Comic Book Bits: Stan Lee Talks Cameos And ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’; Plus ‘Justice League,’ ‘The Governator,’ And ‘TMNT’ Character Posters
In the wake of WonderCon there are a great many little comic book tidbits floating around, so let’s start withStan Lee. With summer approaching he is talking about cameos. ToTHRhe jokes that he’d like to be inThe Dark Knight Rises(“I wonder why DC Comics doesn’t have me do a cameo in Batman? Just think how people would come to see that. They wouldn’t believe it.") and toDigital Spyhe sings his own praises inThor: “…like all [my other cameos] it is magnificent. It’s the high spot of the movie. I’m a little sorry about these cameos because people are so affected by them and influenced by them they don’t notice what else is going on in the movie.”
Oh, and the creator ofSpider-Mandoesn’t have a problem with a British actor playing his creation (“I think the more actors that we use from away in other countries is brilliant,” he says, “because we are one world and we’ve got to stick up for that.") not that we expected to hear anything else. Stan Lee isn’t really a guy that’s going to start raging against the studio system now. But it’s good to get his blessing, I suppose.
After the break,Arnold Schwarzeneggertalks about his new creation, Ryan Reynolds talks superheroes and there are newTMNTcharacter posters.
The Governatorstill seems like a terrible, terrible idea, but (again) it is for kids, so I’m not going to spend much energy worrying about it, or even dismissing it. But there aregreat commentsfrom Arnie today about power fantasies, and I think he’s confusing some general power fantasies with some specific ones of his own:
So this is basically hisDirty Harry? Got it. But for kids!
Next up:Justice League. Earlier today, when talking aboutRyan Reynoldsvoicing the lead character in the animatedTurbo, I mentioned that we could ironically see that film on screens at the same time asJustice Leaguehits with a new Green Lantern actor. And here are comments direct from Ryan Reynolds toMTVabout the possibility of appearing in Justice League. Right now he isn’t in the film, though that could change:
I hear about it, but I hear about it the same way you do: from a Ouija board, late night over a glass of Chardonnay. I don’t know much about it other than it is in the makeup and the plans and the development slate of Warner Brothers. But, I don’t have anything to do with it…. “The fan in me thinks it’s fantastic. Of course you wanna see all those iconic characters standing together in one room. As far as being involved, I have nothing to do with it as of yet.
Finally, here’s a gallery of character posters for the relaunchedTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will hit Nickelodeon later this year. With the exception of the kid-friendly eyes the style is actually pretty close to the Eastman and Laird art that first appeared in early TMNT comics almost 30 years ago, and that’s pretty cool. [GeekTyrant]
