FROM MOVIES BLOG: A few weeks back, Marc Guggenheim departed his role as co-showrunner of "FlashForward," leaving the job solely to co-creator David Goyer. The move came as a surprise to many, considering the critical approval that the show has received. Goyer himself touts tonight's episode as the best installment yet. Sure there are challenges, but that is true of every show on television.
Many have wondered how Guggenheim's exit might effect the upcoming slate of episodes. Goyer has a great background in film and TV; his writing on Chris Nolan's "Batman" films revived the ailing franchise and he executive produced the underrated TV series "Threshold." "FlashForward" is his biggest TV project yet, but he brings a lot of experience to the table and will be fine without Guggenheim.
Besides, Goyer told MTV in a recent interview that the departure was hardly a surprise—indeed, it was always part of the plan.
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FROM MOVIES BLOG: Just last month, producers David Goyer and Brannon Braga were touting their latest television effort "FlashForward" here on Movies Blog. Both viewers and critics alike mostly embraced the ABC series following the premiere — but flash-forward one month later to today, and the Joseph Fiennes/John Cho-starring series seems to have hit a significant snag.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, executive producer and co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim is abandoning his "FlashForward" post, leaving David Goyer as the sole showrunner.
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When I spoke to "Green Lantern" movie co-writer Marc Guggenheim last month about his Oni Press comic book series "Resurrection" (as well as the "Green Lantern" movie, of course), I somehow managed to leave out a small chunk of the conversation that could be of interest to fans of Hal Jordan -- and a certain "Man of Steel," too.
While Guggenheim couldn't get into specifics regarding plot points of the live-action "Green Lantern" movie, I did ask him about his comments late last year regarding a potential cameo from Superman (or rather, Clark Kent). Was a crossover still on the table for DC's Green Lantern of Sector 2814? Read more...
Last year, Hugh Jackman announced that he had created a series called "Nowhere Man" for Virgin Comics. In what sounded like a logical investment in the comet tails of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," the story about a future world without privacy was being primed to become at least one movie, and possibly a video game.
When Virgin Comics disbanded, however, half of the property's ownership fell into uncertainty, and even the comic's scribe, "Resurrection" writer and "Green Lantern" co-writer Marc Guggenheim, doesn't know if "Nowhere Man" has a clear destination for the time being. Read more...
Writer Marc Guggenheim is hard at work managing a monthly comic book series and screenplay based on "Resurrection," his story about life on Earth after an alien invasion, but when I spoke to him about both projects last week, I had to ask him about another film he's working on, too -- one that also involves aliens and humans, and has its roots in the comic book world.
Along with "Resurrection," Guggenheim is co-writing the screenplay for the live-action "Green Lantern" movie based on the DC hero who uses a powerful ring to guard the Earth and surrounding areas of the universe against danger. He and fellow writers Michael Green and Greg Berlanti delivered yet another draft of the screenplay last week, and while he couldn't share many details about the film's plot, he did share some thoughts about the scripting process, the multitude of casting rumors and -- possibly most intriguing -- a new Green Lantern they created for the movie. Read more...
Over the past few weeks, we've been getting plenty of superhero casting scoops on the Marvel front (we're looking at you, Thor and Loki), but the DC Comics side of the aisle has been fairly blank, specifically regarding one of our most hotly-awaited films, "Green Lantern."
Sure, there are a whole slew of contenders for the coveted role of Hal Jordan, but not a one of them has been named officially as of yet -- and that's because no one has been selected yet, said screenwriter Marc Guggenheim. Read more...
We've seen bunches of comic books, movies and televisions series that tell you what happens when aliens target Earth for invasion -- but what about when the war is over and everyone has to pick up the pieces and get back to their lives?
That's the key theme of "Resurrection," writer Marc Guggenheim's comic book series from Oni Press, which he's simultaneously scripting as a monthly comic and as a screenplay for a feature-length film. Originally published as a black-and-white, six-issue series, "Resurrection" was optioned by Universal last year and then relaunched as a new comic book series this week, following a different set of characters living through the same post-invasion period. Read more...
The "Green Lantern" movie is rolling right along, co-screenwriter Marc Guggenheim tells us -- even if digressions about other comics characters sometimes distract them from the task at hand.
"This morning, we sat down to talk Green Lantern," Guggenheim told MTV, "and we ended up riffing for an hour and a half on another, much more obscure character. Sometimes, you just have to roll with it when inspiration strikes, you know? I'm sure the studio wouldn't be happy about it, but we're not going to blow the deadline. We'll get it in."
Guggenheim said that he and fellow screenwriters Michael Green and Greg Berlanti (who's also directing the film) are on the third studio draft, and they've just been refining the script based on studio notes and locations. Read more...
Ever since it was announced that "Gossip Girl" creator Josh Schwartz would focus on the junior X-Men in the upcoming "X-Men: First Class" film, we've been trying to wrap our brains around how that would work. Would it be the junior X-Men as established in the last film, "X-Men: The Last Stand" -- more of Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, and Angel? And if so, how would Rogue fit in, now that she's had the cure?
Or would it be the junior X-Men as established in the comics? We asked "X-Men: First Class" scribe Jeff Parker what he thought when the news broke and now we're asking "Young X-Men" writer Marc Guggenheim. And wouldn't you know it? Both of the comics writers heard the news the same way we did -- by reading it in Variety.
"It's funny," Guggenheim told us, "when they first talked about doing this [before Schwartz was attached], Variety had the project as 'Young X-Men,' so I thought it might be coming from the comic. But the idea of a junior group of X-Men has been around long before I started writing it." Read more...
While Spider-Man is a character that’s had no small amount of controversy surrounding him ever since the devil (or Marvel’s approximation thereof) erased his marriage to Mary Jane earlier this year in various Spider-Man comics, the past few weeks have seen more political elements work their way into the wall crawler’s world. While we brought you word last month of Stephen Colbert’s run for the U.S. presidency in the Marvel Universe within the pages of “Amazing Spider-Man,” this week the book shifts its focus to the war in Iraq with “Amazing Spider-Man” #574, on sale today.
The story revolves around Flash Thompson, a Spidey supporting character known to most fans as the bully who made Peter Parker’s high school years a living hell while cheering on Spider-Man. The comic is written by “Eli Stone” TV series co-creator (and co-writer on the upcoming "Green Lantern" film) Marc Guggenheim and drawn by Barry Kitson, and is the first of two stories by the writer that are setting off fanboy radar --- and for very different reasons.
“With Flash’s story, the goal there was not to be political or even topical,” Guggenheim told MTV. Read more...
