News from the four-colour world this morning, with Ant-Man rumours rife, and a certain Parent company swallowing up the DC Universe like Galactus on a particularly peckish day.
It’s fairly obvious the STS has a speacial (read ‘borderline dangerously obsessive’) relationship with comic book movies, rarely a day passing without one of our staffers donning a towell/paperclip cape and leaping out of the window onto the already messy London streets below. So when our super-hearing (no – we don’t know how it works either…) first picked up news a couple of years ago that Edgar Wright was planning a take on Marvel’s little-known Ant-Man property, we were hooked.
A gruesome horror helmer in charge of a cynical, downbeat comic property? Sounds golden to us, and this morning things move a little closer to completion, with young Edgar spilling the beans over on CHUD about some possible Pixar involvement:
“The news that Pixar is involved is not wholly accurate and a little premature to comment on. I love Pixar’s work more than anyone and indeed would love to collaborate with them. I just spoke to (Marvel’s movie supremo) Kevin Feige for the first time since I wrapped and we are meeting this week to discuss the next phase. It’s been something that I have worked on for over five years on and off. There’s even a treatment I wrote that dates even further back than that.”
’Not wholly accurate’ certainly sounds intriguing, and although things have ground to a temporary halt while Wright works on another comic property, the sublime Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, the thought of the Incredibles boys bringing their particular brand of sparkle to an established super-hero property-particularly one as subversive as Ant-Man – sounds like an enticing prospect. Expect further news on weather this particular ant will spoil the Directors (blood and) Ice Cream trilogy schedule shortly.
Meanwhile there’s massive Cape-based turmoil as Warner Brother’s finally give in to Super Villain megalomania and swallow up DC Comics.
The Batman and Superman parent company have remained a separate arm of WB until now, but with it’s properties struggling for recognition against Marvel Studios – Dark Knight excepted – the newly formed DC Entertainment brand will attempt to increase visibility for lesser known characters, and may even drag The Flash and Wonder Woman out of development hell and into cinemas. According to Warner big cheese Alan Horn:
“It’s no secret that DC has a myriad of rich and untapped possibilities from its deep library of iconic and lesser-known characters, the formation of DC Entertainment will help us bring more DC properties across additional platforms to fans around the world.”
Here at STS we’re hoping this means we finally get to see the so-bad-it-can’t-possibly-exist ‘Haunted Tank’ on our screens-and get to hear Brandon Routh trying to pronounce ‘Mxylzyzylpkt’ in the near future.
