What is slightly less believable is the further rumor that pre-production has been underway for the last three and a half months, and that full-blown production is set to begin sometime this month.

It's because we're not watching actual stories being played out on film anymore in summer blockbusters; we're watching pastiches of, in most cases, decades of source material that's being distilled into one 2-hour amalgamation of several disparate story threads, all in an effort to appeal to as broad a base as…

Oh, completely agree. It's the too many cooks in the kitchen phenomenon. A lot of these projects just reek of heavy studio involvement in the creative process. You have 18 different opinions from executives of how the story should go, or a bunch of "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we threw this in...", which completely…

They attempt to offset the risk with huge stars and marketing,

Hey, maybe this will turn out to be a good a thing!

I'm all for more medium budget sci-fi/genre films. It means less studio involvement and allows the director to realize their vision and take more chances with the story, without having to report to committee like many major tentpole releases.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

Awesome!

I just did the same thing. I didn't see anything like an official release online...

Where is this available online?

Totally agree. Bryan Singer hijacked it.

Guess I should have read the last line in the article.

Is that image above from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Those illustrations scared the ever-living shit out of me when I was a shorty.

Man, this is, like, the summer of uneven, mediocre superhero films. After Iron Man III, Man of Steel, and this, I'm triple-bummed.

Oh man, I bet The Butterfly Effect purists everywhere are gonna be PISSSSSSED.

Sure, but she still didn't do anything to save that season from being a complete disaster.

This has been my #1 most anticipated movie of the summer. That being said, the more I see of this movie, the more depressed I get that the Halo project with Blomkamp at the helm fell through. My god, what this man could have done with that franchise.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes rebooted the franchise and took the series in a new direction. I don't understand the need to try to tie this into the original films; I thought the point was that you can the story wherever you want now. What was the point of rebooting it, if that's the case?

We'll meet Hank Pym, or Hank Pym will actually be Ant-Man and the main character of the movie?

There's some serious Roland Emmerich-grade science going on in the premise of this movie. I didn't want to see the movie before watching this "animated" clip; I double don't want to see it now.