* Marvel Studios has hired Drew Pearce to script the adaptation of Runaways, based on Brian K. Vaughn's comic about a group of teens with superpowers fleeing their villainous parents. Pearce is best known as the writer of No Heroics, the Brit television series about supeheroes who hang out at a local pub. Peter Sollet(Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) is still on board to direct. This is by far the Marvel film I'm most looking forward to. Screw that Avengers crap.
* Aaron Johnson(Kick-Ass) and Andrew Garfield(Red Riding) are both in discussions to play Jack in Bryan Singer's upcoming film, Jack the Giant Killer. Based partly on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale and on the more aggressive 'Giant Killer' version, the film is the main reason why Singer was unable to direct X-men: First Class for 20th Century Fox. Jack the Giant Killer has been adapted into film four times, with the most recent in 1962.
*I guess Warner Brothers has finally noticed how far they're falling behind against Marvel Studios, as they finally seem ready to push ahead with their DC Comics superhero franchises. The Distinguished Competition(as Marvel calls them) states that it's ready to move forward on a film based on The Flash. The script was being handled by Dan Mazeau, with superstar scribe Geoff Johns assisting. Not only that, but both the Wonder Woman and Aquaman projects are still in the pipeline. Wonder Woman? Depends on who plays her. Aquaman? Ummm...until they find a way to make a guy who can see underwater cool, I say kill this thing now and make a movie about somebody cool. Martian Manhunter, maybe? For more on how silly Aquaman is, along with some funny Wonder Woman stuff, I'll direct you to a scene from one of my favorite shows nobody watched, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist...
