More Mad Mel would be cool!

Didnt he do Babe the pig movie and that weird penguin one recently though? Maybee he only good at animal films now?

"Hi, my name is Rachel Dawes...doinka doinka doinka boing boing."

See.

Besides, Snookeroo is right; despite Superman Returns making money and pulling in mixed but positive reviews and TDK being a 3rd deck grand slam home run, The bothers Warner otherwise have no idea what do do with their DC properties.

As for the Bond analogy, that's silly. You don't even HAVE to go that far - comic book fans are used to these SAME characters looking cmopletely different (and the writers even changing their personalities) on a MONTHLY basis when the artists and creative teams change. It's never been a real problem there, and that's been going on for more decades than Bond.

Still, the cast is otherwise in their mid to late 20s... in my opinion, I'd like to see these heroes portrayed as a little older and wiser. Artist Alex Ross always gives his interpretation of the DC heroes an interesting look... that is what I'd like to see. Hell, I'd go for a film version of Kingdom Come - that would be a great JLA movie.

And Martian Manhunter is old as the hills, and bringing this all back circular-style, he was Toecutter. Hmm. The rest are whippersnappers though.

The problem is that Nolans Batman and even Singers Supes (to a lesser extent) have been grounded in a somewhat plausible reality, so for all of a sudden have other, more "comic book" type characters in that world would be hard to mesh.

Anyway, I've always thought Fincher would make a bad-ass superhero flick. Although I'd prefer he do The Avengers.

1) Bruce Spence was in both Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, but he played TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS.

2) The Seal of Immortality in Lost Crusade is JUST THAT. Once you pass the seal, ixnay on the immortalitay.

We now return you to your scheduled programming.

And a big FU goes out to another f'n exec for spoiling it for us. First it was Avi Arad forcing Raimi to use Venom when Raimi swore up and down that he would leave Venom to the next director. FU Mr. Arad. Then it was WB (Not too sure who specifically) telling Miller to go with a younger cast instead of the 30+ crowd Miller was skewing for. I can't blame George for throwing his hands up and admitting defeat (after SO much GM's life was invested in it. Those who say, "He should just walk away" haven't the slightest clue of how films are made. People put their entire life on the line for (in many big-budget films) years at a time even before production. Working 10-16 hour days with 1 day off/week when it starts shooting for around a month, and so much more. It ain't easy making it all look so easy)

One fellow above suggested that Miller take on Green Lantern (my fave). As much as that would rock my world inside out, Greg Berlanti is already well underway (though so was Supes II when old Mr. (mo)Lester took the reigns, so...). Man, how huge would that have been. How about some news, AICN??? Huh?

Whoever asked for a M. Bay-directed JLA, give your head a shake. Do you really want more contmoprary humor than stoyline? If Bay was a producer and perhaps had a director like Soderburgh (sp?) who could handle ensemble casts and have a decent storyline, maybe. Or (if we're just supposin') how about Clint Eastwood directing? Huh? Too much?

I would love to see another Mad Max film, too. I would like to see it be as raw as the first Road Warrior and as advanced (and weird) as Thunderdome (though hopefully better in execution). Max should still be a loner, perhaps a final mission because he's dying or something along those lines to give it some 'heavyosity' (patent pending).

Happy Feet might not have been the perfect, cuddly, CG-animated-animal movie, but the concepts therein were pretty out-there (ask Wyrm).

And if you didn't 'get' Babe,(yes, I meant cry like a school-girl) then you are a cold-hearted, soul-less SOB who doesn't deserve anything nice, anyways (just make sure that your karma doesn't ruin it for others. Oops, already has (read article header). Joo Hhid-Eots. You know that you're just screwing yourself anyways).

Still waiting for an actual link to GM's article, AICN...

I guess maybe if we bitch and moan loud enough, a Christmas miracle might happen, and zombie Orson Welles will come back to direct this and convince John Williams to score it and Daniel Day Lewis will play every role and it will be rated NC-17 for graphic man-child situations and sheer awesomeness... but, call me a cynic, I don't see that happening.

What's going on with the Brad Pitt Odyssey thing? Has any more been said on that?