Howard Chaykin‘s old mini-series Power & Glory has had the film rights picked up by New Line, reports Variety. Being one of Howard’s works you may expect it to be a slightly unusual superhero (if I’m still allowed to use the term without infringing trademarks!) tale and you would be right: it sees a US government programme to create their own superhero. Except the person they end up with may look and sound the part but he is an utter wuss, frightened to use his powers and rather poor at combat, so his former CIA agent-turned-hero-handler ends up doing much of the dity work the superpowered half of the team was meant to do.
In other genre movie news Warner Bros and IMAX announced that around twenty minutes of the forthcoming Superman Returns will converted to IMAX 3-d for the IMAX screenings, which will open on the same day as the more conventional cinema release this summer. Word is that these scenes are visually stunning. Dare I say it? You’ll believe a man can fly. There, I said it.
Mon, Apr 3, 2006
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