Coming 2009DC Comics senior VP for creative affairs, Gregory Noveck, is moderating a panel of both the production staff and creative talent behind some of DC's recent animation features to discuss the past and future of DC animation. Others on the panel include Paul Levitz, president of DC, Bruce Timm, executive producer, Lauren Montgomery, director and voice director Andrea Romano and Nathan Fillion.
All three of DC's recent releases - Superman Doomsday, Justice League: The New Frontier and Batman Gotham Knight - have been very successful. They provide an excellent start to DC's animated division, ensuring that there will be many future projects.
Wonder Woman is coming in February 2009 to DVD!
Saturday morning cartoons force a limited amount of story telling due to the restrictions of advertising commitments. The crew on JLU and Batman, particularly Bruce Timm, did a great job but the DVD format lets stories be told that appeal to a more adult market without outside, artificial restrictions like scheduling commercial breaks.
The DVD format allows for more stylized story telling and art. This led naturally to Gotham Knights.
There are several projects in the pipeline that can't be revealed yet.
For Wonder Woman, Nathan Fillion will be voicing Steve Trevor. Alfred Molina is also part of the cast.
A special two-disc with 128 minutes of extra content will be released on November 25 for Superman Doomsday.
Wonder Woman will premier at an upcoming con, to be selected later. The story is by Gail Simmone. This is an original take, true to the feel of the comic character but not based on any prior story.
Molina is Ares and Oliver Platt is Hades. Rosaria Dawson is Hippolites.
Wonder Woman is a strong female character who is able to project dominance and power without trying to be a man. She is muscular and strong but not manly.
There will be multiple releases - single and two disc special Blue Ray version.
Sorry for the quality but that is all there is, this trailer was released at6 the SDCC yesterday... so better trailers may come in time...
now for the following news that was also released at the SDCC...
There are more Batman DVDs planned. Nightfall is not on the schedule at this time. When Worlds Collide is under discussion and may be produced.
A Kindom Come, CG project with Alex Ross is under consideration.
A Long Halloween is also under discussion.
DC won't do a project until it can be done right. Time constraints and artistic limitations are factors.
Bruce Timm is interested in doing a Catwoman animated movie and removing the stain of the live action movie.
Teen Titans Judas Contract is a project that is discussed, but fan interest on the forums seems limited.
In order for a project to be okayed, the producers must think that several hundred thousand people will see it in the first few weeks. If there isn't that fan interest to begin with, the project won't move forward.
The current animated movie projects are intentionally being done in different artistic styles.
It easier for the movie makers to get well known actors casted because the producers who make the final decisions are already familiar with the abilities and of the actors. A lot of movie actors like doing voice work since the nature of the work is much easier and less time consuming. These actors are also interested in doing projects that they can show to their children.
It's a possibility to see more JL Unlimited DVDs in the future. It really depends on sales of the current releases.
The current project is an adaptation of an existing comicbook, but they can't reveal just what it is now.
4th World New Gods is under consideration as a series or a DVD.
All sounds pretty cool and the trailer did kick ass... can't wait to see this properly
Right, with all hope this won't actually be used much, but it's here if people need it...
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Review...First, this movie is a jumbled mess and I don't mean that in a bad way. It reminds me of a gymnast who does a routine that defies gravity and is graceful, but every so often flails their arms and stumbles.
I think the movie could have used some tightening up. Simply, whereas "Batman Begins" had a clear cut narration (granted it was flashback within flashback when it started) but it was... here is how Bruce Wayne's parents died, here is what it did to him, here is how he got here and here is how he is going to save Gotham.
There were so many little plot lines to the movie I thought could have been taken out, such as the fate Commissioner Jim Gordon's family, the emphasis of the deaths of so many Gotham City heads of state, not to mention Cillian Murphy returning as the Scarecrow in a brief and unimportant role, as well as a plotline where one of the Wayne Enterprise employees learns of Bruce's secret and threatens to expose him in a rather moronic blackmail scheme.
Second, this time around it seemed that the theme of the movie was "symbols vs. truth." Such as how do you compare Harvey Dent, a good looking "face" (pun intended) of the justice system vs. the Batman which is the spirit of the justice system. Both are meant to save civilation.Kick ass...
Whereas the Joker is the worst of humanity. Insanity incarnate out for a leisurely stroll and wrecking whatever is in its way. I found that fascinating, but it seemed like it was more randomly drizzled at certain parts of the film in the way Jackson Pollack drizzled paint on a canvas.
Also, I thought immediately after Dent morphed into his Two-Face character, they needed more depth to it. As Harvey Dent the District Attorney, Aaron Eckhart did an amazing job. But a man who just lost his loved and lost half of his face and refused pain medication I think he needed more time to sort out life and determine he was going to get even with Gordon and Batman.
Burning/scarring of Dent didn't feel right to me. I don't mind that Nolan is going with an actual burning this time and not a vial of acid... at all... but it just wasn't what I was expecting, and didn't really... I think... have the desired effect.
I mean, Batman's already carted Dent out of the building, he's away from all that... and a stray spark just happens to ignite his face that was sitting in the gasoline or whatever? This I can really almost swallow on its own, but with Batman literally right next to him... how much could it possibly have burned his face before Batman would've just thrown his cape over his face and killed the flame?
And try something. Squirt a little bit of lighter fluid or a bit of rubbing alcohol or what-have-you on your hand. Light it. At first it's really just burning the fluid itself, it's not burning your skin. It just seemed like Batman had ample time to put out the fire to prevent anything other than the most superficial of burns.
go see a dermatologist...I was confused in the early scene where Joker kills the black guy... you know, that first scene where the Joker makes up a story about where he got the cuts. He has his knife in the black guy's mouth, there's a quick cut (of the camera, not the knife), and the black guy falls down dead. I remain confused... what happened there? Did he just cut through the guy's mouth, like his knife was positioned to do so? If so, why did he die? Did he off-camera move his knife down to his throat and slit it? Even if so, he wouldn't just die instantly... so kind of a big "Huh?" on that bit from me.
Wasn't entirely sold on the cellphone sonar business... but I do know that Nolan doesn't give Batman any tech in his movies that aren't scientifically possible or "going to be out in the next 5, 10 years." If that's true for the cellphone sonar business, that's kind of scary.
Maggie did a great job as Rachel. She portrayed the character very well. I didn't have a hard time getting past that it was a different actress at all. I still like Katie better, but it was a good choice and she didn't disappoint and Christian Bale did an amazing job as both Bruce Wayne and the Batman, however, I have two complaints in this movie, that I did in the first movie.
First, the gravely voiced Dirty Harry tone in his voice was a little grating.
Second, say what you will about the 1960s "Batman" show and the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher's "Batman" movies there was at least a clean cut theme.
I still don't think "Batman Begins" or "The Dark Knight" had either of those. I wish it did.
We finally got to see a little bit of the detective side of Batman too. I was hoping they would and was very pleased that they did. I mean he's frickin Batman, world's greatest detective. Man was I surprised and a little disappointed in myself for not realizing, that the Bat-pod came out of the Tumbler. That was f**king awesome, so glad I didn't hear about it, it would not have had the same bad ass effect. Now it makes more sense as to why it's called a "pod".
Fox was even better and more brilliant in this movie than the last. Very glad they made him more prominent and involved in this one. Best line of the whole movie: "You want to be able to turn your head?"
Okay, while everyone is talking about Ledger's performance, I think Gary Oldman is largely ignored by the reviewers and I for one think that is the shame. And in so many ways James Gordon is the hero of the piece trying to hold a city together was both order and chaos clash overhead.
Lt. Jim Gordon is just an idealist in touch with his humanity, his middle class lifestyle and a man who loves his family. While at the same time he is trying to make sense of a world where an undeputized vigilante who dresses like something out of a Leonardo DaVinci drawing does more in one year than any of the men (himself included) who went through years of police and law enforcement training can do.an idealist in touch with his humanity
Instead of being a self centered whiner about it (I know I would be) he uses this as a weapon to his advantage. Gordon does not have the money that Wayne does to put on a costume and fight crime. The only thing Gordon has to fight crime and evil is himself, a gun, a badge and no other choice to work with a corrupted law enforcement. While at the same time he wants to prove that their is still goodness left in Gotham City's corrupted law enforcement. He almost reminds me of Luke Skywalker trying to prove to the universe there is still good left in his father, who just happenes to be the Devil's enforcer throughout a galaxy that is far, far away.
Overall this movie was a masterpiece that will be remembered for a long time. Performances, story, action, everything well rounded and worthy of all the hype and commotion it has brought about. But I do have concerns in another sequel. While I have the utmost faith in Nolan, I fear that they won't be able to top this one at all. Based on a poor example but, the fact that the formula for most superhero movies have had a good first movie followed by an amazing 2nd part only to go downhill with the 3rd and deliver utter crap. I don't think this could happen t these films, but after Heath's performance and the effect that the Joker had within the story of the film and out in the real world, they just won't be able to top it without them.
So where do we go from here then? The supposed plot of having Dent as the 3rd films main villain and the Joker as a Hannibal Lector type character, was promising, but pretty much out the window unless an unlikely and undesireable recast for the Joker. But the idea of Two-Face returning could still work. I don't see how or why he coouldn't have survived. First, we see the Itallian mob guy survive a similar fall earlier on in the film. But Batman took the same fall as Harvey with a Bullet in him as well. Dent could have been revived or recvered and kept in critical condition. To wake later on and be driven even more mad and have a great animosity towards Gordon and Batman.
I hate that Batman is now wanted. It works great for the making Harvey look like a hero and progression of the story, but I just hate it. The only way to fix that would be if Harvey was still alive and revealed to be a villain later on. Re-en stating the publics faith and hope in Batman as their hero and protector. Even if the whole movie they or we weren't aware that Harvey/Two-Face was the villain. They could do a Hush or Phantasm type of thing where he takes on another identity. Just an idea.
Harley Quinn?But if they don't do any of that and there is a new villain or villains. There are a few that could work and many that could NOT in the Nolan Bat-verse. Let's start with the ones that can't. First; Clayface, I don't need to explain why other than that he's way too unrealistic and they already had Sandman in Spidey 3 and it was LAME. Others would be Mr Freeze, lame and gimmicky. Riddler would be cool, but too close to Joker. Bane, just no for too many reason's (and I have already pointed out alot of good ones) Man-Bat would be the worst idea of all of them.
Onto some that might: Penguin could work, if he was just a deformed midget, but why bother? Ivy could work, if the made her not have powers and just use weaponized pheromones or something. Harley could work (she would be inspired by Joker) But it would be the same thing as this movie, just with a girl clown. Catwoman would be the best possibility, but not a big enough threat and after the disaster of her solo wannabe movie, I don't think they'll use her. Riddler? Talia would be my BEST guess, but again, it would be close to what they've already done. All that said I'd really like to see Hush. But I don't know, there wouldn't be much mystery for us, because we know who he is.
All that said I loved TDK and I'm looking forward to the next one, whatever they decide. But I will remain skeptical that it might not be able to achieve what this one has. I hope I'm wrong. Here's to waiting for 3 years until the first trailer!
i remember it well, strangely the very first comic i bought for myself was an issue of Hellblazer right back in 1988... bloody hell, where does the time go?
Hellblazer before that i'd been reading Supergirl for quite a few years, having 'inherited' my parents collection, i went on to continue the trend and caught up with the character and carried on collecting Supergirl right up to the present day...
Supergirl
strangely i didn't actually start collecting Green Lantern until the next year in 1989, in which i bought a ton of old issues, i remember the first one i read was The Green Lantern Corps titled 'The final chapter in the saga of The Green Lantern Corps"
GLC All of these comics i still buy to this day and actually love them as much now as i did then, well, maybe not the current Supergirl, but thats another story...
I know people will say "huh..." to this, but it's got to be The Doctor...
The most dangerous man in the universe?
he doesn't have any flash powers, he can't leap tall buildings in a single bound or crush a star with his strength... he doesn't have speed or heat vision or ungodly implants that would let him tear someone apart limb from limb...
and dispite not having any of that, he's possibly the most dangerous enemy you could ever face...
his main 'power' is his intelligence, which it somewhere past the 4 didget mark in IQ points, the entire knowledge of the universe, every planet, star... everything that is, was, could be and must never be... he sees it all...
now that it something that would be worth having...
for a close second it has to be Waverider with Jack Hawksmoor coming in on a close third...
Lethal ForceWhile this little panel isn't so much a big moment, the reactions of each Lantern are great and it really sets the tone for the upcoming panels that show how they use this new found lethal force.
"Ring Status Report: Sinestro Corps Screwed"Building on the previous moment, this shows the Lanterns tearing through the Sinestro Corps members now that lethal force has been enabled. I love the different personalities of each character shining through with their various means of killing, like the guns from the ex-soldier Lantern and so on.
Even Salakk got in on the lethal force action with this awesome incineration of the White Lobe member attempting to suicide bomb Kilowog.
Sodam Yat seems a little too happy about the switch to lethal force being enabled in this scene. I also liked how Arisia did not want to resort to killing people. Good to see not everyone took the lethal force enabling as a license to kill."Lethal Force Has Been Enabled - Feel Free To Go Crazy" Definitely a shocking moment...
Today is a sad sad day, we all mourn the passing of Michael Turner today, such a brilliant artist and he was taken at such a young age...
A truly amazing artist taken well before his time
my thoughts and condolences go out to his family and friends...
most of you all know that he was suffering from cancer and had been having problems for some time now. Turner’s fight with cancer was truly inspirational. He fought it with dignity and grace.
Those wishing to send their condolences to Michael Turner's family are encouraged to send them to:
Aspen MLT, Inc. C/O Michael Turner 5855 Green Valley Circle, Suite 111 Culver City, CA, 90230
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then whereare you?
This blog goes out to pretty much everyone and could probably serve as a sequal to Gambler's blog / rant about people posing on the forums...
basically i've seen more and more people on the vine just agreeing with other people, just trying to blend in and 'be cool' with the in crowd and completely ignoring their own opinion about things...
i just want to say this, will everyone just drop the masks and actually be yourself for once.
i have finally found a small minority on the forums that will actually stand up and say their own thoughts, completely happy with being themselves and standing up for what they believe, which is a sad fact when these people are the minority...
Oscar Wilde says:
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Steps to follow...
Find yourself. You can't be yourself if you don't know, understand, and accept yourself first.
Stop caring about how people perceive you. The fact is, it really doesn't matter. It's impossible to be yourself when you're caught up in wondering "Do they think I'm funny? Does she think I'm fat? Do they think I'm stupid?" To be yourself, you've got to let go of these concerns and just let your behavior flow, with only your consideration of others as a filter—not their consideration of you.
Be honest and open. What have you got to hide? You're an imperfect, growing, learning human being. If you feel ashamed or insecure about any aspect of yourself—and you feel you have to hide those parts of you, whether physically or emotionally—then you have to come to terms with that and learn to convert your so-called flaws into individualistic quirks.
Relax. Stop worrying about the worst that could happen, especially in social situations. So what if you fall flat on your face? Or get spinach stuck in your teeth? Learn to laugh at yourself both when it happens and afterwards. Turn it into a funny story that you can share with others. It lets them know that you're not perfect and makes you feel more at ease, too.
Develop and express your individuality. Whether it's your sense of style, or even your manner of speaking, if your preferred way of doing something strays from the mainstream, then be proud of it.
Have a Productive Day. Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and that some days, you're the statue. People might raise eyebrows and even make fun, but as long as you can shrug and say "Hey, that's just me" and leave it at that, people will ultimately respect you for it, and you'll respect yourself.
Believe in who you are. If you're always working to be someone you're not, you'll never be a happy person. Be yourself and show the world you're proud the way you are!
Basically just be yourself and don't go around pretending to be someone you're not, we've all seen it and sooner or later people will see through the mask that you put up, and then everyone will see you for who you are and know that everything you said before was a lie...
It’s funny how some people spend their whole life tying to be someone else, when all they get is one fall after another..
Stop looking for what others have, and just enjoy being you. If it’s the ‘you’ who you want to change, and you’re not fully satisfied with who you are then you have a serious problem, cause nothing will change the reality... A ‘wanna be’ follower will get you to no where.. look for your real identity and maybe one day- who knows- you’ll probably get the peace of mind you’re still, and will always be looking for.
We don't care if your a fanboy, if you're a geek, a nerd, or whatever you want to classify yourself as, as long as you come on here and be honest then you'll get along with everyone fine...
if you come on here filled with BS and try telling people one thing then telling another set of people another, or just talk about people behind their backs or just try and stir crap up on the forums, people are going to notice and then you'll just be completely ignored...
basically the moral of the blog is this...
be yourself, because noone else is going to be you for you!
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