If you’ve never heard of The Green Hornet, you aren’t alone. Though he’s one of the oldest masked heroes he’s never gotten much notoriety by recent generations. While Batman has made numerous movies, Superman saved us many times, X-Men underwhelmed us, and Spiderman went into the cinematic crapper, Green Hornet has fallen by the wayside. Even The Phantom (another title many youngsters have never heard of) at least got a short-lived cartoon show, a B-grade movie, and a Syfy miniseries.
The last time Green Hornet got a lot of attention, it was a TV show that ran with limited success in the USA. Starring Van Williams in the title role, it also featured a little-known actor as his sidekick “Kato”. The actor’s name was Bruce Lee, and this show would launch him into an all out rise to stardom.
The Avengers teaser trailer that was shown at Comic Con has leaked onto the internet. You may want to hurry and watch it before Marvel notices and starts cleaning it up. If you happen to miss it though, you’re not missing much, it’s basically Samuel L. Jackson just talking with the Avengers logo on the screen. Not nearly as awesome as that Thor footage from last week.
UPDATE: Marvel got to our source too. It took them longer, but they got there.
Below is the leaked footage from Comic Con of the upcoming Thor movie. I’m not a big fan of Thor but I was planning on seeing the film when it’s released next summer. After seeing the footage though, I don’t know that I can wait that long. Hurry and watch before it gets taken down.
Marvel got to all the uploads pretty fast. This is courtesy of io9.
Unfortunately, I was not able to attend San Diego Comic Con this year. Or any previous year for that matter. This is something that I hope to remedy sometime in the future but by then I’ll probably be in my forties and be called by guys in the comic book store Captain Sweatpants. Or Captain Sweat Stains… I’m not sure which…
Anyways, being the geek that I am, I have been valiantly trying to catch up on all of the news that has been leaking out over the past week. Last week I started hearing rumblings about Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath for a little kid but I just finally found some footage of it. If it doesn’t put a smile on your face, then you have a heart of pure darkness. I can only imagine the joy that this kid must have felt. Of course, I’m a bit biased since I’m a Green Lantern fan and can’t hardly wait for the movie to come out.
For those unfamiliar with Tron (I actually know a few of them), this just looks like another run-of-the-mill movie trailer. For those of us in know, however, this is something much more. Much, much more. Considering that the original Tron helped set the bar for all science fiction movies since, it’s good to know Disney can make its sequel just as mindblowing 28 years later!
Part of me wants to be cynical and say that this won’t be as revolutionary as the first. Of course, there’s the other 80% of me that’s beating that part over the head and burying it in the desert.
A while back I wrote a review for Ghostbusters, the video game. I was playing a PC copy on my system and was really disappointed by how badly coded everything was. If you don’t remember my review of it, I invite you to read it again before moving on with this entry.
All done? OK.
Since writing that entry, I’ve had the chance to play the game again, only this time on an Xbox 360. I’m very impressed with the game overall now, and would like to revisit some of the points I made earlier.
According to the New York Times, Disney has made a bid to purchase Marvel Comics for $4 billion.
Walt Disney Company said Monday it has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment, the storied comic book company that owns the rights to such popular characters as Spider-Man and and the Fantastic Four, in a cash and stock deal it valued at $4 billion. The deal comes more than 10 years after Marvel was at the center of a bruising and highly public takeover battle between two feisty financiers.
Shareholders at Marvel will need to approve the transaction, which boards of directors at both companies have already approved.
This was originally shown in a rougher form at ComiCon 2008 to a crowd of completely stunned fans (who hadn’t even been told what they were going to be seeing). It had actually been put together to prove to Disney that no one would be interested in the project. Well, they should have shown it at the RNC then, cause you don’t show something like this in front of a room of geeks and not expect a reaction!
The polished, final teaser was released yesterday. Here it is (warning, you may need a change of pants).
On a recent cruise vacation up the coast of the Western United States I found myself in Seattle WA. After the normal visits to the Space Needle, and Pike’s Place market, we found ourselves back at the Seattle Center. While there we found an incredible building. It was the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. They had numerous authentic, and replica, pieces of memorabilia from throughout the history of Sci-Fi. Despite their lack of Doctor Who it is a must for any geek.
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