The Awesome List: Hulk trailer, Tiempos Finales, Superman movie sequel, and Madame Buccaneer

The Incredible Hulk

Trailer's up. And it looks really damn good, too. Way more than a little influenced by the old TV series.

Tiempos Finales

Sam Hiti says that the next book in the Tiempos Finales graphic novel monster-hunter series won't be so much a continuation of the story as a reboot.

Superman: The Man of Steel

Bryan Singer will be involved in the next Superman movie, tentatively called Superman: The Man of Steel. I love his response to questions about whether or not there'll be more big action this time:

"The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film ... now that the characters are established, there's really an opportunity to up the threat levels. ... All those teenage girls who found the movie and mooned over James Marsden or Brandon? Well, I'm going to wake them up!"

Now you're talkin', Bryan.

Madame Buccaneer

Christopher Mills has discovered a book I really want to read: a lady pirate story by the guy who created the Justice Society of America. And look, you can buy it here.

Awesome Stuff: Oozing Skull, the real Jurassic Park, a Giant Robot Spider, Fleming's 100th, and more

The Oozing Skull

Cinematic Titanic (aka the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000) has their first DVD available to buy. They're calling it The Oozing Skull, but it's really an old grindhouse movie called Brain of Blood. I'm linking to both versions, but c'mon. It's not like there's really any decision to make here.

How do you improve on Jurassic Park?

With a robot Jurassic Park of course. Which is exactly what Dubai is building.

Giant Robot Spider

This is why you shouldn't make fun of geeks. How else are you going to convince them to let you ride in their Giant Robot Spiders?

Happy Centennial, Mr. Fleming

This year is the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth and Ian Fleming Publications has a whole site devoted to the celebration. (Thanks to The Literary 007 for the tip.)

Tiempos Finales Blog

Sam Hiti has started a new blog dedicated to Tiempos Finales, which he's starting to focus on again.

Wonder Woman movie trailer

I know, I know. It's really for the animated Justice League: The New Frontier DVD, but still. She's in it and the whole thing looks pretty darn cool.

Links: The Black Canary wedding, Bruce Campbell's new show, and a Tiempos Finales movie

I'm gonna try this without the bullet points and see if it looks less cluttered.

Mystery

Frank Miller is writing an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mystery Trouble is My Business for the screen. Clive Owen is attached to star. It's one of the few Chandler novels that's never been made into a movie.

Spies

The next James Bond film has a director: Marc Forster. I wholeheartedly approve thanks to my love for his work on Finding Neverland. No word of a title for the film yet, but the screenplay will be (in part) by Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash), so how can it not be amazing? It's planned for release in November 2008.

Did you know that Bruce Campbell is in a new spy show on USA? How did I miss that?

Horror

The International Horror Guild has announced the 2006 nominees for its IHG Award.

Moonstone books has been caretaking the Kolchak franchise for a while. Now they're going to reprint the Jeff Rice Nightstalker novels that started the whole thing.

Sam Hiti shares a look at what he hopes might become the poster for a Tiempos Finales movie. Oh man, how cool would a big screen Mario be?

Rumors already abound about a possible sequel to the 3o Days of Night film. Unfortunately, it looks like rumors are all they are since Steve Niles doesn't know anything about it.

Science Fiction

Kill All Monsters! got a mention on the Newsarama blog. And I didn't even have to ask for it. Thanks, JK!

Remember the guy who combined Star Wars and steampunk? Here's someone else doing the same thing. Very cool.

Speaking of Star Wars, AtomFilms is looking for fan films featuring the female characters from the franchise.

Exploring Henry Jenkins' blog this morning I found several interesting old posts including this look at Rocketo creator Frank Espinosa.

Superheroes

More awesomeness from Kyle Baker's Plastic Man #20, further proving that I suck for not supporting it when it was coming out.

Like Kalinara, I haven't been all that excited about Green Arrow and Black Canary's getting married. I'll explain why not another time. But once Kalinara's done drinking the Kool-Aid, I'll ask her to pass the pitcher this way. I'm into it now for all the reasons she mentioned.

Stuff Nobody Cares About But Me

The only Grey's Anatomy cast member fired has been Isaiah Washington. Everyone else has been invited back for next season.

In that same link, former Gilmore Girls executive producer David Rosenthal has been hired as consulting producer for Men in Trees. Which makes total sense seeing how the tone of both shows is so similar.

Links: Elric movie, Tiempos Finales 2, and Lois Lane: Girl Reporter

This still won't catch me up on the backlog, but I'll keep picking away at it.

Pirates

• In the comments for my At World's End review, someone mentioned that SPOILER! "because Elizabeth faithfully waited for Will, the curse was eventually broken after 10 years." To which I replied that I'd heard the same thing somewhere. Here's where. I really hope there's an extended version DVD in the works.

Horror

• Sam Hiti has announced that as soon as he finishes his current graphic novel Death Day (which from what I've seen is going to be unbelievably awesome by the way), next on his plate will be Tiempos Finales Volume 2. His plan for the future is to work on two projects a year, one of which will be a Tiempos Finales volume.

Fantasy

• There's an Elric movie in the works from the guys who are doing The Golden Compass. I loved Elric stories as a kid (except for the ones where he was teaming up with those other Eternal Champion guys -- that was one crossover I could've done without).
• Looks like that Harry Potter theme park is finally coming to fruition.

Science Fiction

• LucasFilm's released a trailer for the CGI Clone Wars series.
• Here's a great list of Disney films with a steampunk feel. Time to update my Netflix queue.

Superheroes

• There's a Teen Titans movie in the works. No news on what characters will be in it (though Nightwing is rumored), but Mark Verheiden (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica) is writing and the tone is supposed to be similar to Batman Begins and Superman Returns.
• I haven't been reading Supergirl, but I've mentioned the general fan dissatisfaction around it a couple of times. Looks like DC is serious about remedying that and revamping the character into a believable teenaged heroine. Looks like I will be reading Supergirl before too long.
• Speaking of superheroines, and in light of my recent examination of Wonder Woman, Lillian S. Robinson's Wonder Women is definitely going on my Wish List.
• I totally agree with Kalinara: there ought to be a Lois Lane comic focusing on her investigative reporting. It could be a great adventure/mystery comic.

Stuff Nobody Cares About But Everybody Cares About Including Me

• Movie theater owners are figuring out how you can rat out obnoxious movie watchers to managers without leaving the movie. It's about time. (Thanks to Brad Meltzer for the link.)