty fast too.

John Constantine talking, I don’t know about you but I’ll be there!

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Apr

Neil

By seekerwh 0 Comments

Categories: Neil Gaiman Tags: Comic Movie, Neil Gaiman.

This is something I can’t make my mind upon, so help me on it, ok? If you haven’t read Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is it a good or a bad thing? When I tell you it’s one of my favorite books ever you might hurry to support the first opinion but you would be wrong, there is no expiration date on stories. I envy you fellow reader because you have the unique opportunity to live from the beginning the experience of getting lost in a Gaiman story, and if this article helps even one of you do that, well I’ll be a happier man!

Somewhere in the Middle Ages or shortly later there is a small village called Wall, in that countryside place there is, what a surprise, a wall no man is allowed to pass. That is the border between our world and Fairy, a land of magical creatures and wonders, and once every year there is a festival on the other side of it where humans and fairies sell, buy and trade possessions and experiences. This year young Tristran will attend the festival and furthermore, in an attempt to gain his only love’s hand he will promise to bring her a falling star they see together that dark night, so he will embark by himself in a journey that will put him in grave dangers and reveal him things about himself and the rest of the world he would never find out otherwise.

Neil Gaiman and artist Charles Vess (twice winner of the Eisner award) bring to us a fantastic tale about true and false love, magic and wonders, quests and pursuits. It is nothing like what you’ve read before, it can be read manically in one night, it is beautiful, addictive, mind blowing story telling, I loved every page of it!

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Mar

The

By seekerwh 0 Comments

Categories: Hard Cover Book Tags: Comic Movie, Hard Cover Book.

Most of you reading this article will have already watched the new film by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream), The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman (X-Men, The Prestige, Van Helsing) and Rachel Weisz (The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates, Constantine). Aronofsky’s controversial creation is something to love or to hate, and although I belong to the first category I must admit that there are much more in the Fountain than the movie offered, to live the entire experience there’s only one way, reading the graphic novel by Vertigo!

This is not a new idea by Aronofsky, the idea was one of his first but when he presented it to the studios it was cancelled in no time, no studio would make a film so different and uncategorized as this. After the tremendous success of Requiem and Pi though he could use his influence and soon the film came to life, still with many changes, budget cuts and scenario interferences, Darren seems to have said then:

“I knew it was a hard film to make and I said at least if Hollywood f**** me over I’ll make a comic book out of it.” He presented the original story to Vertigo and Kent Williams (Flinch, Havok and Wolverine – Meltdown) undertook the mission to put it on paper, Aronofsky saw the art and loved it and that was it, the Fountain was on its way to our bookshelves!

The scenario is quite complicated, 3 different stories told together I a frenzy montage speaking about love, death and immortality. A Spanish conquistador sent by his queen in 1535 to find the tree of eternal life in the middle of the Mayan civilization, a doctor looking for the cure of cancer to save his wife in 2005, a man and a tree travelling through space in 2645 inside a bubble looking for a dying star, different stories trying to tell the same thing which is different for each viewer, and that’s the beauty of the movie and even more the comic. Watch it, explore it, love it!

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Mar

HACK/Slash

By seekerwh 0 Comments

Categories: HACK/Slash Tags: Comic Movie, HACK/Slash.

I never really figured out how some people like splatter films (and even more splatter comics), I don’t get how a slaughter can be fun or what’s the unpredictable element of a serial killer simply unable to die and killing everything walking on two gorgeous legs. All the answers I needed came to me in the form not of a movie but a comic book (recently inspiring a theater play and an upcoming film), HACK/Slash, the absolute massacre!

In every slasher movie, there’s one girl who makes it all the way to the end.

This time it’s Cassie Hack, former high school outcast and daughter of the infamous slasher called The Lunch Lady, the one she had to kill with her own hands after several murders in her school. The slashers are persons who died under violent circumstances, full of hate and anger, and came back to life for their revenge. They despise love, sex, anything that reminds them what they miss and kill innocent (or not) people in, if nothing else, innovative ways! Cassie is their nemesis, a slasher hunter who killed her own mother in her fight against evil, she scouts America with her best friend Vlad (a deformed man she mistakenly thought was a slasher) and kills those zombie-like enemies wherever she finds them!

HACK/Slash is not a horror comic book; if I had to place it somewhere I’d call it gore humour. Writer and various artists have created this parody of every American cliché known, cheerleaders are cut in pieces, massive murderers roam in the spring break, a pet cemetery comes to life and even Chucky meets Cassie and her ugly friend in a crossover issue. It’s funny, it’s disgusting, it’s ironic and sarcastic in a light way, what the heck, it’s much better than those Jason movies I never got to like! The HACK/Slash series includes the following issues:

HACK/Slash – vol.1 The First Cut
HACK/Slash – Euthanized
HACK/Slash – Girls Gone Dead
HACK/Slash – Comic Book Carnage
HACK/Slash – The Land of Lost Toys
HACK/Slash – Trailers
HACK/Slash – Slice Hard
HACK/Slash - HACK/Slash vs. Chucky
HACK/Slash – The Series #01
HACK/Slash – Final Revenge of Evil Ernie

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Mar

Spiderman

By seekerwh 0 Comments

Categories: Spiderman Tags: Comic Movie, Spiderman.

Films inspired by comics, most of us, in our minds, connect this phrase with traumatic experiences including the shameless massacre of characters that evolved for many years through the pages of our favorite books. There are of course rare cases where this rule does not apply, remarkable creations which stayed in the spirit of the original or not, but anyway offered us the pleasure of a great movie (Sin City, 300, V for Vendetta and others). Spiderman may not be the best one among them but it could easily be selected between those with which you’ll have the most fun, and with the third part being released in May 4^th the expectations are huge.

Marvel treats every Spiderman movie with the seriousness befitting their most popular character, the first two parts though not masterpieces of the 7^th art were terrific action movies with the proper respect for the story as it was presented in comics so many times. This time nothing seems to have changed, the production indicates it’ll be one of the blockbusters of spring; the promotion has started months ago and the information about the story released are more than interesting. This time Peter finds himself enjoying the benefits of his increasing popularity while preparing to propose to Mary Jane when the police informs him that a new suspect for his Uncle Ben’s murder has been found, Flint Marko a.k.a. the Sandman! Spidey gets in the middle of the biggest fight of his life, he’s hunting Sandman at the same moment fighting Harry Osborn (who has become the New Goblin) and that’s nothing in front of the threat coming from outer space, the alien symbiote that will become his suite and try to corrupt him and later give birth to his nemesis, Venom!

The story is really exciting, combining some of the greatest adversaries of Spiderman in his entire history. I trust that the creators will choose to use some of the good Sandman stories, most of his old ones where lame with Spiderman imprisoning him in a vacuum cleaner and other similar cases, my only concern is the fact that the New Goblin story will be a mixture of the traditional Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe with Harry Osborn emerging as a different character, made especially for this movie. Anyway, the risk is not really that grave, best case we get a great movie about one of our favorite characters, worst we watch 90 minutes of something told before, don’t worry though mate, it won’t be as bad as Hulk!