Super Mario meets 300 in this strip by VG Cats.
William Fichtner joins Dark Knight
William Fichtner, who appeared in The Longest Yard and Armageddon, as well as on the TV shows Prison Break and Invasion, will appear in the Batman Begins sequel, Dark Knight.
Photos from the set have also started to appear online; it is currently filming in Chicago. Apparently a former Batman has been hanging around …
Matthew Fox is Racer X
Matthew Fox of TV’s Lost and Party of Five will play Racer X in the upcoming film adaptation of Speed Racer.
The rest of the cast includes Christina Ricci (Trixie); Emile Hirsch (Speed); and John Goodman and Susan Sarandon (Speed’s parents). The new movie will be helmed by the Wachowski brothers and will begin shooting this summer for a May 2008 release.
More than meets the eye
Earlier this month, Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday competition asked participants to turn ordinary items into Transformers. I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen something like this for real:
Persepolis at Cannes
The animated version of the graphic novel Persepolis will compete in the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 16-27.
A longer version of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino’s half of Grindhouse, will also run during Cannes.
Sega VP talks Marvel movie games
Scott Steinberg, Sega’s VP of marketing, talked to Next Generation about their upcoming games based on Marvel movies:
Now, companies like Activision, they’ve been taking real advantage of comic book licenses, the Spider-Man license in particular, for the past few years. Why did it take Sega this long to look to comic books?
It’s been a part of our plan for the last three years or so to remake Sega to be a power-player in this industry again. We have announced The Golden Compass and Aliens. There has been a move to follow suit with what the other top publishers who are above us on the leaderboard are doing well, which is having a blend of new IP coupled with licensing and licensed products as an overall portfolio strategy.
But we’re nowhere near where the THQs or the Activisions or the EAs are as far as licensed percentages are concerned.
…In past eras, we’ve also seen how Hollywood really can throw a grenade to game companies; they’d throw a license grenade over the wall and game companies would have six months to build a game and market it. No surprise the game might not have been the greatest.
Captain America [the movie] in particular doesn’t even really have a release date yet. So we’re getting in early with Marvel studios and their new iteration to ensure that we have the time to build great games, we have the time to build new tech if we need to and that we’re in there with the studios as these ideas are germinating.
Remembering the Howard the Duck film
I mean, if that’s a good thing …
February 11th, 2010 at 9:55 am
I believe when you need a dictionary to read the first paragraph of a blog post, you really wouldnt want to continue, especially when youre in a rush.