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Here are today's latest comic book rumors, courtesy of the ever-talented folks over at Comic Book Resources. Today's subjects are on familiar themes - casting rumors and property liscensing!  We've also got a quick word from Frank Miller on his new script. Awesome.

• Joss Whedon refuses to name names for Wonder Woman, despite drawing very near to finishing his script. He does, however, admit to creating his own villain for the flick, as Wonder Woman's rogue gallery is lacking, according to the writer.
• According to IESB, Terence Howard still claims that he is in talks to portray Luke Cage antagonist Willis Stryker.
• Denise Quiñones has been cast as "Rachel" in the upcoming Aquaman TV film/series. Rachel is a friend/possible love interest of the title character.
• Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to Christian Gossett's award-winning comic book The Red Star. They are apparently eyeing Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov for involvement.  Read Martha's coverage of that story here.
• Frank Miller says that his new Sin City story involving a post-Hartigan Nancy Callahan "should surprise you." No shocker there - I'd be disappointed if it didn't.  

[via CBR]

Despite announcing in December that Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov would be directing an adaptation of Mark Millar's Wanted (a series of comics about a man who discovers that his dead father was a super villain), Universal clearly have not yet satisfied their jones to work with the hippest Russian on earth. So, in an effort to spend even more time with Bekmambetov, the studio has acquired the rights to yet another comics series in hopes that their favorite Russian will eventually direct a film version. The series in question is Christian Gossett's The Red Star, "an epic war saga set in a reimagined Soviet Union where militarized sorcery and monolithic technology live side by side," the subject matter of which is probably a little more relevant to Bekmambetov than that of Wanted.

No writer has yet been hired to pen the adaptation and Bekmambetov hasn't officially been signed to even participate in the project, but it sounds like he would be a great fit. The reviews of The Red Star at Amazon emphasize the series' striking visual style (and are so good that I just ordered the damn thing), and whatever else you say about Bekmambetov, it's hard to deny that he's not consumed by how his movies look.