Fantastic four lies continue

The Fantastic Four rumor mill is spinning faster than Fox news. We heard rumors of Amber Heard and Adrien Brody being considered for The Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic already, but now comes news that Fox wants Bruce Willis to voice the entirely CGI Thing!
Now that is a great bit of vocal casting. Maybe this is the next stage of Willis's career? He's going to be too old to do the stunts himself, so he can just voice computer-generated versions of himself doing things. That's what Stallone is doing these days, right? I mean, that guy is 82 years old, so I know he's not ACTUALLY filming explosive stunt sequences.

Comic Book Movie also reports that they're close to naming a director for the do-over. It's down to Joe Carnahan (who somehow has potential even though he ate doody with The A-Team), James McTeigue (who somehow has potential even though he ate doody with Ninja Assassin), and David Yates (who did some good Harry Potter stuff). Obviously, Yates is the guy for the job, with the feel of Potter and The Fantastic Four sharing more overlap than ninjas or B.A. Baracus. So look for Carnahan to get it. My hopes aren't sky high for this, but I do love the characters, and they are currently being written so well in the comic that it makes me yearn for a good adaptation. Here's hoping.

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Preach on

As I've expounded on before, a movie based on the jaw-droppingly good comic "Preacher" needs to happen. Thus, even though the early buzz I'm hearing on The A-Team is...let's go with "suspect" (one person I follow on twitter simply said "I f**king hated A-Team"), I am glad somebody is talking about adapting the thing, even if it's director Joe Carnahan. Were this anything other than a terribly slow news week, information consisting solely of "Joe Carnahan says he wants to do a Preacher movie" wouldn't even show up on this most humble of blogs. But guess what, the rumor mill is quieter than BP's "good idea" department. Thus, I'm left once more contemplating how it is this series hasn't made it to the screen in some form. Did I mention that this comic has a vampire? Because it does. Right now if you say the word vampire three times in a comment you've left on a forum somewhere, a studio executive will buy it and turn it into a movie. It also has a really compact opening narrative, a great female lead, and the option of making it either slightly more big-budget or slightly cheaper. Beyond all of that, it defies logic why HBO wouldn't want it as an ongoing series? "Entourage" has zero life left in it, they already have a hit vampire show (the lame-and-icky "True Blood"), and this dark humor would totally catch on. Carnahan, buddy, I wish you the best if only because people are talking about this project again. Maybe I'll give A-Team a real chance just to make it up to you. Probably not though, someone is shooting a plane with a tank in mid air.

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