I’m going to first state that I have set my expectations for this film very low. My expectations were in fact so low that anything I saw would have been better than I expected. Being a comic fanatic I feel this is the mentality most fans should walk into these movies with. I say this in case the film is terrible so fans aren’t left heart-broken. This being said, I was surprisingly pleased with what I saw.
It has been confirmed by Yahoo News that actor John C. Reilly will play Ronan The Accuser in the up coming Guardians Of The Galaxy. Reilly joins an All Star Cast that includes Benicio Del Toro, Glenn Close, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, and Michael Rooker. Ronan The Accuser has been a long mainstay character in the Marvel Universe recently appearing in Annihilation and War Of Kings. Stay tuned for more news on Guardians Of The Galaxy and Marvel movies here at www.metalmachine.net.
Everyone’s favorite motorcycle club is fleeing from television screens to comic book pages. Boom! Studios is producing a Son’s of Anarchy comic which follows the lives of the Teller’s in their adorable town of Charming. A lot of fans are super excited about this, mainly because the violence in the show is watered down due to the fact that it’s airing on prime time television. Through the eyes of a different medium things will be a lot more intense.
On the eve of the opening of this film fans are sitting with their fingers crossed. We are all cautiously optimistic about how this film goes. It look beautiful, that cannot be denied, however the real testament to dedication lies within the story. IGN interviewed Russel Crowe about his role as Jor-El. From what I’ve watched and heard I feel like it’s very important that Crowe decided to take his own opinions on his portrayal. An actors connection to a character is key to an excellent execution of a story line.
Marvel has recently been outsourcing artists and various concepts in the variation releases of comics. Skottie Young has bee doing baby Marvel’s and they have been taken by storm so much so that they are being printed for the masses. Now in a new collection LEGO has decided to hop on board with some clever and funny releases for the Marvel Universe.
As seen in the poster the actor is clearly Sullivan Stapleton who stared in Gangster Squad. The film is adapted from Frank Miller’s Xerxes by screenwriters Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad and director Noam Murro. The film is set to release next March and hopefully will be as bad ass and epic as the last, even without Gerard Butler.
Francesco Francavilla is the man behind Swamp Thing and Batman 72. He has been commissioned to draw Afterlife Archie, a new zombie Archie comic from Archie Comics, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa coming out in October. Evidently the reason the Riverdale is over run by the living dead is because some young with whips up a spell that releases them all.
Tell Tale Heart Studios is releasing the second chapter to their hit arcade game. This information was announced at E3 yesterday with a trailer. Tell Tale Heart’s game The Walking Dead won game of the year across the boards last year with their choose your own fate style RPG. Having played it personally, it was incredible.
Well, well, well, if it isn’t a new rumor to hit the scene of the highly anticipated Guardians of the Galaxy. With a chunk of the cast already announced with many well known names there comes a new addition to the rumor list. This rumor comes in the form of everyone’s favorite Doctor Who redhead Karen Gillan.
There is a lot of stigma attached to the name Superman for a lot of different reasons. In the last 2 years the former home of creator Joe Schuster in Glenville, Cleavland has had a driver attack his fence with their vehicle. This fence is no ordinary fence though. This fence has huge metal plates displaying the story of Action Comics #1, better known as the first appearance of Superman.
