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Pixar Teams Up With Boom! For Comic Spin-Offs
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In all the ComicCon insanity, a pretty cool story slipped under the Cinematical radar -- the news that Pixar had teamed up with Boom! Studios to create comic books and graphic novels based on the Disney/Pixar and Muppet properties. If that doesn't sound exciting to you, get a load of this -- the first series that will be published will be The Incredibles.The series is confirmed for four issues, but author Mark Waid already has scripts penned for two more, and is hoping the series can continue beyond that. In an interview with MTV, Waid revealed that the storyline just about takes up where the movie left off. The characters aren't any older, and are still dealing with the insecurities and difficulties faced by a family of superheroes.
The four issue arc will center on Mr. Incredible, who starts suffering from heroic impotence. His powers are fading, and he doesn't want to tell his family or go to a doctor. Relgated to house husband status, "He feels terrible," Waid said. "He's calling them on the phone when they're on missions, to give them advice, but what he really needs to do is get his powers back." The Incredibles universe will be further fleshed out, introducing a doctor who practices superhero medicine.
The series will appear on store shelves in April, with other Pixar titles to follow. It sounds like Toy Story is the next in line, and the plan is to have six titles in rotation. None of the books, will deviate too far from the movie path in order not to interfere with possible sequels. And who knows -- we may just see The Incredibles go from the page to the screen for their second outing!
Universal Picks Up '2 Guns'
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I was hoping that Universal was making a movie about me and my two lost Desert Eagles, but no dice. Instead, they've optioned Steven Grant's graphic novel 2 Guns, published by Boom! Studios, who is just optioning comic books left and right.2 Guns is about two thieves, Trench and Steadman, who get it in their heads to rob a local bank. They believe it's a mob bank, and that they'll be ripping off fellow criminals. But unbeknownst to the other, neither man is actually a criminal, they're both undercover cops. But that's not the only crazy secret they uncover, as they quickly realize that their bank heist is a mob set-up to rob the CIA of $50 million.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal is hoping to turn it into a buddy cop picture in the vein of Lethal Weapon and 48 Hrs, but with "a modern spin." (Once again, I feel like I should check myself into an nursing home at the very thought that Lethal Weapon is old and musty.) No director has been attached, but Marc Platt (who's clearly anxious to make even more bullets fly after Wanted) is producing alongside Boom's Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie. No one has been attached to direct or do the script yet.
Boom! has a preview of Grant's comic online -- and maybe I am getting old, because I can barely read the text. Maybe one of you young whippersnappers will have better luck and can give me a proper review. Meanwhile, I'm going to go work on a script about my two lost guns and hope I can sell it to Warner Bros. If I add more violence, it could be a Guy Ritchie vehicle.
Mekhi Phifer Starring In 'Hunter's Moon'.
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Boom! Studios is really experiencing a ... well, you know. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they just sold the rights to James L. White's five part comic series Hunter's Moon. Mekhi Phifer is set to star and co-produce the film, along with Boom! Entertainment, the studio's film shingle. White is in negotiations to adapt his graphic novel, and it will be his first screenplay since Ray. Phifer plays a stockbroker, Lincoln Greer, who is looking forward to a hot date at a remote cabin, but gets stuck with his teenage son instead. The pair go on a weekend hunting trip, but the son is kidnapped. In order to save his kid, Greer is forced to obey his captor's demands, but soon finds matters complicated by being the only African-American in a small logging town.
There's shades of Ransom and Shattered in the plot description -- Ransom with racial tension. Maybe I am just feeling grumpy (and I haven't read the book), but I wish that the graphic novels being snapped up would have a real unique spark. There are so many good ones out there that it is disappointing to see the standard action thriller being bought up again and again. Still, the racial angle gives this some promise, and it is supposed to have a twist ending -- so best not to be too hasty.
Paramount Picks Up Nostradamus Comic Book
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I used to be into in the prophesies of Nostradamus, but for some reason I lost interest in the 16th century seer after watching that boring biopic where he's played by Tchéky Karyo. Anyway, I thought most of the prophesy appeal died out with the event-less turn of the millennium. Seven years later, after the devastation of 9/11, Katrina, the tsunami and other disasters, maybe it is time to check back on Nostradamus' quatrains to see if there's any other upcoming tragedies we might be able to avert.
This idea of making sure Nostradamus's' predictions don't come true is already on the way to comic book racks and movie theaters. Boom Studios' comic The Foundation is about a secret organization, originally set up by Nostradamus himself, which deciphers and investigates the quatrains in order to change the future. That would certainly explain why so many of Nostradamus' prophesies seem to be false. Seeing as how The Foundation sounds like a perfect mix of Quantum Leap, Men in Black and (as Boom's website mentions) The X-Files and 24, it makes sense that Hollywood would be interested before the first issue even hits stores. Paramount has locked the rights to the comic and they've got Boom founders Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie producing.
Cosby and Richie had previously sold the movie rights to two of Boom's other titles, both to Universal. Talent is like the television series Lost except that it deals with only one sole plane crash survivor who seems to suddenly possess the talents of the 148 passengers who perished. Tag is described by Boom as, "spine-snapping horror in the tradition of the movie The Ring!" Boom has only been around for about two years now, but if Cosby and Richie keep developing comics they can compare to TV shows and movies, then I predict the company will have a long life and a lasting relationship with Hollywood.
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