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This week on the supple Bastardcast, your mother lets Jeremy and Jason out of her bed long enough to talk about Free Comic Book Day, Doctorless Who and the Time Lord’s E-Harmony account, the great Marvel vs. DC debate, and the return of four classic Marvel characters to the Disney owned Marvel Movie Universe that will now be completely ignored after being totally abandoned. So, welcome back Matt Murdock!

Also on the show: Fanboys have Fury over Human Torch casting rumor, Ray-J and Brandy (or possibly another pair of siblings) joining the Avengers if “sources” are to be believed, Jim Gaffigan doesn’t care about your toenails and we don’t care about the resulting controversy, and stop, collaborate, and listen as Ziggy Stardust Jr. compares Tom Cruise to Vanilla Ice.

Do you demand more? Alrighty, Jason performs emergency surgery on a couch that may contain a pathway to another dimension, Charlie Day rides a robot like a bronco while it pinata’s the head of a monster with the whooping stick made of 100% boat, and the boys sing an ode to Grand Theft Auto Trevor, patron saint of fucking shit up and wife-beater tees.

All that, vaginal care products, fresh meat for the Hall of Excellence, and the continuing search for Jeremy’s stolen Batman colorforms on this week’s episode of The Bastardcast.

The Bastardcast: Please don’t listen to us while you masturbate.

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The word rocketing across the Internet today is that FOX‘s Fantastic Four reboot director Josh Trank (Chronicle) is considering casting Michael B. Jordan in the role of Johnny Storm, the Human Torch. Are FOX and Trank testing the water with this rumored casting leak?

You might remember Donald Glover making a pitch to play Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man reboot. Fan reaction to that idea was mixed, but after years of Hollywood ignoring character race in casting Caucasians, color blind casting is a relatively new thing in Hollywood. Two examples in the super hero movie category include Clarke Duncan as The Kingpin in Daredevil and Jamie Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-man 2, both villains. Perhaps it’s time for a hero to receive the same treatment on screen.

How would this work out in the Fantastic Four though? Sue Storm is Johnny’s sister and with the reported news of Allison Williams consideration for the role of Sue Storm, would they still be brother and sister? Adopted siblings, or same mother different fathers or vice-versa?

I’ve really enjoyed Jordan’s work in Chronicle, Friday Night Lights, and from what I hear Fruitvale is fantastic in no small part to his talented acting. He would handle the role well, but is world ready for him in that role?

What do you think, not just about Jordan as the Torch, but the state of race in casting in Hollywood today?

Via: Blastr

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They say that it’s going to be release in March 2015, they say that production is scheduled to begin this coming June, but on this last day of April in 2013, we still don’t have even one cast member nailed down for Josh Trank‘s re-staging of the Fantastic Four. Well maybe that’s changing. Deadline is reporting that Allison Williams, co-star of the HBO Girls and daughter of NBC anchor and Daily Show punchline Brian Williams, is on the short list for a part in the film “I’ve heard Williams is also on the short for the Fantastic Four reboot, which is in the very early talking stage,” the site states.

By process of elimination, we can infer that Williams is most likely up for the role of Sue Storm, The Invisible Woman. The part was played by Jessica Alba in 2005′s Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer, so automatically the mere rumor of Williams playing the part is an improvement. If casting news is leaking, then maybe we should expect some hard casting news soon.

Anyway, what do you Bastards think? Would Williams make a good Invisible Woman, or do you have different casting ideas?

Source: Comic Book Movie

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Matthew Vaughn, best known as Director of X-Men: First Class, will be lending his talents to the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four–helmed by Josh Trank: Director of superpowered teen sleeper hit Chronicle. The news comes to us from FOX’s Marvel consultant Mark Millar via Twitter:

Just off the phone with Fox and some excellent news — Matthew Vaughn is producing Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot!

The F4 franchise proved one of Marvel’s relatively few cinematic flops (though still superior to Electra), and there is much hope in both the comics and film communities that the caliber of talent being assembled for this reboot will redeem the super team’s on-screen reputation.

No credible information is available as of yet concerning the reboot’s release date, cast or plot details–further updates to follow.

Source: GeekTyrant

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Above: A tribute to the classic Little Golden Books of a youth! Illustrator Rosemary Travale has created a Little Tolkien Book. Turning the The Hobbit into a series of children’s books, Rosemary did what many thought was impossible -making Martin Freeman even more adorable. [The Mary Sue]

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Now that he has been declared the Grand Poobah of Marvel Comic properties for FOX Studios, its high time they put Mark Millar to work, right? Job number one, convince fans to come back to theaters to see the Fantastic Four after two very dismal outings. Man, don’t you hate it when your new job starts to suck right-away?

Set to hit theaters March 6th 2015, the fully rebooted Fantastic Four will be directed by Josh Trank, the dude that brought us that vaguely entertaining superhero found footage movie Chronicle. What can we expect from Trank in this all new, all diffrent FF movie? Millar gives us a little taste:

“From what I’ve seen and from talking to him – he and I have had dinner a couple of times and we talk quite regularly as well – he’s contemporising it. I think he’s just making it work for the screen – he’s a great storyteller.

Chronicle, if you think about it, was similar to Fantastic Four in that it was a bunch of people who were transformed into something more than human – that turned out almost his calling card to come and do something like Fantastic Four.

What I wasn’t expecting actually was just how funny and likable he could make this as well as getting the more awesome moments on screen – I use awesome in the traditional British sense and not the California sense awesome, you know? The Ridley Scott moments, and the Fantastic Four really are jaw-dropping in the same way you feel when you saw Alien for the first time. There’s some moments in this – not to be specific – that are actually gonna be phenomenal on screen and stuff you haven’t seen in a superhero movie before.”

Whoa, are we talking Blade Runner Ridley Scott or the more recent Prometheus version? If it’s the latter then I look forward to a possibly great movie flushing itself in the third act.

I will say this, I am intrigued by the possibility of what Trank may bring (the other two FF movies burnt me bad, so I am cautiously optimistic on this one.) I did enjoy Chronicle when I saw it, but me expectations were pretty low. When you are making a movie about Marvels first family of superheroes, well lets say that comes with some pretty high expectations.

Trank, Millar, and FOX have their work cut out for them.

Source: SciFiNow

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As part of their attempt to compete against the Disney-Marvel mega-machine, 20^th Century Fox is putting together their own interconnected Marvel universe with the properties that they own.  The next few years shall see the beginnings of this effort, starting in 2013 with The Wolverine and continuing into 2014 with X-Men: Days of Future Past.  And now, it looks like the Fantastic Four reboot will be ready to go in 2015 – March 6^th, 2015 to be precise.

Writer/Director Josh Trank will be helming the project, which will have nothing to do with the two horrible films that were made earlier in the 21^st century.  Trank made his name with the flick Chronicle and now he has the chance to take a shot at a big brand name.

The addition of FF to the film listings of 2015 makes a great year even better.  In case you haven’t heard, Avengers 2 and the new Star Wars flick are also scheduled to appear in that year, as well as a possible Justice League film.  March may not be prime season, but the other big-shots are dominating summer, so it’s probably the only way that Fantastic Four will get people into the theaters.

Let’s hope Trank doesn’t screw it up.

Thanks to /Film for the heads-up.

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Comic writer Mark Millar has talked a lot about his new gig as the creative consultant, and with Empire Online’s podcast he’s talking about it again. This time though, he’s suggesting there’s a multi-year plan in effect so that he can help 20th Century Fox best take advantage of the Marvel properties they still own. Here’s what Millar had to say:

“Fox are thinking, ‘We’re sitting on some really awesome things here. There is another side of the Marvel Universe. Let’s try and get some cohesiveness going.’ So they brought me in to oversee that really. To meet with the writers and directors to suggest new ways we could take this stuff and new properties that could spin out of it.”

“The X-Men feels like a universe by itself; there’s so many characters and so many great potential spin-off characters. They asked me to come in and work out a plan, so unfortunately at this point I can’t get too specific. I DO have a three to four year plan of where things could go, but you know, I’ll be working with guys like Matthew and Josh Trank (the new director of ‘Fantastic Four’) and just figuring out how everything can work together and not contradict each other.”

“But I also don’t want to make it too much of a mess either, with everyone showing up in everyone else’s films. What my dream is, as a fan, is that when you go and see any Marvel movie that it feels as if they’re all taking place in the one universe like in the comics.”

Sounds like a plan. My biggest problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine was that it seemed like a smorgasbord of random X-Men characters in a single movie. As long as Millar helps Fox avoid that kind of crap, he’ll be golden.

Source: Comic Book Movie

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Everybody loves Mark Millar, right? The famous comic book writer behind Civil War, The Ultimates, Kick-Ass, Wanted and The Authority. Of course, “famous” and “comic book writer” may be a contradiction in terms, but clearly there’s some kind of faith there if 20th Century Fox is willing to but Millar in charge of steering the studio’s next slate of Marvel-based properties.

The announcement that Millar was hired as consultant on the next X-Men and Fantastic Four films came last week, but now Millar is talking about what that role will entail with the podcast Word Balloon. To get the obvious stuff out of the way first, Millar points out that while Fox doesn’t have the best track record with superhero movies (*cough*Elektra*cough*), he does point out there have been some success, and even (*gasp*) some innovation…

There have been some poor decisions in the past, but you also have to remember that there have been some excellent ones too. Bryan Singer’s X-Men for example, I think revolutionised superhero movies. It pre-dated Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and I think you forget how close that was chronologically to Batman and Robin! To open with a Holocaust scene in a superhero movie was just unheard of. Fox get a lot of flak for the films which didn’t work out, and quite rightly, but you forget that they’ve done some really great stuff too. I’m thinking specifically of X-Men, X-Men 2 and X-Men: First Class.

But on to the new stuff. And Millar says that the team working on development of the Marvel films at Fox are dedicated to bringing out the best on the big screen:

The team who is running the show over there now I’m very comfortable with. I actually really like everything that they’re doing, and they recognise more than anyone the mistakes that they’ve made in the past and they just want to do right by the fans. Hiring myself was a first step in a number of things that they’re planning and they just really want to be respectful to the material I think. X-Men: First Class, which I absolutely loved, just feels like planting the flag for what they’re planning to do over the next few years.

So what does that mean for the upcoming slate including X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine and the rebooted Fantastic Four? Millar was a tad vague on specifics:

Hiring Josh Trank for Fantastic Four…it could just not be more different than the first Fantastic Four movie from what I’ve seen so far. Even just as a fan, I’m very, very excited by the level of talent they have on the directors side of things.

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I can’t say too much about it right now, but The Wolverine has only just started shooting really, I mean it’s been shooting for a few weeks now. I really do like it and I’m really impressed by it. Days of Future Past, which is being written at the moment, is the next one up and at the same time, Fantastic Four is being written right now. In a weird way, it’s just the easiest job in the world as I’m surrounded by people who are so good!

So everything’s fine, no need to worry. Forgive us Mark, but we the fans will be skeptical till we see the final results on screen.

Source: /Film

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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 Nerd Art Dumps.

The Shining is one of Stephen King‘s greatest spine chilling thrillers, which was later adapted into a spine chilling motion picture by  Stanley Kubrick.  Now, if you let Marco D’alfonso throw Deadpool in the mix, you’ll have the greatest comedy of the 1980s. No matter how dark and scary Kubrick would have tried to make the movie, Deadpool would have wasted the $19 million budget on rubber chickens and kool-aid. [Comics Alliance]

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