It was Voltaire who once said that if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him. It was screenwriter John August who said the same thing about Captain Marvel.
"If Captain Marvel didn't pre-exist and there was just an idea of a 13-year-old boy who can speak a magic word and turn into a superhero -- that's a great idea," the writer declared on the eve of turning in his completed draft for "Shazam." "If it hadn't been around for 50 years and someone just wrote it as a spec script, that would sell cause it's a really good idea."
It's an idea whose time has come. A comic book film which centers on an unlikely hero, "Shazam" is "very different" from all "the other flying people in tights movies," insisted August. "It's not Spider-Man plus jokes. There's really good comic potential there," he asserted, revealing that his film -- an origin story -- owes as much to "Big" as it does to "Superman." Read More...
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Corey Haim came by our offices last week for an extended conversation we'll be rolling out in the very near future (trust me, stay tuned for some great stuff). Among many other things, he talked excitedly about his participation in the long-awaited "Lost Boys" sequel, saying he was about to start filming in Vancouver and that he was "honored" to be a part of it. Corey Feldman meanwhile left for Vancouver last week to film his role. 
In the weeks following the August 9th announcement that Matthew Vaughn had been chosen to direct "Thor," an online groundswell has begun to get a certain fan favorite cast in the title role. Sometimes, such efforts fail miserably (think Josh Lucas as Two-Face), but at other times Internet buzz actually plants the idea in the head of the studio (Michael Chiklis as Thing), so the idea of Tyler Mane as Thor might just prove to be a mighty one after all.
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