KT Update-I'm oozing with comic con scoop!

I’m oozing with Comic Con Scoop!!! Before I get to that, I have attached the Fall 07 schedule including premiere dates. Next month I’ll give you the full scoop on what shows are buzzing and which ones will be lucky to make it to episode 3.

What you don’t know what Comic con is? Even if you are not an entertainment obsessed “fan boy” or “fan girl” you should have a bit of an idea of what Comic Con is if you watch Entourage. Anyhoo, for those of you who are completely unaware, Comic Con is held in San Diego and directors, actors & other Hollywood folk come to “premiere” fun secrets of upcoming tv & movies to dedicated fans (i.e. over the top freaks) so that they can spread the word of their approval or loathing to the public via the internet. Don’t kid yourself, I would have given my right arm to be there, especially after I found out that the Whedon was there and that there was a raffle to have dinner with him! EEEEEE
Panels included tv shows (Lost, Heroes and upcoming movies Iron Man, Star Trek & Indy IV)….I’ve scored some scoopage below, check it out.

The big movie news, as far as I’m concerned, is that during the Indy V panel Spielberg and Ford introduced Indy’s leading lady, Karen Allen, who if you watched Raiders of the Lost Arc, you will know as Indy’s original female counterpart. I saw a little snippet on youtube, and everyone looked very excited to be part of this movie—even though Harrison looks a little old in his Indy get up. You can check it out here. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33487

-Edward Norton discussed his involvement & excitement on working on the Hulk. Apparently he re-wrote the scripts (not known if he re-wrote all of it or just pieces). But the fan boys seemed to like him because he ran through his history of being a hulk fan since childhood.

-Apparently JJ Abrams is working on some super secret disaster movie, I went to the website and couldn’t figure out what the hell was going out. It was just a bunch of polaroids that moved around. 1-18-08.com site. Too much work for a movie that doesn’t even have a title! I’ll just wait for the trailer. In more tangible JJ news, at the Star Trek panel he announced that Sylar from Heroes will be Spock in the movie and that old Spock (Leonard Nimoy) will make an appearance in the film.

From the Lost panel:
-Season four will feature both flashbacks and flash-forward
-At least one whole episode will follow Jack and Kate’s adventures away from Dharma Island.
-Michael will return to the Island (no word if that would be in the present or flash forward/backward style)
-We will finally find out Libby’s story.
-Rousseau will likely get a flashback in seasons four or five.

From the “Heroes” panel:
-Kevin Smith will write and direct an episode of the spin-off miniseries “Heroes: Origins”
It looks as if Nathan, Ando, Sylar, Peter & Parkman will all be alive and well for season 2..

From the “24” panel:
-In case you haven’t heard, there will be a female president.
-Season 7 will be based in DC, with Jack Bauer in hot water, facing the U.S. Senate over perceived crimes.
-The first plotline for season 7 had Jack in Africa and would have broken the traditional 24 mold, as they would have had to skip ahead 12 hours so viewers wouldn’t have to watch 12 episodes of Jack on a plane. Anyhoo, that idea was scrapped because apparently it wasn’t very good.

From the Whedon panel:

- The Whedon just finished writing "the horror film to end all horror films -- literally" with fellow Drew Goddard (who also worked on Buffy & Angel). It's called “Cabin in the Woods.” Yikes, I’m scared of a real Joss horror movie!! But how could I not go!!!

* The Whedon will write two issues of "Buffy: Season Eight" (which returns this month eh!!) He later added that while he doesn't know how long Season 8 will be ("I can't stop writing the Buffy comic. It's like a drug."), he "definitely knows how it ends and he knows how Season 9 begins."

* Oz will return. Faith the Vampire Slayer won’t be the only old character reintroduced in issue six of the “Buffy: Season Eight” comic.

* The Whedon says there will be more Fray. (yay!!)

* Whedon has a new web comic called “Sugarshock” at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents

*“Ripper,” a Rupert Giles-centric BBC project Joss Whedon has been talking about since the fifth season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” may come to fruition in 2008. (double yay!)

*Goners - Joss is in the process of rewriting the fantasy/thriller and is his primary focus.

*Serenity - A new comic is launching in late Winter from Dark Horse. When someone shouted out for a sequel to the film, Joss responded by saying the new DVD edition of was coming out because "people keep buying the damn thing," implying that it's a possibility.

*He's also composing the score for a short ballet he's doing with Summer Glau (River). The crowd dug the idea prompting Joss to state in surprise, "Boy, was I expecting silence." Entitled The Serving Girl, he's already found a choreographer and will film it once he's finished the score.

*Angel: After The Fall - The comic he's working on with Brian Lynch, who will be the writer. It will be a twelve-issue maxi-series from IDW that shows what happens after the series finale battle with the evil law firm known as "Wolfram and Hart. " "What happens is very bad.”

A fan brought up the possibility of Joss directing the seventh and last Harry Potter film when the time comes. Whedon expressed his interest in his usual understated manner - "Yeah, I could probably find a weekend for that." EEEEE have Frikkin Fantastic would that be!!! Holy Crap, I know it won’t happen but it gives me goose bumps just to consider it!!

The two shows that got the most buzz where Chuck (Mondays, 8 NBC) & Pushing Daisies (Wed. 8, ABC). And also there is a show that I won’t mention from the shunned network.

I heard that the Bionic Woman & the Sarah Connor Chronicles were eh-eh. I doubt I’ll watch either of those anyway.

I think that was the most of the news that I got from comic con. I’m patrolling the net because apparently Jon Faverau debuted some new Iron Man footage (a new Marvel comic super hero movie starring Robert Downy Jr & Gwyneth Paltrow) and all the fan boys went yahooey over it.

In other non, comic con news, I reported last week that I was going to give the Angel-look-alike show Moonlight a try because David Greenwalt (who worked on buffy and angel) was in charge & also because Logan from VM had been cast. Well now David Greenwalt is out (due to alleged health reasons) so I’m a bit worried for the show. Word is that they’ve completely reworked the script and that can never be good news! Finally, Rob Thomas (creator of VM) has left ABC’s Miss/Guided. Good, now he can focus on the important things, like bringing me a Veronica Movie!!!

So that about wraps it up for today. I finished Potter Book 7 which I won’t discuss here because I know some of you haven’t read it yet, wait for the movies or are just way, way behind. But if you need someone to discuss it with, you know how to find me.

I’ll be back next week with some movie reviews!