Tag: Joe Cornish

Geekscape Comics: Latest Marvel NOW! Teaser Features Ant-Man

by Shawn Madden

So, could we be getting a new Ant-Man series soon? The latest Marvel NOW! teaser features Ant-Man but doesn’t really tell us which one. With Hank Pym currently Giant-Man, and Eric O’Grady being murdered in Secret Avengers and being brought back as the Black Ant, it seems quite likely that it will be Scott Lang. Lang recently returned from the dead in the pages of The Children’s Crusade and has not been seen since. It also would be most likely off the three due to there are reports that Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s script for Ant-Man features Scott Lang.

Joe Cornish To Direct ‘Rust’

by Scott Alminiana

Joe Cornish has signed on to direct Rust for 20th Century Fox. Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the script, which is based on the graphic novel, written by Royden Lepp.

Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family’s small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. While the rest of his family may not trust the mysterious boy with the jetpack, Roman believes the secrets of Jet’s past may be the key to their survival.

Cornish made his feature film debut with the great Attack The Block. He also co-wrote The Adventures of Tintin with Edgar Wright, as well as the upcoming Marvel movie Ant-Man.

Has Marvel Studios Finally Started Working On ‘Ant-Man’?

by Shawn Madden

Bleeding Cool is reporting that there is some abnormal activity at three comics shops in London. Three comic shops in London that are surrounded by major movie studio offices and production companies who work on special effects. That abnormal activity that I spoke about? Well… these shops have been receiving numerous people coming in looking for Ant-Man comics. Lots of Ant-Man comics in any condition.

“Here’s the thing. No one asks for Ant Man comics. Not even, I’m told, when Marvel was still publishing Ant Man comics. Each time the individuals have been asked if it’s for the Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish film and they jump back, spooked, asking how they could possibly know…”

One individual even had a specific request, wanting reference for Ant-Man’s “echo time locator” from “the old series”.

Could this mean that Marvel has convinced Edgar Wright to begin work on ‘Ant-Man’ as soon as he finishes ‘Worlds End’? I even checked Wikipedia out of curiosity and it has ‘Ant-Man’ set at a 2013 release above ‘Worlds End’. Maybe we’re about to get a big announcement in two weeks on seeing Hank Pym, Scott Lang or Eric O’Grady hitting the big screen? Before anyone throws out a fan-cast I am just going on the record and stating my personal choice is…Patrick Wilson. Just sayin’.

Joe Cornish Attacks the Book ‘Snow Crash’

by Matt Blackwood

Since his outstanding debut with Attack the Block, Joe Cornish has been searching for his next project. Now it looks like he’s finally found it.

Cornish has signed on to write and direct the film adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the dystopian cyberpunk classic about a sword-wielding pizza man trying to save the world from a computer virus.

Paramount has been trying off and on to get the film made almost since the novel’s 1992 release. Will Cornish be the man to finally realize the cinematic vision?

Allow it!