Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a nice report from Wizard World L.A. that contains all sorts of info on BATMAN BEGINS, PUNISHER 2 and a bit on THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, with some extra info on THE FLASH and Avi's production slate for Marvel flicks. This report is actually getting me excited for ComiCon, which I've been going to for the last 5 or 6 years now. This feels like ComiCon with all the panels and cool movie shit and chats with people like the awesomely talented Tim Bradstreet (the dude responsible for all those cool HELLBLAZER covers and the cool PUNISHER covers and one-sheets). Bradstreet's a cool guy... maybe has some sticky fingers when it comes to poor fat geeks' prized sketch books, but hey... It's all good. hehe Enjoy the report, squirts!

hey harry.  I just got back from the awesome Wizard World L.A. 2005.  So far I havent seen any reports on all the juicy stuff (except for that FF panel), so I thought you might want to know what happened.

At the Amityville panel Ryan Reynolds (no relation to Burt, glad that is cleared up) disclosed the fact that he talked to David Goyer recently and that the deal is good to go that if Warners green lights a Flash movie, that Ryan will be playing the roll.   Also when asked about Deadpool, Ryan said that Avi Arad still wants him for the part and that Avi just got a call from Fox about picking up the rights.  He said he would love to play the part and that it was "the reason I walked out of my mother"    Also Melissa George said that she filmed a scene where her character from Alias is shown to be alive, so she hopes that someday soon she can go back to that role.  Regarding Amityville, not much was said that hasn’t been said elsewhere.  Ryan did point out that they found a dead body in the lake their first week of filming.

I also got a chance to talk to Tim Bradstreet (the punisher cover artist, and the guy who did all the movie posters for the movie).  He was full of info on the Punisher movie, and it's sequel.  Apparently there is work being done right now on a director's cut DVD.  This was the first time I had heard anything about this.  The DVD will add a few subplots that were cut out.  One of these includes Stuff of Frank Castle in the war.  I guess none of the footage was shot for this (there wasn’t time) so they are filming the actors on a green screen and are going to come up with some sort of animation / live action hybrid or something like that.  The footage is supposed to blend in with the opening credits.  Also Tim was showing off the early Punisher 2 poster, the poster was just a torso shot of the Punisher holding guns in each hand, with a 2 at the bottom of the page.  Very simple and very effective.  Tom Jane was supposed to show up for one of Tim's signings but both of them go too drunk the night before so Tom just went home.  Tim also said that work should get started on the sequel soon, and that the director of the first one is working hard on the script for the second one right now.

A 10 minute clip of Batman Begins was shown to a packed crowd.  There were tons of security everywhere watching people for cameras.  Before the show I was just checking some of the photos I took earlier in the day, and I was told to put my camera away or it would be taken away from me.   So they took this footage very seriously, and after seeing it, I can see why.   The footage is mainly showing us how Bruce gets to be Batman.  It starts with Bruce playing in the garden with a girl when they are both kids.  Bruce accidently falls down into a cave where bats swarm him.  Bruce's father comes to the rescue and explains to Bruce that the bats were actually scared of him.  Later at a show, some of the performers remind Bruce of his incident with the bats.  Bruce pleads with his father to leave.  Of course as they are leaving we all now what happens.  This scene is very violent looking and hard to watch.  It's much better than the original movie's version.  At the funeral Rutger Haugher tells Bruce he will keep an eye on the empire until he is old enough.  This then leads us to a very angry looking Christian Bale.  He is talking to someone that says he would have to go a thousand miles to find someone who wouldn’t recognize him.  It then cuts to Bruce walking in on the temple of Ra's al Ghual.  He asks for the means to fight injustice.  He is almost attacked before Liam Neeson steps in.  Bruce tries to attack him but gets his ass handed to him.  This scene was great, I've never seen Liam look so cool.  A little training montage happens and we then get a bunch of quick cuts showing Bruce getting his suit and gear ready, and then we see several iconic shots of Batman brought to life.  Then a lot of quick cuts showing off gordon, the batmobile, morgan freeman, katie holmes and some great looking action.  The clip ends with Batman getting sprayed by the Scarecrow.  The shot of the Scarecrow looks the same as the Super bowl spot, but after he sprays Batman, he looks up and the Scarecrow's mask is all cut with maggots and insects crawling out of the cuts.  The Scarecrow then lights Batman on fire and Batman leaps off the building while on fire.   Everything looks incredible and this should be the Blockbuster movie of the year.

there was also some stuff with Joss Whedon and Serenity, If your interested ill be sure to send it in later.  I just got home from driving 14 hours straight, so its time for some sleep. if you use this go ahead and call me ash97470