The Thor Movie Gets On Track!

Matthew Vaughan was named director for the 'Thor' Movie that is tracked for release in the year 2009.

Matthew was the director of 'Stardust', which didn't do as well at the box office as people were expecting it to!  Even Tina thought it looked good at the Comic Con Preview Program, and she is a harder critic than I am!!

The script is supposed to be written by Mark Protosevich, of 'I Am Legend'....

Ok, so who's the 'Thunder God' Thor going to be.....? 

Stay tooned for more, we'll blog about it when we find out!

For those of you that are interested in The Mighty Thor Marvel Comics, just click on the top left photo of myself holding a few of them!

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Michael

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Watched This DVD Today While Shipping!

I admit it doesn't have the special effects we are used to today, but it is darn good for its' time!

I saw it as a twelve year old up on Kodiak Island, Alaska at the Navy Base's large screen theater.

At Kodiak Island we had like one TV station that we could get reception for!  So during the 3 years my dad was stationed there, I did see several movies as well as collect comics!

This movie had vivid scenes, and was a great story! It was one of my first Sci-Fi movies and probably one of the reasons why this film genre is still one of my favorites today!

Plus, you gotta place it in time... in 1964 it was still 5 years before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon.  The USA and the Soviet Union were racing for that goal, so something set on Mars was really Sci-Fi !

For those that have never seen it, 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' was a 1964 science fiction film 'retelling' of the classic novel by Daniel Defoe, except it was set on the Planet Mars instead of an island on Earth!

It was fantastically directed by Byron Haskin, and produced by Aubrey Schenck.

The big thing to me as a kid was that storyline was fantastic! There was no need for blood, gore and HoRRoR scenes in this film to get the storyline across!

The film also starred some great acting by actors Paul Mantee as the modern day Robinson Crusoe, Victor Lundin as Friday and Adam West as the second astronaut, (who of course two years later went on to become TV's Batman!).

This may seem like an oddball film with the title of the movie as it is, but there are many Sci-Fi fans that have been waiting for this film to appear on DVD!

Originally in the 'Lower 48 States', this film was paired with other drive-in fare, but don't miss it because of that! 

This DVD has been released as a 'Special Edition' on September 18th. Not to be missed!

And no, we don't sell it, but making our blog readers aware of this new release! I definitely enjoyed it today and will re-watch it Saturday night with my youngest son with the 'comments' sound on!

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Michael

So The Movie Is Back On Track!

Matthew Vaughan was named director for the 'Thor' Movie that is tracked for release in the year 2009.

Matthew was the director of 'Stardust', which didn't do as well at the box office as people were expecting it to!  Even Tina thought it looked good at the Comic Con Preview Program, and she is a harder critic than I am!!

The script is supposed to be written by Mark Protosevich, of 'I Am Legend'....

Ok, so who's the 'Thunder God' Thor going to be.....? 

Stay tooned for more, we'll blog about it when we find out!

For those of you that are interested in The Mighty Thor Marvel Comics, just click on the top left comic book cover!

Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post and feel free to comment below !

Michael

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A She-Hulk Movie?

Sure!  Especially after what Tina and I saw of the upcoming 'Hulk' Movie at the SDCC program in July!

Click Here to see Tina's 'Take' on that preview program!

(Note: Please Pardon the 'distortion' of the post, eBay has changed blog format again since this was first posted!)

OK, we know that in the late 1980s, Marvel Comics approached Brigitte Nielsen to pose for photographs dressed as the comic book character She-Hulk.

Brigitte had previously impressed the company with her prior portrayal of their character Red Sonja and accordingly they hoped she would prove just as successful in a new movie venture.

Unfortunately the photos that were produced did not enlicit a large amount of investors in the potential film and Marvel was forced to scrap the project.

The middle left photo shows Brigitte modelling a skimpy outfit and I 'photoshopped' the photo to reflect a greenish hue about her, as the She-Hulk is green like her cousin the Incredible Hulk!  You can see that Brigitte definitely had the body double of the She-Hulk at that time!

There are very few pics of Brigitte dressed as the She-Hulk, with the one to the top left being one of those.  As you can see by comparing the two aforementioned photos, Brigitte would have come across very well as the She-Hulk, alter ego of Jennifer Walters, who is a lawyer in her day job.

Since I first blogged about this previous non-movie, there has been some interest in producing a movie with the She-Hulk. We will keep you blogged on details as they come up!

She-Hulk is currently being published in a on-going title, and up to issue #22 this series!   

I personally enjoyed the second comics series, which had John Byrne write and pencil the series, where She-Hulk would break the 'fourth wall' and talk to readers of the comics, knowing that she was in a comic book with her adventures being told.  Kind of a strange humour book, but when reading the comic it makes more sense...

That wraps it up for this blog post... But I wanna see She-Hulk in a movie, not her less 'incredible' Hulk cousin's next movie!

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Michael

Surf's Up!

Again!

Well, the waves will be cresting on October 2nd, when the DVD is finally released!

We are looking forward to it, even tho we saw it at the theater earlier this year!

For 'Our Take' on the movie, just CLICK HERE to see our previous blog post!  Excuse the distortion of the post, as eBay has ONCE AGAIN made changes to the archived posts!

For those of you that are interested in Fantastic Four Comics, just click on the top left comic book cover!

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Michael

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