As a regular reader of Blast-O-Rama, you’re probably aware that I love many things.
Three of them are The Daily Show, George Lucas and HD content.
But Tuesday night, when George Lucas was a guest on this, the inaugural week of The Daily Show airing in beautiful HD, I was pretty excited.
And honestly, the interview was even more fun than imagined, as Jon Stewart gives Lucas crap over the prequels, and gets more life out of George than I’ve seen in years.
Embarking out of the hype station at lightning speed, we have the first two official stills from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
While the first image, above, is the same one Edgar Wright took a photo of in the Universal Studios lobby (and I featured a photoshop cleaned up version of), the second image, below, is brand spanking new, and features a segment not even from the comic series!
Is that THE flaming sword? Is that Jason Schwartzman as the most evil of evil-exes, Gideon Graves? What’s with Ramona’s dark dress?
The one question I can answer for sure: Is it awesome? Hell yes.
After the terrible initial on-screen version of the Merc with a Mouth seen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, despite the pitch perfect casting of Ryan Reynolds, fans everywhere would be understood to be dreading the in-progress production of the Deadpool film.
Luckily, they just tapped some writers who may just be the fix the doctor ordered.
Announced just yesterday by Fox, the script for Deadpool will be handled by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Names don’t ring a bell? They’re the writing duo behind this past fall’s Zombieland.
Having flawlessly mixed humor and violence to a beautiful degree on Zombieland, I see little to no reason to believe that Reese & Wernick won’t be a great writing team for Deadpool. However, you need only look at the Star Trek relaunch and Transformers 2 to realize that two scripts by the same writers can go off in wildly different directions.
Hopefully this doesn’t stall the newly green-lit sequel to Zombieland, or cause one (or both) films to be harmed writing wise.
