Let's do this. Starting with a classic.
>Gene Hackman refused to shave his head or his mustache for the role of Lex Luthor in 1978's "Superman". Director Richard Donner revised the script so Luthor would wear a wig on most of his scenes, and promised to shave his own mustache if Hackman shaved his. Once Hackman arrived on set clean-shaven, Donner pulled off a fake mustache and revealed he never had a mustache at all.
This is one of those stories I've heard about a million times and every time I wonder why it's supposed to be interesting.
Fuckin every time
It's an amusing scenario.
Especially since most people envision Donner peeling off his mustache in an inherently silly overdramatic fashion.
Keikaku doori comes to mind
>After being cast as Jor-El, Superman's father in Richard Donner's 1978 superhero flick, Brando suggested that it might be better if he simply provided the voice of the character. "He suggested—strongly—that Jor-El could be a suitcase or a green bagel that spoke with Brando's voice," producer Ilya Salkind recalled. "I was really young and I was sweating it out. I said 'My God, this is finished, the movie will not happen ... The man will destroy everything. This is impossible. Jor-El will be a bagel.'" Fortunately, Donner stepped in: "Marlon, I think that people want to see Marlon Brando playing Jor-El. They don't want to see a green bagel."
>Brando also refused to learn the lines assigned to him by the script, requiring cue cards to be tapped throughout the Krypton sets and, at one point, in the diapers of the baby playing infant Kal-El.
why would you cast someone in the first place if they didn't.. i mean.. surely that was on the casting call
>male. caucasian. bald.
>Sean Young was cast as Vicki Vale for 1989's "Batman", but was injured while filming a scene where Batman and Vicki fled the Joker's men on horseback, and had to drop out, with Kim Basinger replacing her. Young was adamant she was cast as Catwoman in "Batman Returns", while director Tim Burton was set on Michelle Pfeiffer, who had impressed him with her audition for Vicki in "Batman". Young proceeded to stalk Burton at the studio while wearing a homemade Catwoman costume and, on one occasion, ambushed him in his office and had to be escorted out by security while Burton hid behind his desk, since Young was clumsy whipping at his general direction to prove she could do her own stunts.
Why would he shave his head for a part in a movie?
Why would anybody do anything for a part in a movie? It has to be compelling. There has to be more to it than blandly checking the boxes - it needs a story reason.
The simple fact is, as well-known as Superman was in 1977, they needed Gene Hackman to sell the movie. The guy playing Superman was an unknown, the director was hired because he was award winning, and the script - the original one that Donner was given by Ilya Salkind - was awful. The Salkinds didn't care about the script - they only cared about making money from the movie. Donner's job as director was to basically rewrite the entire thing, get the star on board, and make it work. He regularly argued for more money to make it work; they developed new chroma techniques just for that movie on Donner's say so. The Salkinds paid for it all, and when the first movie was released (with the second not even finished filming), they fired Donner.
Everything was downhill from there, until you reach Superman IV, because so little of it was really about storytelling. It was just a series of bald-headed cameos that meant nothing.
Superhero movies were a massive gamble back then, and Hackman and Keaton had star power. A lot of people turned the movie down.
>The role of Superman in the 1978 movie was intended to be portrayed by an A-lister. Muhammad Ali, Al Pacino, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Robert Redford were all approached by Warner Bros Pictures, but turned down the role.
>Jon Voight and Nick Nolte eventually emerged as the frontrunners, but the studio eventually decided that Voight's portrayal was not right for the movie, while Nolte's demands that the Script was rewritten into a drama, with Clark Kent as a psychiatric ward patient who imagines himself to be a superhero caused the studio to move on without him.
>Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Jenner were both offered the role, and declined to pursue other projects, while Sylvester Stallone, a fan of the comics, lobbied for it. The studio was ready to offer Stallone the part when Brando reminded them that his contract included a clause that allowed him to veto any choice for Superman that he didn't agree it. Irritated by what he perceived as Stallone copying his mannerisms in his performance in "Rocky", Brando vetoed his participation, initiating a minor feud between the two.
>Patrick Wayne, John Wayne's son, was eventually hired to play Superman, but had to drop out due to his father's cancer. After Wayne's departure, Donner decided to have a unknown play Superman, as he believed that this would help people recognize him as a the character rather than an actor dressed as him. With his decision, thousands of young Hollywood actors were screen-tested -- including Ilya Salkind's wife's dentist, which she claimed bore a striking resemblance to the character in the comics. Finally, young Christopher Reeve landed the role after a last-minute screen test, in which he wore George Reeves' old Superman suit, hastily brought out of storage.
Can we get some comic trivia. Why is it also about movie adaptations.
For example one of Supes co-creators drew bdsm porn of Supes and Lois. With Lois topping.
are all the creators of my favorite gero secretly freaks
>For example one of Supes co-creators drew bdsm porn of Supes and Lois. With Lois topping.
True or not I could have done without that information.
>>Brando also refused to learn the lines assigned to him by the script, requiring cue cards to be tapped throughout the Krypton sets and, at one point, in the diapers of the baby playing infant Kal-El
Brando did this with every movie though, it was his method.
Joe Schuster, the artist half of the creators of Superman, had to make erotic doodles for Playboy because he couldn't pay his bills otherwise.
He wasn't happy about the job, it wasn't for personal pleasure.
The guy who co-created Superman was basically broke at many points in his life.
>Clark Kent as a psychiatric ward patient who imagines himself to be a superhero
Some of these ideas man...
Was Hollywood always quite this dumb? Suddenly Sony and WB's recent missteps have new and distressing context.
>Forced to prostitute your own creation and the hero of children because you're so broke.
This story just keeps getting more and more depressing.
>Tim Burton's BATMAN 3 would've featured the Riddler as a serial killer with a question mark tattooed on his forehead who plays mind games with Batman, and Robin as a wisecracking, street-smart mechanic who joins Batman after fixing the Batmobile during an chase. Robin Williams was in talks to play the Riddler, while Marlon Wayans had been cast as Robin. Rene Russo was also cast as Batman's love interest Chase Meridian.
>When Burton dropped out, so did Williams and Michael Keaton, and Jim Carrey and Val Kilmer were cast instead. Director Joel Schumacher wanted to use Robin and Two-Face, forcing WB to buy Wayans and Billy Dee Williams out of their contracts so Schumacher could cast Chris O'Donnell and Tommy Lee Jones. Russo was also dropped as producers felt she was too old for Kilmer and Nicole Kidman was cast. Wayans receives residuals from WB to this day.
>Also Schumacher planned a fifth Batman movie featuring Nicolas Cage as the Scarecrow, Madonna as Harley Quinn, who'd be the Joker's daughter, Jack Nicholson back in a cameo as the demon Joker, and in later versions of the draft, Terrence Stamp as Man-Bat.
>Why would anybody do anything for a part in a movie? It has to be compelling. There has to be more to it than blandly checking the boxes - it needs a story reason.
Well on the directors/producers side, they want someone who looks like the part, and can act like the part. You can tilt that balance in either direction depending on whether the looks or the performance of the character is more important: for ex. you could get Schwarzenegger to play Conan because the characters signature feature is that he is a giant muscular barbarian.
Lex Luthor on the other hand can't be done on looks alone, since he is an evil genius.
And on the actors side, they have to change their appearance either because they WANT the role, or because they cannot get the role if they don't look the part. Christian Bale got completely thin and then bulked up in a few months because he had to do two movies that required both.
Obviously, if the directors/producers specifically want a certain actor, then the actor has more leverage on how much they are willing to change their looks. Especially so for big name characters.
>Marlon Wayans had been cast as Robin
I can just imagine Shorty from Scary Movie dressed up as Robin.
>Some of these ideas man...
>Was Hollywood always quite this dumb?
user was wrong, Nick Nolte wanted Clark Kent to be a janitor who daydreams of being a Superman.
He wanted it to be a comedy, not a drama.
L>>Also Schumacher planned a fifth Batman movie featuring Nicolas Cage as the Scarecrow, Madonna as Harley Quinn, who'd be the Joker's daughter, Jack Nicholson back in a cameo as the demon Joker, and in later versions of the draft, Terrence Stamp as Man-Bat.
I always wanted to see this. I bet that Schumacher Harley would have been better than Ayer Harley, at least costume wise
DeCarlo, the artist for Archie and Betty and Veronica, was harassed by the CCA so much for drawing the girls clothes too risqué that eventually he would just draw the girls outfits once for reference and then draw them naked for the rest of the issue and have the colorists fill it in later.
I'm not sure that makes it any better whatsoever.
So many of these movie assholes get it into their head that they should do a "bold" re-imagining of a beloved IP, because "we've seen the story so many times before" but no. We haven't. We've read the story before but we haven't seen it in a movie.
Give us a fucking good Superman movie Hollywood. Then you can do all the grimdark reimaginings that you want of the character as a lightspeed rapist or a guy who squishes terrorists with the moon.
>, they want someone who looks like the part, and can act like the part.
No, they didn't. That's exactly the point. And more to the point, no, they don't. Nobody cares whether they're 100% faithful to source or not; if it happens it's a happy accident.
>on the actors side, they have to change their appearance either because they WANT the role, or because they cannot get the role if they don't look the part
Again, you've misunderstood: they NEEDED Gene Hackman's name to sell the feature to the public. They needed someone with his talent and reputation. If they'd just needed a bald guy to overact in a fake subway station they'd have hired Telly Savalas. The thing was all on his side; Donner had nothing to offer but more money, and even that wasn't enough to get Hackman to shave his head.
>Schwarzenegger to play Conan
This is the opposite: they cast a nobody because he looked the part, not because he would sell the movie to audiences. He couldn't act, but he looked the part, and the film was a surprise hit. At the time he was cast, he'd been in enough that they knew he could find his way around a set, but not so much that he cost real money or would complain about his role.
>DeCarlo, the artist for Archie and Betty and Veronica, was harassed by the CCA so much for drawing the girls clothes too risqué that eventually he would just draw the girls outfits once for reference and then draw them naked for the rest of the issue and have the colorists fill it in later.
Noice. I bet there's some of those pages laying around some of those colorists/ex-colorists house
>Was Hollywood always quite this dumb
People. Are. Dumb.
>In the 1980's, Cannon Films was producing a SPIDER-MAN movie directed by Joseph Zito and starring stuntman Scott Leva. After unexpected budget cuts made it impossible for them to afford the costly webswinging scenes, the script was revised so Spider-Man only swings once before determining it is "too difficult" and spends the rest of the movie hitching rides with other characters. A pivotal scene involves Spider-Man and an original character, Professor Roz, trying to catch up to the villainous Doctor Octopus while both parties are stuck in a traffic jam on the Brooklyn Bridge.
>During production of Man of Steel, the team realized that instead of making a Superman film, they had actually made a western adaptation of the first two arcs from Dragonball and Dragonball Z respectively. They never bothered to change the script and went on as if nothing had happened.
The head judge of the CCA told the heads EC Comics that they couldn't have a character be black. Their response was "fuck you" and slamming the phone.
Wally Wood, creator of 22 Panels That Always Work and the artist that made Daredevil popular, died penniless in a one room apartment.
>Wally Wood, creator of 22 Panels That Always Work and the artist that made Daredevil popular, died penniless in a one room apartment.
That Tesla life
These ideas aren't dumb, they're just really different from the source material.
you're dumb.
Lel
>Give us a fucking good Superman movie Hollywood
We have plenty.
We have two.
That's nice, but I'd like something new.
Someday I will find the reality where this happened. The sky may be fire and the oceans nothing more than an unending swarm of flesh eating locusts, but I'll still visit just to find that DVD.
what was the name of that cartoon that got canned because of 9/11 ?
I've got the hardcover collection of that art as a coffee table book. It's a great conversation piece.
Hollywood made me sad today.
i am surprised they never thought of a Plasticman movie back when Jhonny Knoxville was still young
>when real life is darker than any of Snyder's weird fanfics
pls no
(as a kinkster, I find that exploitative and offensive)
If you need conversation starters that badly, why not tape a Brando cue card onto the forehead of whoever you're talking to?
>Brian Michael Bendis was invited to contribute to the dialogue of SPIDER-MAN (2002). Producers were offended by a quip written for Spider-Man, in which he mocks the Green Goblin's suit, defending that "that suit was really expensive". None of Bendis' dialogue was used in the movie.
Oh, I'm a kinkster, too. But it makes a good segue into my "fuck Bob Kane" rant.
>In 1998, Andy and Larry Wachowski were slated to write and direct an adaption of DC Comics' PLASTIC MAN, produced by Joel Silver and starring Keanu Reeves as Daniel O'Brien, an environmentalist who develops body-warping abilities after accidentally being exposed to an experimental polymerization process. Warner Bros Pictures scrapped the movie due to high budget require to convey Plastic Man's powers, and Silver instead greenlit another movie written/directed by the Wachowskis, which turned out to be THE MATRIX and went on to star Keanu Reeves.
>acting like doing illustrations for Playboy is not one of the best paying art jobs
Jack Cole probably made more drawing a few years' worth of pin-ups than ten years in comics.
Wally was also an alcoholic.
was it true that Spielberg was angry at Tartakovsky cause his clone wars was really good?
The casts of several scrapped superhero movies over the years.
Tim Burton's "Superman Lives" (1998)
>Nicolas Cage as Clark Kent / Superman
>Courtney Cox as Lois Lane
>Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen
>John Mahooney as Perry White
>Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor
>Tim Allen as Brainiac
McG's "Superman: Flyby" (2003)
>Henry Cavill as Clark Kent / Superman
>Scarlett Johansson as Lois Lane
>Shia LaBeouf as Jimmy Olsen
>Christopher Walken as Perry White
>Robert Downey Jr. as Lex Luthor
>Anthony Hopkins as Jor-El
>Joel Edgerton as Ty-Zor, Superman's evil brother
George Miller's "Justice League: Mortal" (2007)
>D.J. Cotrona as Clark Kent / Superman
>Armie Hammer as Bruce Wayne / Batman
>Megan Gale as Diana / Wonder Woman
>Santiago Cabrera as Arthur / Aquaman
>Adam Brody as Barry Allen / Flash
>Anton Yelchin as Wally West / Kid Flash
>Common as John Stewart / Green Lantern
>Hugh Keays Byrne as J'onn J'onzz
>Teresa Palmer as Talia Al Ghul
>Jay Baruchel as Maxwell Lord
>Stephen Tobolowsky as Alfred Pennyworth
>Zoe Kazan as Iris West
>Sandra Bullock as Donna Troy / Wonder Woman in 1999
>Shannyn Sossamon as Diana / Wonder Woman in 2005
>Ryan Reynolds as Wally West / Flash in 2006
>Jack Black as Jud Plato / Green Lantern in 2002
>Keannu Reeves as Danny O'Brien / Plastic Man in 1998
>Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sgt. Rock in 1992
>Dwayne Johnson as Lobo in 2009
>while Nolte's demands that the Script was rewritten into a drama, with Clark Kent as a psychiatric ward patient who imagines himself to be a superhero caused the studio to move on without him.
Informed by Nick Nolte's own reality of being a psychiatric war patient imagining himself to be an actor, I guess.
So much so that it caused his failing failing liver which was slowly killing him. That coupled with the blindness he had following a stroke lead to his suicide. Shortly before his death he was asked how felt about his time in the industry. His response: "If I had it all to do over again, I'd cut off my hands."
that flyby casting doesn't sound half bad
i'd watch it
Fuck, I'm glad this died before Peter Parker became the Sensational Taxi Fare.
During an interview with the Onion's AV Club, Patton Oswalt described some of the troubles in making Blade: Trinity, centering around Blade himself, Wesley Snipes.
>When not on set, Snipes spent all day in his trailer smoking weed.
>During a club scene where the extras were allowed to bring their own clothes, one of the few black extras wore a shirt with the word 'Garbage' on it in stylish letters. Snipes flipped out at director David Goyer, calling him a 'racist motherfucker' and attempted to strangle him
>After Snipes tried to strangle Goyer, the director got a gang of bikers to come to the set the next day, frightening Snipes enough that he would only communicate with Goyer through post-it notes afterwards, all of them signed 'From Blade'.
>When Wesley refused to come to the set many times, his lines were given to Ryan Reynolds, cutting to a close-up of a stone-faced Blade in the movie after each joke. When Snipes threatened to leave the movie, Goyer told him to go ahead, since they'd already shot all of his close-ups and could use his stand-in for the rest.
>Snipes is notoriously difficult to work with. During filming of Blade, when Blade is suppose to wake up, Snipes refused to open his eyes, forcing them to be added in post-production. When asked why, the only answer was, "He just wouldn't."
Joseph Zito's "Spider-Man" (1987)
>Scott Leva as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
>Bob Hoskins as Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus
>Lauren Bacall as Aunt May
>Stan Lee as J. Jonah Jameson
>Peter Cushing as Professor Albert Rosomorf
>Albert Caesar as Detective Jake Marotta.
James Cameron's "Spider-Man" (1997)
>Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
>Gloria Stuart as Aunt May
Nick Cassevetes' "Iron Man" (2003)
>Tom Cruise as Tony Stark / Iron Man
>Jamie Foxx as James Rhodes
>Famke Janssen as Bethany Cabe
>George Clooney as Nick Fury
Peyton Reed's "Fantastic Four" (2002)
>Alexis Denisof as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
>Charlize Theron as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
>Paul Walker as Johnny Storm / Human Torch
>John C. Reilly as Ben Grimm / The Thing
>Jude Law as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom
>Edward Norton as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in 1999
>Johnny Depp as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider in 2001
>Bob Hoskins as Logan / Wolverine in 1992
>Wesley Snipes as Luke Cage in 1998 AND T'Challa / Black Panther from 1993 onwards
>Ray Park as Danny Rand / Iron Fist in 2002
But user,
>Ty-Zor, Superman's evil brother
>Ty-Zor
That's not how kryptonian names work.
>When asked why, the only answer was, "He just wouldn't."
Wait is this someone being asked and explaining that Snipes wouldn't, or is this Snipes being asked and responding that Blade wouldn't?
The plot was bananas, though.
>Krypton doesn't explode
>Superman is the "chosen one" prophetized to defeat the greatest evil in the Universe
>Jor-El is a tyrannical dictator and murders Lara when she sends Kal-El to Earth to prevent Jor-El from killing him
>Jor-El then sends his illegitimate son Ty-Zor to kill Kal-El
>Lex Luthor is a Kryptonian spy masquerading as a CIA agent
>The Kents' landlord tries to rape Martha
Didn't notice that, fucking hell.
Deviantart OC right here.
Brian Michael Bendis wrote the storyline for all the Marvel sets in Disney Infinity 2.0.
Someone really, REALLY needs to cut off Hollywood's cocaine supply.
>that everything
>Will Smith was offered the role of Superman at some point, but declined because he knew people would complain about a black Superman
>Tobey Maguire got injured shooting Seabiscuit and demanded shooting of Spider-Man 2 be delayed to accomodate his recovery. But he was reportedly a total cunt about it, and Sony was ready to drop him and get Jake Gyllenhall as Peter when Maguire backtracked and they reached a compromise
>Tommy Lee Jones FUCKING HATED Jim Carrey on Batman Forever and repeteadly told Carrey "I hate you, I can't sanction your buffonery".
>Charlie Sheen lobbied for the role of Spider-Man in the 80's.
>Paul Bettany and Hugh Jackman very nearly played the Joker and Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.
>In addition to Lex Luthor, RDJ almost played the lead villain in a short-lived live-action Deathlok movie slated for 2007
>Bradley Cooper was the runner-up to play Green Lantern in 2011, but lost the role because he didn't take the audition seriously and kept doing Christian Bale's raspy Bat-voice.
>There almost was a comedy Green Lantern movie starring Jack Black and David Spade in 2003
>There almost was a comedy Hulk movie starring Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey in 1996
>There almost was a comedy Aquaman movie starring Mark Wahlberg in 2004
>Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa almost played Nebula and Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy before jumping ship to the DCEU
>Christopher Nolan wanted to cast Joshua Jackson as Batman in Batman Begins, but WB refused because they had already cast Katie Holmes as Rachel and people would make Dawson's Creek jokes if Jackson had been cast
>Henry Cavill lost the roles of Batman, Superman, James Bond, Edward Cullen and Cedric in the Harry Potter series before landing Superman.
>Amy Adams was the Rachel stand-in during the audition rounds for Batman Begins, but the studio cast Katie Holmes in the actual movie because she was more famous
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i recall back when Kim Possible was popular (06/07) there were plans for a live action movie.
Same with WITCH due to its popularity in Europe. but in the end nothing happened.
When Smallville ended, WB wanted a show about Raven, Rachel Roth, in highschool. Dealing with teenage shit by day, and fighting demons by night
Fighting evil by moonlight, as it were.
>Fox got pissed Bryan Singer was trying to lure most of the X-Men cast to Superman Returns. In addition to James Marsden, who played Lois' husband Richard, Singer also wanted Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) as Jimmy Olsen, Hugh Jackman as Pa Kent in a flashback sequence and Famke Janssen as Lara in a hologram sequence.
>There was a proposed draft of Superman III where Superman falls in love with Supergirl (not his cousin) after Lois Lane dumps him and moves to China, and has to compete for her affections in a jousting duel against her adoptive father Brainiac, and Mr. Mxyzptlk is there too
>The 1990 Flash TV show started out as a project called "Superpowers", about the Flash getting stranded in a post-apocalyptic future and joining forces with the Green Arrow's daughter, Doctor Occult and Blok from the Legion of Superheroes to save history, but it was way too expensive.
>Smallville started out as a project called "The Young Bruce Wayne", which would detail Bruce's journey to becoming Batman after returning to Gotham from his trip around the world. It was scrapped because Batman Begins was in production, and they applied the idea to Superman instead
>Darren Aronofsky was going to direct an R-rated Batman: Year One movie starring Christian Bale in which Batman is a psychotic auto-mechanic who lives in the slums and becomes a vigilante who brands people with a bat-shaped ring, and Alfred is a street-smart black auto-mechanic called Little Al played by Morgan Freeman. Kurt Russell was supposed to be Jim Gordon.
>>John C. Reilly as Ben Grimm / The Thing
god damn fucking perfect
Nah man, fuck that, give me the family bonding antics of Kal-El and Ty-Zor. I want Ty-Zor angsty and brooding while Clark drags him around Metropolis trying to have fun.
>Singer also wanted Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) as Jimmy Olsen
Well shit, that basically happened on Smallville.
I dunno, man. Michael Chiklis was pretty great, whatever problems those movies had.
>Darren Aronofsky was going to direct an R-rated Batman: Year One movie starring Christian Bale in which Batman is a psychotic auto-mechanic who lives in the slums and becomes a vigilante who brands people with a bat-shaped ring, and Alfred is a street-smart black auto-mechanic called Little Al played by Morgan Freeman. Kurt Russell was supposed to be Jim Gordon.
Holy fuck
speaking of W.I.T.C.H
Shit was originally planned to be much shorter like 15 to 20 volumes. Also, dealing with slightly grimmier teenage shit.
Elleon was supposed to be the final boss
When the people in charge of Disney Italy saw the thing was macking money, they took over and forced some changes, and kept the comic going until 2013
>Shawn Ashmore isn't Aaron Ashmore and vice versa
How did I never know this?
i agree. the first 20 minutes of the silver surfer movie was pretty great to
>military dad shows reed pic of what they think is meteor
>reeds all i don't know man
>hands it off to Ben because he trusts his knowledge cuz Ben's a fucking Astronaut
Did you know... In the Dark Knight, Christian Bale plays not only Batman, but also bit-character "Bruce Wayne," billionaire playboy
Dude no way!
Twins, bruh.
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WHEN IN LOVE BY DAYLIGHT
It's "winning love" you meatball head
Oh my goodness. David Goyer is amazing if this is true.
Specifically he committed suicide.
He had a lot of mental health problems throughout his adult life. Plus he had chronic migraines, three failed marriages, and kidney problems due to his alcoholism.
IMO pretty serious candidate for greatest of his generation though, even held up against Kirby, Ditko, Eisner, etc. As a technical draftsmen he was better than all of them and he was an excellent cartoonist as well.
Donner should have cast himself as Luthor, the absolute madman
>Will Smith was offered the role of Superman at some point, but declined because he knew people would complain about a black Superman
He's not wrong.
>Amy Adams was the Rachel stand-in during the audition rounds for Batman Begins, but the studio cast Katie Holmes in the actual movie because she was more famous
She also auditioned for Lois Lane before too, right? Does Amy Adams like comics?
>draftsmen
> Tobey Maguire got injured shooting Seabiscuit and demanded shooting of Spider-Man 2 be delayed to accomodate his recovery. But he was reportedly a total cunt about it, and Sony was ready to drop him and get Jake Gyllenhall as Peter when Maguire backtracked and they reached a compromise
> There almost was a comedy Aquaman movie starring Mark Wahlberg in 2004
Both of these sort of get nods in the HBO series Entourage. The main character of the show, Vincent Chase, is based on Mark Wahlberg, and gets cast to play Aquaman. Later in the series, Chase is a bitch about the sequel, and the role is recast with Jake Gyllenhal in his place.
I can't source, but I think I remember hearing somewhere she actually is somewhat dorky
MEME SQUAD
AUTISTS UNITE
I can't wait for Geoff Johns to join the fray.
"Okay but what if we have a scene where the Justice League is eating cereal?"
Mark Millar licks goats
Seems about right.
Wh-what?
There a hundreds of them. Read DeCarlo's book (or is it his Biography?). It's mostly about his artwork. It includes some test pages for a Penthouse rip off of Playboy's Little Annie Fanny. The guy had sex on the brain and damn sure knew how to draw pinups.
>black extras wore a shirt with the word 'Garbage' on it in stylish letters. Snipes flipped out at director David Goyer, calling him a 'racist motherfucker' and attempted to strangle him
>Not posting the entire thing.
>Alfred is a street-smart black auto-mechanic called Little Al
Look up Tom Mankiewicz's Batman screenplay. Elements of it easily were used throughout the 90s series, especially Returns.
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>Muhammad Ali
whoa
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