* Sometimes there's a lot of stuff I feel you guys need to know to be well-informed nerds, but that don't deserve full articles and aren't easily grouped together into "trifectas." Thus, I'm only mildly embarrassed to bring you a new article which will recur whenever I deem it appropriate -- "Shit That You Need to Know Which Aren't Full-Article Worthy and Aren't Thematically Similar." You may pronounce it "stink-waffa-watts."
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• We Love Fine is doing one of its design-a-nerd-shirt contests on Dungeons & Dragons. Why do I mention this? Not because the winners receive up to $2500 (as that's normal for We Love Fine contest winners) but because I'm one of the guest judges, along with the slightly more qualified Jon Schindehette from Wizards of the Coast! You can submit your designs right here through June 1st. Then why not check out the winning Scott Pilgrim contest tees while you're at it?
• The Wolverine sequel will begin filming in August, which means it has a slightly better chance of happening now than it has for the last year or so. Somehow, I'm a little excited about it, probably because Darren Aronovsky was once involved in the project. He's not any more, of course, so I'm being dumb.
• The Rock is teasing that he'll be playing a DC character soon. The guy who directed that last shitty Journey 2 the Mysterious Island movie, which starred the Rock, just got put in charge of the Lobo movie. I don't think I need to draw you a map.
• Konami is apparently having a big semi-relaunch of the Castlevania videogame franchise by showing two new Castlevania games at E3. One will be for the DS, the other will be for the WiiU. THOSE DON'T COUNT, KONAMI.
• Long-time Lucas-underling/Star Wars producer/Dr. Evazan impersonator Rick McCallum says the Star Wars TV show is still happening, he just has no idea when or how or anything about it, really. So... same as before, really.
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There's actually a decent amount of new stuff about the Star Wars show there! I don't think we knew it was going to literally be taking place "underground," beneath Corruscant!
if you havent played any of the castlevania's for DS, then your missing out, IMO, those are the best Castlevania's they every produced besides SOTN...but FUCK the 3DS, that piece of shit gimmick... just like the WiiU thats going to be garbage
"I don't think I need to draw you a map." THANK YOU. There were a bunch of news sites today acting like they had some kind of insider information on it.
Still I think what we really need the Rock doing is wearing pointy ears and trying to avoid saying a magic word.
Please let the star wars tv show be about a younger han solo. the series practically writes itself, you have lando in it, he meets up with chewbacca and you can put in boba fett and have nerds wet themselves. That being said, I bet its about ewoks or gungans.
If there's one DC character I'd like to see the Rock as it be Black Adam (ah, Duuuuuh).We all know DC/WB has a terrible track record with movies not featuring Batman (shhh... Don't mention Schumacher). So (sadly) I wouldn't bet any money on it.On the other hand if you can't even make a decent "GL" movie with a capable director and Geoff Johns (not my favorite writer but he's been good on "GL" over the last few years) on your team then you really do suck.
I'd heard years back that Rock was being looked at as Black Adam in a Shazam movie. Considering you can get kid appeal with Billy Batson and adult appeal with Shazam kicking ass, there you go. That said, DC live action movies really need to improve their track record, especially looking at Marvel Studios movies (not necessarily Marvel properties, but like Avengers that are under their direct control). WB owns DC, so no excuse here...other than Batman the rest have been disappointments. Man of Steel may be a last chance for a turnaround next year (and even then it's got Iron Man 3 to contend with).
I'd love me a GOOD Shazam movie. Wouldn't make up for how they fucked "GL" but damn it would be awesome.
The Rock IS Black Adam. I really hope he's not going to be Lobo, but damnit, they could do much (much) worse.
The Rock as Lobo will make Stallone as Judge Dredd look like a fucking masterpiece. Ron Perlman has to have a comic book movie or two left in him. He's got the size, the look and (most importantly) the attitude.
"Stink-waffa-watts" sounds like a new Star Wars character who could team up with Jar-Jar, Jaxxon's brother Jaxxoff, and Jedi Master Baytes.
The Castlevania games for the DS were fantastic. All three of them. Great follow-ups to Symphony of the Night. So I would argue that, yes, those do count. Especially if the 3DS game is anything like the three for the DS.
On that note, as somebody already mentioned, the rumored game is Lords of Shadow 2 for the Wii-U as well as PS3/360.
I would still like you to draw me a map connecting The Rock and Lobo. Because I think that would be a really funny map.
Your SWW (I abbreviated your phonetic abbreviation.) is missing something:
Don't forget the kid who played Rufio in "Hook" is working on a screenplay for a movie about the very important character of...Rufio from the 1991 stinkfest which is "Hook". Prequel? Bangarang!
I've noticed a cult following. I'd rather watch Ice Pirates. Fan or not, who isn't jazzed for a Rufio movie?
I remember liking hook when it came out but I'll take ice pirates over it.
but yeah, rufio movie? I don't see anyone caring about that.
Two points:
1. I feel sorry for anyone so Nintendo-hating that they've ignore the DS. That thing may have been the best game console ever produced, at least if you grew up prior to the FPS / 3rd Person era.
2. Oh, well, at least Rock will have plenty of time to film Lobo since he's apparently not going to have to worry about GI Joe Retaliation for another ten months. *sobs*
I came here specifically to say, "Well, think of it this way, Rob: there's a good chance we'll see The Wolverine now sooner than GIJReta!"
Umm actually its Lord of Shadows 2 and its going to be for the 360 and PS3 also. Lord of Shadows 1 SUCKED! so I will not be purchasing it even though I love Castlevania.
I am totally with you. Lord of Shadows was terrible. It didn't feel like a Castlevania title at all. Hell, Dracula doesn't show up until the very very very end of the DLC.
I actually liked it quite a bit, though it did drag on a little bit, and the whole 'scoring' after each and every stage broke the flow of the game, but the actual gameplay and aesthetics and acting, I liked quite a bit
Rock has Lobo is a bad ideabefore I read the article I was like what is the problem with a new 2D Castlevania on handheld then I read it uses the camera and ties into Lords of Shadow 2 PASS!
If HBO is doing Star Wars it as a Game of Thrones type series, I'm all for it!!!! Not even Lucas can wreck an HBO series!!!
Are you really sure about that? Have you seen episodes one thru three? The only way this will ever work is if George Lucas has nothing to do with any stories that are written. If it weren't for George Lucas ex-wife and some of his friends talking him out of the crazy shit he was trying to do and fixing the scripts the original trilogy would not have happened since the first movie would have been garbage.
Let the guys that are doing the Clone Wars on Cartoon Network do the live action series. If Lucas does it prepare for the Star Wars Holiday Special.
I'm so torn on this. On the one hand, I think an edgy/darker SW television series would be dynamite. On the other...I worry that Lucas will keep himself too involved. He has to stay out of writing it. He has to stay out of directing it. He has to be nothing more than a consultant and executive producer. Let TV folks do the show. Take a role similar to what has been done with the expanded universe - he can veto certain things, but in general...he stays out of it.
The most critical thing has to be...he CANNOT WRITE FOR IT. He has to let go.
And that...sadly...is why I'm not holding my breath.
Lucas would have to have other writers and director's for the episodes. There is no way that he could direct and write the majority of the episodes. Hopefully the prescence of "real writers" will keep him in check.
I think if they only let Lucas write and direct the the first and last episodes of a season that would work.
The prosecution would like to enter into evidence the television show "Arli$$" (1996-2002) as Exhibit A in their case against the statement "Not even Lucas can wreck an HBO series"
I don't think a 6 year show with no commercials is a flop. And it just seems like you don't like shows that run for over 4 years.
Not at all. I love plenty of shows that run over 4 years. The Wire is one of my favorite series ever (own all five seasons). Sopranos is great. I wanted more of Rome and Carnivale and Deadwood. Plenty of HBO items are great. But goodness...Arli$$ was terrible. The fact it was on for 6 years has nothing to do with it's quality...it has everything to do with HBO's failure to find something better to fill programming holes. Sex and the City is terrible...and it was on forever and spawned two terrible movies. I never accused these shows of being flops. Simply said that just because something is "on HBO" doesn't make it great. I'd love to see them give SW a try, but every network (no matter how good) can produce a stinker.
Take a look at AMC. Sure, "Mad Men" is terrific. Walking Dead is a mixed bag, but I still watch. I loved Rubicon (cancelled). Breaking Bad is supposedly great (not my cup of tea). But The Killing is terrible. Just b/c it's on AMC doesn't mean it's automatically "unscrewupable."
Not that Lucas was responsible for that steaming pile, mind you. Just that "being on HBO" is not an automatic awesome. There are plenty of other examples I could find, too. "John from Cincinnati" was terrible. I find "True Blood" unwatchable.
