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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a huge LOSER...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Me saying I'm not familiar with this comic isn't too much of a surprise. The only current comics I tend to keep regular on are Eric Powell's THE GOON and Robert Kirkman's WALKING DEAD (thanks for ending, Y: THE LAST MAN). I'm due a trip to Austin Books. I'm even at least 3 or 4 issues behind on those two and I want to pick up the new Scott Pilgrim.
Anyway, the news is Vertigo's comic THE LOSERS, written by Andy Diggle and illustrated mainly by Jock (2000AD), is coming to the big screen... well, that's not even the news. I'm pretty sure that's been out, but the star is newly known thanks to The Hollywood Reporter. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, soon to disgust us all as The Comedian in WATCHMEN has nabbed the lead, Clay. Clay's the leader of a special forces team out for vengeance after being left for dead by their handler. And it looks like they don't like the CIA very much, either.
Anyway, thems what's new. Sylvain White (STOMP THE YARD, and attachments to Frank Miller's RONIN and CASTLEVANIA) will direct for Warner Bros and Silver Pictures.
I'll give the first graphic novel a flip-through when I make it up to the comic book store sometime next week and see if it grabs me. Any fans of the material out there with thoughts on this?
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Seriously, get all volumes (there's 4 or 5) and read them, you can't possibly go wrong!
As a comic book, it reads like the absolute perfect 80s action movie. Please let them not fuck this up... -
That what I want to know.
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... when the thing is NOT a graphic novel? It was a monthly series collected in paperbacks. For Eisner's sake, dudes! BTW, Watchmen is also NOT a graphic novel. Jesus! (The Killing Joke? Yep. Graphic novel).
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And judging by his facepaint(?) he sure looks excited to get to that KISS concert too:
http://tinyurl.com/dyk3at
Fox continues to impress... -
.... Weapon XI, the guy in red pants doing fancy spin kicks towards Logan.
That martial artist they hired and listed on the cast list under that role is just the action double for Reynolds/ red herring. -
Imagine the best action movie ever in comic book form. Not sold on the director, but if Morgan can do the Comedian, he should do well as Clay.
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That's vaguely what I remember being like. Great book when I was reading it, and it'll make a slick movie.
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...but it sure smells good!
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a SF team or a CIA covert action contract team? I'm a bit confused about that and feeling bad to be "that guy".
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hard edged...jdm is perfect for it ot, but wil wheaton says that watchmen kicks ass...and wil is a bigger geek than anyone here...so that is good news
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He was cool in Greys and rocks out in Supernatural. Always figured be was meant for bigger things. One to watch. On a completely unrelated geek note. He's playing a Clay? Didn't his Supernatural son just play a Clay in Friday The 13th!?!? Yeah. Umm...not caring anymore.
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uh....wtf??
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SF team....i wonder if this film will touch on the original kubert team at all
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Fucking Ass.
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Gordie really screwed the pooch on that one!
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I can't remember the two brothers names and this will never happen, but they should get hired on as part of JDM's Losers crew.
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that's the funniest "Loser" reference I could think of. Pie fucking jokes are so old.
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This is inspired casting by the Losers filmakers
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J.D. Morgan would really like to work with him.
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Feb 20, 2009 2:17:51 AM CST
"BACK TO THE FUTURE" REMAKE - WITH ZAC EFRON - it's official
by ray gamma
I just heard it's definitely happening now.
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Please be fucking with us!
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I totally agree with you on the whole graphic novel/TPB thing. I HATE everythime a Watchmen trailer comes on, and it heralds it as the greatest graphic novel, blah blah. To me, it's more a trade paperback, since it was a twelve issue series that was afterword collected. It infuriates me.
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but who is Zac Effron???
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...are enough to make me completely disinterested in any news related to this film.
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... everything else in just semantics. I know Alan Moore considers Watchmen to be a novel, of 12 chapters. Are Bleak House and Great Expectations less than novels just because they were serialised first? Nope.
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...it was all right...when you were twelve.
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Back to the Future remake? Isn't all the news about the economy depressing enough? Now this?
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I hope you're kidding.
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at least he always seems to play dead characters in the few things I've seen him in...Grey's Anatomy...died, and apparently is a ghost now? I don't watch, but my girl does. Weeds...Nancy's dead husband. Watchmen...(spoiler)the Comedian dies in the beginning. It will be nice for him to get more non-dead work...until the inevitable Weekend at Bernie's remake.
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this guy is creepy...
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The casting doesn't blow me away, but I don't hate it.
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I'll tell you right now, if they don't let Andy Diggle be involved and let Jock do the poster, they screwed up. I know neither of them created the book, but man did they do it justice. Freaking awesome.
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Maybe Quint should find out who wrote that :)
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And LOSERS is fuckin' awesome; you should definitely check it out if you haven't by now. Vertigo Comics in general is awesome, and is pretty keeping the medium of comics legit on its lonesome, besides Marvel Illustrated. Death to superheroes - long live real comics.
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It wouldn't shock me if his name came up to be suggested for further casting. Or even Allan Tudyk.
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There is only ONE Losers comic book, and they fought Nazis. This fake Losers can go die in an empty cineplex.
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are for people too embarrassed to say comic book. Watchmen was a comic book. The Losers was a comic book.
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Quint, if you didn't read it who on the site did? Cause there is a quote from you guys on the bottom of the book your showing....The Losers was a great series too. I loved how you didn't know if someone you cared about was going to die in it.
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But who's AISHA??? Freida Pinto would be cool.
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And she kicks ass.
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Oh. SPOILER?
In the immmortal words of Nas & Diddy, "You can hate me, now."
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There's your tag line.
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Is the only important casting. They fuck that up, the movie is over.
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Whaddya think?
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