BlackGeekdom Science-Fiction from a Different Perspective

Source: ComingSoon.Net

This was presented at Comic Con before the Marvel panel featuring the stars of the film.

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Souce: Hitfix

UPDATE: According to Hitfix, Eva Longoria would love to be a superhero, but she says she won’t be Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp, in an Ant-Man or Avengers movie.  She confirmed that she had discussions with Marvel about a movie, but wouldn’t give details.

I still think she’d make a great Wasp or even Scarlett Witch.  She can’t be Black Widow since Scarlett Johansson has taken that role in Iron Man 2.

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Saw this rumor a couple of weeks ago, and was waiting for some confirmation.  It  was reported that Eva was photographed leaving Marvel’s L.A. office clutching what appeared to be some Avenger comic books.  It was later reported that she was in talks to take the role of Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp, in an upcoming Marvel Movie (Iron Man 2 or Captain America: The First Avenger or The Avengers).  The thing is that this came out a couple of weeks ago, and then everything went silent.  It was reported as  both fact and rumor.  We’ll I think she would do well in any role that they shoved her in, the Wasp, Black Widow, Scarlett Witch.  I just assume that they are going to go for the hot factor regardless of the role.  Unlike the X-Movies where everyone, except Raven, was completely covered from head to toe.

.  Would she make a good Black Widow?  Possibly.

Would she make a good Scarlet Witch?  Maybe.

She pretty much would be worth the price of admission for anything they want her to be in a superhero movie.

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The quality is okay, but it should be good enough for Smallville fans.

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“The Event” is a new show coming to NBC this fall.  It’s being touted as a show with a Lost vibe.  It has an ensemble cast with multiple storylines centered around an “Event.”  The main plot appears to follow Sean Walker played by Jason Ritter who, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée, ends up unraveling the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.

The show premieres September 20.  Check out the following interview with Blair Underwood who plays President Eli Martinez. (A black man as President brings back memories of President Palmer on 24).  Apparently, the crowd response to “The Event” at the San Diego Comic-Con was rousing.  Check out the entire panel for “The Event” below, courtesy NBC.

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Source: Superhero Hype

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Here’s the audio from the Black Panel at the 2009 Comic-Con or you can read about it at CBR, or watch the video footage courtesy of Comicvine   The Panel featured, moderator Michael Davis, Ludacris, Michael Jai White, Kel Mitchell, Prdodical Sunn, Jimmy Diggs, Reggie Hudlin, Denys Cowan, and  surprise guest Nichelle Nichols.   It also featured a performance by singer Asia Lee.   Can somebody tell me why they had somebody rapping? (plus it was a weak performance) What does this have to do with Comic-Con?  These panels are for promoting  new project and asking questions.   It seems like somebody was being an opportunist and just wanted some free publicity.  

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For those of you who couldnt make it to San Diego for the con.  Here’s the audio from the panel.  DM also picked up the Inkpot award at the convention.  Dwayne McDuffie Panel Comic-Con 2009

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This November, writer Charlie Huston (“Moon Knight”) and artist Lan Medina (“Foolkiller”) will reintroduce readers to “Deathlok” and his world in a seven issue mini-series from Marvel Comics

Source CBR

Huston finished his last “Deathlok” script almost a year ago, and much of the planning and plotting for the series was done three to four years ago, so the writer drew much of his inspiration for the series’s setting from the current events of the time. “The stuff that was on my mind was a lot of what was going on in Iraq in 2005-2006. Things were at their hottest there, and Blackwater, military contractors, and mercenaries were very big in the news. So what I pitched to my editor, Axel Alonso, was a story taking military contractors 20 years down the road,” Huston explained. “Basically, national armies cease to exist and wars are fought entirely by proxy by corporately owned and run armies. Warfare has become a spectator sport as well as a business.

“The set up for this is basically that, in this world, Manning is a soldier’s soldier. He’s not a superstar, but he’s a respected professional and military thinker. He’s someone who gets results. Mike Travers is a rising superstar in the face of the game. Both are blown up simultaneously, and both end up incorporated into Deathlok. So the internal dialog the original stories had between Manning and Deathlok manifests in this version as an internal dialog between these two different personalities, Manning and Travers.”

Huston’s series is strictly a science fiction story. “This is science fiction in the broadest possible sense,” Huston stated. “It’s not ‘Hard Sci Fi,’ where you take a science concept and try to extrapolate it to its natural conclusion. It’s two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction.”

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Source: G4TV

True Blood is one of the best new shows on TV.  If you aren’t watching it then you should catch up.  Currently, its in Season 2 on HBO, Sunday nights at 9 PM.

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