The DC Buddy Comedy The World Has Been Waiting For!

The biggest differences between Marvel and DC movies is that one incorporates comedy into their movies...and DC doesn't.  That may be about to change, though!

Enter Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, the comedy odd couple of the comic book universe!  Booster Gold is a janitor from the future that steals a time machine from a museum that he works at to travel back to our time, the "Age of Heroes," to become a hero himself.  Blue Beetle is an insanely bright billionaire inventor, a la Tony Stark, but is a little funnier and pudgier than him.  The two are amazing and hilarious when they team up!

The movie is said to be directed by Greg Berlanti.  Does that name sound familiar to anyone?  It should!  He's part of the creative force behind Arrow and The Flash on the CW.  Considering the success that these two shows have had, I think it's safe to say that they've placed this project in the proper hands.

The only real question is which Blue Beetle are they going to go with?  Ted Kord was killed in the comic book universe and replaced by Jamie Reyes, who kind of just stumbles upon the Blue Beetle scarab and gains his powers.  For this movie to work, though, I think that they need to go with Kord, because he is the one that has the best relationship with Booster Gold, and their back-and-forth's are hilarious!  Of course, they could also make a hybrid between the two characters and meld them into one person (I mean Kord and Reyes.)

Early on, Berlanti wanted to use both of these characters in his television shows, but DC had turned down his request.  Now it seems we know why, and how cool is it that Berlanti gets to be the one who directs it?  He might not have been able to use them on television, but I can't wait to see his vision of them in a big budget action/comedy film!

Is this "Moose Jaws" First Kill?

Say it ain't so, Silent Bob!  Well, I guess he wouldn't...he's Silent Bob!

A few movies down the road, Kevin Smith will be concluding his "Canadian Bullsh*t Trilogy" with Moose Jaws.  This will be a deep and powerful movie.  It's a movie about (or "aboot," as it may be) a killer moose, so it's not just a clever title!  Like I said, though, it's still a few movies away from being made.  Smith still wants to do Mallrats 2 and possibly Clerks 3 before tackling this project.  Here's what the man himself had to say about Silent Bob going out on top:

“I just finished writing the scene where — spoilers — Silent Bob gets eaten by the moose. That’s how he f—ing goes out! Isn’t that fun? I was talking to Jay [Mewes] about Moose Jaws and I’m like, ‘I’m thinking about bringing us in as the Captain Quint character’. And he goes, ‘Yeah, but Quint gets killed!’ I was like, ‘One of us has to get eaten’. And he was like, ‘You. Not me’. I was like, ‘Why?’ And he was like, ‘Because I wanna be in other movies!’ Fair enough, dude. So, rather than let [Silent Bob] go out with dignity, he’ll be eaten by a fucking moose.”

How glorious is that?  If you're going to go out, at least go out with style!  These details came out in an interview he did in Australia recently.  Who knows, he might just be joking, but then again, Silent Bob could become moose fodder soon.

I personally can not wait for this movie to be made!  I love the modern B-movies that have been making there way out onto the screen.  Don't think that they're out there?  Go onto Netflix and check out Zombeavers!

Oiginal Theatrical Release Version Of Star Wars Coming To Blu Ray?

I know, I know, this rumor seems to pop up more and more, but this time it may be true!

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to watch the theatrical versions of the original trilogy?  You know, before George Lucas got his hands on them and screwed them all up?  Lucas himself said that he would never release these versions on video ever again, but thankfully he no longer owns the property rights to these films.  There has only been one release of these untouched films that made its way onto DVD, but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, but like I said, that may soon be changing!

At a recent Q & A late last Friday night at Universal Studios Orlando, Empire Magazine is reporting that John Landis, a close personal friend of Lucas, shared with the audience that Disney is planning on releasing these highly coveted films onto DVD and Blu-ray.  Landis was there to talk about a new Halloween Horror Night attraction that is going to be based on his film An American Werewolf in London, and someone asked if he'd like to go back and tinker with the film to fix anything that he felt needed to be fixed.  Here's his response to that question:

"First of all, they wouldn't let me.  George owns his movies, so he can do what he wants...My personal opinion is George hurt his movies by doing what he did.  However, George said to me, 'But they're my movies.'...I thought, 'That's fair.'...Did you know Disney, by the way, is putting out the original Star Wars the way it was.  So, you know Disney, they're like money on the floor."

He's not wrong there.  If Disney really does release these unaltered films, they could probably make all the money that they spent buying the Star Wars franchise back on the first day of their sale.  Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but they would make a ton of money off of them!  Let's hope that this really happens this time!

Star Wars Episode VIII: Awww Crap.

I have to admit, I liked the way that Jay Jayson of Comicbook.com began his article:

"No!  That's not true!  That's impossible!"

Jayson reported that Making Star Wars is reporting that Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in the prequels, will be making an appearance in Rian Johnson's Star Wars Episode VIII.  I have to assume that this had been planned out while Star Wars: The Force Awakens was being written, because it wouldn't make sense not to write the outline for all three chapters so they would have some idea where they were going to take it.  That being said...huh???

My first thought was that he was just going to appear as a "ghost" in the film, but the leak went on to say:

"A team in the U.K. are soon heading to the U.S. to begin training Hayden Christensen for a Star Wars: Episode VIII appearance of some sort."

Why would they be training him if he was just going to be floating around in the vapors?  So, maybe he'll be appearing in a flashback of some sort?  Maybe Kylo Ren has found a way to clone Anakin?  Or maybe he's even found a way to resurrect him through using the Dark Arts?  Okay, that last one really doesn't make any sense, because if he did bring him back to life, he'd be an old, decrepit man, not the young man that the actor is.  One fan's theory is that Kylo Ren, being as obsessed with Darth Vader as he is, will actually try to "recreate" him, by attempting to turn Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side and take up his father's mantle, something that Kylo Ren might think is his destiny.  Whatever the reason turns out to be, Christensen's role in the Star Wars universe might not be over.

What do you think?  Do you have any theories that I haven't brought up?  Let me know in the comments section down below.  Star Wars: Episode VIII will arrive in theaters May 26, 2017.

Playstation VR

Next year will bring us Sony Playstation's VR headset, but if you are wanting to get one, expect to shell out some big bucks for it.  Sony said that they are going to price the VR headset like they would a separate gaming system, which would probably put it at around $399.99.  Why so much?  Here's what Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House had to say about the new device:

“VR rewrites the rule book on how you can create games,” House added. “You’re seeing a large amount of interest and work happening among smaller teams, because it’s possible to create something in VR that is very simple but still very magical.”

I guess all of that extra entertainment is what's pushing the cost up, eh?  If it works as well as they are advertising, then I guess that pricing it like a separate gaming platform is understandable, and maybe even reasonable, just too rich for my blood.  The exact date for it's release is still unknown, but it is definitely being released some time next year.  Along with it's 2016 release, Playstation will also be releasing 10 fully-featured titles that will be exclusive for the VR headset.

A Folding Smart Phone?

Samsung is about to change the smart phone industry forever...maybe.

According to an "insider" with "in-depth knowledge regarding Samsung's plans and the industry, in general" Samsung is planning on releasing a folding smart phone to the public in January 2016.  Sound far fetched?  It shouldn't.  LG Display has already unveiled a foldable and rollable screen In Korea back in August, and Samsung isn't that far away from developing their own technology that would incorporate it's use.  This is what iflscience.com had to say on the new phone:

"The tipster claims that the handset is undergoing testing in two configurations, one with a Snapdragon 620 SoC and the other with a Snapdragon 820 chipset. Both handsets will supposedly have 3GB of RAM, an inbuilt SD card slot for additional storage and a built-in non-removable battery."

So what do you think?  Is this something that you'd be interested in purchasing?  I'm just wondering how long it'll take Apple to roll out one of their own.

Can You Imagine The Power Of 100 Million Supernovae?

Something spectacular is happening.  Astronomers think that they have discovered a pair of black holes that are beginning to merge into one huge singularity.  But what does this mean?

The two black holes, dubbed PG 1302-102, are 3.5 billion light years from Earth, and are only a handful of binary black holes that we know about.  These two in particular, though, are the closest pair that we've seen.  The distance between the two is roughly the width of our Solar System, and in a little under one million years, they are going to collide.  Their collision may result in an explosion that equals 100 million supernovae.

That's a really big explosion.

Now it should be noted that it hasn't been 100% confirmed that these two will run into each other, but the data that's being collected at Columbia University in New York suggests that they are.  One of the two is consuming the other one at a faster rate, and is traveling around 7% the speed of light.  This speed is causing it to emit light and be extremely bright.  The data that the scientists have published say that if this black hole were in the Oort Cloud (the area that surrounds the planets in our Solar System) it would orbit the Sun in five years.  To give you a comparison, Pluto orbits the Sun every 248 years.

Why am I telling you all of this?  No reason.  I just thought that this is an incredible event that's taking place in our Universe, and wanted to share.  Just be glad it's as far away from us as it is.  I can only imagine what it'll do to surrounding systems.