Iron Man Outtakes, OAFE, Warren Ellis, CGI Babes in Playboy, Hellboy 2, X-Men 3, Superman 8/27/04

8/27/2004

Iron Man: Interested in reading an outtake from Iron Man #87? Read it here, thanks to writer Mark Ricketts.

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Wrongrobot's Wrong Site of the Week- OAFE: These guys are, as Paris would say: "hot! heeee!" Browse their site for amusing anecdotes about the action figure industry, lots of custom figures, several figuretoons, and more.

My favorite: Stik Hellboy.



...and to boot, they reviewed the Batman: Year One: Unmasked figure my local retailer sold without my permission: Batman Unmasked.




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Warren Ellis' Streaming Blog Update: This week, we have smoking fags with hot Michelle Forbes, and eating lamb burgers with William Gibson, who apparently is so OVER Cyberpunk.

"Michelle Forbes and I are standing outside the bar, warm at half past midnight in high-summer central Vancouver, having a couple of cigarettes. The rest of the night's group -- GLOBAL FREQUENCY actors Jenni Baird and Josh Hopkins, writer/showrunner John Rogers and DP Checco Varese, Rachael Harrell from Mark Burnett Productions and local burlesque dancer Tristan Risk -- are already inside. They don't smoke. The only other smoker on set is Brian Jensen, playing the mad Russian with a rotting implant in his head, his clothes imperceptibly filled with a never-ending supply of small cigars. But tonight it's just me and Michelle. She's smoking American cigarettes called Parliament which have a "recessed filter". They look like roaches. We're talking about growing up in our professions in public, and the weird adjustments it brings. Used to being the "bad kids", we are -- but you can't do that in your thirties. It just looks embarrassing. You have to find the next thing to be. What Fraction calls Act Two.

We finish our cigarettes and open the bar's side door to join our friends. The door's been locked on the smokers. Michelle pulls at it a bit, and then looks at me.

"Bad kids," she says.

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"You're on a hot set?" says William Gibson, absently dissecting a deeply strange-looking Asian-fusion lamb burger. The underground car park GLOBAL FREQUENCY was shooting in a few days earlier was desperately hot. Josh was bent over a chair lifting his shirt and bellowing "FAN ME! FAN ME NOW!" to a distinctly uncompliant Jenni. Bill Gibson talks slow and wry, as if each line was a polished third draft. He was on a set in the dead of winter, and explains that the director was strapped into a parka with a heating element built into the spine. An assistant had the job of opening the top of the spine every two hours and putting fresh batteries into it in order to keep the director alive. "Beware of being a Creative Consultant," Bill says. "The last time I was a Creative Consultant, it was on JOHNNY MNEMONIC." Somehow, I can't bring myself to mention that I actually like some of that film. Even though I've been unable to take Henry Rollins seriously since he became a British television game show host.

We talk books as Tristan attacks a plate of chocolates like a starving cannibal. Bill's found his personal Act Two: writing contemporary fiction with the tools of science fiction. When I tell him my forthcoming first novel is contemporary mainstream, he says something like "Thank God."

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CGI Babes in Sensual Situations...[and this is news?!]: Well, it's been abuzz for a few weeks, and now the first peeks of Playboy's upcoming marketing stunt are online. Fanboys across the planet shuddered in delight, then paused, and frowned when they realized it wasn't a big game sport fisting photo spread, and in fact was likely to be less erotic than their own videogames. But anyway, read about it all official-like here.

OK, fine, IronLung, here's some samples, just get your ass off my forehead.









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Hellboy 2, X-Men 3, Superman: Thanks to a one/two/three punch by CBR's Comic Reel, here's a smattering of amusing entries.

"[HELLBOY 2] ...director Guillermo del Toro will be part of a live chat with Empire Online this Friday. "An adaptation of the Mike Mignola comic about the world's greatest paranormal investigator (a red-skinned, wisecracking demon, no less), the film was a no. 1 hit when it opened in the States back in April. But it's finally opening here on September 3 and to discuss this, his career and anything under the sun, Guillermo is coming into the Empire office for a live webchat this FRIDAY at 4.30pm. If you have a burning desire to ask GDT (one of the nicest men in the 'biz, fact fans) anything, then click here around 4.15pm to log in."

Meanwhile, his two stars Ron Perlman and Selma Blair talked to OutNow.CH about their involvement in the sequel. "I will be in part two!" Blair said. "Liz has her strengths finally. She would better be in part two! I'm signing on to do it and I think we are shooting in one year. Probably in Prague, maybe Berlin even." When asked about the story, she replied, "Top secret. I swore myself to secrecy. I think it's going to be very beautiful. And Liz is going to be much more powerful in this one. She has to be. She sure didn't bust out a lot of moves in the last one in the end."

Perlman claims he's seen as somewhat less trustworthy: "They don't let any of their secrets out on me. I think that they really regard me as this 14-year old irresponsible adolescent, who the minute is told a secret to, is just going to be blabber all out on the internet. I'll probably find out about it, as we are shooting."

[X-MEN 3] ...Much like a whiny ex calling to say they're done with you, a representative from Fox has been quoted in this month's issue of Wizard Magazine as saying, "We can officially confirm that Bryan is off 'X3', and that the project is moving forward." Now if "X3" starts working out, gets some hot new clothes and starts dating somebody more impressive, the cycle of revenge will be complete. Singer's not done with the franchise -- he'll still be penning issues of "Ultimate X-Men" for the publisher in 2005.

[SUPERMAN] ...Actor Vin Diesel has posited some thoughts on how he would approach the character of Lex Luthor, if offered it, in The Daily Record: "Lex Luthor has an interesting character arc and if we could spin on the Superman concept and make something more interesting of this other dude, maybe a guy who used to be a street thug with a very keen mind, then he could be a cool motherf***** in his own right. You know, if I ever got that part, then I'd rip it. In fact, if I ever played Lex Luthor, the film would be called Lex Luthor - Lex Luthor and this crazy-ass Superman." Right.

Also, according to IESB.net the director already has someone in mind for one key role: " I think what the deal is that they want to surround an unknown with slightly more marketable names...for instance, folks like Patrick Stewart (who is apparently singer's fave for Jor-El) would have more pull at the b.o."

So, there you go, a delightful trifecta of emsuing entertainment tidbits: Liz Sherman will be hotter and more powerful in the hellboy sequel while Perlman can't be trusted not to spoil, while Fox is still trying to save face over losing Bryan Singer, and on Superman, Vin Deisel is an idiot.

So says...Wrongrobot!


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