I just read Bendis' "Torso" again today. Really good comic with some unfortunate layout ideas (Let's make the page a giant spiral that the reader has to flip around to read! That won't be annoying at all!), and this thread popped into my mind afterward because Fincher would be perfect to direct a film version of this. Lo and behold, in the back of the book it mentions that one of the writers had adapted it into a screenplay. I head to IMDB to see if it had been made already in a small production or straight to DVD or whatnot and, well, it died in preproduction apparently. Guess who was all set to direct it?

I guess he didn't want the next film after Zodiac to be another serial killer flick, tho. Also, the film had been retitled to "Ness" because the main character is Elliot Ness. Probably an attempt by the studio to drum up interest for the flick by associating it with The Untouchables or something. I feel like Bendis is one of those guys who hollywood really needs to tap into. He's kinda like Joss Whedon in the sense that everything he's done has been above-average to fucking amazing, but no one outside of comic nerds has apparently noticed.

The only fault I've found in his writing is that you can often totally remove the last line or two of dialogue from every scene and it plays better. Not so much in his latest stuff, tho. Powers and Alias are both pretty tightly written. Dunno if he still does Alias or not, tho.

Go read Torso. It's really good. Not if you're squeamish, tho. He draws anything that involves blood or gore, and there's quite a bit of that, but there are photos of actual dead people and skeletal remains in the book as it's based on an actual series of murders.

That would be amazing. And he'd get a chance to use his "I'll be back" line at the end.

Paul Verhoeven is now adapting his book "Jesus Of Nazareth" to film. Co-Written by Roger Avery. He basically portrays Jesus as just a dude whose story got blown out of proportion by writers trying to one-up each other. I tend to agree with him, though I'm not sure Jesus ever existed (or if he wasn't a number of dudes who kinda got rolled into one dude via said writers).

Anyway, I can't wait for this for any number of reasons.

1) New Paul Verhoeven film. Awesome. Kinda surprised I hadn't heard of Black Book before now...
2) I cannot wait to see how people react to news of this movie's existence and apparent plot.
3) Judging by Verhoeven's other book-to-film adaptations, I bet this movie will have an innocent bystander bodycount of biblical proportions.

The scene just after that where you watch Cage go apeshit for five minutes on a motorcycle was great as well. The final car chase was fun. The last little bit of the movie was a let down in that the big bad of the movie was a complete pushover and then the movie kinda drags itself across the finish line after that.

I knew going in that it was going to be a crappy B-movie with crazy camera shit. I guess that allowed me to laugh at it instead of getting angry. Kinda like Skyline. Just never ever watch it in 3D. I'm amazed there haven't been any whiplash lawsuits brought over the snap-zooms-in-3D. My neck was actually sore the next day. I was so glad that the only other people in the theater were seated in front of me

I think we were trying to think of what the alien races in this movie would be called if it were directed by George Lucas.