Film status report: Wolverine, Deadpool, Dead of Night
Let’s take a few minutes and clear the decks of superhero film news before we all get wrapped up in Star Trek coverage…
- Yes, another Wolverine sequel is already in the works. According to Variety, the sequel will focus on the X-Men comic’s samurai storyline, the Japanese locale setup for which is teased after this film’s end credits. In the meantime, Hugh Jackman will be working with Anne Hathaway in the big screen adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel. Since Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals did very well for him when he was playing Curly in Oklahoma… a role that was later taken over by Patrick Wilson, who went on to play Nite Owl in Watchmen.
- Yes, there’s a Deadpool spinoff in the works at Fox. Ryan Reynolds is attached to come back for what for now is
simply being called “Deadpool.” Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel
Studios would act as producers. What, you’re surprised? - Yes, there are now photos from Dead of Night, which is based on the Italian comic Dylan Dog. It stars Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington (where have we seen those two before) and Taye Diggs. This may be the property that keeps Platinum Studios alive. FirstShowing.net has the photos.
- And this just in, also from FirstShowing: Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick May Work Together Again?! Coolness. Any guesses as to what, since The Graveyard Book is already in the works elsewhere?
- Finally, we hope to have some Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen news shortly, as soon as we’re allowed to talk about it.
If Platinum Studios does a film deal, do you think they might sort of inadvertantly pay the people they owe back royalties, etc., to?Like, say, Chris Hazelton, whose Platinum Studios update posted at his webcomic, Misfile, currently reads:DAYS THAT MY 2ND QUARTER ROYALTIES FROM WOWIO/PLATINUM STUDIOS (Over $7000) ARE OVERDUE: 272 AND STILL COUNTING!!! WHERE IS MY MONEY, WOWIO?!