Peter Parker Could Have Been In The Incredible Hulk!
We’ve been hearing rumours of a possible Captain America cameo in The Incredible Hulk recently (apparently its nothing more than serum), but one we haven’t heard of before is that fellow Marvel character Peter Parker could also have been in The Incredible Hulk.
Marvel are doing the cool thing of crossing characters over films, we’ve seen Captain America’s shield in Iron Man, then we will see Tony Stark in Hulk and now director Louis Leterrier revealed to MTV information on another interesting cameo…that didn’t happen…
“The University at the end [where Banner meets with Samuel Sterns] is Columbia University. Columbia University in the Marvel world, especially in the ‘Spider Man’ world, is Empire State University,” the director explained. “I wanted some kind of shot where you’re like, ‘Oh my god. Is that Peter Parker?’ That would have been fun!”
Unfortunately for Leterrier, crossovers begin and end with the properties Marvel has total control of – no matter how hard you ask. And “Spider-Man” all its many names, places, and stories therein, belong to Sony. But while he quickly realized that he wouldn’t be able to get Tobey Maguire (no matter how much he wanted to), Leterrier thought a compromise could be reached. No dice, he sighed.
“I just wanted to call it Empire University – to treat it like a coherent world,” he recalled. “And Sony, who has the rights to Spidey, didn’t want us to do that. It was a small thing but something we couldn’t do.”
Still, Leterrier is such a fan of comics, and the new combined Marvel universe in particular, he’s already jealous of the director who one day, he knows, will get to do what he couldn’t.
“Marvel is pretty good at doing their own movies and so eventually the studios will allow them to chaperone the production of [all of them],” he said. “Years from now you’ll see Peter Parker meeting Bruce Banner.”
Beat Ben @ the Box Office: Jonesing for Indy
Indy’s back, and the timing couldn’t be better. Look for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to set the all-time, five-day box-office record.
Indy is iconic. Older audiences who never felt much for Pirates of the Caribbean’s Captain Jack Sparrow, or even Spider-Man’s Peter Parker, connect with Indy. And younger audiences have rediscovered the franchise on HD-DVDs and flat-screen TVs, just as my generation did on dusty videotapes and, god forbid, LaserDiscs.
Also, there’s the Shia Factor. Dude could read the phone book, and young America would line up and buy a ticket.
Coming off two slower than expected weekends for family films (Speed Racer stunk, and nobody cared much about Chronicles of Narnia), the stage has been set for a massive Indy opening.
Think I’m too gassed on one of film’s last living franchises? Think Shia won’t get the kids to show up? You’re bugging! Put your numbers up….
Neil Young Is Spider Man
Forget that Peter Parker dudewhen it comes to spidey sense, he's got nothing on Neil Young.An East Carolina University professor has honored the Godfather of Grunge by naming a new species of trapdoor spider after him.Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is the technical name for the eight-legged critter discovered last year by ECU biologist Jason Bond in Jefferson County, Ala."There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," the scientist says in a press release. "As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."
No word whether Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is venomous, but if the creepy crawler is anything like the legendary singer-songwriter, he'll certainly have plenty of bite.Bond realized he had found a new species after inspecting its DNA and genitalia, which is markedly different from other arachnids in the trapdoor family, a species that builds its living space in burrows and makes trapdoors from its web.
The 62-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer released his latest album, Chrome Dreams II, last October and is set to kick off a European tour later this month.
Young has not yet commented on what it's like to be rockin' in the web world.
The View from Ballroom 20: Spoilers, News and Fun from Saturday at Comic-Con
Hey, guys, Jen here! I spent Saturday camped out in Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center, soaking in the geektastic television panels at Comic-Con. Read on for highlights of the Bionic Woman, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica events, including some extra bonus info from the TV Guide panel about the state of sci-fi on television, as well as the Battlestar press conference backstage.
Watch out for spoilers…and for Danny Bonaduce. Yes, you heard me.
BIONIC WOMAN
- Executive producer Jason Smilovic, our new geek-writer crush, on the title of the show: "Bionic Chick didn't clear with legal."
- FYI, there will be no remakes of the Bionic Woman Sasquatch and shampoo brainwashing eps from '70s.
- Per the writer-producers, the real world incorporates many tones, it's only TV and movies that try to pick only one. Bionic wants to be like the real world and have a little of everything.
- They thought a lot about where or if to use the famous bionic sound effect in the new show. Maybe she puts bread in the toaster and pushes the lever. Dundundundun… Or maybe as somebody's ringtone. Now, when the camera zooms into Jamie's body, and you see the bionic anthrocytes pour into her organs, you might hear a familiar sound…
THE CHARACTER
- Cocreator David Eick: This woman is not cut out for this situation; the character has a "Peter Parker ethos." Heroes like Sydney Bristow and Max Guevara knew their s–t, this one's still learning.
- Smilovic: Michelle's Jamie is thrown into deep end of the swimming pool without her waterwings. She's not a Navy SEAL.
BIONIC CHICKS
- Look for an ep focused on the conflict between Sarah Corvis and Jamie Sommers. (Yay!)
- Katee Sackhoff on her character, "the first Bionic Woman": Sarah Corvis loves being evil. The characters I play save me from having to go to therapy. During that fight scene in the pilot, I kept texting my manager, "I hate working with rain towers and stilettos!"
- Katee and Michelle Ryan are well aware of the sexual tension between Jamie Sommers and Sarah.
- According to Eick, Sarah and Jamie develop a "very special" relationship early in the first season. Lesbians! Right? Well, hopefully. Did I mention the boyfriend in Bionic is a total schmuck?
- Balancing Bionic and Battlestar? There are preplanned BSG production hiatuses, and Katee will slot into the Bionic storyline during those. Eick: "Katee just has to do a lot of amphetamines, and she’ll be fine." Okay, he's kidding.
INTERLUDE: AWESOME
Danny Bonaduce is sitting on the floor behind me. Dude is built like a Sherman tank with red hair.
HEROES
- Greg Grunberg is wearing a shirt that says, "Milo is my hero." Masi Oka is wearing a shirt that says, "Hayden is my hero." Jack Coleman is wearing a shirt that says, "I’m just a paper salesman."
- Sendhil Ramamurthy and Greg made out for a while onstage.
- Michelle Ryan of Bionic Woman and Oka of Heroes seem to be two of the sweetest people in or around television. Maybe someone at NBC could introduce them?
- Hayden Panettiere is a beauty, inside and out. But you knew that.
- Reason number one (of many, no doubt) to love new regular Dania Ramirez, who plays Maya: "Hiro, I will give you some play."
- Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden put the kibosh on Peter-Claire (just in case you really needed it spelled out for you): "They’re related! End of story," says Milo, while Hayden points out her character is not just unavailable, she’s 15 and therefore underage.
SPOILERS
- Sendhil: I'm bring something from my personal life into the fifth episode of season two.
- Volume II: Generations may or may not be a full season.
- There’s a new character named Monica who comes from a Katrina-ravaged area of Louisiana.
INTERLUDE: NEKKID
Until you see a real woman in a Leia slave girl costume you don't realize just how naked Carrie Fisher really was…
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
RAZOR
- The Razor film airs Nov. 24 and features the Original Cylon War, the Pegasus under fire during the initial Cylon attack on the 12 Colonies, a new character named Kendra Shaw and the original Centurions and Raiders from the '70s series.
- Battlestar Galactica show runner Ronald D. Moore: There will be a series of two-minute promos, pieces of the movie that were cut from the original long version of Razor so it would fit it into the on-air time slot. You will see these minisodes of Razor, then you will see a feature-length version on the air, and then the DVD has it all together in one extended-edition movie.
- Razor does not address the cliffhanger. It is resolved in the first episode of season four, which airs in January 2008.
THREE
- Lucy Lawless will be returning to play Cylon model Three, aka D'Anna Biers. She says, "Oh, yes, I'm coming back…to cause some trouble." She’ll appear in two or three eps, beginning around episode 10.
- Moore on the return of Three: "Why is Lucy back?…There are a lot of people interested in unboxing D’Anna, because she knows things. There’s a long plot leading up to that. It’s a pivot point for the season, and after that, things change and drive us toward the finale." Lawless: "She’s coming back to participate in someone's plan. Can you keep her vicious? What I loved about her was she was the grit in everybody’s eye."
- Mary McDonnell and Lucy Lawless will have a scene together.
SIX
- Which of the characters has the most surprising destiny? Moore: "Baltar and Six have an interesting journey."
- If you read hairstyles like spoiler tea leaves, you should know Tricia Helfer is sporting Gina hair, not Six hair.
- Tricia Helfer: "Baltar’s getting a lot of action this season—and not with me."
OLD, NEW AND HYBRID CYLONICITY
- Someone in the front row of the ballroom has a sign that says, "I'm the last Cylon." Moore says: "Oh, that makes things so much easier."
- The last Cylon is not revealed until the latter half of season.
- According to Tricia, "We're doing some of the 'Cylon parties' stuff right now." The beginning of the season is a lot about the inner turmoil of the new Cylons.
- And per Katee, "Michael Hogan is still in denial [about Tigh]. He will not admit he's a Cylon. And as he's an actor, he's really pissed off."
- Moore: "We're going to learn, over the course of the season, who, what, where and when they got all those [new Cylon] people into positions of power."
- Moore: Baby Hera has a role, she's always been sort of specific in the mythology, but with Nicky we go back and forth on what we're going to do…
KARA THRACE AND HER SPECIAL DESTINY…
- Katee on Starbuck: "She has a mission she believes in 100 percent. She always questions herself, and this is a time where she knows she's capable. She's just as hotheaded and as crazy as ever, but she's…heightened."