- Aint It Cool runs a small, mixed review of Jersey Girl today. It’s short, but contains some minor spoilers, including a commentary on the film’s ending, so we’d recommend those of you that like going in cold avoid it. For those who spit in the face of that notion, read away HERE.
Latest rumors have indicated that some interesting changes have been made to the beginning of the film since we’ve seen it in the Sherman Oaks test screening, as well as additional scenes featuring Jason Biggs appearing later on. We’re still debating on posting our review of the film so early in the process, but may do it in a non-spoiler way (as best we can) for posterity’s sake. Again, chances are the film will please one type of View Askew fan and turn off some others, but stands to be the biggest success in View Askew so far (our prediction). Stay tuned.
Archive for July 22nd, 2003
Kev Lends Voice To Dini’s “Duck Dodgers”…
- Paul Dini, one of the best writers in the comics biz and a personal favorite here at News Askew, has announced some details on his new upcoming animated series for The Cartoon Network, “Duck Dodgers”. One of those details revealed that Kevin will be voicing a classic comic hero in what sounds to be a very amusing storyline. Comicon.com had the story:
Daffy Duck (also known as Duck Dodgers) is the star of his own upcoming cartoon series from the Cartoon Netwrok. Paul Dini told THE PULSE that everyone’s favorite duck superhero is going to be making a splash in the DCU when he becomes this sector’s new Green Lantern …? See the sparks fly when Duck Dodgers meets Hal Jordan with Kevin Smith doing the voice of GL.
“Daffy accidentally finds himself in posession of a legendary superheroes ring and becomes the new Green Lantern of Earth,” said Paul Dini. “Doing a cameo voice over turn is CLERKS director Kevin Smith as everyone’s favorite Green Lantern Hal Jordan.”
Green Lantern is an interesting choice out of all the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes … especially since Hal Jordan hasn’t been Green Lantern for a while. “There’s only one Green Lantern,” Dini commented when asked about the choice. “When Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, Tom Minton and I were thinking up stories for the first season of DD, it dawned on us that it would be fun to have Dodgers mistakenly join a group of space-going heroes like the Jedi Knights or GL Corps. “Spike, Tony and I had already done an animation development on the Green Lantern Corps a few months before, so the models were already done. Though the characters were a bit more cartoony in design than those on JUSTICE LEAGUE or even TEEN TITANS, the tone of the show was going to be fun, straight-forward adventure, and we always regretted that the GL show did not move forward into full production. We pitched our DD/GL crossover story to Paul Levitz at DC who was very amused and gave us his thumbs up. We thought GL would be the natural one to team up with Dodgers as he’s the hero that fits best into the futuristic space theme of Dodgers’ series.”
Working on Duck Dodgers are Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone as writers, supervising producers and directors, with Tom Minton and Dini as writers and producers. Duck Dodgers, like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers, really doesn’t have any super powers. So getting the power ring gives the hero an edge of sorts. “Dodgers doesn’t really have any powers, except maybe super-ego, so having an all-powerful Green Lantern ring is certainly a boost for that,” said Dini. “During the course of the adventure Dodgers meets up with just about everyone who has ever been a member of the Corps, so long-time GL fans will have a field day spotting characters like Killowog, Katma Tui, Tomar Re, etc.”
As for what’s next for the Looney Tunes hero, Dini said, “We’ll see a lot more of Mars and of Marvin the Martian’s life there. He still has his loyal hound K-9, and the bird-like Instant Martians, but there are new characters for him to interact with, such as an army of Martian Centurian Robots (all voiced by Star Trek’s Michael Dorn) and a Cleopatra-like Martian Queen. Tia Carrere (Lilo & Stitch, Wayne’s World) provides her sultry voice.”
“Daffy accidentally finds himself in posession of a legendary superheroes ring and becomes the new Green Lantern of Earth,” said Paul Dini. “Doing a cameo voice over turn is CLERKS director Kevin Smith as everyone’s favorite Green Lantern Hal Jordan.”
Green Lantern is an interesting choice out of all the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes … especially since Hal Jordan hasn’t been Green Lantern for a while. “There’s only one Green Lantern,” Dini commented when asked about the choice. “When Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, Tom Minton and I were thinking up stories for the first season of DD, it dawned on us that it would be fun to have Dodgers mistakenly join a group of space-going heroes like the Jedi Knights or GL Corps. “Spike, Tony and I had already done an animation development on the Green Lantern Corps a few months before, so the models were already done. Though the characters were a bit more cartoony in design than those on JUSTICE LEAGUE or even TEEN TITANS, the tone of the show was going to be fun, straight-forward adventure, and we always regretted that the GL show did not move forward into full production. We pitched our DD/GL crossover story to Paul Levitz at DC who was very amused and gave us his thumbs up. We thought GL would be the natural one to team up with Dodgers as he’s the hero that fits best into the futuristic space theme of Dodgers’ series.”
Working on Duck Dodgers are Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone as writers, supervising producers and directors, with Tom Minton and Dini as writers and producers. Duck Dodgers, like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers, really doesn’t have any super powers. So getting the power ring gives the hero an edge of sorts. “Dodgers doesn’t really have any powers, except maybe super-ego, so having an all-powerful Green Lantern ring is certainly a boost for that,” said Dini. “During the course of the adventure Dodgers meets up with just about everyone who has ever been a member of the Corps, so long-time GL fans will have a field day spotting characters like Killowog, Katma Tui, Tomar Re, etc.”
As for what’s next for the Looney Tunes hero, Dini said, “We’ll see a lot more of Mars and of Marvin the Martian’s life there. He still has his loyal hound K-9, and the bird-like Instant Martians, but there are new characters for him to interact with, such as an army of Martian Centurian Robots (all voiced by Star Trek’s Michael Dorn) and a Cleopatra-like Martian Queen. Tia Carrere (Lilo & Stitch, Wayne’s World) provides her sultry voice.”
Sounds spectacular. Can’t wait for that one to premiere. Watch for it!
View Askew NewsBites™
- Rejoice, Kevin Smith / Star Wars fans: Kevin’s mug appears on the front of starwars.com today, in their splash graphic promoting SDCC’s 2003 wrapup. They say:
On Saturday, Star Wars fan, filmmaker Kevin Smith stopped by the starwars.com booth before his afternoon panel to talk Star Wars and claim a Hyperspace t-shirt.
- Speaking of Kev at the con, here’s another small pic, courtesty of Variety, featuring Kevin and 2 familar-looking hobbits.
- And yes, even more con-related stuff: Today’s edition of web comic Real Life Comics has a story surrounding attempts to get Kevin to visit a certain booth at the show.
- Good news if you’re in the LA area…”Drop Dead Roses” (starring Brian O’Halloran) will be playing sometime between the 19th and 28th of September, brought to you by the NYIIFV festival. The show time hasn’t been set yet, but the schedule will be posted on the festival website at www.nyfilmvideo.com on August 18, 2003. We’ll likely remind you here as well.
- eBay has an auction up for what looks to be a very rare Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back script. Bid and get more info HERE.
- Chris Rock’s memorable entrance in Dogma is played as a clip on VH-1’s “200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons”. Oh, and Rock clocks in at #179. We knew a couple of you completists must have been wondering.
- The August 19 issue of The Advocate is the Summer Sex Issue, and readers voted on Young Hollywood’s sexiest men and women. Coming at #1 among women was Eliza Dushku, and under “Gayest Moment” it reads: Dushku’s girl gang in ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ was supposed to be read as lesbian.” Coming in at #5 among men was Ben Affleck, and his “Gayest Moment” is “Kissing Jason Lee in ‘Chasing Amy’ or kissing Kevin Smith on the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.”
- And finally today, article at IGN FilmForce claims that Ben Affleck is being considered to star in “Truth, Justice, and the American Way”, a biopic of George Reeves, the star of the 1950s “Superman” TV series.