{"id":4928,"date":"2003-12-02T18:14:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:18:56","slug":"mark_your_calen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/02\/mark_your_calen.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark your calendar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a follower of Ain&#8217;t It Cool News, since (a) so much of it is wrong, and (b) so much of it is so! <i>breathlessly!<\/i> WRITTEN!<\/p>\n<p>So I hadn&#8217;t heard of a lot of these comics-related movie (and TV) marvels coming up, as reported in this week&#8217;s <i>Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Good News<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><b>Hellboy <\/b><\/i>comes out in 4\/04.  The trailer looks pretty good, and Mignola co-wrote.  Here&#8217;s hoping.\n<li><i><b>Spider-Man II <\/b><\/i>shows up 7\/04.  The first one was pretty damn good, and pretty much the whole team is back.  Doc Ock should provide some good opposition.\n<li><i><b>Blade: Trinity <\/b><\/i>in 8\/04.  The third and final outing.  I missed <i>Blade 2<\/i>, but the buzz wasn&#8217;t bad.  And with Hannibal King showing up, it can&#8217;t be too terrible, right?  Right?\n<li><i><b>The Incredibles <\/b><\/i>comes out 12\/04.  If you caught the trailer during <i>Finding Nemo<\/i>, you know what I&#8217;m talking about.  Pixar does supers.  Hoo-yah!\n<li><i><b>Gen-13<\/b><\/i>, the animated feature has been released in Europe, oddly enough, but will only come to the US on DVD next year.\n<li><i><b>Preacher<\/b><\/i>.  Preacher?  Preacher!  Garth Ennis did the screenplay, and James Marsden plays Jesse.  Here&#8217;s hoping &#8230;\n<li><i><b>Mirror Mask <\/b><\/i>is from Henson productoins, written by Neil Gaiman, and produced by Dave McKean.  Yeah, I have a good feeling about this one.<\/ul>\n<p><u>Ho-Hum News<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><b>Garfield <\/b><\/i>as <i>Ice Age<\/i>-style CGI apears in 6\/04.  Is Garfield still funny?  Was it funny after the first six months?  Got me.\n<li><i><b>Catwoman <\/b><\/i>in 7\/04.  Strike 1:  Halle Berry.  Strike 2:  Not that Catwoman. Strike 3:  Halle Berry.\n<li><i><b>Man-Thing <\/b><\/i>in 8\/04.  Be scared.  Can a movie with that title actually ever be good?  It seems doubtful, and the concept doesn&#8217;t strike me as one that has legs, so to speak.\n<li><b><i>Lady Death <\/i><\/b>appears in a straight-to-DVD anime.  I&#8217;m not sanguine about the character to begin with, and I can only imagine what the animated version will be like.\n<li><i><b>Asterix &#038; Obelix <\/b><\/i>will have two US releases of previous European animated features.  Fabulously successful over there, I have no interest in them over here.\n<li><i><b>The Crow: Wicked Prayer<\/b><\/i> raises the question: whatever would we do without another Crow movie.  The cast (Eddie Furlong, David Boreanez, Tara Reid, Dennis Hopper) is promising, and the trailer is getting good buzz, but the Crow is <i>so <\/i>80s &#8230;\n<li><i><b>Son of the Mask<\/b><\/i>.  Pardon me if I yawn.  Much.<\/ul>\n<p><u>Unknown News<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><b>The Punisher <\/b><\/i>returns again 4\/04.  Stills have looked good, word on the street&#8217;s been bad.  It has Travolta as the main heavy &#8212; but, then, so did <i>Battlefield: Earth<\/i>.\n<li><b><i>Constantine <\/i><\/b><b><i>(Hellblazer)<\/i><\/b> shows up 9\/04.  Good news:  It&#8217;s John Constantine!  Bad news:  It&#8217;s Keanu Reaves playing the grifter mage.  Irksome news:  It&#8217;s all Americanized.  I have hopes, but &#8230;\n<li><i><b>Fantastic Four <\/b><\/i>may show up in 12\/04, or may fall back to 2005.  It&#8217;s got a good pedigree, and some X-Files ties through Mark Frost&#8217;s screenplay, and so much history backing it up &#8212; but I worry.\n<li><i><b>A Thousand Days<\/b><\/i> will be a 2004 SciFi Channel adaptation of the <i>Strikeforce: Morituri <\/i>concept.  This would make a great TV series; as anything short, the idea of humans turned into supers to fight off an alien invasion &#8212; a process that will kill them in only a thousand days &#8212; seems equally limited.\n<li><i><b>Alien Legion <\/b><\/i>seems a natural for CGI treatment.  That said &#8212; will it be any good?\n<li><i><b>Blueberry<\/b><\/i> is a Moebius-designed dark Western.  It will certainly be interesting, but will it be entertaining?<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a follower of Ain&#8217;t It Cool News, since (a) so much of it is wrong, and (b) so much of it is so! breathlessly! WRITTEN! 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