Marvel Announce Captain America: The First Avenger Comic Book Tie-in

Marvel comics have announced the release of a new eight-part digital comic book series that will serve as a prequel to their upcoming superhero spectacular Captain America: The First Avenger. The eight-part series has been written by Fred Van Lente while the artwork has been provided by Luke Ross, Neil Edwards and Richard Isanove. It will be called Captain America: First Vengeance and will be available for download, for FREE, on Sunday which coincides with the first movie trailer which is scheduled to debut during the Super Bowl match between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. Here’s what Stephen Broussard, the co-producer of the movie has to say on the comic-book spinoff… “It’s…

Alan Moore Says Watchmen Was Perfect Everything Since Is Crap

According to comic book author Alan Moore, comic books peaked in 1986 with the release of Watchmen. According to Moore, Watchmen was the pinnacle of an art form and since its release, there has been nothing that has even come close to matching it let alone surpassing it. In an interview with Stool Pigeon, the comic book scribe humbly revealed… “Initially Watchmen gained a lot of its readership because it was taking an unusual look at superheroes, but actually it was more about redefining comics than it was about redefining one particular genre…. And, as you say, there hasn’t been a more sophisticated comic released in the 25 years since, which I find profoundly depressing,…

Marvel Get To Work On Iron Fist Script

For a while now we’ve known that Marvel Studios was looking at some of its lesser-known comic book properties with a view to making lower budget superhero movies but other than that not much else was made public. Until now. Now, we have learned that Marvel has hired xXx writer Rich Wilkes to adapt Iron Fist into a movie. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the character of Iron Fist; he was created back in the 70’s when everybody was dancing to Carl Douglas’s ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ and focused on a dude named Daniel Rand who discovers he has a natural gift for fighting. Anyway, one thing leads to another and Rand finds…

Joss Whedon Admits Writing Avengers Script Is Tough

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has admitted that working on the script for the upcoming superhero movie The Avengers is proving difficult as Marvel have placed enormous stipulations on the project. Talking to The Sydney Morning Herald, the director revealed that there are parts of his script that will never ever get filmed due to Marvel’s constraints… “I’m working on a movie that’s got enormous stipulations and is going to be changing and fluid every second. I’ve come up with dozens of scenes and lines and exchanges and monologues that I adore that are not going to be in it. But while I’m writing them they feed me, excite me and they ultimately…

Ghost Rider Gearing Up For Romanian Shoot

It seems that the Ghost Rider sequel is gearing up for production. Expected to begin filming this fall in Romania, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will once again see Nicolas Cage reprise the role of Johnny Blaze. Interestingly, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will be the first major Hollywood movie since 2002’s Cold Mountain to be shot in Romania. Ghost Rider 2 will be directed by filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and yes, like every movie these days which has at least one special effect shot, it will be filmed in 3D. At this moment in time no release dates or casting details have been announced but you can expect that to change pretty…