hollywoodreporter.com - 11/19/2008
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Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are in negotiations to pen Marvel Studios' "First Avenger: Captain America." The dealmaking occurs about a week after Joe Johnston boarded the project as director. Marvel's Kevin Feige is producing. Created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for Timely ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 11/14/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Marvel's Thor is the latest hero from the
comics and entertainment company to get the cartoon treatment....
Marvel Animation is developing and self-producing a 26 half-hour episode series based on its long-running comic book, with the series targeted to ...
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Marvel preps Thor animated series
newsarama.com - 11/22/2008
blog.fph.co.uk - 11/20/2008
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X-Men 4 Gets Youthful Reboot Chuck showrunner Josh
Schwartz has been hired by Fox to write the...
next X-Men movie, which will reboot the franchise with a bunch of younger mutants, reports Variety . Fox hopes that Schwartz will inject a next-gen ...
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The Lion, The Witch And Captain America [Captain America]
io9 —
... should be really exciting to watch Rogers change under the influence of the serum and gain the strength to take on the evil Red Skull. But honestly, I think the entire movie hinges on who you get to fill Cap's red boots, and how the actual war scenes are filmed and directed. Marvel's Kevin Feige is producing, after having worked on many superhero movies, so at least the team can benefit from his experience of both success (X-Men) and failure (Spider-Man 3). [The Hollywood Reporter]
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Daily Scan for 11.20.08 - X-Men Goes Gossip Girl, Batman Goes Grayson
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... • The scribes behind Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia movies will be writing Captain America -- presumably not as a Christian allegory. ...
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TrekMovie.com —
... make the film: “I did go to see James Cameron. He didn’t give us his blessing, but he didn’t shit all over our movie. When Jim was making Alien, he was following the great Ridley Scott, so he knows how we feel.”‘Captain America’ Gets Screenwriters Just a week after the announcement that Joe Johnston would be directing "The First Avenger: Captain America", Marvel Studios has announced that Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who co-wrote the two ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ films, are in negotiations to write the screenplay for the film."The First Avenger: Captain America" hits ...
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SCI FI Wire 11/19/2008
Marvel Studios has engaged Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to write Captain America, a film that has Joe Johnston attached to direct, Variety reported.