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Max Brooks Stoked About Development Of Movie: WORLD WAR Z

Last week, zombie aficionado Max Brooks appeared on Fangoria Radio to talk about his upcoming graphic novel Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks as well as the upcoming World War Z movie. You may remember that it was reported that 007 director Marc Forster would be helming the long overdue project written by J. Michael Straczynski. Here’s what Brooks had to say about the team:

“I’m thrilled that the man who created BABYLON 5 is working on this movie. I can’t give it away, but Straczynski found a way to tie it all together. The last draft I read was amazing.”
“Now that we have a director, we have a captain of the ship. Marc will determine start date, cast, locations, etc. For me personally, I’m content to go off to Iceland and let them make their movie.”

We reviewed the screenplay for WWZ a while back, but it sounds like there may be a new draft floating around. Either way, Brooks is right- things are looking good on the WWZ front.

Source: QuietEarth.us [Read more...]

Anime/Manga

Sony To Release Madhouse’s Marvel Hero Anime Worldwide

The Variety entertainment trade news source confirms that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has agreed to globally distribute the four series that the Madhouse anime studio is producing with “re-imagined” characters from Marvel Comics. The company created a new International Product Expansion Group that signed the deals.

Vice President Tony Ishizuka has been assigned to lead the new group with Maxwell Mattord as a director. Marvel revealed in August that the first of the 12-episode series with Marvel’s Iron Man and Wolverine characters is launching on Sony’s Animax premium anime channel in Japan in Spring 2010.

Source: Anime News Network

Comic Book News

Review - Titans #7 - DC Comics

Koppy McFad over at the Comic Book Bin has a reviews of DC’s Titans #7…

“Match”, the flawed clone of Superboy–Conner Kent, whose body has been possessed by ex-Titans member, Jericho, battles the Titans in their own headquarters.

The complexity of the situation is pretty hard to sum up in one paragraph. You have to explain how Jericho has the power to inhabit other people’s bodies, how he got into Match’s body and who the heck Match is. Suffice to say, newcomers to this book will be mystified and may not understand what is going on. The one-page explanation that appears early in the book just doesn’t wrap things up completely.

Other than that, this issue is rather well done. “Match” breaks free, the Titans all make an attempt to subdue him and in the end, Jericho is separated from Match’s body with unexpected conseuquences. The action is well choreographed and the Titans show surprising strength instead of acting as punching bags as in so many previous issues.

Even the characterisation is remarkably good. The Titans speak in distinctly different voices and comes off as quite sympathetic– aside from Winick’s penchant for having his characters constantly spouting smart-azz wisecracks, even during inappropriate moments, like when their best friends are fighting for their lives.

The art is surprisingly good, considering it is clearly a last-minute fill-in job. The backgrounds are a bit sparse but at least all the characters end up looking good, especially Match who comes off as both menacing and comical as he screams for help even while he beats up the Titans.

Rating: 7/10

Source: ComicBookBin.com [Read more...]

Gaming

Call of Duty: World At War Invades Steam

Valve has announced that the PC version of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War is now available on the Steam digital distribution service.

The World War II shooter, which is selling like hotcakes, can now be purchased online and downloaded through Steam for the price of $49.95, the same as buying the disc-based game from a brick-and-mortar retailer.

World at War released last week for a whole bevy of platforms. Treyarch handled the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wiieditions, while the PS2 version came from Rebellion and n-Space handled the Nintendo DS port.

Source: ShackNews.com [Read more...]

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