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Saturday, July 5, 2003
FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN MOVIES UPDATE
Ralph Winter, who was a producer on X-Men and X2, told The Continuum things are moving forward with the Fantastic Four live-action movie at Fox.
"Fan Four is heating up," Winter told The Continuum on Friday. "(We) just got a new outline, and we will probably start some concept work this summer."
Peyton Reed is attached to direct the film, which is tentatively targeted for a holiday 2004 release.
Although there has been speculation that the third X-Men film could be released as early as 2005, Winter told The Continuum that currently there is "nothing going on with X3."
Look for more news on Fantastic Four soon here in The Continuum.
SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED UPDATE
Audu Paden, executive producer of MTV's Spider-Man animated series, told The Continuum that current Spider-Man artists John Romita Jr. and Mark Bagley were influences on how the character looks in the show.
"I love Romita Jr.'s character drawings. He just does great design," Paden said. "And Bagley's attitudes, and his Spider-Man in motion - you have him poised in mid-air in extreme poses and limbs stretched to the point where real human ligaments would be under great strain - so we're really going to Bagley for the way we're moving our Spider-Man.
"We're looking to them for the way the characters are crafted."
Spider-Man's body type is similar to that of Ultimate Spider-Man's. "We want to be able utilize the Spider-Man body as the Peter body," Paden said.
One of the tested looks early on that stuck was to have the white part of Spider-Man's eyepieces change size - an approach occasionally used in the comics. Paden said it gives the character more range of emotion.
Spider-Man's costume features the raised webbing, a la the feature film.
"It's good because it helps with the branding of this Spider-Man as being related to the feature film, and that's where were coming from," Paden said.
The show also uses the film's logo.
Spider-Man will premiere with two half-hour episodes beginning Friday at 10 p.m. (ET). The episodes will air again Saturday, July 12 at 2 a.m. and at 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday, July 13 at 4 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Click on the thumbnails for larger images from the show, and look for more Spider-Man news next week here in The Continuum.
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FIRST LOOK: INVINCIBLE #5
Invincible #5 will arrive in stores on July 16 from Image Comics. The issue is written by Robert Kirkman, with art by Cory Walker and a cover by Walker and Bill Crabtree.
Here's how Image describes the issue:
"Mark is sent out into space by his father to deal with an all too familiar villain. It seems his father is too busy saving the world with The Guardians of the Globe and he needs Mark to fill in for him. Mark's lazy Sunday afternoon is ruined when he's forced to face his most formidable foe so far. Lucky for him, though, his mother is cooking pork chops tonight... his favorite."
Invincible #5 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.95.
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