MTV is reporting that there probably isn’t going to be another Tim Story Fantastic Four movie.

Might I be the first to say hooray?

Those Tim Story FF movies were a cancer. The only things even mildly good about these movies were Chris Evans and Doug Jones. Let’s hope they reboot this franchise as quickly as they did Hulk and the Punisher. And they should get Peyton Reed to direct. He was supposed to direct the first one but backed out. Why? Probably because he knew it would suck. He directed “Down With Love” though and it’s obvious that he knows how to handle 60s cheese in all the right ways. And now that the studio has done it their way and they see how bad it sucked, maybe they can let someone who knows what they’re doing on board.

These movies seriously sucked.

Say what you will about the last Punisher movie, it was light-years ahead of these. In fact, the only film I can think of that was worse than these two FF movies is The Matrix. And that’s saying a lot.

What can I say, I’m an old fart. As a youngster I had G.I. Joes. I had the ones that were 12 inches tall. I loved ’em. Kung Fu grip is right up in my top 10 inventions of all time. “A hand that can actually hold a gun? Rock on!” The sad part is that by the time the 3.5 inch action figures came around, I was probably just a bit too old to be playing with them. Did that stop me? Hell-to-the no. I thought the cartoon was great, and the figures were awesome too.

So now they’re doing a live action G.I. Joe movie. Am I stoked? I’m a little worried actually. We’ll just have to wait and see. I will say that these first two shots of Ray Park (Darth Maul from Phantom Menace and Toad from X-Men) as Snake Eyes looks pretty darn bitchin’. How soon til Master Replicas or Weta makes a repro sword, and when can I send in my down payment? Yo Joe!

Aintitcool News is reporting that Matthew Vaughn (the director of Stardust and Layercake) is hard at work on the film adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s “Kick-Ass”.

This could be good. I enjoyed Stardust a lot. I never saw Layercake. Vaughn has also been tapped to direct the big screen adaptation of Thor. He seems competent enough for these projects, so let’s wait and see.

As for the next Millar adaptation, I don’t even think I’m going to see Wanted. I think it looks really fucking stupid. That being said, Kick-Ass could be great.

You can read my original review of Kick-Ass here.

Cera and Wright met up for the filming of a viral video promoting SuperBad. Both enjoying the others work, they decided to join forces and make quite possibly the best comic book movie ever.

Scott Pilgrim is the greatest running (almost manga) digest series right now. Anyone that grew up with Nintendo, Sega, or Atari will love this book. It’s a pretty simple story, really. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy has to fight girl’s seven evil ex-boyfriends to win her heart.

Geek jokes and references galore. As well as a hilarious group of characters. You can place yourself, or your friends in the story. I can’t emphasize enough that everyone should be reading this book.

Variety is reporting today that Peter Berg, the director of the upcoming Hancock which may or may not be a good movie, has been attached to direct Paramounts most recent adaptation of the Frank Herbert epic, Dune.

I’m not exactly sure why we need another Dune. The David Lynch film was fairly competent. I’m a littler concerned about the choice of director, too. This is the guy who’s been tapped to direct the Barbaro saga. Yeah, Barbaro, that one horse that got a broken leg in a race a few years ago. Better still, it’s called “Gone Like The Wind.” Seriously.

I suppose this is just one of those times we have to adopt a severe “wait and see” attitude.

Hollywood just can’t get enough of our nerd cash.

Universal signs 3 year deal with Dark Horse, production/distribution creative access to characters, the works.

I’d also heard rumors a while back that the studio was offering up their monster catalogue to Del Toro for us in the Hellboy movies. Haven’t heard confirmation, but the idea of it makes me feel yucky in all the right ways.

Sad to see Mark Romanek pull out of Universal’s Wolfman relaunch, but with Joe Johnston helming it wont be a total waste. Either way, it’s nice to see Universal taking a respectable stab at respectfully reinrtoducing the public to some of the most iconic monsters in film history.

Cross your fingers.

Lo! With Gary Gygax’ (R.I.P.) ascension to Valhalla less than a fortnight hence, it is prophesied that the the King’s mantle shall be taken up by brave warriors 2, both of noble works and lineage whom shall usher in the new age of nerdery.

As Variety reported earlier this week, Paramount Pictures and the production team of David Fincher, Kevin Eastman, and Tim Miller are launching the third installment of the Heavy Metal animated film franchise. Just as the original film (I didn’t see Heavy Metal 2000) , this one will be broken up into 8 or 9 animated segment chock-full of blood boobs and beasts.

I don’t know about you all, but to me this is great news. My memory of the first Heavy Metal film is a nostalgic one and as a result, I find it hard to objectively vouch for it’s true quality, but it certainly made an impression and it did introduce me to the works of Jean Moebius Giraud to whom I, as all nerds, owe a great debt of gratitude. I heard that Heavy Metal 2000 sucked and I really haven’t read much of the magazine in the last decade, but considering the tone of the book coupled with modern innovations in the animation and Fincher’s stunning visual style, this has potential to be something special.

Kevin Eastman’s not so shabby either.

I have no idea who the Hell that other guy is.

In all fairness, Kevin Eastman probably was next in line to the nerd throne that Gygax left vacant earlier this month, but Fincher is the true Cinderella story here. While the early half of Fincher’s career was spent hanging out with the likes of Madonna, George Michael, a bunch of supermodels and Brad Pitt, (squeezing an Alien movie into for good form) his battle for the throne has been an almost hopelessly uphill struggle. But with the announcement a few weeks back that he will direct Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” while still in development on Brian Michael Bendis’ “Torso” while currently spearheading the third installment of the Heavy Metal franchise, Fincher pulls it out in the ninth inning, squeezing past Guillermo Del Toro and earning his place at Eastman’s side, Odin bless them.

Beowulf was a clear push in establishing animated epics for mature audiences, Heavy Metal may well establish that market or solidify it as a novelty. I have my doubts about any animated movie for mature audiences even scratching the surface of some of the greatness that Pixar has shown us, but here’s hoping.

The website for The Punisher Redux is now active.

This is another situation where Marvel decided that their last film wasn’t “good enough” and decided to reboot two years later. Which kind of sucks because the movie wasn’t terrible and Thomas Jane kicked a lot of ass. Yeah, so what if it wasn’t that good. It was everything a Punisher movie needed to be and it had some kickass action.

Was it bad enough to flush down the toilet? No, they could have done a sequel and just done better than the last one. They could’ve taken the good bits and moved on.

Instead, they have this new guy no one has ever heard of standing in for Frank Castle. And did any of you guys hear why Thomas Jane isn’t back? It’s because he’s been doing the Con circuit for a while and has read a helluva lot more Punisher than I have and said that if the movie wasn’t like the good comic books and what the fans wanted, then he was out. They gave him a script and he promptly quit.

So, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Here’s a few new photos of the Batpod for The Dark Knight. Honestly, I’m pretty excited to see how its implemented into the movie. I had my doubts about the Tumbler in Batman Begins, but I was proven wrong. I’m hoping the explanation for needing a beefy motorcycle is just as good.

Somehow, the Mexican MSN got the first look at The Incredible Hulk trailer.

It looks really good.