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2012 Claims Another Victim!!
Merrick here...
This tidbit actually slipped through the cracks a week or two ago, but given THE DARK KNIGHT's immediate descent into, we thought this was still quite relevant.
Chin Han has been cast in Roland Emmerich's 2012.
You might not know this guy's name, and you may not even recognize his face - although he's an accomplished actor/director who has appeared in many projects overseas. THE DARK KNIGHT is one of his first feature films, and is easily his highest profile role to date. He plays a corporate badass named "Lau", a dude so important that Batman/Bruce has to...ahhh, see for yourself.
In 2012, Chin Han will play "Lin Pang", a character "indispensible in the fight to save a group of citizens from various natural disasters" (says a recent release about the his appearance in the film).
While there's nothing particularly extraordinary about the role itself, Chin Han's DARK KNIGHT appearance is pretty memorable. Something tells me we'll be seeing much more from him in the future.
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I was just thinking about it and, c'mon, Superman can't have a kid.
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Or damn close.
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Im just saying. A kid makes the whole thing kid of silly
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Second place is for losers. And Lin Pang? Is this about Kung Fu Panda?
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If the ever expect to cross over into the Batman-verse, WB has to do something radically different with Superman.
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Is that like the Triseptisesquicential?
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Like, how would our society really handle the idea of a powerful alien living among us? There'd be massive freakouts. No movie has yet to address this.
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Starts with the kid dying, Superman turns darker and more merciless. And, amazingly, Lois Lane no longer looks like a twelve year old girl with a boob job.
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I wouldn't mind keeping some of the Donner elements though. The designs for the fortress of solitude were great.
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i just wanted to say that
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He's the only thing that survived Krypton besides Kal-El. Makes sense that they'd find each other eventually.
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Jul 17, 2008 9:40:43 AM CDT
Indishia LeJones and the Ferocious Wankshaft Of Pure Runny Shit
by 69dude
Coming soon from Lucasfilm.
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...would try to kill Kal-El to prevent him from interferring in Earth's business. It doesn't matter that Superman's doing good, Brainiac's a machine and machines always run on stone. cold. logic.
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Just as Nolan has re-invented Batman for a post-9/11 world someone should take Superman and do something cool and new with it. Dump the ridiculous emo-bullshit. Take the lead of The Dark Knight and call it Man of Steel.
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This guy should play Brainiac.
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lookin forward to that scene everybody's been talking about. a brawl perhaps?
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but I'll be back with more Superman rants. Just to sum up:I really think it should be a re-boot, but keep Donner's Krypton designs. The whole world should freak out when Superman arrives. Brainiac should be the villan, relentlessly hunting the last Kryptonian.
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You know it
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Yes, that's right. Here's the story - Alien hunk Karl Ellis arrives on planet Earth via straddling a large rock. He decides to move in with some simple farming robots JonaTron and Marth*A Kunt. Suddenly Karl realises he has super-powers! He can run on the spot and make the earth spin! He can eat untold pickled eggs, and (this is the best one) he can fly by flapping his arms. He spends his time racing eagles, and rooks - races which he always wins, much to their annoyance. When the evil Lax Lative sets about destroying Metropolis, Karl decides that wearing spandex would make him look a lot better and he heads off to do battle. Along the way, impressive piece of ass, and aspiring hip-hop artist Loiz Layne gets kidnapped and Karl (now calling himself Superdooperman) gets all pissy and has a fight. In the end, everything is ok, and Karl and Loiz get married but at the wedding someone tries to put on his hat so he stops them putting on his hat in order to show them that it's HIS hat and only he is cool enough to wear it.
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YOU ARE RIGHT - A REBOOT IS NECESSARY!!!! .. I like Routh as Superman, but not Singer. He fcked up the movie and his 2 buddies who wrote the movie and had that audacity to have a cameo in it - They need to be flogged for that turdfest of a story with a bastard kid - hey I am not swearing .. that kid is a bastard. Just a fact. And we need Lois Lane ... not that chick who was pretending to be Lois Lane.. and not a whiny teary Superman. If we want a crybaby superhero, we will watch Spidey3
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I'm gonna keep coming back until someone REMEMBERS seeing Richie!
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We haven't seen him in the movies yet. He should be a superman - the best humanity has to offer. A peakhuman. The smartest, strongest, etc. Someone who's destined to unite the world and rule it. (Or already does, from the shadows. Like Clancy Brown's Luthor) Him going up against Superman... an outsider. SUPERMAN from another world. That would be awesome. Superman should fight to CHANGE the world. CHANGE the status quo. So Luthor can't be an outsider criminal. He has to be in the system. He has to BE the system. My two cents.
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He doesn't need yet another origin movie or a "re-boot", that's been done to death. Hell, Smallville is just one excruciatingly long origin story. What was done with The Incredible Hulk, jumping right into the story, should be done with a new Superman movie.
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He was born, lived, made more money than friends and is probably lucky that hell no longer exists in most Christian Faiths, or else he be burning right now.
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An Ozymandias-type of Lex would make sense. Fueled by power and envy over Superman's power and admiration.
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PSYCH!
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I always viewed Ozzy as Luthor, who didn't have a Superman to fight. Sure, there was Doc Manhattan, but he wasn't a "hero" per se. But even he was ineffectual against a superhuman. Luthor shouldn't be. You would have to be scared to hear him talk, because he can easily talk you into suicide. He should have some sort of restrain too, thinking killing is a thugs way. He shouldn't want to kill Superman but to crush him, and then reform him as his own tool. If he needs supervillains for that, that's fine. Would make for a more interesting movie than that abortion SR.
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At least not for a few movies. Nobody out right now is going to top Gene Hackman's performance. Superman needs someone he can battle physically Doomsday or Darkseid.
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People will go to see Batman and leave thinking "well I guess Superman isn't THAT lame". Only then can they think about making anymore Superman flicks, but then again why bother? On to Justice League!
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Thats a great Luthor you got there. I'd pay to see Wentworth Miller play that role
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I thought Singer's use of X-Ray vision was really cool in SR, and why all the hate on Superboy, he existed in the DC universe. It's not like it came out of nowhere.
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are good as physical threats but c'mon. Non of them have real personalities. Doomsday is a silent killing machine and Darkseid is a generic cartoon "Intargalactic Overlord" Maybe they can play out the "Superman could be like those guys. The alien power without the human value system." part but without Luthor there's just no dynamic in Superman for me. The whole Luthor - Superman conflict is the harsh reality vs. the world we would like to believe in. For me that makes Supes stories work. Non of the movies captured it.
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It's the perfect formula for a dramatic conflict. Lex's no. 1 priority should be to control the alien. You got the right idea Colverfield.
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Superman sucks
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I don't need to see Superman's origin again. Just start with him already having abilities and everything and make Braniac or someone else the bad guy with Lex involved.
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I figured this out last time there was talkback! :) All you have to do is make the kid a bizzaro clone that grows real fast. A secret experiment to impregnate Lois. Have him fight superman and die at the end. Also have him say "You em Bizzaro's daddy?" Ha hah a. Of course the hole kid thing sucks and writes everything into a corner. It would be better to start from scratch with a Lex that isn't a wanted criminal but a business man. Mercy instead of bimbos and a bit more animated series feel. Braniac would be friggin nice. Any super villian would be. We were pretty much deprived of them in all Supe movies except for the kryptonians.
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There isn't a point to tell the origin, reboot or not. Braniac's origins would talk about Krypton enough.
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Supe's origin is definitely flash-back worthy, but we all know the backstory anyway. What I want to see is the first public reaction. How do they see him? Angel? Alien? Con Artist?
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hero in the DC universe, he sure isn't facing any impossible foes. Brainiac as a Terminator/Hal-9000 would fit the bill
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Another person I won't see when I intentionally avoid seeing this overwrought trainwreck!
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I mean 'Fox' news before he became the press sec for that asshole, which means he's probably been lying to the face of the American people for a while. Still, he was prbably a good guy once you got to know him.
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And Superman lands at a Buddhist monastery and gets ninja training. Also, he doesn't have powers, just a suit built from advanced alien technology.
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I hope you get pigfucked! PS: they need to reboot the Puppet Master series. Guillermo del Toro would be perfect.
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I like the idea of his mom making the suit from Kal-El's blankets. She designed it so that people wouldn't be afraid of him when they saw his abilites. He's supposed to look friendly and trustworthy. The 'entity' suit sounds kind of Venomish to me.
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that sounds painful.
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Hey Anchorite, I was just glancing through and saw ur post about Snow. I just don't think he rose to the level of public figure like Russert did that warranted an obit. Had he not been White House Press Secretary his broadcasting career was that of just another pundit. Even if you look at tv coverage of the day he died, Russert had hours of continuous coverage throughout the night (especially on MSNBC obviously), while the morning Snow died I turned on Fox News and they weren't even talking about it.
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it's true.
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had it coming out of a can, but I still have trouble creating a mythology about the suit. The fact is, its a blue unitard with red undies and a yellow belt. I don't know what the practical explanation of that design would be, aside from his mom trying to make him look friendly.
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The suit is a Kryptonian uniform, then I wouldn't mind the "pan's shadow" element.
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anything else from the script you read worth keeping for a re-boot? I skimmed my copy.
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TEH SUKK!!!!
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Batman Begins earned respect by sticking to the mythos and added common sense elements. The Abrams script left Krypton intact and made Lex a Kryptonian. 2 big, big no-no's.
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we never really get the sense of Superman's opinion of his abilities. Was there ever a point where his frustration led to an accidental death? I like the guy getting slammed by young Clark, but as an adult he'd have HUGE moral dillemas.
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Anchorite, I have to agree with Danny in that Tony Snow was a douche. I'm not going to say that he deserved colon cancer because right now my mom has colon cancer and is struggling for her life so I wouldn't wish that on anyone. And he appeared to be an OK guy to the people around him and a good family man. But he knowingly pushed the agenda of the Bush administation which was lies, lies and more lies. He continued to sell the war to the press, therefore the public, and justify the existence of the most corrupt gang of politicians in this country's history. That's just unforgiveable.Regarding the Abrams script, I thought it stank because the scenes back on Krypton were distracting but I liked the idea of another villain(s) with superhuman strength that gives Superman a run for his money. Singer gave us Superman vs. evil genius without super powers which is tired. Singer got the shuttle rescue and bank robbery sequences right but that's about it. But that's two more sequences than Abrams did.
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Deserves to be dunked in a shark tank. Every one. Both sides of the aisle. They are all dispicable corporate whores who are only interested in pandering to their base their first term so that they can get re-elected instead of trying to do what's best for the country knowing it might be political suicide.
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Jul 17, 2008 2:37:07 PM CDT
I was thinking of a Supes reboot based in the Nolanverse
by lost skeleton
of Batman. Have Supes fall to the Kents in 1975. Have the Kents terrified that they have the first being from another planet in human form, with superpoweres, living in their midst. Have Lex Luthor be this multimillionare doing deals with Wayne and thinking about running for President. Have Clark Kent living in a dangerous Metropolis watching the exploits of the Batman of Gothom and being called by some strange force to visit the North Pole. It would be great.
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And I think we were fated to discuss Superman and politics here today. Many people are upset and bewildered by the administration, so lets have a Superman film that deals with human corruption at the highest level. Batman can take down organized crime, but only Superman would be able to stand up to the leaders of the country.
Directed by Oliver Stone
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that Snow didn't get an obit because he didn't rise to level of prominence Russert did. Meet the Press is a television institution and Russert was its longest running host I believe. (Forgive me if that's not true.) If all Russert had was his political career, a few (albeit very good, sincere) books and his show on MSNBC he probably wouldn't have had an obit either.As for colon cancer, I'm against it. And I certainly don't think it's adequate punishment for lying or ignorance. Proper retribution for lying would be when you're eating something and you accidentally bite your tongue. That stings!
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that Tony Snow was a decent man. Even though you could tell what he was saying was untrue I don't think he was dishonest and there is a difference. He's a lot closer to Scott McClellan in that regard. He genuinely believed it for a while but once he doubted it he had to walk away. Snow, though, would never go all the way McClellan did. Ari Fleisher on the other hand, kind of a douchebag.Still not deserving of coon cancer though.
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I sincerely apologize for that typo. I'm embarrassed. I never meant it that way, I give you my word. Ugh, shame on me...
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Jul 17, 2008 3:01:59 PM CDT
When i saw his name in the TDK credits, I coulda sworn
by iamnicksaicnsn
it was Chin Chan. Look it up if you dare.
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It's been a bad year. We learned she had stage four colon cancer on Thanksgiving weekend and her chemo ended two weeks ago. Less than two months after her diagnosis, my father in law was diagnosed with the same thing, a few weeks after than my best friend had both his parents fall victim. So cancer is something I stopped wishing on people because it has completely transformed my life.I like Kate Bosworth and think she is hotter than the jewelry case at the pawn shop down the street, but her casting as Lois Lane is probably in my top five all-time list of worst miscast characters.
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Even if he did develop a crisis of conscience eventually, it came much later than it should have for someone of solid moral character. When you see and defend a President/administration that's capable of this, there's a problem with your character:"The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.""Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the 'most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice'. The White House apologised for what it called 'sloppy work' and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it."You just don't see that level of stupidity/corruption/incompetance/arrogance on a daily basis and let it slide. Snow held the position for 17 months. That's 16 months and 29 days more than he should have. Someone of integrity and strong moral fiber would have taken the podium that first day and after reading the press briefing, walked off saying they can't do it.You don't wait until the 100th time you see your boss pilfering the cookie jar before you develop a moral compass. That sort of thing should bother you from day one.
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Jul 17, 2008 5:57:54 PM CDT
ok when are we gonna see a well done darkseid & mr mxyspltlk in
by chocolatejesusman
mr mxyspltlk = seth rogen
Darkseid = anthony hopkins for the voice the body done half animatronic/half cg -
.......(*snicker*). I'm sorry, I'm being a bit of a dick, but for an anglophone like myself, that sounded so funny I just had to say it again. Especially when you see how serious he looks and all......
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.......riding a wing wang while playing a flim flam doing the Yin yang and all while dancing the cha cha. Okay, I'll stop now.
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They should reboot Superman.
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