Badass Digest Episode 25: Adapting Comic Books Into Movies
Bryan Lee O'Malley (SCOTT PILGRIM), Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA, FATALE) and comicgirl19 weigh in on turning four color pages into big screen spectacle.
Bryan Lee O'Malley (SCOTT PILGRIM), Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA, FATALE) and comicgirl19 weigh in on turning four color pages into big screen spectacle.
Marvel's new AGE OF ULTRON event brings a non-Marvel character into the universe, and Todd McFarlane's gonna be steaming about it.
Spoiler: it's you.
The last issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN sees some huge changes to Peter Parker's life. Lifelong Spidey fan Devin gives his thoughts.
Plus: tiny hints on AVENGERS 2.
Jamie Foxx spills some beans on his supervillain role, and how it's different from the comics.
I look forward to the home video release and seeing how he does in the role!
Does Sean Howe's new book about the history of Marvel Comics reveal whether or not Stan Lee is an asshole?
Joss Whedon and Marvel made the right choice in cutting this out.
An art experiment taking the Marvel superheroes of the 60s and 70s and looking at them through a DC Comics lens.
Sony's too-soon reboot is charming enough at the beginning but quickly turns into a boring, generic, badly made superhero mess.
The beloved director has shot a test reel for Marvel Studios.
A property you have probably never, ever heard of.
The cosmic scifi epic will lead directly into AVENGERS 2.
Every Marvel sequel to have bland numerical titles.
Imagine a loading bar, titled "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN," and it's like 55% full, and underneath it says 'Percentage of movie released via clips.'
Online rumors say that T'challa will leave Wakanda for Hollywood. Here's why Marvel should make that happen.
Grain of salt time: is Fox finally bringing one of the X-Men's most famous stories to the screen?
The first image from IRON MAN 3 shows off how far we've come.
In 1975 young Bill Murray played Johnny Storm in a Fantastic Four radio show!
Rumors and tales and scoops!
Approximately 2/3 of the movie is now available in trailers, clips, extended clips and behind the scenes featurettes!
A look at how The Hoff played Nick Fury in a terrible TV movie from 1998.
The former Bond villain will be a baddie - but which one?
Welcome Firepower to the Marvel Movieverse. Also, we have proof that Jon Favreau is back!
Are sincerity and optimism the greatest weapons in the arsenal of THE AVENGERS?
Excuse me while I say WTF.
New 'super sneak peek' shows off much of the same footage with more Lizard and more identity reveals by Peter Parker.
Being helpful is badass, so let's clear up any confusion about the mechanics of the Hulk's transformations in THE AVENGERS.
The Hollywood legend recalls the time he made a disabled superhero movie.
Marvel's nerdiest cameo yet, explained.
Possible spoilers within. How do you feel about changes to Spider-Man's origin?
Jack Kirby helped create Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and more. But he also created some of the oddest, strangest and most fun characters to ever grace the printed page. Here are ten creations that most capture that Kirby craziness.
Marvel Studios is done with hiding little references in their movies... for now.
An Iron Man cosplay that kind of boggles the mind.
Fox sits on a whole pile of popular Marvel characters. Can they learn to share?
From Captain America to Darkseid, the entirety of modern superhero stories owe a debt to Jack Kirby. And his immense influence extends well beyond the four color pages, deep into the heart of American pop culture. As THE AVENGERS opens we pay tribute to the genius behind it all.
Earth's Mightiest Heroes live up to their name in the best Marvel movie yet.
And no, Black Sabbath's Iron Man didn't make the list (it's not about THAT Iron Man).
Or just new mutants?
Orci and Kurtzman have been hired by Sony for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, even before the first comes out.
The habitually underrated actor could be a supporting player in the next IRON MAN movie.
Hawkeye and Black Widow are the first out the gate!
With The Mandarin looking less likely, what Chinese Marvel characters could show up in a China-set IRON MAN 3?
Once fans fixed continuity errors in their favorite fiction. Now they go to the Better Business Bureau to complain about them.
Robert Downey Jr lets slip that the team is getting back together for one last shoot.
Sidestepping embargoes with online buzz!
The Uwe Boll veteran is in talks to be a baddie who isn't The Mandarin.
The land of the rising sun brings us some neat new bits of THE AVENGERS - including a shot of the SHIELD Helicarrier!
Don't worry, the big stuff is still hidden.
Spider-Man's foe may yet get his own movie - to be directed by the guy behind surprise hit CHRONICLE.
The latest trailer for Earth's Mightiest Heroes gives us something to get excited about.
The one sheet for THE AVENGERS puts Iron Man front and center.
Maybe they're catching up on MAD MEN season 4.
Sony chooses an odd clip to premiere as part of their Mark Of The Spider-Man viral campaign.
Neveldine/Taylor blow it with this boring, stupid and badly made sequel that makes the original look good.
Those are familiar looking aliens...
You read Devin's impressions... now see for yourself!
They're revealed in the Super Bowl ad, but no one knows what they are, exactly.
And it's our first look at the... jetbike aliens.
Sony releases the official plot synopsis of the rebooted Spider-Man movie.
And that CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 shoots later this year.
Marvel's bringing back the Scarlet Spider, and he's coming to Houston!
Josh Trank is Fox's number one choice to bring back Marvel's First Family.
There's a new director and a new writer and we have been too lazy to tell you about them.
Take a look at what the Avengers fly in, and discuss the missing antagonists.
Because, you know, the kids. Or something.
A new trailer for THE AVENGERS, now in the Red Skull's language.
Apparently tight spandex is no shield against cancer cells.
The final movie in the GHOST RIDER franchise gets a new trailer.
The great mystery of how Spider-Man came into being will finally be revealed!
Marc Webb's reboot of the Marvel Comics character was spotted swinging around Manhattan this week.
Let's get marketed.
The show, based on Brian Michael Bendis' ALIAS, will be firmly planted in the Marvel Universe movie fans know and love.
By day he's a cop, by night he's righting wrongs in the streets as The Punisher.
EW publishes one of the ugliest Photoshop jobs I have ever seen.
The director of MONSTER may take a shot at Marvel’s God of Thunder.
As X-MEN: FIRST CLASS hits home video, producer Lauren Shuler Donner is unable to provide many solid hints at the survival of the franchise.
I run these things because I’m still having a hard time believing there’s an actual AVENGERS movie in the works.
Footage from THE AVENGERS proves that Joss Whedon can do two people talking very, very well.
Outer space action in the mighty Marvel manner, coming to theaters?
There’s a new Ultimate Spider-Man in town and you can thank Donald Glover for his complexion.
The first post-AVENGERS Marvel movie may be magical.
And no, I don’t mean Chris Evans.
How the last few minutes of CAPTAIN AMERICA blew it.
They held him for last and the big reveal is that the Emerald Avenger looks like… the Hulk.
Some fears have been allayed, but new ones have appeared. Get the rundown on the Spidey panel.
The mighty bowman debuts.
Salute CAPTAIN AMERICA because this is one damn good movie!
We who are about to die get our movie developed.
Some brand new looks at the brand new Spidey.
Here’s what those damned foreigners will see hanging in their foreign theaters.
Mondo reveals a stunning TRANSFORMERS poster available only at the Arclight Hollywood, and they get into the Marvel Comics cover design business!
SEE! Skinny Steve Rogers! THRILL! To the Nazi Hydra army! HEAR! Tool for some reason.
When Captain America holds his mighty shield…
Some folks have seen CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, and they quite like it.
This is, more or less, your first look at The Avengers as a team. Including Captain America’s new 21st century costume!
You can look but you cannot touch - only five copies have ended up in the general population!
Let’s assume for a moment that X-MEN: FIRST CLASS does well. Who should show up in the sequels? We have some ideas.
A Red Skull character poster is spreading on the South American internet (it runs counterclockwise south of the equator. Coriolis effect, you know) - is it legit?