Each and every week we scour the Internet for nothing but the best in nerdy art. We leave no digital stone unturned, we poke and prod every nook and cranny of the Interwebz. Why? Because we love you, and we love to bring you weekly feed of nerd art.

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Above: Aww, a sad Doctor swinging on a swing, but an amazing painting by artist James Hance. The painter, who previously did work on the Winnie the Pooh/Star Wars paintings has done a series of incredible paints featuring Doctor Who‘s  9th, 10th and 11th doctors. Curse you for making us feel emotion, James. [Nerd Apporved]

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

Above: This fabulous Daryl Dixon was found at Wondercon, is cosplayed by Leeanna Vamp, and is very accurate, right down to a necklace of ears. Okay, now I want an entire genderbent Walking Dead group. [Fashionably Geek]

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: Australian model and Nerd Bastards fan Isabelle Deltore  wanted to say hello from down under.  [Isabelle Deltore]

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As most probably know by now, the writing team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (perhaps best known for penning Zombieland) has put together a script for Deadpool and are trying to get the powers-that-be over at Fox to take them seriously.  While doing a marketing tour for yet another of their creations, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, they also talked a bit about Deadpool.

In an interview with /film, the pair had a few things to say.

Such as Reese, talking about the script:

The way I would describe it is to say it’s the best script we’ve ever written and probably ever can write. To us it’s the pinnacle of what we are capable of and we are super proud of it. It will definitely pose a risk, just because it’s an R rated Deadpool and most comic book movies aren’t, but we just think it’s a phenomenal opportunity and we’ve got a wonderful star in Ryan Reynolds and a wonderful director in Tim Miller and we’ve got some wonderful test footage that he did for it. The script is sitting there, we just want it.

Both of them discussing chatting with Fox comic movie guru, Mark Millar:

Reese: We’ve been in touch with Mark, because he’s come on as a consultant for Fox, so we are talking to him and we are….

Wernick: We are beating that drum. It’s the one project that we are so passionate to get made and we are doing everything we can. We have a few tricks up our sleeves still.

And about whether they’re okay or not with the fact that the Deadpool script leaked online and is widely available across the Internet for anyone to read:

Wernick: As fine with that as we could be.

Reese: We really couldn’t be. I mean we didn’t have a choice. It leaked and we couldn’t do anything about it and for a minute we were appalled and then the reaction was great, so we were excited and now I guess it doesn’t really matter.

In addition, it appears that Ryan Reynolds is still interested in jumping into Deadpool’s tights to play the role and Tim Miller is also onboard to sit in the director’s chair.

While I’m not happy with Reynolds touching anything with his grubby hands and Tim Miller is an unknown factor, I am pleased that Reese and Wernick are still looking to sell what is most likely an excellent take on the character.  If they can find a new lead, they might even get a decent flick out of this.

Thanks to /film for the heads-up.

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Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick spoke to Collider recently to promote the upcoming release of G.I Joe: Retaliation. The writers are currently working on the planned Deadpool standalone flick starring Ryan Renolds, who first played the popular Marvel character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Among other things, Reese discussed the difficulty they’ve had in convincing Fox to greenlight a “hard R” superhero film:

We have a phenomenal director in Tim Miller, who did about a 3-minute test for  Fox, and Ryan came in to do the mo-cap for it and the voice. And it’s like the  greatest three minutes ever. I look at the three minutes and I’m like, “That’s  the movie, and it has to get made.” I think the biggest hurdle right now is  convincing the-powers-that-be that it’s okay to have a hard-R rated movie within  the Marvel Universe. I think there just has to be a tolerance for the outlier. There has to be a  tolerance for this one project that’s not like all the other Marvel projects.

Wernick adds that Deadpool needs the kind of character development that Marvel films have given the other superheroes they’ve featured:

Iron Man was like that when it came out. Tony Stark and the hard drinking,  fast-talking billionaire was very different from all the other Marvel  characters. And look what it became. And we feel that way about Deadpool.

And finally, Reese shares his thoughts regarding the unplanned leak of the Deadpool script:

The  script leaked online in some bizarre way that we haven’t figured out, so it’s  very easily findable out there. It’s pretty much you go on Google and type in “Deadpool script” and you’ll find it. Not to say people should be doing that  because it certainly wasn’t something we anticipated or enjoyed in the moment,  but the Deadpool fans who found it think that it’s right in the wheelhouse of  what a Deadpool movie should be. And so again, we’re just fighting that uphill battle to convince people, and be positive.

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Each and every week we scour the Internet for nothing but the best in nerdy art. We leave no digital stone unturned, we poke and prod every nook and cranny of the Interwebz. Why? Because we love you, and we love to bring you weekly feed of nerd art.

On with the dump!

Above: A cat version of Bilbo by Andrea Femerstrand being creeped up on by a cat version of Gollum, wonderful. The Hobbit made it’self a lot of money last year but if you redo it with cats… You’ll be purring all the way to the bank! [The Mary Sue]

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Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone are making the press publicity rounds for their part in the upcoming animated comedy The Croods. You can skip all that crap in the video and get to the good stuff at the 4:18 mark.

Reynolds is asked about the status of the R rated Deadpool movie and says:

“The studio, I think is reluctant to pull the trigger on such a hard Rated-R script. Then the guys who wrote it and the producers won’t make it unless it’s that hard and, you know, raunchy.”

Emma Stone had this to say about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 script:

“The script is really great, I think it’s going to be really great, I’m really excited. It’s been really fun so far.”

It’s surprising to me, that is surprising to me, that FOX Studios is reluctant to make an R rated superhero movie when you look at the success of many of the cable television series (Game of Thrones, Spartacus) that would certainly get an R rating if put on the big screen. Deadpool has a huge fan base. It’s a lock that anything Deadpool funny that NerdBastards posts on Facebook will get tons of likes and shares.

I get the feeling that the executives continue to base their decision on the basis of past R rated super hero movies without looking at the current trends on television that buck that belief.

What do you think?

Via: ScreenSlam

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Remember the shitty Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins? Yeah, I get the whole thing wasn’t that great… but, y’know, that one thing that made us all want to cry in agony a few years ago when he became “Weapon XI”? Yeah, I wish I didn’t remember it either.

Most people thought it was pretty bad. What most people didn’t know is that it could have been a helluva lot worse. I didn’t believe that… until I saw this.

Amalgamated Designs is one of the visual effects companies that worked on the film, and they’ve released a compilation of 82 different possible portrayals of Deadpool in the film. Since they went through so many potential designs, be prepared to see a wide range of things.

Here, in quick succession, are 82 variations on Deadpool. It was our job to satisfy the many creative voices on the show, from director Gavin Hood to the Producers and Studio, so we generated a huge selection of artwork from complete direction changes to subtle variations like tweaks to eye color. This is why having a design phase at the start of preproduction is so valuable. We’ll never satisfy everyone with a design, but an exploratory like this lets us consider the options.
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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: The TMNT watermelon core Krang O’ lantern pumpkin. “Shredder, you idiot. Where is my body?”  [MikeV]

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Each and every week we scour the Internet for nothing but the best in nerdy art. We leave no digital stone unturned, we poke and prod every nook and cranny of the Interwebz. Why? Because we love you, and we love to bring you weekly feed of nerd art. On with the dump!

House Lannister of Casterly Rock might be one of the Great Houses of Westeros, but they don’t hold a candle to Mario and the House of Nintendo’s throne of game consoles. Aaron Jasinski made this beautiful parody piece of the original Game of Thrones promotional pic, we can’t wait to see him do a painting of Kirby in full Tyrion armor slapping Joffrey like a bitch. [Janinski Art]

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