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'Night Mary' Goes Sleepwalking
Filed under: Horror », Independent », Deals », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand », Comic/Superhero/Geek »
As I say over and over again, anything comic book oriented is big business right now, but it seems as though horror comics are edging out the superheroes, spies, and sci-fi offerings. At ComicCon this year, IDW and Radical Comics had two of the biggest booths on the floor, and most of their big announcements were splatter oriented. I'm not sure if Night Mary was one of them, but you can certainly chalk it up as yet another option win for IDW.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Animal Logic has picked up the rights to Night Mary, a horror series by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer. The story centers on Mary Specter, a lucid dreamer recruited by her psychologist father to enter the dreams of disturbed individuals. Ostensibly, she's trying to help them, but privately doubts that she's doing much good. Her doubts and stress take a back seat once she enters the dreams of a serial killer, which brings dreams and reality together in horrible and dangerous ways.
The concept isn't particularly original, but its received rave reviews due to its writing, and especially due to its star, the young and troubled Mary. Between its heroine and the spectacular art (and if the cover to the right doesn't give you the shivers, nothing will), I think Animal Logic could have a pretty good time adapting this one. They've been the digital company behind all of the most visually arresting movies of the past ten years (300, Moulin Rouge, and The Matrix are just three of them), and could really turn this into something to give us all nightmares. I mean, can you picture that cover in motion? Yikes ...
Zack Snyder's 'Guardians of Ga'Hoole' Gets a Cast?
Filed under: Animation », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Casting », Warner Brothers », RumorMonger », Family Films », Newsstand »
Zack Snyder isn't a director that lets a little legal drama bring him down, and currently he's busy at work on Guardians of Ga'Hoole, the Lord of the Rings of owl stories. (Two young friends of mine have since assured me it's a really good series; I should drop hints until they lend it to me.) Sydney's Daily Telegraph is reporting that Aussie up-and-comer Ryan Kwanten has joined the voice cast of Ga'Hoole, along with fellow Aussies Hugh Jackman and Hugo Weaving.
While their involvement hasn't been confirmed anywhere else, this certainly could be the "schedule conflict" alluded to in Jackman dropping out of Cleo -- but would Snyder really reuse two memorable parts of the Happy Feet voice cast? Then again, why wouldn't he? Weaving is The Voice of All Voices, and Jackman did a pretty memorable job in Happy Feet and Flushed Away. Plus, they're Australian, which is where most of the Ga'Hoole work will be done. You might as well save on the production costs by using the local talent, right?
Going by Wiki's character list (don't read it, it's chock full of spoilers), I can hazard a guess as to which Aussie will be playing what owl -- Kwanten is probably going to be the young hero, Soren. Jackman sounds rather perfect for Twilight, "a confident and boastful owl who is always singing songs about himself." There's far too many wise and kingly owls to assign one to Weaving, so we'll have to wait and see on that one. I'm really very curious about this film -- an epic about owls sounds a lot more promising than half the stuff that gets optioned, anyway. At least there will be no question as to who owns the rights to this Snyder film.
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