Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Monday, 2 March 2009

Faith in Wonder Woman

This is some cool news for Dushku fans! Following the prolonged rumours about Joss Whedon's on/ off love affair with a feature length Wonder Woman movie, WENN.com have announced that Lynda Carter (the goddess who played the titulat (fnaar) character in the 70s tv show) has declared her blessing for the Buffy actress. Just more rumours at the moment of course but any excuse to post a picture of Wonder Woman and BLAMMO is here to appease those masses, driven mad through the denial of such photographs on lesser film blogs. Yeah.

"Lynda Carter has officially passed the Wonder Woman baton to actress Eliza Dushku, insisting she'd make a great comic book heroine.

Carter, who played the iconic character on TV in the 1970s, insists the world needs a new Wonder Woman - and if reports suggesting director Joss Whedon is set to launch a new franchise with Dushku are correct, the original star would be thrilled.

She tells WENN, "I've always liked Joss, and Eliza would make a great Wonder Woman."

Carter has even offered her services to help groom the next Wonder Woman.

She adds, "People worry about, 'I really helped with this movie and I didn't get paid,' which I could care less about. People don't usually contact the original people to find things out because they're afraid of being sued claiming it was their idea. I hope if they make the movie it makes a bajillion (millions) dollars, which means they'll continue to make them." http://www.wenn.com/

Monday, 16 February 2009

New Iron Man news!


The last few days have offered more Iron Man casting news for the character of Black Widow. First we expected Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, Charlie Wilson's War) but she had to cancel due to scheduling conflicts. Then came talk that Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) was chasing the role but, sadly, nothing came of that. Now it seems that Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, The Count's Wedding Video) is in serious contention to play the Russian, cat suited super spy.

Now I love Johansson as much as the next man (in fact I'll kill the next man to prove my love) but is she really the right choice here? The character of Black Widow includes a background in ballet, heart break and then serious honey trap style espionage for the Soviets. Scarlett tends to look lovely and mumble a lot. I have a lot of faith in director Jon Favreau but can't help but feel there are a lot of eastern European (or even Russian) actresses that could do this part very well and if it's the star pull that attracted the studio to Scarlett then how about Olga Kurylenko from that rather weak, yet extremely successful recent James Bond film?

What do you folk think?