This week On the Radar a bunch of gaming news about Halo and Gears of War, Red Sonja switches up celebrity hotties, Mark Strong talks Sinestro in Green Lantern and Tom Arnold takes to the sea to fight aliens!
Court dismisses Marvel, Stan Lee law suit. Excelsior!
While Stan Lee has been working overtime on film cameos and convention appearances he’s also been dealing with legal fights. This one was between Stan Lee Media Inc. and it’s former board members. At it’s most basic level the case was over ownership of mainstream characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Fantastic Four.
The judge dismissed the case based on two primary factors. First, the shareholders did not acquire their shares until a year after the issue of ownership occurred and second, said shareholders should not have waited nearly a decade to file their case. No word yet on whether the decision will be appealed so until next time true believers…
Halo movie will be happening at some point
What should be an easy sell as far as a video game adaption, Halo has struggled to gain traction with studios. However, Frank O’Connor of Microsoft Game Studios has said the film will happen eventually:
“We’re going to make a movie when the time is right,” he said. “We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic.”
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