<font color=33FFFF>In an interview published Monday with MTV.com, Marvel Chairman and CEO Avi Arad updated Marvel’s Hollywood production schedule and dropped a few new details about Marvel projects in development.

Among the highlights:



Regarding Brett Ratner’s X3, Arad said, "Dark Phoenix should not be the centerpiece of the movie."


Two X-Men spin-offs, including 2007/’08’s Wolverine with Hugh Jackman ("Totally different, just Wolverine's journey") and a movie about a young Magneto are in development.


On next August’s Ghost Rider, Arad said the big-budget Nick Cage "morality tale” will sport a PG-13 rating and a "Southern rock" soundtrack and ethos, that one scene will feature Ghost Rider facing off against a CGI, The Perfect Storm-like tidal wave, and at one point he’ll be completely submerged… though Arad added you can’t extinguish hellfire.


Spider-Man 3 remains on target for May 2007, and Arad debunks rumors films 3 and 4 will be shot simultaneously. Also, Dylan Baker will return for the third film as Dr. Curt Connors


Turning his attention to the slate of up to 10 films (which could ******* sequels) that Marvel will self-finance and distribute through Paramount, Arad named Captain America, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Black Panther (“a big, big, big deal”) and Ant-Man (“a Honey I Shrunk the Superhero kind of story”) as part of the possible production slate.


On Captain America, Arad says Marvel has a writer (and the script will take some time as it has to be a “masterpiece”) and someone in mind to star and direct. Arad called him Marvel’s second most famous character by name after Spider-Man, and called the project a “man out of time” story, about someone “looking at our world through the eyes of someone who thought the perfect world was small-town America.”


A major announcement regarding a Silver Surfer project is promised soon, which Arad described as, “Independence Day meets Marvel, times 10." Arad described a director who’s “mentally committed to it” and currently lensing another film as, “incredible with visuals” and “a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist."

Plans are for Galactus (“a force of nature, not a being”) to be part of the film."


Marvel is "very close" to striking a deal for an Iron Man" movie, and Arad described its development as a “war” with co-producers New Line Cinema. He also promised an announcement in a few weeks announcing Nick Cassavetes as the writer, who he said as unique emotional attachment to Iron Man's alter ego, Tony Stark, due to Cassavetes relationship with his father, a legendary filmmaker in his own right, John Cassavetes.


A sequel to 2004's The Punisher is planned, with Jigsaw as the villain and will be among a handful of Marvel films with an ‘R’ rating. Of the first film Arad said, "blood and intestines should have been blown out on the wall, because that's the Punisher."


Other possible ‘R’ films mentioned *******, Cloak and Dagger (“maybe”), Iron Fist (ditto). Arad mentioned 'Shang Chi and Luke Cage as ‘PG-13’.

The latter John Singleton helmed film Arad described as “Big studio movie” and said Diamondback will be villain.


The Hulk sequel is targeted for 2007, which [as compared to Ang Lee’s first film] Arad described as “Diet Hulk”. The CEO wants to play up the Hulk’s child-like curiosity in the second film, ala a Frankenstein’s monster.


On the opposite track, Arad would like to make a “darker” Daredevil sequel, and would make it if they got the licensed film rights back.

And as far as Elektra MTV.com describes a red rubber bracelet Arad wears on his wrist to remind him of past mistakes, and gets Arad to “somberly” admit, "I think Elektra is on ice now," but not before suggesting one way to make a sequel would be to return the character to her roots, by way of Sin City.


Finally, Arad played round robin on a number of other possibilities. Nick Fury ("I'm going back in time. I'm going back to the classic on this. It's about him; it's about S.H.I.E.L.D."); Thor ("We are feverishly working on Thor. It's a vast 'Lord of the Rings' sort of universe"); Deathlok ("There is an actor, a very big star, that we want to do it, and we'll talk to him within a month"); Namor, which he compared to Jurassic Park; and Black Widow (“It's going to be 'X-Men' writer David Hayter's directorial debut”.)</font>

BILLY CORGAN BUYS A PIECE OF THE GOLD COAST

Ten months after selling his Victorian painted lady mansion in Lake View for $1 million, former Smashing Pumpkins lead singer and chief songwriter Billy Corgan has paid $2.95 million for a recently renovated, historic six-room condominium on the Gold Coast.

After disbanding the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan formed a new group, Zwan, which is playing three sold-out shows at the Double Door this weekend.

Through his tour manager, Corgan declined to comment on the purchase of the two-bedroom condo. His tour manager confirmed that the singer-songwriter recently has been staying at the condo while rehearsing for Zwan's current tour, but said the Chicago-area native ultimately intends to lease the condo in a 110-year-old building to someone else. The unit has an oak-paneled living room, reception room, balcony framed by granite columns, four fireplaces, walnut parquet floors and a large terrace.

Corgan has shown an affinity for vintage properties. After moving out of the more than 100-year-old Lake View home at 3448 N. Greenview Ave., which he owned from 1993 to 2001, Corgan temporarily stayed in a penthouse in the Haberdasher Square loft development, 728 W. Jackson Blvd., a former manufacturing building that dates to 1926. And in 2000, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois awarded Corgan its President's Award for his commitment to historic preservation.

Since Corgan sold his Lake View home, one Smashing Pumpkins Web site reported that he has been living in Italy, but in interviews he has declined any comment on his permanent residence.

Singer Courtney Love, whom Corgan dated many years ago, just sold her loft in downtown Manhattan for $3 million after buying it for $2.6 million in January 2001, according to the New York Post. The loft is in the same building where rocker Lenny Kravitz just listed his own, five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot, multilevel loft for $16 million, after buying the space unfinished in October 2000 for $8 million, the Post reported.

Love also recently listed her almost 3,700-square-foot Spanish-style house on Los Angeles' Westside -- which she bought last June for $3 million -- for about the same price, according to the Los Angeles Times. Love reportedly is looking for another house in the area because her five-bedroom house, which was built in the 1920s, is too small.

Ironically, Love told the Times last year that she sold a four-bedroom, 4,700-square-foot French country-style house on almost 2 acres in the Hollywood Hills -- which she had purchased from Ellen DeGeneres in 1997 for about $3 million -- because she was planning to spend more time in New York and actually wanted something smaller in L.A. She sold the Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million in March 2001 to British businessman Mike Walley. Love's former Hollywood Hills house made the news in November 2001, after Paul McCartney's fellow Beatle George Harrison died. After Harrison's representatives gave a bogus L.A. address on his death certificate, the county's district attorney revealed in February that Harrison actually had died at Walley's house.

Rocker Tom Petty has paid close to $2.5 million for a three-bedroom oceanfront home in Malibu, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times. Built in 1974, the house has three fireplaces, Malibu tiles and a courtyard with a fountain, the paper reported ... Fred Durst, frontman for the rock group Limp Bizkit, has sold a house he never moved into in Bel Air, Calif., for $3.7 million because it had "vibes that were not quite correct for him," according to the Los Angeles Times. Last fall, Durst bought the four-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot house, which was once owned by the Doors' Robbie Krieger and has a carving of the Doors playing on one wall, for just under $4 million, the paper reported. Durst recently bought a house with a sound studio in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills, and has listed that home for $1.4 million, the Times reported.

Ant-Man? Fucking ANT-MAN?

This is how far this has gone

i thought The Hulk wasn't even watchable. at least i could sit through daredevil.

I heard that Captain America will be played by

http://morgannews.us/paul-walker-1.jpg

the hulk is up there on my worst movies list. luckily i only rented it and didnt piss away the money on a movie ticket

Come on, Hulk wasn't THAT bad. Definitely way better than Daredevil.

Elektra is dead, but HUlk lives. One outta two aint bad.

Most of that crap isnt gonna get made.

The Elektra movie was kinda lame, but could have been good if they didn't have it suck as much. They built up all these villains as being so powerful and threatening, then she killed one by dropping a log on him.

Why god would anyone bother giving that movie a chance?

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Ant-Man? Fucking ANT-MAN?

This is how far this has gone

<font color=33FFFF> don't be dissin ant-man</font>