Thanks to my crappy ISP, it’s impossible to fully cover all of today’s news, but here’s the break down:
Spoilerific details about the Hulk have emerged. We don’t have to wait 40 minutes for the Hulk this time, Bruce Banner is in Brazil looking for a flower to destroy the gamma rays in his blood, etc. Honestly, I’m not sure why you’d want to know all this, and anyway, it’s about what you’d expect. They had me at "Lou Ferrigno". [IESB]
James Purefoy, AKA Mark Antony on Rome – an incomparable hardass, has been cast as Solomon Kane, a character from a classic comic book about "a 16th century Puritan swordsman". Hmm, I liked him when he was a boozy, drugged up, nympho. Not sure about the whole Puritan thing. [Variety]
Derek Luke will fill in for Wesley Snipes in Spike Lee’s WWII movie. It also stars Jim Gandolfini and John Turturro. It’s about "four members of the U.S. Army’s all-black 92nd Division who get separated from their squad behind enemy lines. The soldiers, bitter about racism and the feeling that their own government treats its enemy better than it does them, finds humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna." Yeah, I’m sure that won’t be preachy. [RoS]
Remake planned for David Cronenberg’s Brood. I’d rather see Cronenberg himself directing something new, or pretty much anything where people’s heads explode. I’m old fashioned like that. [Rotten Tomatoes]
Rose McGowan even more might probably maybe be Barbarella. One thing is for sure, she’s a shitty actress. With big cans (NSW). [CinemaBlend]