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Ta - Nehisi Coates To Write New Black Panther Comic Book Series For Marvel — So this is pretty exciting.

The huge success of «The Walking Dead» in France, which started even before the television series was aired, kind of took everybody by surprise, because it is now the number one comic book series for adults in France.

We wrote a Star Trek comic book series for DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint.

Marvel's announced an ongoing comic book series for joke superheroine Squirrel Girl.

He's known for his writing on race and politics — so it makes sense that his latest project, a comic book series for Marvel called «Black Panther,» is about the first black superhero in mainstream U.S. comics.

Not exact matches

Though the original comic series isn «treally a comedy (though let's all concede that the premise is completely ridiculous, even for a comic book), the movie is being directed and co-written by Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), so don't expect it to take itself too seriously.

The continuing storyline of comic book series is what has drawn her to writing for TV and film.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, abbreviated as TotJ, is a comic book series covering eight story... 25 Star Wars Memes To Get You Pumped For Any Sequel, Prequel Or Spin - Off May the farce be with you.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

Luckily, Satrapi's life took a turn for the better, and she eventually chronicled her story in a series of comic books that were adapted for this film.

As for story, Tarzan will remain trapped in monotony unless the writers can get him out of the city sometime (at least to the Catskills or Poconos), or bring in wild and bizarre comic book characters like the Batman series did.

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He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons (1989 - present), on which he performs the voices of Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, Comic Book Guy and numerous others.

ABC might have beaten its corporate sibling, Freeform, to the punch when it comes to comic - book adaptations, but the revamped network is making up for lost time by ordering another Marvel property to series.

We picked out seven games that have (basically) never had their own comic book series before and detail as best we can for potential publishers just why they'd work in the realm of word balloons.

Deadline is reporting that up and coming filmmaker Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) has signed on to direct «an untitled girl gang movie» for Warner Bros. and DC Films, which will be based upon the Birds of Prey comic book series.

Here's why DC's Flashpoint comic book series is the perfect origin story for John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's The Flash solo movie.

It was critically embraced, commercially successful ($ 333 million in box - office receipts) and a high - water mark for an obscure superhero character in from an obscure comic book horror series.

It's Me, Margaret» by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl's «Fantastic Mr Fox,» and Maurice Sendak's «In the Night Kitchen»; Gary Trudeau's popular comic strip Doonesbury debuts in US papers; Andy Warhol debuted several new pieces including «Silver Car Crash» which sold a few years ago for a new Warhol record of «$ 105.4 million; In comic books, «Silver Surfer» lost his monthly book while «Green Lantern» starts having to share his with «Green Arrow» plus the iconic supporting characters J Jonah Jameson and Agent Nick Fury, and the villain The Vulture made their debuts in The Amazing Spider - Man; Astro Boy became the first manga to go to animated series in Japan.

Stay tuned to Dark Universe for further updates on both the comic book series and novel.

An adaptation of Bill Willingham's popular Fables comic book series has been in the works for quite some time now, but never really gained traction.

Directed by Bryan Singer, and written by David Hayter (from a story by Tom DeSanto & Singer) X-Men leaves out a few major characters from the comic book (my favorite, Nightcrawler, among them), skimps on the development of the remaining characters, and changes around Rogue's storyline for convenience sake — all so that the film can focus on the series» most popular character, Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman).

Exclusive to the Blu - ray is the animated short «DC Showcase: Jonah Hex» (a little slim but appropriately adult with gallows humor), solid featurettes on the two Robins of the comic book series and four episodes from the animated «Batman» series, plus a digital copy of the film for portable media players.

EXTRAS: In addition to cast and crew audio commentaries on four episodes, the Blu - ray set includes «Inside «The Walking Dead»» and «The Making of «The Walking Dead»» featurettes for each episode, some deleted scenes and additional featurettes on the parallels between the comic book and TV series, visual effects and more.

Marvel has announced that Tony Stark is set to headline his second «All - New, All - Different» Marvel comic book series, with the Daredevil creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev reuniting for International Iron Man., which will see the hero embarking on adventures around the globe.

Of course, the movies aren't going to replicate the comic book series note for note, so let's figure out what they could use and what has to be jettisoned.

As we await the release of Ninjak vs. The Valiant Universe later this year, Valiant Entertainment has given us a peek at some of the characters from the live - action webseries thanks to a series of variant covers for upcoming Valiant comic book titles.

The comic book series was originally developed as a pilot for Fox back in 2011, but the company ultimately passed on the project.

Ahead of its arrival on PlayStation Network later this month, Entertainment Weekly has given us a new look at Sony Television's adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's comic book series Powers; check them out here... SEE ALSO: New York Comic Con trailer for Powers «Powers, an edgy dramatic series from Sony -LSBcomic book series Powers; check them out here... SEE ALSO: New York Comic Con trailer for Powers «Powers, an edgy dramatic series from Sony -LSBComic Con trailer for Powers «Powers, an edgy dramatic series from Sony -LSB-...]

Adapted from Pierre Christin and Jean - Claude Mézières» beloved comic book series, the story finds Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) as special operatives for the human territories who are part of the force maintaining order in the galaxy.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasuFor movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasufor violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasufor hidden treasure.

The intentional changing or at least ignoring of it in casting the role of MCU lynchpin Nick Fury and producing a Black Panther film for 2018 and a Luke Cage television series for later this year doesn't bestow upon them immunity by any stretch of the imagination, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems relatively inclusive if at the same time mostly faithful to the mostly mid-20th Century created comic book origins - depictions of their headline characters.

For example, the series will also star a comic - book version of Tessa Thompson's Valkryie from Thor: Ragnarok:

The movie house will then host journalist and author Ta - Nehisi Coates, who is the latest writer for the comic book series, for a reading of his new book before a showing of «Black Panther» at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Following the successful launch of Rovio's Angry Birds Transformers mobile game, IDW launches a new comic book series this week from writer John Barber (Transformers, Transformers vs G.I. Joe) and artists Marcelo Ferreira and Livio Ramondelli, and we've got a preview for you right here... You got TRANSFORMERS in my Angry Birds!

Early last year, it was revealed that The CW was developing a reboot of Tales from the Darkside from Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joe Hill, and while the series never materialised, IDW Publishing announced a four - issue comic book series based upon scripts Hill produced for the aborted show.

Ryan Condal wrote the script for Hercules: The Thracian Wars, which is based on the comic book series created by Steve Moore.

Then there was the search for co-stars to portray Cable and Domino, two fan - favorites of the comic book series.

The Black Panther got his own self - titled comic book series in 1977, but «The Black Panther» only ran for 15 issues.

Actually, if you take Men in Black 3 into account, since the first Men in Black movie was based off the Malibu Comics series, this is comic book role # 5 for Brolin.

The producers also demanded that the adaptation — which of course comes from a comic book series well known for its violence and subversive satirical content — be converted into a PG - 13 action film.

CBS have debuted the first trailer for their upcoming TV series based around the DC comic - book character of Supergirl.

Syfy dropped trailers for two very promising new shows during NBCUniversal's Upfront presentation on Monday: Nightflyers, a sci - fi horror series based on a novella by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, and Deadly Class, an comic book adaptation that's executive - produced by Avengers: Infinity War directors the Russo brothers.

With Independence Day: Resurgence just around the corner [check out the trailer here] Titan Comics has given us a preview of the variant covers for issue # 3 of the Independence Day comic book series.

The first Deadpool film taught us that «house blowing up builds character,» but for series creator Robert Liefeld, so does watching your beloved comic book opus come to life on the big screen.

It just took up more screen time than I would have liked in an adaptation of a comic book and film series known for snappy pacing and lots of action.

Berloff directs from her own screenplay, based on the comic book series created by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle for Vertigo from DC Entertainment.

We may be watching a series of trailers for these characters» stand - alone projects, but they're damn good trailers, and they dutifully uphold the playful egalitarian spirit that defines the Marvel comic - book universe.

After gestating for years in various forms, it looks like an adaptation of Garth Ennis» and Darick Robertson's acclaimed comic book The Boys is finally coming together as a new series at Amazon.

We've already become accustomed to the characters we already know, and screenwriters Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber (working off the characters from the comic book series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner) offer nothing new for these characters to do (Only Sarah's obsession with taking part in the action — and inevitably kissing men instead of hurting or killing them — is close to a distinct trait from any of the established characters).