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Marvel’s Ghost Rider gets his second movie due for release February 2012. Once again Nicholas Cage is the demon stunt rider with the flaming skull. Check out the trailer below or visit the official site here www.thespiritofvengeance.com
Yet another big screen adaption of a popular comic book hits the cinemas this week. Cowboys & Aliens is a 2006 graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, with Luciano Lima and Dennis Calero in the art department.
I gotta say, what an absolutely fantastic name and concept. Shame about the tag line on the poster above, terrible.
On paper the signs look promising. It has a great cast including Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwell. Iron Man director Jon Favreau has the helm, Ron Howard is producer, and comic creator Rosenberg onboard for input. Have you seen this film? Let us know your thoughts.
You can find out more on the official website.
The comic book movie zeitgeist rumbles on with yet another Hollywood adaptation. This time it is the turn of Priest a manhwa (Korean comic) horror series created by artist and writer Hyung Min-woo.
Directed by Scott Stewart and starring Paul Bettany as the title character the movie is to be released in both 2D and 3D. Find out more on the official Priest movie website.
If you’re a fan of horror comic movie adaptions then DYLAN DOG: Dead of Night should be right up your alley. Based on the hugely popular comic series that began back in 1986, this movie adaption stars Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) as Dylan Dog, a ‘Nightmare Investigator’ and paranormal policeman.
The comic series was written by Tiziano Sclavi and drawn by Claudio Villa and is widely reconginsed as the most popular comic book in Italian history as well as selling countless copies around the world.
Find out more on the Dylan Dog movie website.
Check out the new trailer for the latest comic adaptation to hiy the big screen. Mark Miller’s Kick-Ass is cool comic and it look
As demonstrated by these two trailers…
Dorian Gray…
The Wolfman…
See the entire movie HERE!
Apparently filmed at Comic Con and leaked online…
It is, of course, a remake of the 1941 original starring Lon Chaney Junior. Here’s the plot from imdb…
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
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