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Here’s some advice to the fanboys. Buy a hat, and hang the hell onto it for this news. A documentary is in the works involving Morgan Spurlock, Legendary Pictures chief Thomas Tull, superhero legend Stan Lee, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon (who’ll direct Marvel’s The Avengers pic) and the randy redhead blogger Harry Knowles. They’ve teamed on Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan’s Hope, a feature documentary that will follow seven people from around the world as they travel to the geek summit that is Comic-Con in San Diego. Spurlock will film the docu. He’s best known for directing Super Size Me and I fear he will discover that his cautionary tale about fast food consumption was lost on a hardcore fanboy crowd. But what you have to love about the Comic-Con faithful is the way they devour superhero and comic book movies, and always show up on opening weekend. Among the producers is Tull, who is using his money to carve his way to geek icon status. His Legendary Pictures developed street cred with fanboys by co-financing Superman Returns. Since then, he has co-financed Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, 300, and next up is the Christopher Nolan-directed Inception, which–I’m just going to say it–is the must see film of the summer.
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Superman Returns is where Tull blew himself a big hole in fandboy street cred. Working with Nolan is where he dug himself out of that huge hole.
Not to sound like an anal uber-geek but Joss is directing The Avengers, not Justice League — big difference.
Avengers. Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers not Justice League. I do realize you probably made that mistake on purpose just to see how many fans correct you. I’ll play.
You know when this would have been cool? Like THREE YEARS AGO! Comic-Con no longer has any soul. Unless they’re intent on showcasing how much of a ludicrous clusterfuck it’s become and how it’s no longer about the fans or the books, then I’d rather watch a game across the street at Petco Park and dream of time where it wasn’t about the money or Hollywood Hoopla.
I’m with you on that man! This whole money obsessed world just disgusts me now. It’s ruined everything.
Dammit. I was sure that I typed ‘unconfirmed’ in that reply.
Inception is the movie I also most want to see this summer. I hope it does well so we can get some more original material for bigger movies. Not that I’m against films derived from other source materials like Comic books, novels, etc. It just would be nice to see more original stuff out there.
Cool news! I assume this’ll be filmed at this July’s Comic-Con?
lowest form of the idea.
might as well be stupid reality TV.
An examination of how some comic book fans meeting in the basement of a local SD hotel decades ago has become the center of all genre media fandom while the comic book industry itself has slowly been abandoned by the conventions organizers in search of larger corporate dollars would have been much more interesting.
Comic Con has become a joke. They should rename it, Corporate Cash Con.
Back in the day, when it was just the real Fan Boys (the guys who actually grew up with the comics), it was a great place to be. But now all the pretenders have jumped in, and the industry has sold out.
Now everything is ten times the price, and one tenth of the quality.
I’m surprised they don’t make you sign your soul over when you enter the doors. Hell, I probably shouldn’t say that – it’ll give them ideas.
Don’t get me wrong. I understand it was always a business. And I’m very grateful to companies like Timely Comics. But Fuck! Ever since the big corporations took over, it’s just been watered down again and again till it meant nothing.
These assholes crapped on my childhood memories. Along with the memories of all the other real fan boys.
For those who truly know what it means,
‘Nuff Said.
Actually, Spurlock is teleporting the cast back to Comic-Con 1995 to convince George Lucas NOT to make another STAR WARS trilogy.
Man, I wish that was true.
Was that before or after the “new” Time Machine movie.
This just in: Kevin Smith will direct a reality television series about the making of the documentary. Seth Green will host the series and serve as the Executive Producer of the soon to be announced animated version for Cartoon Network. Smith will also collaborate with Jeph Loeb (former Heroes EP)on the Dark Horse comic of the animated version. The comic will debut at Comic Con 2012 at the Staple Center.
Funny! Very clever, Hollywood Goy.
Cool!!!