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David Goyer Signs On To Direct Mignola and Golden’s BALTIMORE!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I keep meaning to pick up the new book BALTIMORE, OR THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER AND THE VAMPIRE, an “illustrated novel” by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Sounds like David Goyer must have found time to pick up a copy, though, because VARIETY announced today that Goyer’s going to direct the film for New Regency, with Mignola and Golden actually writing the script.
Here’s the description from VARIETY’s story:
Just-published by Bantam, the graphic novel tells the story of the awakening of supreme evil on Earth. Lord Henry Baltimore is bitten by a demonic vampire bat on a WWI battlefield. The plague destroys his family, and Baltimore creates a team to hunt and fight the Red King, the embodiment of all evil.
Mignola’s also getting ready to see his most famous creation back on the bigscreen as Guillermo Del Toro wraps up principal photography on HELLBOY 2. It’s a great time to be a Mignola fan.
Of course, it’s probably an even better time to be Mignola, wouldn’t you guess?
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Readers Talkback
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that's 8 now
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Goyer should do everything possible to stay away from vampire-hunting films after "Blade 3." Please!
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Not sure about that, Blade 3 was pretty good, but is that enough?
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What movie did I watch then?
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hanging on my wall. His stuff's so cool no one even makes fun of it (unlike, say, if I had a Rob Liefield orginal page up). Good news, but Goyer is a hack!
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I VOTE FOR UWE BOLL
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That pilot show thing was freaking awesome. How could Sci-Fi not pick that up? I guess they'd rather keep playing those 'Giant Animal' scary movies over and over instead of creating quality animated programming?
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Zigzag. Blade: Trinity. The Invisible. I'm sorry, what am I missing here? The guy's 0 for 3. He's lost money every time. But every week he's listed as directing another comic book movie. What happened to Magneto?
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I don't know what exec. would allow him back behind a camera!? If you can't make a good movie with Jessica Beihl AND Ryan Reynolds (and DESPITE Wesley Snipes) then you probably can't make a good movie. Step away from the camera sir ... let me see those hands ... slowly
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..... albeit, less Crimsony.
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Goyer may be one of the worst, most talentless directors to every get behind a camera. He should stick to writing. The two talents aren't necessarily transferrable.
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Or Golden's Hellboy books? I almost picked it up the other day, too because I'm such a fan of Mignola and Hellboy, but then I told myself I'd wait for the paperback. Maybe that was a mistake?
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And I still haven't seen Blade 3. That bad, huh?
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More genius from Mignola. He is the man. I'm happy for him that, after years struggling to make it in comics, he's finally being recognized for his work, and making great bank as well.
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stop him now he is a terrible non-filmmaker
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Seriously, he's like a professional fanfic writer! He's done a bunch of novels on Hellboy and the Buffyverse (but no crossovers between the two, unfortunately) and he writes the established characters really well. I haven't read any of his original stuff (didn't even know about this one), but I'd be very interested to see how the film turns out.
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he's a comic geek at heart maybe he can do something cool with this...i loved the novel
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Too bad they're hiring that shithead to direct it. But, anyway, Baltimore is an incredible book. There's a Mignola drawing in there of Baltimore, the first time he's introduced in full 'hunter' mode, that I absolutely HAVE to have on my wall. This could make a great film - let's hope Goyer finds a way to get himself fired before it's too late.
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