It’s wild that he’s been mocked for his color choices in his movies since 300 came out 17 years ago and yet remains committed to that choice no matter what.

In spite of all that, he remains my favorite Sith Lord. Darth George.

I have it on good authority this is what a lion sounds like.

That’s still gonna be a godawful mess. Maybe it means someone makes a decent Hobbit standalone. But what you’re describing sounds like the movie version of that shitty Gollum video game that came out a couple of months ago. It’s going to result in a lot of half-assed attempts at cinematic universes that will probably…

I’ve always wanted to read Till We Have Faces, which was one of Lewis’ fantasies written for adults. Peter Beagle likes it, and he’s not really big on the rest of Lewis’ work. As someone who loves Beagle’s stuff, I would generally trust his taste in books.

I think it’s just a working title. 

The Lion was Paul. 

The Hobbit enters public domain in 2033. That doesn’t extend to the other Middle-earth books, which were published decades later. And those laws vary from country to country.

Also, the last push to turn Narnia into a major franchise was spearheaded by the Christian billionaire Philip Anschutz, and if he decided it wasn’t worth the trouble to court religious viewers, I don’t see how a nominally secular approach with an avowedly feminist filmmaker is going to work.

Snyder critiques are a dime a dozen at this point, but HOLY SHIT this takedown of his style and “ideas” is goddamn fire. Worth sitting through all three parts, especially the analysis of Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead versus Romero’s. Maybe get yourself a nice beverage and some snacks when you have the time.

According to her recent profile in the New Yorker (via Comic Book), Barbie director Greta Gerwig is committed to direct “at least two” Chronicles of Narnia movies at Netflix.

My feeling is that GI Joe was basically killed by the War on Terror. If Rise of Cobra had come out maybe five or six years earlier, it might have benefitted from the American public’s support of Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By 2009, those wars were seen by most of the public as fiascos and Bush was history.…

Oh, I am an intensely nostalgic person. But nostalgias don’t always manifest themselves the same way. Mine is usually sated by expensive hardcovers of Bronze Age comics and 4K Blu-Rays of movies most people have never heard of. Occasionally it overlaps with some pop culture craze. The Marvel movies were definitely an…

Yeah, if Warner Bros. really wanted to emulate Marvel’s success, they’d kick off their universe with the B- and C-characters who have no cultural baggage from a half-dozen other movies and TV shows, and then gradually introduce the majors.

The problem is that Warner Bros. execs still think of superhero movies as garbage and the audiences will stay away from them unless they spend $200 million on them (even if, as with The Flash, the effects teams were clearly overworked and underfunded). And this is true of most franchise and big movies in general. The…

Yeah, Mattel plans on making 45 more movies based on their products if Barbie is a big hit — that’s a real figure, not hyperbole — so the whole idea of movies based on random shit from your childhood (or your parents’ childhood) is not going away anytime soon. I mean, there’s a fucking UNO movie in development. I’m…

Although that was always the case with the comics. There was always a reversion to the mean. In X-Men, Jean Grey sacrifices herself to save the universe, a bereaved Scott Summers eventually meets Madelyne Pryor, they marry, he quits the superhero life, she becomes pregnant with their child... if you’re reading all…

It would probably be a decent vehicle for Momoa, I suppose.

It does kinda feel like after the first batch of D+ shows, Marvel TV is back to being a side tributary of the movies, rather than upstream of them.

My old Berkley paperback from junior high is around 275 pages, which makes it about as half as long as the original Dune. The later mass markets are a little thicker, but that’s because the publisher used a bigger typeface.