Big name director for the Deadpool movie, guess who?

There's news today about a Deadpool director? Who may you ask? Robert Rodriguez! Director of some awesome stuff, like Desperado and Sin City. The movie was on the fast track after X-Men Origins: Wolverine featured the Deadpool character. Ryan Reynolds signed on to reprise his role as a spin-off feature. Then a road bump... he got cast as another superhero! Reynolds signed on to Warner Brothers' Green Lantern.

There was talk that Reynolds may have backed out of the Deadpool project, but that hasn't happened. It was reported by the guys at /slashfilm that Reynolds is indeed involved and the offer is out to Rodriguez to direct.


As long as Rodriguez takes a comedy-action approach to the movie, I'm totally OK with this decision by Fox. But if he tries to pull a Gavin Hood, and make the movie too serious for its own good, "somebody gonna get a hurt real bad". Hood made 'Wolverine' way too damn serious for its own good. And the fact that the Deadpool character is in fact a comedic one, let's hope Rodriguez takes a lighter approach. Till then, we'll keep ya posted.

The image at the top of the post is by DeviantArt contributor Will, screen name deusxmachina.

Quickie: Eastbound and Down season 2 teaser trailer

Kenny Powers aka Danny McBride is back b*tches! Ok, that was totally inappropriate, but that's how Kenny Powers talks. HBO's "Eastbound and Down" returns for Season 2 in September. This is just a teaser trailer to wet our appetites, but it's fine for now. If you have not seen this show yet, you're missing out, big time. McBride delivers as a washed-up major league baseball player, forced to move in with his brother and live a "normal" life as a substitute teacher. It's hilarious, and the fact that it's on HBO makes it even better! Check it out.

Kenny Powers Is Back In September

Quickie: AWESOME banner/poster for The Expendables

UPDATE: Here is the latest Expendables poster. Seriously, I think the cast alone makes the movie 50 million. And in worldwide markets, even more!

'Nuff Said!

Mortal Kombat like we've NEVER seen before, unbelievably good

Holy wow! Be prepared for some one of the most anticipated, most talked about reboots in movies today, Mortal Kombat! I've done a few posts about the Mortal Kombat reboot, but nothing could have prepared us for this! Latino Review had the exclusive on this almost 8 minute video. It's a test video with some great production value.

It's to better show Warner Brothers what a "bloodier" version of the video game movie would look like; and it's awesome. Hit the Latino Review link for the cast, including Michael Jai White playing Jax and Jeri Ryan as Sonja Blade. We will definitely keep an eye on this for you!

Green Lantern writer hired for Green Lantern 2 and The Flash?

I was reading this at /Slashfilm and really didn't know what to think. Sooo, Warner Brothers is loving Green Lantern (1), so much, they're starting part 2? Wowzers. I am impressed. WB hired Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, and Marc Guggenheim to start writing Green Lanter 2 as well as The Flash.

So we knew that WB was green lighting superhero movies left and right. We knew that. But we didn't know it was going to happen so fast. I've told you my thoughts on the superhero movies WB has lined up. I've also told you who I think should play these characters, now it's up to the studio to cast them correctly! Let the writing begin!

Quickie: Batman Year One is Warner Brothers coming

I love the Warner Brothers direct-to-video, animated films. A few weeks ago I told you about their latest outing, Batman: Under The Red Hood. Now comes news from Comics Continuum about a Warner Brothers animation movie; Batman: Year One.  Due out later this year.

The movie, I'm sure, will follow Frank Miller's legendary graphic novel which pulled Batman out of the "campy" and into the "dark side". The graphic novel is considered a classic and some of the key points were inspiration for Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.

Quickie: Tom Cruise hints at a Les Grossman movie

Tropic Thunder was a great movie, that was well received by both fans and critics alike. Tom Cruise tore it UP as Les Grossman, the studio exec. who was quick to scream and curse at you. I loved the character and Cruise stole the show. Eonline reported just a single quote that has our hopes up: "Yup, we're working on it." We'll see what happens but I for one would see this movie.