As many of you know, after the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows, J.K. Rowling decided to make some changes to her wizarding universe. Namely, that Dumbledore was gay. Now, its not that I have a problem with having a gay character in a book, its that it was done for no reason whatsoever. It doesn’t change anything that our hero(es) did or give the material a new interpretation. So why bother?
Well, there’s no sense in not doing it. Bryan Singer has made a name for himself, and mostly in the comic book genre for mainstream film watchers. So, it seems that he’ll be working on a new comic book film based on the comic ‘Capeshooters’ which actually sounds kinda cool. I think Singer is a great director with an excellent eye for visuals, but I have yet to be blown away by the stories he’s been give to work with (sorry fans of X-Men 1 and 2, but I wasn’t thrilled with either). But, just the premise of ‘Capeshooters’ sounds like a good time:
In “Capeshooters,” two slackers become paparazzi who specialize in shooting covert videos of superheroes find themselves on the run after they stumble onto evidence that a revered superhero is actually a villain.
A nice little play on the super-hero genre if I’ve ever read one. I’m stoked for this, and the funny thing was, I had, and still have, no interest in seeing Hancock. Warner Bros. is the big studio backing this. So, after the success of TDK let’s hope they decide that they don’t have to tone it down to make it a popular movie.
For the full story check out Variety.
OK, so, as a huge fanboy of Nolan and his take on the Batman series, I was uber-excited to hear that The Dark Knight stomped the extremely under-whelming Star Wars III Friday night opening numbers. But, the news today has made my heart sing. A well made, nearly perfect film, beat out, what I consider one of the worst films ever, Spiderman 3, and took in almost $159 million at the box-office for an opening weekend record. Take that Tobie!
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