FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
If you like Kurosawa’s samurai movies, it’s a very good bet that you’ll like Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s comics - it’s the closest movie/comics match this side of Sin City, which is kind of cheating given Frank Miller’s involvement in the movie too. Koike is as superb a craftsman as you’ll find writing comics anywhere. [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
United Nations weapon inspectors have found way more than they bargained for during a routine inspection. That may sound like the beginning of a "torn from headlines" plot from your average episode... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Considering the dozens upon dozens of comic properties that were optioned for film in the past decade but will never hit theaters, it's good to know that one of the better ones is inching closer to reality. Warren Ellis' extremely cool comic OCEAN got grabbed last year by production company Hollywood Gang (some of the many people behind 300), and they've got a writer now chipping away on the script....
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Warner Bros. has hired newcomer Ryan Condal to adapt Ocean, the science-fiction comic by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse. The miniseries, which was released in 2004-2005 by DC’s Wildstorm imprint, is set “one hundred years from now,” when a U.N. weapons inspector discovers thousands of coffins and a weapon of mass destruction beneath the ice of [...]
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Elite Squad director Jose Padilha has been hired by Warner Bros. to direct an action thriller about "an American Federal agent who goes undercover in South America's dangerous triborder area" to fight a terrorist network.
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
All eyes are focused intently on Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit currently, but that doesn't mean we can't also keep our eye on what's next after that. In addition to Frank Miller's graphic novel Ronin , apparently Hard Boiled is on the slate to get adapted, too. However, Miller has taken such a liking to directing recently, that he wants to direct the Hard Boiled movie himself!...
Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
So, from yesterday's post, I did want to mention that I was going to note our Italian hypnotist-supervillain friend bore some slight resemblance to long-time DC nogoodnik Vandal Savage: I didn't bring it up, for whatever reason, but fortunately commenter Corey was first out the gate and noted it immediately. Because, really, if there were going to be an Italian hypnotist-supervillian, wouldn't he have...
Forever Geek (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
With the success of both Sin City and 300, it's natural for Hollywood to keep mining more of Frank Miller’s material. This means that we will be seeing Ronin get the big movie treatment in the future. It has been reported that preproduction for the Ronin movie is already underway. Scriptwriter Joby Harold is already writing [...]
Comic Book Resources (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
News from Kansas' strangest town, Frank Miller's classic comes closer to celluloid and plastic for Stark, plus "Justice League," "Street Fighter" and more.
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Warner Bros. has announced it will adapt Frank Miller’s Ronin for the big screen, but surprisingly Miller won't be writing the adaptation. That task has been assigned to scribe Joby Harold, who most recently wrote and directed Awake staring Jessica Alba. “Ronin,” which Miller wrote and drew in the early 1980s, centers on a [...]
Comics2Film (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
The movie version of Frank Miller's ' Ronin ' gains a writer this week in one Joby Harold, writer and director of last year's medical thriller ' Awake '.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Filed under: Action , Deals , Warner Brothers , Shorts , Scripts , Newsstand , Comic/Superhero/Geek I was wondering what happened to this project. Frank Miller's Ronin was optioned last spring in the glory days of 300 's massive box office. And then it faded away after talk of filming it against a blue screen a'la Zack Snyder. Perhaps realizing that Miller was never actually going to write a sequel...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Despite Frank Miller saying that no one else would direct his work again, his comic series Ronin is set to be directed by Sylvian White with Joby Harold adapting. Harold recently wrote Awake, a film which looks to have much promise, and White directed Stomp the Yard and is to direct Castlevania, are they the right ones to adapt Ronin'...Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
A VERY quick, doubtless incomplete round-up of stuff announced at this weekend's Wizard World: If we missed something let us know. • There will be a “Who Do You Trust” one-shot leading into the whole Skrull take over story line. (Art via Marvel.com) • Joe Kelly is the writer leaving DC and going back to Marvel, [...]
Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Elmore Leonard's very short story Three Ten To Yuma was a masterful exploration of an underpaid marshal's motivation to defy the odds (and death) and incarcerate an outlaw. After I posted this , I was curious to see what a Hollywood feature-length treatment of the story might look like. I would have preferred the 1957 original, but I had readier access to last year's big budget remake , so that's the...
