“Prince of Persia” graphic novel announced and other odds and ends.
Yet another graphic novel tie-in to a movie with an all star cast of artists attached. I swear, this is too good to be true.
Heidi over at the Beat says, Cameron Stewart (”Seaguy”), Tommy Lee Edwards (”Marvel 1985″), Nico Henrichon (”Pride of Baghdad”) will collaborate with writer Jordan Mechner to bring the Jake Gyllenhaal film to four-color pages. Mechner wrote the video game to which the film is based upon. And that’s right, you guessed it, there will be a panel discussing the book at SDCC, at 11:30 on Friday at the Disney Press panel.
- The Flickcast reports that workaholic Christos Gage is adapting Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy for DC Comics. They also feature some great screengrabs from the video game due in 2010. Looks epic.
- “Oh no, not THE HORNETS!” Nicolas Cage joins “The Green Hornet”. I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help myself. This movie is like rubber necking a car accident on the 59th Street bridge. Something bad happens seemingly every month. Stephen Chow is out as Kato, but they add Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz. I don’t know, with the amounts of weird choices in this movie from director Michel Gondry to these two, this is going to be one very intriguing movie. Or a car wreck.
- This is for my girlfriend: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a writer! His name is John Frusca and he wrote Young Guns! Woah. Cowabunga, dude.
Tuesday Morning Cartoons.
Marvel and DC Comics have released their latest animation endeavors with the “Spider-Woman” motion comic, and the first four minutes of “Green Lantern: First Flight”. We would embed the clips to the body of this article, but they’ve crashed my browser four times since this morning. So, apologies.
The Spider-Woman “motion comic” which still just sounds like a classed up version of saying cartoon, much in the same way that “graphic novel” pertains to comics looks pretty fantastic. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by his “Daredevil” partner Alex Maleev, this is something that looks patently gorgeous. The entire movie will be shown at the”Marvel Digital Comics” panel Friday, July 25th at 5:30pm in room 6DE of the San Diego Convention Center.
Though it wouldn’t be Con if the other half of the Big Two didn’t have something premiering as well to conflict with that. That is “Green Lantern: First Flight” which our friend Rick Marshall over at MTV’s Splash Page has the first four-minute clip of the film. The movie premieres Thursday night at 8pm in Ballroom 20. For those of us not attending the convention, we’re just going to have to wait for the DVD to come out July 28th.
Coming up, we’ll give you our guide to surviving the San Diego Comic Con and what we think you’d like to check out.
