According to Variety, screenwriter Bill Birch has been given the task of adapting the DC comic book character Captain Marvel for Warner Bros. big screen version of Shazam! — a project that already has Get Smart helmer Peter Segal attached to direct.
Birch, who is currently writing the film One Finger Salute for Warner Bros., comes to the project following several other drafts by prominant screenwriters such as John August, Bryan Goluboff, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow and even William Goldman. In addition, Geoff Johns, currently enjoying a very successful run on DC’s Blackest Night, will co-write and consult on the project.
According to the trade, Segal and Ewing began working on the film three years ago at New Line before it moved over to Warners. In case you’re not familiar, the film centers on teenager Billy Batson, who transforms into the superhero Captain marvel when he says the word “Shazam!” The studio is now looking to go back to the original DC Comics source material for inspiration.
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Rock Band has never failed to satisfy the wanna-be rock stars within us, but has yet to focus on the younger generation of budding rockers, until now. LEGO Rock Band will feature everything we know and love about the previous Rock Band games as well as the family-friendly, silly antics gamers have come to expect from the LEGO franchise. Players will be able to design their whole band as well as their roadies and manager.
Progress marches on and apparently its not enough to read good comics, now they have to move too. Oh well, can’t stop progress I guess. Besides, as much as I might hate to say it as a fan of reading, this new Spider-Woman motion comic (aka MOCO) does look pretty darn cool. Don’t understand what I’m talking about?
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One of SyFy’s most popular shows returns for its fifth season tonight on the network. No, I’m not talking about another edition of the “monster of the week” low-budget sci-fi movies (not that those are so bad), I’m talking about real live Ghostbusters here.
This week on The Flickcast, your tireless threesome dive into some great new topics including the film Kick-Ass being picked up by Lionsgate, the box office and merits of District 9 versus G.I. Joe, Frank Darabont taking on The Walking Dead for AMC, Christopher McQuarrie writing a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Bryan Singer’s Battlestar Galactica movie and a whole lot more.