Week of April 17, 2007
Emails:
- We received another Fake news story from Blake, keep ‘em coming.
Corrections and Notes from the previous show:
- Nova was a member of the Nova Corps. and bore a very strong resemblance to Green Lantern.
- The Sandman is unlikely to be a movie any time soon.
- Secret Wars was done as storyline in the 90s Spider-Man animated series.
- Thanos was used in the 90s Silver Surfer series.
News:
- Ed Norton cast as Bruce Banner in the Incredible Hulk.
- Laurence Fishburne is the voice of Galactus in FF2. (Since we recorded this, this has since been corrected, he’s actually playing the voice of Silver Surfer).
- Christina Ricci joins the cast of Speed Racer as Trixie.
- Bill Smitrovich cast in Iron Man.
- First picture of Iron Man in the first model “Grey Armor” has hit the web.
- A new screenwriter on Punisher 2.
- Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) talks Smallville Season 7
- The creator of Ghost Rider is suing Marvel, Sony and anyone else with an address.
- The Tribeca film festival will host the US premiere of Spider-Man 3 next month in all 5 boroughs of New York City, http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org
- The festival will also have two panels on Superhero Movies.
- A Will Eisner documentary will also debut at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Discussion Topics:
- Heroes is back April 23, watch it, we love it.
- Read the graphic novels at http://nbc.com/heroes/novels we discuss how NBC has really created an active world outside of the show with the novels and the interactive text messages.
- The next show will be in front of a live audience at Starfest http://www.starland.com