Brandon Routh is still playing Dylan Dog

Although this has been known since at least October, I’ll play along. Variety reports that Brandon Routh will star in Dead of Night, an adaptation of the best-selling Italian horror comic Dylan Dog.

Initial reports had David R. Ellis directing the Arclight Films production. However, the trade paper now says it’s Kevin Munroe (TMNT) directing for Hyde Park and Platinum Studios. So, that’s new. Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly wrote the screenplay.

Created by Tiziano Sclavi, the often-surreal Dylan Dog centers on a private investigator with financial problems and an Oedipus complex who focuses on the supernatural. Since it was first published in 1986, Dylan Dog has been translated into 17 languages.

Dark Horse Comics reprinted seven issues of the series in 1999 and 2002.

The Ticker

• Following the stellar opening of Iron Man, Marvel Studios has promoted Kevin Feige to president, and has extended David Maisel’s contract as chairman to 2010. [Variety, The Hollywood Reporter]

• Video-game publisher THQ has acquired the rights to the just-announced Marvel Super Hero Squad animated series. This is part of Marvel’s multi-platform plan for the property, which includes a Hasbro toy line and a planned comic book and direct-to-DVD movie. [Variety]

• It’s been a while since we heard from NBC’s Heroes. Well, the silence has been broken with — surprise! — a report of a new cast member: Brea Grant (Friday Night Lights) will join the series as Joy, a character with super-speed. [Ausiello Report, TV Squad]

• And in even bigger Heroes casting news, Bruce Boxleitner apparently has landed a recurring role that initially had been modeled after Sen. John McCain. That character has changed, but Boxleitner is still on board. [Ausiello Report]

Rumor Mill

• What’s the only Hollywood project that has more cast members than Heroes? That’s right, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The latest rumor is that Australian actor Tim Pocock has been cast as a young Scott Summers/Cyclops. So, how would that gel with the first X-Men movie? [Superhero Hype]

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