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This Week in Geek

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  • The sequel to The Muppets starts filming in London in January and will feature more songs by Bret McKenzie (Bleeding Cool)
  • Screen Junkies finally made an “honest trailer” for The Amazing Spider-Man (spoilers).
  • The pilot for Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D TV series directed by Joss Whedon will start filming in January. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Skyfall‘s director Sam Mendes and writer John Logan are making a vampire hunter TV series. (io9)
  • The Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome (featuring Will Adama as a pilot in the Cylon Wars) is finally going to air online starting today as webisodes (EW)
  • Who’s directing Star Wars: Episode VII? Is it Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class)?  Is it Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed)? (Collider/Bleeding Cool)
  • Whoever is directing, it appears Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3) has already plotted out the next Star Wars trilogy and will likely be the writer of Episode VII. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Harrison Ford is open to returning to the role of Han Solo in the new trilogy. (EW)
  • Is Disney trying to buy Hasbro next? (MTV Geek)
  • Because no one demanded it, 70s/80s fantasy comic Elfquest might finally be getting a movie. (io9)
  • Stan Lee wants a bigger cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I say give it to him as long as his character is named Jack Kirby. (Splash Page)
  • Spartacus: War of the Damned premieres in January. (TV Squad)
  • Neil Gaiman’s next Doctor Who episode will feature the Cybermen. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Mark Wahlberg is going to star in the next Transformers movie by Michael Bay. (Latino Review)
  • David Yates is going to direct Tarzan for Warner Bros. Yay for the resurrection of racist franchises! (Vulture)
  • At least someone agrees with me that Preacher should be a TV series not a movie. (Splash Page)
  • Shock surprise, Man of Steel is going to be in 3D. (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
  • One of the best ongoing comic series, Locke & Key, might be getting a movie trilogy. (Splash Page)
  • DC Comics decides to end it’s longest running series, Hellblazer, just so they can relaunch it. (MTV Geek)
  • Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Brett Ratner are joining forces for Hercules. (Splash Page)
  • New trailers for World War Z (starring Brad Pitt), The Last Stand (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Les Misérables (Latino Review)

This Week In Geek

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  • Apparently George Lucas gave Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker a heads up about the new Star Wars trilogy (Vulture)
  • Joss Whedon endorsed Mitt Romney for president…sorta (Huffington Post)
  • Adult Swim has picked up an animated series by Dan Harmon (creator of Community) (Vulture)
  • Jamie Foxx is in talks to play Electro in the next Spider-Man film. No, seriously. (Variety)
  • It looks like Francis Lawrence will be directing the remaining films in The Hunger Games series. (Mary Sue)
  • It’s now official: Bryan Singer will be returning to the X-Men film franchise to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
  • Guy Ritchie directed a trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 starring Robert Downey Jr. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Shondra Rhimes is going to produce a android sci-fi thriller for ABC. Indie bands rejoice everyone for more licensing opportunities. (Deadine Hollywood Daily)
  • Captain America: The Winter Solider has officially cast Frank Grillo to play Crossbones (Variety)
  • So what is George Lucas going to do with all that Disney money? (The Mary Sue)
  • The Ghostbusters sequel has been delayed…again. (Vulture)
  • This repurposed video by Disney is going to give Star Wars geeks nightmares.
  • The new Muppets movie is going to star Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds). (Bleeding Cool)
  • I really hope this rumor about Guillermo Del Toro working on a DC film is true. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Community finally has a season premiere date.  I can’t wait to see the Halloween and Christmas episodes in April. (EW)
  • Sin City: A Dame to Kill started filming with some important roles still needing to be cast. (Splash Page)
  • Some cool Halloween costumes from Patton Oswalt and Neil Patrick Harris
  • New trailers for Despicable Me 2, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Red Band), John Dies At The End and G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Movie of the Week: Marvel’s The Avengers

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Marvel’s The Avengers was so fun and satisfying that I’m not sure if we ever need another comic book movie again.

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Movies I’m Interested In Seeing: Summer 2012

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Despite having movies I have been anticipating for years, this looks like a pretty lame year for summer tentpole films.  This year, “summer” starts on March 4th.  I don’t imagine that I’ll be seeing a lot of movies this summer but I am definitely going to try and see these five.

5. The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3)

Even though Spider-Man 3 was pretty bad, I still hate how quickly they rebooted it (I know there are legal reasons they needed to do it but still).  I think Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy respectively) are well cast and appreciate that they are going back to the mechanical web shooters (which highlights Parker’s intelligence) but tying Parker’s parents into the origin and that horrible suit have me shaking my head. All I know if J. Jonah Jameson appears in the sequels, they better get J.K. Simmons back.

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