And now, as promised, here's that Marvel movie update I didn't do last night. All this info comes straight from Marvel headman Avi Arad in a recent stockholders webcast:
- Daredevil: The Director's Cut hits DVD in April.
- Nick Fury and Tales of the Zombie are now in development.
- The Punisher will be rated R.
- Werewolf by Night will be directed by John Fasano, and will be a fantasy/romance film.
- Mort the Dead Teenager will be Marvel's first comedy film.
- Brett Leonard, who just finished directing Man-Thing, will do other Marvel films.
- Fantastic Four has been pushed back to Summer 2005. Marvel figures it's more of a summer movie, anyway.
- Iron Man is also being readied for 2005. It's currently being written by Smallville creators and Spider-Man 2 writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It will be a very expensive film.
- Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze, is being written and directed by Daredevil writer/director Mark Steven Johnson. Filming begins in January. It will also come out in 2005.
- Elektra will probably come out in 2005, and delve more into the character's backstory. And the plan is still to reunite her with Matt Murdoch in Daredevil 2.
- X-Men 3 has officially been given a Summer 2006 release.
- Hulk 2 is also locked in for Summer 2006, and an unnamed writer has been hired.
- A script for Namor has just been finished by David Self. That one's also planned for 2006. Arad jokes that the film has "more fish than Finding Nemo."
- A race has begun among the "world's greatest writers" to see who will write Captain America. That one's also hoped for 2006.
- Nick Fury has just entered fast development, and it's been sold as "James Bond made in the USA."
And now, I should get some work done.
Next Issue...Jacana's Back!
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