Action Girl News: Scarlett Johansson Amazon movie, Middleman RIP?, Burn Notice novel, the insanity of ELA, and more.

Lorna the Jungle Girl vs. a giant cobra



Pappy's Golden Age Comics has the whole racist, only-slightly-less-sexist story.

Amazon

The guys who are writing the new Conan movie are also working on an action-adventure movie called Amazon that will apparently star Scarlett Johansson.

Can I just say that I'm about twelve times more excited about seeing Scarlett Johansson play an Amazon than I am to see someone besides Arnold Schwarzenegger play Conan?

Middleman RIP?

It could be too early to pronounce it dead, but I guess Middleman isn't doing very well and we should be prepared for the possibility that it won't be renewed. Which is really too bad because I started off being fond of the show and ended up falling in love with it. My fingers are crossed that - if it's not picked up again by ABC Family (which was always a weird fit anyway) - it'll find a home somewhere else with the exact same cast. Of course, I hoped that about Firefly too, but I'd rather be optimistic.

Honey West on DVD

Christopher Mills is always adding to my list of stuff to see and read. This time it's something new for the Netflix queue: a '60s private eye series about a martial arts-using action girl. Here's the show's intro:



Chuck's back



Speaking of martial arts-using action girls, Chuck should be back soon and you know what that means...



Hello, Sarah!

Burn Notice novel



Author Tod Goldberg talks about writing the first Burn Notice novel. He focuses mostly on his attitude-change towards tie-in novels in general, but he also talks about his love for the show and how writing the novel increased that.

Bookgasm reviews the book and says, "The highest praise one could give it would be to say it’d make a terrific episode. And it would. The worst thing is that’s not already an episode, but hey, it’s the next best thing."

I respectfully think Rod achieves even higher praise though when he says, "You can hear the actor (Jeffrey Donovan) speaking every word in your head, and Goldberg doesn’t miss a beat. The turns of phrase, the sarcasm, the devil-may-care attitude — he has it all nailed. Someone needs to put him on the writing staff, unless it means he wouldn’t have the time to crank out a couple more of these."

ELA

I have to end with this because I sure can't top it.