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Luc Besson joined twitter and announced his new movie all at the same time. That is how it is done. The movie will be “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” which will be based off of the popular French Scf-Fi comic book “Valerian & Laureline”. This is the same comic book that “The Fifth Element” was very loosely based off of, so for all of us Fifth Element fans this exciting news. If only my first tweet would have been as awesome!
Another Comic-Con is gone, and all it gave us was a ton of awesome trailers. The Nerve! Oh, wait that is totally rad! I mean in the new Batman v Superman trailer (watch it here) we got to see Wonder Woman blow some stuff up. If you were quick enough to watch the trailers before they got pulled you got to see Deadpool murder people and make jokes in a very Deadpool way and the Joker get creepy. Both looked great.
Honestly Warner Bros. and Fox should know better and just release the trailers to the public. They can’t want their movies’ first intro to the public to be crappy blurry cam shots can they? We are all going to see it anyway, why fight us. Embrace the 21st century and let us watch our superhero footage! It is all we really want. We just want to watch guys and gals in capes punch each other! Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so.
Instead of a new trailer Disney released a behind the scenes reel (shown above), and it all looked very exciting. Especially Simon Pegg in an alien suit, so we will see where he turns up. The practical effects look amazing; I just want to go roll around on their set. I don’t care if I hate the heat (fat nerd syndrome) – I will make it work.
There is a lot, and I mean a lot of genre TV coming out, so if there was ever a doubt that geeky stuff is now mainstream, there isn’t now. But the coolest news for me was that we learned that The Flash is going full on multi-dimensional by introducing Jay Garrick the Golden Age/Earth 2 Flash, so now instead of just time travel we have multiple earths. Heck, I am in!
But the very best news of all, the news that I am happiest about: Pacific Rim 2 starts filming at the end of this year. So excited! I loves me some giant robot, that isn’t the abomination that is the Bayformers, action. My top news was almost that they are making a Green Lantern Corps movie, but since that isn’t until 2020 it is hard to get too excited about it (though I am pretty excited).
That is my wrap-up, what did you guys like from this year’s show?
So lets say you are Matthew Vaughn, and that you just saved the X-Men franchise with First Class, but since Singer has returned to X-Men for Days of Future Past what do you do? Work on a new comic book franchise of course, and the more British the better! That is how we got Kingsman: The Secret Service. A fun spy move from a guy that you can tell loves fun spy movies.
The story is about young man, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton), who is given the chance to join the Kingsman. An elite private spy organization started by a bunch of wealthy English men with no heirs thanks to World War I with the desire to stop large scale warfare from happening again. This new recruit will have to prove that despite his lower class upbringing he is just as good as the upper crust of British society, and maybe, just maybe, save the world.
Even though the poor kid from the streets that proves he as just as good if not better than everyone else story has been done to death, Vaughn managed to keep this light, and delightfully over the top. Vaughn made sure to cram everything he loves in to this movie. Crazy action, in your face violence, and silly characters. His excesses also keep this movie from being great. While it is good fun, it is hard to get too emotionally or thoughtfully invested. It is just Vaughn showing you stuff he likes. Luckily he likes cool stuff.
Colin Firth deserves a lot of credit for making this film enjoyable as well.. He is able to play “Galahad”, one of Kingsman’s best spies, with so much British charm that the movie lights up every time he is on screen, so with him guiding the young main character, there is no way this couldn’t have been good. New talent Taron Egerton does a good job, but pretty much he just has to do his best to be amazed all the time, and then react to the stuff going on around him. With the next movie he will have to do more.
The fight coordinators deserve a special shout-out as well. There are some great fights in the film. They are well captured, and filmed in a way that you can see what is going on. Really good work. I can’t wait to see how they up the ante next time around.
I enjoyed my time with Kingsman: The Secret Service. It kept me entertained the whole way through. It managed to be light hearted and hyper violent all at the same time. It never quite gets to that upper level of amazing films, but that doesn’t mean you will not have a good time. Though if blood offends you, you may need to get your spy fix somewhere else.
Let’s start off with some casting news shall we? (Thanks to Hypersonic55 for the image by the way)
Netflix Casts The Punisher!
Jon Bernthal formally known as Shane from AMC’s The Walking Dead will now be Frank Castle in Netflix’s Daredevil. After two failed Punisher movies I guess the Disney execs think maybe TV is the right place for the man who wants to kill the mob. I liked Tom Jane as The Punisher, but his movie was terrible, and I think Jon will do a good job. He should be an excellent counterpoint to the anti-killing hero Daredevil. We will also get to see some good bullets versus ninja action!
DC/Warner Brother Drops The Batman V Superman Synopsis!
With Batman V Superman about nine months away DC thought the time was right to drop the plot synopsis for the flick. It is pretty much what we thought, but here you go anyway!
Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Like I said, it is pretty much what everyone was expecting. The question is how long will they fight each other before teaming up?
First Justice League: Gods and Monsters Short Released!
Bruce Timm said Justice League: Gods and Monsters was going to be dark, but I wasn’t prepared for how dark. This is quite the trip down the rabbit hole, but it is interesting, and it does live up to its title: Twisted. Have a look for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpu6yPAFHrs
It is not the cartoon we are used to that is for sure, but it is kind of a fun take. We will see how it pans out over the next few episodes before the movie launches.
That is my comic book media roundup. Is there anything you think I should have talked about? Let me know!