Elektra - Marvel Comic Book Movies

Elektra (Elektra Natchios) was created by Frank Miller and first appeared in Daredevil #168 in January 1981.
This lovely young lady is a ninja assassin of Greek descent and she wields two bladed sai.
Despite the fact that she has killed more people than almost any other female Marvel character (I think Phoenix has her beat), she is still one of the most popular heroines.

In 2003 Elektra appeared in Daredevil with Ben Affleck, and in 2005 she got her own spin-off "Elektra".
While it was widely panned by critics and fans when it came out, it has developed kind of a cult following since.
But so did Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Since The Avengers has made such an incredible showing, it's difficult to believe there was ever a Howard the Duck or Elektra.
Nerve.com ranked it as the worst Marvel movie ever made.
So did Rotten Tomatoes (even below Howard).
It was on IGN's list of the worst Marvel movies as well.

The Elektra spin-off from "Daredevil"was directed by Rob Bowman and had Jennifer Garner reprising her role as Elektra.
Besides Garner, the movie starred Terence Stamp as Stick, Goran Visnjic as Mark Miller, Will Yun Lee as Kirigi and Natassia Malthe as Typhoid.
Ben Affleck actually shot a scene for the movie as Daredevil, but it was deleted.
To say the least, Elektra did not do well.
In it's opening weekend, it only made it to 5th place taking in a little over 12 million dollars.
It then dropped sharply the second week, and finally wound up with a world wide total of just over 56 million dollars.

I really thought with Alias doing so well that Elektra would fair better, but I guess star power will only do so much.
The film really does seem to drag and it never really seems to get its focus.
I thought Jennifer Garner looked great as Elektra, especially since the spin off had more of a traditional Elektra costume.

The film was only nominated for two awards....the Teen Choice Award and a MTV Movie Award (Jennifer Garner and Natassia Malthe were nominated in the category "Best Kiss") .

The DVD of Elektra was released on April 5th, 2005, and a two-disc unrated edition director's cut DVD was released in October 2005.
Where Daredevils director's cut helped the movie, the Elektra directors cut really wasn't much of an improvement.

As soundtrack album, Elektra: The Album, was released, but almost none of the songs on the album were actually in the movie.
The soundtrack was released by Wind-up Records, the company that also did Daredevil: The Album, Fantastic 4: The Album and The Punisher: The Album.

On May 4th, 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment released the Elektra: Director´s Cut on Blu-ray Disc.

The Blu-ray Disc included:
Commentary by Director Rob Bowman and Film Editor Kevin Stitt
Relentless: The Making of Elektra - Part 1: Production
Relentless: The Making of Elektra - Part 2: Post-Production
The Mythology
Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Rob Bowman & Film Editor Kevin Stitt
Alternate and Extended Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Rob Bowman
Showdown at the Well: Multi Angle Dailies

Of course with rumors floating around about a Daredevil reboot (maybe with Jason Statham) can Elektra be far behind?
Maybe not in her own movie again, but if Frank Miller does the DD reboot, there's a chance Elektra might be in it.
So who would be a good Elektra this time?
Right now I have to cast my vote for Castle's Stana Katic.
Check her out in "Stiletto" and see what you think.

The Jonah Hex Movie Trailer

Well for better or for worse, here's the Jonah Hex movie trailer from the film starring Josh Brolin as Jonah Hex, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender and Megan Fox.
And let's not forget Will Arnett and my man Lance Reddick (from Fringe!) ...

Watchmen Reviews

The reviews of the Watchmen are rolling in and.....

"Watchmen" is a bore. Sad to say, the much-anticipated adaptation of the world's most celebrated graphic novel is long, dull and sinks under the weight of its reverence for the original. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

"From first frame to last, "Watchmen" holds you in its thrall. Director Zack Snyder ("300") is in full command of the tangled and challenging material, laying out the serpentine mythology in a way that will please the book's rabid fans who have been waiting and dreading this movie, while revealing to newcomers why Time magazine ranked it as one of the 100 best novels."
http://www.mercurynews.com/

"Director Zack Snyder is beginning to look like the best thing to happen to the action movie in this decade. His previous film, "300," took the battle of Thermopylae and re-created it, combining stylized visuals with a feeling for history, culture and character. His new picture, "Watchmen," follows in the same vein, but goes deeper, achieving a psychological sophistication that "The Dark Knight" aimed for but didn't quite reach."
http://www.sfgate.com/

And that's just a few of the reviews.
From what I have read, the film critics seem fairly evenly split.
I guess box office and fans of the book will decide it's future.

Even if the film is horrible, expect the first week to open like gangbusters.
If it's bad, the second week's box office will drop like a rock.
But wih the economy the way it is, the box office may not be a very good benchmark.
So the only thing you can do is go see it yourself and see if it lives up to the hype.
Or the book.

Watchmen, part 5

Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt) is a character appearing in the comic book limited series Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, published by DC Comics.



Named Ozymandias in the manner of Ramesses II, he is a modified version of the character Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt from Charlton Comics.



His name recalls the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which takes as its theme the fleeting nature of empire.
Matthew Goode plays Veidt in the upcoming film.
During earlier pre-production and attempts to make the film, Tom Cruise and Jude Law (a fan of the comic) both expressed interest in playing the role, but they left the project after several delays and budget costs.

Two more Batman 3 rumors...

Two more Batman 3 rumors...

Fred Weller (In Plain Sight) as the Joker?

Amy Adams (Enchanted) as Catwoman?

I guess these rumors will just keep rolling till actual casting is announced.
But you gotta admit...looking at that one picture of Fred Weller, then looking at the comic book version of the Joker.....

Original TV 'Catwoman': Angelina Jolie Would Be Perfect in the Part

Original TV 'Catwoman': Angelina Jolie Would Be Perfect in the Part

Julie Newmar, who starred as the Catwoman in the original "Batman" TV series, thinks Angelina Jolie "would own the part," she tells the New York Daily News.
The actress, 74, said that her industry friends tell her Jolie has made "inquiries about the role. I can understand how it would pique her interest. Catwoman is Batman's one true love.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393521,00.html

All I can say is....YES!

Superheroes are older than we think

Superheroes are older than we think
Robert Hudson reviews Our Gods Wear Spandex by Christopher Knowles

Alan Moore's Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear in Time magazine's 2005 list of the finest 100 novels written in English since 1923. Moore also wrote The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta, both of which have been turned into movies. Open any of these books and you are plunged into an allusive world of post-modern playfulness, analogy and reference. Symbols of Egyptian gods and sinister Masonic uniforms appear on Professor Moriarty's evil airship as he battles the Invisible Man, Alan Quartermain and brutal Mr Hyde.

Moore is a self-proclaimed magician, and one interpretation of his worldview is the old dictum that when you stop believing in God, you start believing in everything. The more generous interpretation is that the world of the superheroes is a richer one than most people give it credit for, and its authors and artists work within a fascinating tradition, reaching unbroken back into antiquity, in which archetypes are constantly revised, revisited and reinterpreted.

full story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/03/bokno130.xml




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