Quick Highlights From the Weekend

Posted by dominie in Films, News on December 1st, 2008

Rumor is there may be a Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie coming at you in the near future. Moviehole writes that page 51 of The Australian Herald Sun newspaper editorial piece reads: The monster success of girly vampire pic Twilight at the US Box office last weekend could kick open the door for a big-screen return of Joss Whedon’s much-loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rumours are circulating in Hollywood that Whedon has a feature-film script based on his hit TV series ready to roll as soon as a studio is prepared to commit.. I’m just as excited as the next man by the author’s speculation, but keep in mind this is still only a rumor. Stayed tuned for any updates on the word.

New Superman Origin Tale: Newsarama reports that DC Comics is in plans to release a six-issue stand-alone series retelling of the origin of Superman. The series will be titled Superman: Secret Origin, which will retell the story for the modern day audience. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank have been hired for the task. Johns told Newsarama, “Unlike previous Superman origin stories, this will be told almost entirely from Clark’s eyes. We won’t be spending an issue on Krypton. We’ll be opening on one of Clark’s earliest memories as a kid and moving forward from there. This is his story of self-discovery and the world’s story of meeting Superman.”

Bloody Disgusting revealed the official synopsis for Nelson McCormick’s (Prom Night)The Stepfather remake from Sony Screen Gems which arrives in theaters October 16, 2009. The project was first announced in April 2007 and the script by J.S. Cardone (The Covenant, Prom Night) goes like this. “Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?” The Stepfather arrives in theaters October 16th, 2009.

Shock Till You Drop reports on an update for Twilight sequel New Moon. In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Twilight star Kristen Stewart told KiisFM that New Moon begins lensing in March 2009. She also reveals, “A lot of the book takes place in Italy, and I think we’re going to get to go to Italy, which is so cool. For a while there, they were like Oh, we don’t know if we have the money, but now I think we may have the money!”