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ThorThe last 24 hours have been exciting for comics-related movie watchers on Twitter. Not only did some behind-the-scenes posts pop up from "Thor" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," two of the biggest upcoming releases in the genre, but Rob Liefeld dropped an eye-opening bomb about his defunct "Badrock" film — which he says almost happened in 1996 with "Twilight Saga: New Moon" director Chris Weitz.

Aside from those tweets, there's also a pretty spectacular Terry Moore Spider-Man sketch waiting after the jump. Check that out, along with Tony Moore's answer to fanboy hate, Simon Pegg's thoughts on Scotty in "Star Trek" and a prediction for the English language from Jeffrey Rowland.

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for November 19, 2009. Read more...

Iron Man 2Actor Edward Woodward's death at the age of 79 prompted a string of tweets from the comics crowd this morning, many of whom are unsurprisingly fans of his TV series "The Equalizer." Simon Pegg, meanwhile, holds a special place in his heart for the 1974 movie spin-off of Woodward's series "Callan."

Elsewhere, Jon Favreau hit the editing room hard for "Iron Man 2," and had good things to post about the digital animated shots he's integrating into the film. Read what he had to say after the jump along with Fred Van Lente's hopes for the Marvel Spider-Man summit and Andy Diggle's continued observations from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2."

It's all in the Twitter Report for November 16, 2009. Read more...

V For VendettaSimon Pegg tweeted an impassioned appreciation for "V for Vendetta" today in honor of Guy Fawkes Day, proving that he has not forgotten the 5th November. Also not forgetting were Jill Thompson, Neil Kleid and a few other I couldn't fit in.

Jon Favreau, it seems, didn't have time to commemorate anything last night, as he was hard at work editing "Iron Man 2." If he was following Joe Quesada or Matt Fraction, however, he probably kept up on the game's details just fine. Scope out all of those posts below, along with a new Jim Lee page and Geoff Johns' mystery project that he wants to work with Greg Rucka on.

It's all in the Twitter Report for November 5, 2009. Read more...

Titan MaximumAll-star chance run-ins on Twitter abounded this weekend. The first occurred when Geoff Johns and a handful of other comics notables descended on the premiere party for Adult Swim's "Titan Maximum." Lando Calrissian himself was there, and the "Blackest Night" scribe got a personal introduction. Todd Nauck was also in attendance and tweeted a link to a T-shirt design he did for the new show.

In other face-to-face encounters news, Andy Diggle and Jock concluded their "Losers" set visit (filming has now wrapped, by the way), and their flight home to the U.K. was shared with Simon Pegg. This is extra coincidental, since Diggle tweeted Jock on his flight from the U.K. to see if he was on the same flight as Pegg.

I'm @brianwarmoth, and yes, I am a confessed Twitter stalker, and this is your Twitter Report for September 28, 2009. Read more...

Simon Pegg"Star Trek" cast newcomer Simon Pegg will have another established audience to please when Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson’s "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" comes to theaters in 2010. Pegg appears undaunted by the skeptical mumbles he's heard, however, and left recent shots for the film impressed by the special effects process used to turn him and his fellow on-screen twin Nick Frost into nearly identical characters based on motion-capture work.

"We shot earlier this year, here in L.A.," Pegg told Collider.com. "Fascinating experience just in terms of how it worked."

The "Shaun of the Dead" star laughed off doubts he originally read about the movie and explained exactly how he and Frost became the Thomson and Thompson twins for the new film franchise based on the internationally renowned comics by Belgian creator Hergé. Read more...

'Tintin'Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the classic 'Tintin' comics isn't having an easy time making it to the big screen. Production is only a month away, but the film lacks all but one cast member: Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock. But Ain't It Cool News is reporting that the film finally has a grand total of three cast members -- and the newest additions are as close to geek gods as you can get: Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

Frost and Pegg will play the Thomson and Thompson twins, two men who are identical on the page except for the curl of their moustaches. As the film is using motion capture technology, it will be easy to actually make them resemble each other. But who wants to bet Spielberg will stray from the comic page, and allow their true looks to shine through? Why cast Pegg and Frost unless you want them to, well, be themselves? Read more...

On Monday, we reported that Kirsten Dunst told us -- with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi officially signed-up -- that we could also count her "in" for reprising her role as Mary Jane in the "Spider-Man" franchise.

But that wasn't the only Spidey talk during our chat. In the full exchange below, watch Simon Pegg throw his hat into the ring as a possible guest-sibling, a discussion of villains (despite some difficulty with character names), and Dunst revealing her favorite scene from "Spider-Man 3."

Be sure to head over to MTV Movies to check out the full interview with Dunst and Pegg.

What do you say, readers -- is she in or out? And would you like to see Simon Pegg in an upcoming "Spider-Man" flick? Talk to us in the comments.

Kirsten DunstFor quite some time now, "Spider-Man" star Kirsten Dunst has had one major condition as to whether or not she'd sign-up for any future sequels of the franchise -- that director Sam Raimi and co-star Tobey Maguire be signed on as well.

Well, now that the news has broken that both Raimi and Maguire have signed back on for a fourth and fifth installment -- with a hefty paycheck attached as well -- MTV News posed the big question to Dunst while she was promoting her upcoming film, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" with Simon Pegg. Is she in or is she out?

"I'm in," said the actress matter of factly. However, when pressed to make the announcement official, Dunst quickly changed her tone, and rather cryptically added, "I'm not saying anything, I know there's rumors..." Read more...