Bryan Singer's plate is pretty darn full. Even if he doesn't return to the "Superman" franchise, he's currently attached to some other high-profile properties—potentially including the "X-Men: First Class" directing gig. Recently, he added yet another project to the pile with a re-imagining of John Boorman's classic King Arthur film "Excalibur."
But it isn't the mere fact that Singer is looking to produce and direct a King Arthur-era movie that's worth noting here. For some reason, there seems to be a surprising amount of comics-savvy creators flocking to the Arthurian legend in some way, shape or form.
Just last month, it was revealed that "Transmetropolitan" writer Warren Ellis is scripting a currently untitled King Arthur movie. Ellis noted on his blog that his project is different from Singer's, effectively dispelling any hopes that the one-time "X-Men" director and the "Astonishing X-Men" writer would be in cahoots on the same film. Read more...
[EDITOR'S NOTE: An ABC spokesperson has confirmed that Brian K. Vaughan has left the "Lost" television series. -RM]
"Lost" appears to be losing one of its many comic book ties as its writing staff gears up for the ABC series' final season. Brian K. Vaughan, who joined "Lost" as the hot writing commodity responsible for "Y: Last the Last Man" and "Ex Machina" and expanded his writing résumé into network television over the show's last several seasons, reportedly will not be contributing at the writers' table for Season 6.
"Unfortunately he has left for greener pastures," the series' executive producer Damon Lindelof told fans during a Q&A Session at Curzon Cinema. Read more...
Comic book writer turned occasional “Lost” maestro Brian K. Vaughan apparently exists within the hit series' universe now. The multi-talented comic book all-star behind the Vertigo series “Y: The Last Man” and “Ex Machina” has held such titles as producer, writer and executive story editor over the last few seasons, but this week, Hugo’s airport reading habits appear to have placed him firmly on the inside of the “Lost” universe.
On last night’s episode, titled “316,” Hugo was caught clearly reading a Spanish-language edition of “Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step” – or “Y, El Último Hombre” as it appeared on screen.
The comic book cameo was certainly a wink at Vaughan’s comic book fanbase, who cheered him on when he joined fellow comics scribe Jeph Loeb over at the “Lost” office for the show’s third season. But the plot of that particular volume of "Y" is worth keeping in mind, too. Read more...
Marvel's award-winning series "Runaways" didn't have the most auspicious start. Canceled after 18 issues, then revived due to an outpouring of support from fans, the series was one of the most notable titles to come out Marvel's ill-fated Tsunami line, aimed at attracting manga readers to the publisher's universe. Once the series was revived, however, creators Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona found themselves with a hit on their hands. Multiple awards followed, and so did creative teams that included, among other prominent names in comics, "Strangers in Paradise" creator Terry Moore and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon.
Oh, and then there's that "Runaways" movie that's been rumored for quite a while now, too.
MTV News recently spoke with Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige about "Runaways" -- and discovered that, not only was Feige one of the project's biggest supporters, a film based on the teen superteam's adventures was high on the list of Marvel's post-"Avengers" movie plans. In fact, he expects to see a finished script by early 2009. Read more...
Shia LaBeouf isn’t the only comic-book fan who wants to be in “Y: The Last Man” – count "Kick-Ass" cast member Clark Duke as someone who covets a part in the adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's celebrated series, too.
“‘Y’ is the only comic book I’ve bought every issue of from the start, no trades,” Duke said. “I went every week to buy it.”
Duke’s already got the experience of shooting a cross-country trip under his belt in the upcoming “Sex Drive." “It’s all about the crazy s**t that happens on the road, right?” Read more...
Last week, we told you about some of the story details "Eagle Eye" director DJ Caruso offered up regarding his adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan's celebrated Vertigo series "Y: The Last Man." Along with discussing some of his casting choices for the film, Caruso confirmed that the story would lend itself to a multiple-film arc. In a new interview with Sci Fi Wire, Caruso shed a little more light on the first (and hopefully not last) film, including how he'd like to end the first chapter.
"I don't want to give away too much of the end, but I think basically, you know, Yorick and 355 will basically walk away and go off into the sunset, knowing that they're going to have to keep going on the run," said Caruso. "And you might sort of look up in the sky and realize that maybe Yorick is at that point, and he might not be the last man or he might be the last man, and that ... the journey and the continuing on the run is going to have to go from there." Read more...
Yesterday we linked to an interview in which "Eagle Eye" director DJ Caruso expressed an interest in directing Marvel's upcoming "Thor" film, but today Caruso offered up some insight into a highly anticipated adaptation he's already working on: the film version of Brian K. Vaughan's celebrated "Y: The Last Man" series.
In an interview with UGO, Caruso confirmed that adapting the 60-issue Vertigo series was indeed going to be a multiple-film project, and offered up some thoughts on where to the first chapter would conclude.
"... we get ourselves to Dr. Mann and you get, Yorick and Ampersand, in our screenplay, sort of get separated for a while, they get back together and Yorick ends up getting sick," said Caruso, adding that Vaughan himself helped out with determining where to break the overall story in the films. "Basically where you really want to end is 355 and Yorick basically kind of come away at the end and everything is not Ok, and they still - having now found Dr. Mann maybe in the middle of Act II - they still have a long way to go and a lot to figure out."
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Have you seen the trailer for “The Book of Lies” yet? Did you think it might have been for a new TV show? Or a new movie? Would it surprise you to know that it’s actually for a new book (the aforementioned “Book of Lies”)? In looking for answers, we went straight to the source: bestselling author and fan-favorite comics scribe Brad Meltzer, in an exclusive interview with Splash Page.
“The goal was to create the greatest trailer for a movie that does not exist,” he said. “This is going to sound ridiculous, but the goal was to change how books are sold. You look at movies, and all the time and energy they put into advertising, and while some books have trailers, all they are is the scary man’s voice reading the back of the dust jacket. There’s no thought about character or plot or investing the reader.”
Meltzer decided for his upcoming novel, he would change that up a bit. Just as an independent filmmaker might, he called upon his friends for a favor. Everyone he reached out to -- from "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon to "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof to "Y" author Brian K. Vaughan to Christopher Hitchens to A.J. Jacobs and more – “was in on the joke.” Read more...
