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COOL COMIC CON CLIPS: WATCHMEN AND WOLVERINE
There was plenty of footage screened at Comic Con this weekend, but after TR2N, the two movies that seem to have been received the most positively were and Watchmen. The Watchmen footage hasn't appeared online yet (sob), but the Wolverine trailer thing has, for as long as that lasts. Presuming it will get pulled eventually, here's my quick take: the story is set up as a sort of a "regenerating buddy flick" gone bad, as Wolverine and Sabretooth seem to start off on good terms, which then turn sour as they start trying to hack each other to bits. Wolverine has a wee bit of an advantage over Sabretooth's dirty-finger-looking claws. Oh, and we see some new mutant friends like the Blob (he looks a lot like Fat Bastard, unfortunately), Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds, without nasty scars, strangely) and Gambit, who I have to admit (as a Gambit hater), was surprisingly one of the cooler things in the trailer. Interpret that however!

BRYAN ("I WASN'T A COMIC BOOK FAN BEFORE I DIRECTED X-MEN") SINGER PICKS UP TWO MORE "COMIC BOOK" PROJECTS
This week, Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns) announced two separate comic book projects that he will produce, while we are still left waiting for firm news about when the next Superman movie will start filming. Well, Freedom Formula is "sort of" a comic book movie, in that it is another of those comic book titles from a company (see above, #2) that produces comic books pretty much just so they can then sell the rights to movie studios. Basically, the comic book is just a storyboard that they can also sell. Freedom Formula is described as being like Top Gun, but with mechs. Well, the Variety writer probably wasn't versed enough in nerd jargon to know that term, but that's what he meant. Basically, with both Transformers and Iron Man raking in cash, you're going to see more mech-type movies. Tobey Maguire is producing a Robotech movie, for example. The other Bryan Singer production announced this week is Capeshooting, a comedy about two guys who make their money shooting videos of superheroes in action who get in trouble when they discover one of them is actually a villain. Capeshooting is described as an upcoming comic book, but I can't find any evidence that it exists other than stories about this movie project. Again, this appears to be an example where the "comic book" is secondary to the movie based upon it. Meanwhile, there's about 70+ years worth of comic book stories that existed before Hollywood got hip to us, that struggle to get sold or produced as movies.