JUNKFILM

Graphic Novels is the key for today’s films.

Paramount is going to adapt Dave Roman’s graphic novel, Agnes Quill.
Thor Freudenthal (Hotel For Dogs) will direct the adaptation of the 136-page, black-and white trade paperback, illustrated by Jason Ho, Jen Wang, Jeff Zornow, and Eisner-nominee Raina Telgemeier. The official plot synopsis from the book follows:

“Agnes Quill is the story of a teenage detective, the haunted city she lives in, the strange cases she solves, and the ghosts who help, hinder, or just plain annoy her. Set in Legerdemain—a congested, fog-filled, cobblestone-paved Victorian city built around a cemetery the size of Central Park—Agnes’ adventures include confrontations with trapped spirits, cursed souls, possessed relatives, disappearing pets, decapitated scientists, ambitious zombies, and a mess of other supernatural oddities.”

Preacher finally getting screen time. Sam Mendes directs.

After so many attempts to get the comic book made into a motion media and all failing (including the long-running rumor of the HBO series), it would seem that Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to make the fan favorite, Preacher, a book on my own top 10 best comics list. Sam Mendes, best known for his films American Beauty, Road to Perdition and the upcoming Revolutionary Road, is said to be the helmer of this badboy…so let’s all hope for the best.

The official plot synopsis from the graphic novel follows: “Here’s a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it’s the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can’t watch but you can’t turn away. The story follows an ex-preacher man, Jesse, who has become disgusted with God’s abandoning of His responsibilities. So Jesse starts off into the wilds of Texas with his hitman girlfriend and new best friend (a vampire) to find God so that he can give Him a piece of his mind. Despite its superficial perversity, this book contains what may be the most moral character in mainstream comics. A cult hit in the making. Fans of Quentin Tarantino take note.”

Mark Millar’s Kick Ass: NEW PHOTOS

Check out the link to see the new shots from the set of Kick-Ass, showing a young David in his costume. I am so happy they are sticking to the fucking plot on this one instead of making it a shit storm that was this summer’s worst movie beside Indiana Jones 4, Wanted.

Speaking of Mark Millar…
His epic 8-hour Superman pitch trilogy…is …uh…

If the studios would keep the story exactly as Mark would pen it, I think this would be the first and only time I would be excited to see a Superman story. I fucking hate Superman. I hate him because he is the super-good guy. The “never does wrong” guy. It’s boring and it makes for boring story telling. You always know what he is going to do. And the major thing that pisses me off, he can never get hurt. Sure it’s ill for a page or two, or dies, but then before you know it, he’s all fine and dandy. This is all my opinion, of course, tons of people love the goody-goody super hero saving the day. But Mark has shown us just how wicked and wild an asshole can be as a main character. Specially a character like Kick-Ass who gets the shit kicked out of him and comes back for more.

Millar’s pitch is as follows:

“It’s gonna be like Michael Corleone in the Godfather films, the entire story from beginning to end, you see where he starts, how he becomes who he becomes, and where that takes him. The Dark Knight showed you can take a comic book property and make a serious film, and I think the studios are ready to listen to bigger ideas now.”

“I want to start on Krypton, a thousand years ago, and end with Superman alone on Planet Earth, the last being left on the planet, as the yellow sun turns red and starts to supernova, and he loses his powers.”

It’s not that I’m not excited about it, I am, truly…but no studio would go for it. God, I wish they would. It sounds actually entertaining.

and the biggest news of the day…that is to the B-movie lovers out there:

THE REMAKE OF THE LAST DRAGON!!!

Barry Gordy’s 1985 immortal classic of urban hiphop, trash talking Asians with way too much day-glow, black kung-fu masters, and a seriously bad dude wearing football shoulder pads, The Last Dragon is being remade by Columbia Pictures. No word yet on who will play Bruce Leeroy himself, Taimak, but they sure as hell cast the villian right. Sho’Nuff, the shogun of Harlem is going to be played by none other than Samuel L Jackson.

That’s right, “My shoulder pads and fro are the ones that say ‘bad muther fucker’ on them.”

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