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09/22/14 @ 1:26 pm EST
As we hit the third issue of Dawn / Vampirella from Dynamite Entertainment, Byron Brewer checks in with series writer and artist Joseph Michael Linsner to talk about bring two iconic female characters together for the first time.  BYRON BREWER: So, we are halfway through this unique mini-series teaming your gal Dawn with Vampirella in Dawn’s first-ever crossover. Has it been a fun ride?JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER: You bet. After 25 years of drawing Dawn it’s nice getting to draw her interacting with another intelligent, beautiful lady. It’s been a nice challenge as well. In order to give them separate visual identities, I’ve had to get a better handle on Dawn’s body language. You should be able to tell them apart just from simple stick figures, beyond all of the fine details that come later. This has all been great fun and it’s keeping me on my toes. BB: Like Jim Starlin and a few others, you are a one-man creative band here on this mini. Does that make creating comics easier or harder?JML: When you have something particular in mind, writing and drawing the whole thing makes it easier. I’ve had some great collaborators (like Jeff Eckelberry) over the years, but nothing is worse than butting heads with a creative collaborator. In the end the work always suffers and it shows in the sales. The ideas fall in the middle and don’t reach their potential. Doing the whole thing myself, writing, drawing, inking and creating color guides, is more work but ultimately more satisfying.  BB: Have you had any difficulties jibing the world of Vampirella with that of Dawn?JML: Not at all. Dawn has the ability to dance between worlds — she can go to Heaven, Hell and beyond. Overlapping her mythos with Vampi’s has been as easy as pie. I think both ladies are strong characters, which makes it easier. You can take them and stick them into any scenario and they’ll write themselves out of it easily. BB: Give us your impression of each character: differences, similarities, etc.JML: Dawn is more reserved and calculating. She is a chess player who doesn’t like to get her hands dirty. Vampirella is carnal, she craves her righteous blood. Actions first, consequences later. I never would have envisioned a Goddess and a Vampire matching up so well, but they do play nicely off of each other.  BB: Both characters are good “storytellers,” and November’s issue has two wonderful tales. Do you like this method of storytelling?JML: I started off doing short stories in my first series, “Cry For Dawn”. I love short stories — they give you the chance to introduce a concept, develop it and then wrap it up all in a few pages. An ongoing adventure is easy to do, like a soap opera, but a good short story is hard work. It needs to have some meat on it’s bones as well as a good payoff in the end, otherwise it feels like a waste of time for everyone. BB: Can you give us your impression of Masodik as a villain? JML: He’s greedy. Being a demon, greed comes naturally. Part of him can’t believe that he’s actually pulling this storyline off, kidnapping Dawn and Vampirella, but somehow he is. He has the full attention of two smart and beautiful women, and he’s loving every second of it because he’s convinced that he’s going to get everything he wants in the end. Will he? We’ll have to see. BB: Does Joseph the Writer ever get frustrated at Joseph the Artist, or vice versa? JML: Yes. I actually draw pretty fast, but not fast enough for Joe the Writer. I’ve got 10 million story ideas! So many graphic novels I want to get in print, but drawing them properly takes so long. And Joe The Artist gets frustrated because comics are such hard work. You have to draw everything to flesh out a scene fully. Lame details are essential to create the reality of a setting — chairs, tables, light sockets, doorknobs. I hate drawing that stuff. Joe the Artist just wants to paint girls, that’s the fun part. Luckily, Kristina Deak- Linsner is an artist as well, and an excellent Editor. She’s been instrumental in helping the artist and the writer maintain balance and keep the series on track. BB: Hasn’t this team-up mini been a wonderful way to celebrate the special anniversaries of both lead characters?JML: It’s been fantastic. I couldn’t dream of a finer celebration of these two iconic female characters. 05/04/24 @ 12:07 pm EST
Prime has released the trailer for Season 4 of The Boys and this one looks like it’s building to an even bigger ending than season 3. It starts with Butcher ( Karl Urban) talking to his former team, basically saying he knows his time is almost up and he needs them to do what has to be done. We then switch to Homlander ( Antony Starr) talking to whoever makes up The Seven at that point, saying that the world is corrupt and it’s time for them to no longer be heroes, but to become vengeful gods. Then we cut to the newest addition to the series, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who looks to be recruiting Butcher to do some very bad things for good reasons. And then we get the big plot reveal that Butcher has found a virus that kills Supes… then we get a montage of fighting, violence, blood and a surprising large amount of angry animals. The Boys also stars Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti. Along with Morgan, season Four will welcome Susan Heyward and Valorie Curry. Premiering June 13 on Prime Video.  05/04/24 @ 11:50 am EST
Disney+ has dropped a new trailer for The Acolyte to celebrate May the 4th. With he tag line of, “No one is safe from the truth,” the almost 2 minute trailer shows off a world where the Jedi are being hunted by what might be one of their own. Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Charlie Barnett, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, Joonas Suotamo, and Carrie-Anne Moss star in the series and is the first project set in the High Republic era, roughly 100 years prior to The Phantom Menace. The series was created by Leslye Headland, co-creator of the Netflix series Russian Doll. It will debut on the streaming service on June 4th, 2024.  05/04/24 @ 11:35 am EST
We get this latest news straight from the horses mouth, or rather by way of Collider, who is reporting that Breaking Bad and The Mandalorian actor Giancarlo Esposito will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While doing a panel at CCXP, the actor revealed he would be appearing in a Marvel project, but not in the role that many fans have talked about for him. The actor has been fan casted by many as the new Professor X when the X-Men finally move into the MCU. But Esposito said that he would be coming, “sooner rather than later,” and “better than you can imagine.” The next Marvel film to come out will be Deadpool & Wolverine which could put Esposito in just about any role as a variant, but the hope is that the actor who made his name playing such villains as Gus Fring and Moff Gideon will be someone of consequence that will be around a while. They still need a new actor to play Kang the Conqueror don’t they? And they haven’t cast Doctor Doom, right? Just asking.  05/03/24 @ 10:02 pm EST
Daytime Emmy-winner Mike Manning (This is Us, Days of Our Lives) and Olivia Blue (Theater is Dead, Animal Kingdom) will star in alien adventure film Unexpected Treasures, directed by John Paul Ungaretti, and written by Ungaretti and Christina Heller. The film’s cast is rounded out with AnnaMaria DeMara (Lost in Space, Lucifer), Jay Whittaker (The Orville, Let’s Go to Prison), Michael Dunn (Bosch, NCIS), Lauren Han (Beef, Extracurricular), and Rex Edhlund. Production for the film recently wrapped in Joshua Tree, CA. The script was inspired by the many extra-terrestrial-related stories and folklore of the Joshua Tree community and desert area. In the film, a wild alien encounter restores a local resident’s faith in humanity. Blue stars as the local resident, while Manning stars as the alien. (via Deadline) 05/03/24 @ 10:03 pm EST
Ali Afshar’s ESX Entertainment is entering into the horror space with the feature The Necklace starring sisters Madeleine & Violet McGraw, each of whom have garnered widespread acclaim for gripping performances in M3GAN and 2021’s The Black Phone respectively. Cameras will roll this summer. The screenplay was written specifically with the McGraw sisters in mind by Afshar collaborator John Ducey (A Hollywood Christmas, That’s Amor). The pic is being directed by Chilean filmmaker Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz, who helmed Pumpkinhole and HBO’s Perry Mason. Said Afshar, “Madeleine and Violet are among the brightest lights of this generation of young actors, and an absolute joy to work with. Each brings a unique energy to the screen and, together, they are absolutely electrifying to watch. I couldn’t be more thrilled to team up with these enormously gifted young actors to bring this fresh and terrifying story to the big screen and plunge audiences into the dark and chilling world of The Necklace.” (via Deadline) 05/03/24 @ 10:03 pm EST
The Maze Runner is back at the starting line. 20th Century Studios is rebooting the sci-fi action adventure franchise, which ran as a trilogy from 2014 to 2018. The Disney arm is in negotiations to tap Jack Paglen, perhaps best known for writing the Johnny Depp-starring sci-fi movie Transcendence, to pen the script for a new installment. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill, who produced the original trilogy, are back to produce this one. Wes Ball, who directed the original trilogy, will also be involved as a producer. THR is reporting that the reboot is not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story yet also return to the elements that made the first movie connect with its audience. (The original movie, made by 20th Century Fox in the years leading up to its acquisition by Disney, also proved to be an unexpected moneymaker, generating $348 million worldwide but costing only $35 million to make.) 05/03/24 @ 2:09 pm EST
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables) and Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) are attached to star in a new movie, The Death Of Robin Hood. Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski is writer-director on the project, which will be among the hot titles on sale at this month’s Cannes market via WME Independent. Arrival and The Prestige producer Aaron Ryder is among the producing team. The film is a darker reimagining of the classic Robin Hood tale. Set of its time, the film will see the title character grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, a battleworn loner who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman who offers him a chance at salvation. Production is due to begin in February 2025. (via Deadline) 05/03/24 @ 2:03 pm EST
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy will lead the film adaptation of Enid Blyton’s children’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree. The story from the author, based on her The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran — a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Two-time Academy Award-nominee Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick…BOOM!, Hacksaw Ridge) will play Tim and two-time Emmy Award-winner Claire Foy (All of Us Strangers, The Crown) will take on the role of Polly. Screenwriter Simon Farnaby, British star of Wonka and Paddington 2, said: “To have two actors of the quality of Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy is a dream for any screenwriter.” (via The Hollywood Reporter) 05/02/24 @ 10:59 pm EST
Jennifer Zhang (Fetish, Charon) is set to direct sci-fi feature length anthology, Trüebadour. Also written by Zhang, the film stars Gina Su (Autopilot, Blue, Transpo), and Daphne Qin Wu (The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Beacon) serves as cinematographer. Based on the sci-fi short Autopilot, Trüebadour follows an enigmatic engineering prodigy who introduces the bombastic founder of a tech start-up to an innovative “storytelling” device that scans its wearer to generate an original work of fiction. No one at the company is prepared for the unsettling stories their minds inspire, nor the disturbing consequences of using the device. (via Deadline) 05/02/24 @ 10:51 pm EST
Louis Leterrier, director of Fast X and several Transporter action movies, has been tapped to direct and produce the sci-fi horror film 11817, based on a script by Matthew Robinson. The genre pic produced by Leterrier’s Carrousel Studios, Rocket Science, Thank You Studios, Chernin Entertainment and 3 Arts Entertainment is now casting. Rocket Science will fully finance, handle foreign sales and introduce the film in Cannes, while CAA Media Finance will handle a North American sale. In 11817, inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life-or-death essentials begin to run out, the family must learn how to be resourceful to survive and outsmart who – or what – is keeping them trapped. (via THR) |
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