Been a while since I posted... but I got a chance. Today is a good day.... Today, "Serenity" and "Battlestar Galactica 2.0" BOTH come out today.....THAT is a great thing! I definitely will be in Best Buy today...besides buying Christmas presents, I will be getting mine as well! I was in Suncoast Video recently and I was so depressed at how far behind I am in my DVD purchases. Samurai Champloo is already up to volume 5 and I only have the first one...not cool. Plus Batman:The Animated Series volume 4 is out and I don't even have three. Superman: the Animated Series Volume 2. The last season of Farscape. X-Files 4 thru 8( I have to think about Season 9..lol...) I'm sure there are others but I can't think of them......Sigh....

Just saw the X3 trailer on the Apple trailer page.....NICE. Visually, this movie looks like Bryan Singer is still the director and not Brett Ratner. I think that's important, to keep a consistent visual tone for the series. It would be way too jarring to create a new visual language right now. It looks really good, really controlled. I was a bit concerned but now I am really looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to Singer's Superman Returns but I would like to see more scenes, that teaser was REALLY a teaser. Soon enough, though....

Whew, been awhile...so busy....why won't they leave me alone?!?!?!?....Anyway, here's anothere thing I was thinking...this is actually an idea that my friend Tony floated to me. Which is interesting because I'm the fan of the books and he's not. It's time for another Doc Savage movie. Forget the Ron Ely one in the seventies, it's time to do a new one. Everyone talks about Conan, Tarzan, John Carter and all the others ( and rightly so...I read those as a kid and loved them) but Doc savage has like 182 books or something like that. That's a ton of reference to draw from. And it's set in the 30's..prime era for clear cut heroes and villians. But nothing hinting at silly like, The Shadow or The Phantom movies ( ugh...) but a thoughtful take on it: Fun but mature. Doc Savage was my favorite as a kid, I have FOND memories of my mom or dad buying them for me when I was a kid. My dad worked three blocks from a Barnes and Noble on 33rd and 7th. (It's a bank now, which saddens me.) If I went to work with my father he would take me over to the store and wait as I looked for another Doc Savage book to get and he would buy it for me. Good old dad. I almost got hit by a car reading one back to his job..he was pissed...lol...
But I still have a bunch of them with the great James Bama (one of the best cover artist I've ever seen) or Boris covers. And I would love to see a film that captures that look of those covers and the adventure that Kenneth Robeson ( or Lester Dent, his real name) created. With the effects of today it would look amazing.A pulp cover come to life, similar to " Sky Captain". Look at the New York City that Peter Jackson's fx group digitally created for King Kong. In the books Doc Savage operated out of the 88th floor of the Empire State building. Maybe a new film production can buy the digital files from then, since they are so faithful to New York. It would be great.
Now here's the part you'll either love or hate: the role of Doc Savage. There's only one guy I can think of that looks exactly the part. He looks like he stepped right off of a James Bama cover. Doc should be played by.......The Rock. Yes. The Rock. HE CAN DO IT. The guy could pull it off. He's far more talented than I think people give him credit for. That would be perfect. Imagine him with the ripped shirt and the 30's aviator pants....It would be great. Again, I am yelling into the darkness, with no one to hear me but I have to. It would be really slick..

Anyone have Peter Jackson's number? lol....