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FRINGE Boy Mark Valley Is DC Comics’ HUMAN TARGET!!
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Mark Valley, who plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham’s evil dead boyfriend on “Fringe,” will embody DC Comics icon Christopher Chance in the Fox pilot “Human Target.”
If the project goes to series, it will be the second TV series for Chance, who was played by Rick Springfield in seven episodes of an ABC “Human Target” in the summer of 1992.
Chance, introduced in a 1972 issue of Action Comics, makes his living impersonating those marked for murder. He’s appeared in a number of short-lived DC Vertigo titles since 1999.
(Note that current "Battlestar Galactica" writer-producer Mark Verheiden wrote that 1992 "Human Target" special pictured above.)
The Fox pilot was penned by somebody named Jon Steinberg.
Find all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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I guess this will be nice.
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That Vertigo cover is so 'Vertigo-y.' The pretentiousness is just dripping off of that art. "Look at me! I'm really not a comic book geek! I'm reading some really DEEP stories with great cover art and rather bland, if not shitty interior work."
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there seems to be a whole lot of crazyness going on there. I like valley. he was great in keen eddie and boston legal. the premise sounds good.
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..by a long shot. The mini series by Peter Milligan and the late Edvin Biukovic was superb. If they can get a decent pilot on the screen then it would definitely amass a following and last a few seasons. What they shouldn't do is tone it down for the masses. This needs to be an HBO production!
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dead? yes. boyfriend? yes.
evil? i thought that was still up in the air - didn't he claim he was working deep cover for the NSA? -
Hmmm, he's not being credited on the show any more as of last night. So maybe they're "freeing" him to move on. He was only in about half of the episodes anyway.
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Feb 11, 2009 7:13:45 AM CST
cool, he has a comic book face. especially tony harris' style
by ironic_name
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... kind of like "The Male Man" or "Canine Dog".
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I agree with you 100%, but I am sure that the Left-Wing Loons will start to come out of the woodwork after that comment, blasting the NSA and the evil that they have unleashed on an unsuspecting world. l Call!!! erPants...Check! .Steiner...Check! rman...Check! ustryKiller!...Check! kes...Check! Mist...Check!Here come the freaks!!!!
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I have that book, so I hope this series does GREAT! haha I won't watch it because it's on FOX, and fox sux cox.
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Feb 11, 2009 8:23:37 AM CST
If Valley was ten years younger, he could've been Captain Americ
by spyguy
Dude's making moves, though. First he marries Torv and then he lands a starring gig in his own series. Well played.
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but I will download it if I hear good things from y'all.
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...I have poop cramps.
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I see no problem with that. Too bad Keen Eddie never found an audience, that was a good showcase for Valley.
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something to add to my to-do list. Or maybe not. Maybe I'm more of a middle of the road loon. You know.. road kill.
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fx is developing a pilot for Bendis Powers http://tinyurl.com/bwqkcf
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He is not a big name, but he fits.
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To quote Liz Lemon...I was thinking in last week's episode that he could definitely play a golden age superhero...maybe an Alan Scott or a Jay Garrick
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What is the deal with the last few weeks not getting the Lost TB until like 45 minutes before the episode starts? It usually is posted in the Co-Ax by the time I wake up, or least by 10 or 11 (east coast) Give us a place to talk about Lost or we're gonna hi-jack some TBs again, like last week.
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Let's go take over the shitty Heroes TB. If you see this, go to the Heroes TB from yesterday, and start conversing.
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No Justice I tell ya..
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Amazing Fringe lasted his tenure.
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please.
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"It's the part I was born to play!"
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ms moneypeny is mine.
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Compared to Mark Valley even Ben Affleck looks like Al Pacino. Young Al Pacino! This guy can't act.
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demanding their Lost talkback.
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Fuck Mark Valley! He can't even play a dead guy on a shitty FOX series. How the hell can he expect to play an actual, live person? He sucked at playing a lawyer on Boston Legal. He sucked at playing an FBI agent on Fringe. He will suck at playing the Human Target. His performance will make Rick Springfield look good. Fuck Mark Valley!
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way to turn my innocuous comment about Fringe into a slam against liberals.
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It's funny someone mentioned him here as a potential Captain America if he were ten years younger. I thought the exact same thing about him when I was watching this show. He's got that gung-ho quality you don't see much of anymore.
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had a longer run) but he isn't what I think of when I picture a guy who puts on padding, lifts, etc. to double for a potential victim. He (body-wise) looks too big/muscular/thick/square (my Dad's tailor would call it an 'athletic build'). I wonder if it is going to be more like the back-up stories in 'Action' or the Vertigo title?
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I saw all of these in their original run and still view them from time to time on a very worn VHS cassette. It was done by Pet Fly Productions (The Flash, Viper, The Sentinal among others)and had a great soundtrack. I hope that gets an eventual release on DVD. Will check it out on FOX but won't become too attached.
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in the live action version of American Dad! Now thats good casting!
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slacker
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He's been waiting for this Talkback for nearly 17 years. I imagined him as the uncle in 'One Crazy Summer' sitting by the radio, trying to win the contest. Or the Aaron Burr guy in the old milk commercial. It would have been poetically awesome if tra1128's internet connection went out just before he was able to post his comment. That guy sure does love The Human Target.
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I guess, I'm left-wing politically speaking, but you get to decide if I'm a loon.
It's not clear what being an agent for the NSA really means in Fringe, since (their classified charter not withstanding) it's understood that they are charged with intelligence in the classic sense, rather than direct action (which the CIA is responsible for). The NSA isn't inherently evil, and I would not paint their agents with that brush. They're just gathering data. The problem is when they are used to a) spy on U.S. citizens in the U.S. b) spy on our allies in their own countries and then provide that data to those countries in order to allow them to spy on their citizens and yet deny doing so c) provide intel to U.S. interests (corporations) on their competition around the world (this has been repeatedly alleged by companies like AirBus, but there's no solid evidence to date).
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since the Human Target is in disguise 90 percent of the time. Valley can just sit back and have other actors play his part.
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...that gigantic Stealth bomber that stays aloft 24-7 and that he lives and works in? Or the instant make-a-perfect-rubber-mask machine that makes the Mission Impossible style masks that make you look EXACTLY like another person?
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...William Shatner used in Barbary Coast? You know, where he always looked like William Shatner in a fake beard and eyepatch, or William Shatner in a fancy suit with slicked back hair and a monocle?
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It needed to be said. That is all.
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Seems like Mark Valley isn't playing Stan Smith in the American Dad live action movie at all. In fact he was cast as Aaron Eckhardt's chin double.
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Feb 12, 2009 11:03:37 AM CST
Yeah, I thought he would be a perfect Captain America, too.
by ejcarter9
Oh well.
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