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Lanterns, Avengers, Call Of Duty, Buffy And Danny F*cking Trejo: Trade News To Make Your Nerd Bits Tingle

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (23)

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Greetings, you lowly dogs. Here’s some news for you. Try not to shit yourselves.

Hey, did you know they’re making a movie about The Avengers? Yeah, for serious. It’ll star Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and a mess of other people. And it’s actually happening — shooting actually began yesterday. Director Joss Whedon, in his infinite cleverness, had this to say on Whedonesque:

Tomorrow we start shooting (I THINK I’m legally permitted to say that). Day one. That’s right. We’ll be shooting the pivotal death/betrayal/product placement/setting up the sequel/coming out scene, at the following address:

[Marvel Lawyers rush in, take Joss’s keyboard, blowtorch a picture of his family like in “Stormy Monday,” drink his milkshake, leave the seat up, fluff his pillows, violently unfluff his pillows, leave]

Went too far. My bad. Anyhoo, it should be a fun day, followed by the eighty thousand other fun days it will take to finish this.

Oh, Whedon. Please don’t fuck this up.

NEXT. Via Bleeding Cool, here are some Green Lantern character posters for Sinestro and Kilowog, both of whom look pretty awesome:

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Apparently, Warner Brothers just dumped another $9 million into the film to polish up the effects. Which normally wouldn’t be cause for alarm, except that the film is due out in something like six weeks. Yikes, I say.

Lastly, here’s a fun little not-quite-movie-related trailer. It’s for the latest expansion pack for Call Of Duty: Black Ops, a game I haven’t played yet because a) I’m still slogging through Dead Space 2, and Crysis 2 comes next anyway, and b) I played Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 and Call Of Duty: World At War and Call Of Duty: Here’s Some More Shit To Shoot At and I’m getting a little tired of all the calling and the duty.

I digress. What makes this fun is that one of the more enjoyable bits of Call Of Duty: World At War was the zombies expansion pack, which I never played but always sorta wanted to except that it was I believe it was for multiplayer only and I don’t like getting my ass kicked by 13 year olds who call me a cunt-sucking cock strangler. Regardless, here’s the trailer for the zombie add-on for Black Ops, which is fun because it hops on the grindhouse bandwagon, and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker.

Fun for the whole family, that.









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Comments

Wait, Green Lantern hasn't been released yet?! I swear to gravity I've been hearing about this damn thing for like ten years, and I thought it came out around the same time Green Hornet did.

WTH, brain?

Posted by: Anna von Beav at April 27, 2011 11:03 AM

Sinestro reminds me of Megamind.

Posted by: kerokan at April 27, 2011 11:06 AM

Also, Call of the Dead is directed by George A. Romero, and he is the map's main enemy.

Posted by: ian at April 27, 2011 11:14 AM

"The Avengers"? Cool! I could get behind an update of John Steed and Emma Peel, Emma could kick some ...

What?

Oh.

Fuck you very much for getting my hopes up.

Posted by: , at April 27, 2011 11:15 AM

Call of the Dead is directed by George A. Romero[.] - ian

I'm still interested, because... what a cast! But, that's unfortunate. He hasn't made anything worthwhile since Dawn of the Dead.

:prepares flamethrower for the zombie hordes of Romero apologists:

Posted by: RobP at April 27, 2011 11:22 AM

The zombie expansion for CoD is pretty sweet, especially if you like Left 4 Dead and co-op games like that. You don't have to worry about little kids screaming about how much they pwned your ass so much. You still get the kids who get pissed because you didn't already know exactly what to do on you first play through, but they seem less prevalent there.

I'm also basing this on my friend playing on the Wii (Hey! It's not nice to laugh!) so the communities may just be completely different.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 27, 2011 11:47 AM

Apparently, Warner Brothers just dumped another $9 million into the film to polish up the effects.

Yes. More polish. By which they mean Schumachering the Green Lantern suits by adding nipples, aren't they? Especially Kilowog's.

Posted by: branded at April 27, 2011 11:51 AM

""The Avengers"? Cool! I could get behind an update of John Steed and Emma Peel, Emma could kick some ...
What?
Oh.
Fuck you very much for getting my hopes up."

Me too, comma, me too.

Posted by: elsie at April 27, 2011 12:10 PM

None of this news even came close to making me soil myself. My Depends undergarment is still clean as a whistle, thank you very little.

Posted by: jimbob at April 27, 2011 12:12 PM

So that's what SMG is down to now? Being whored for video games?

Ohh Buffy what have they done to you?

Posted by: logan at April 27, 2011 12:15 PM

There was a Steed and Peel "Avengers" movie... it included Sean Connery as a bad guy dressed in a big teddy bear costume.

I wish I just made that up.

Posted by: antietam at April 27, 2011 12:16 PM

Sinestro reminds me of Megamind.

MEGAMIND REMINDS YOU OF ME, FOOL! SINESTRO WAS HERE FIRST!

You must be new to Pajiba. Otherwise you would never have said something so blatently inflamitory. I'll forgive you today. But know this. I'm crazy. I eat babies. You wouldn't want me to mistake you for a delicious baby.

Also. That poster is the balls and you all know it and you're all jealous that you don't have a badass poster.

Posted by: Sinestro at April 27, 2011 12:21 PM

Whatever, Sinestro. Hector Hammond is in this movie too, and his head is at least twice as big as yours.

Posted by: Craig at April 27, 2011 12:26 PM

Why aren't you playing Portal 2?

Posted by: seth at April 27, 2011 12:31 PM

That Avengers movie with Sean Connery putting together the weather dominator machine from g.i.joe was abysmal. I have never walked out on a movie before, but I seriously wanted to. It should be considered the blackest of black eyes in film, everyone involved should have had to pay repercussions. I was incredibly disappointed in Ralph Fiennes, I totally expected better. But the awful Connery stint should have prepared me for the abomination that was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
It is my hope that Green Lantern is good and does well. DC could use a well received non-Batman film to open up their universe to the masses. But everything I have seen thus far for GL makes me say I'll reserve judgment for when it comes out. The GL costume is not awe inspiring, and I think Ryan Reynolds would have made a better Kyle Raynor than Hal Jordan... but whatever...
*fingers crossed, chanting "please don't suck... please don't suck..."

Posted by: protoformX at April 27, 2011 12:48 PM

Dear Joss,
Please to make a Buffy/Angel cross over TV movie. I miss my vampire slayer...the comics just aren't doing enough for me.

thaaaaaaaaaank you.

Posted by: JenVegas at April 27, 2011 12:49 PM

Not to sound like a huge prude, but I have a bone to pick: while I love me some sultry SMG pics, the NSFW line isn't drawn between "nips" and "no nips". I'm a longtime reader and rare-time commenter, and I wanna slack of at work and be seen as a movie nerd, not a softcore porn enthusiast.

Otherwise, splendid job as usual, Pajiba!

Posted by: Mr. Tusks at April 27, 2011 1:04 PM

Joss, why are you writing and directing this movie? Now I have to see it!

This is the best Joss quote about The Avengers so far:

"Ultimately these people don't belong together and the whole movie is about finding yourself from community. And finding that you not only belong together but you need each other, very much. Obviously this will be expressed through punching but it will be the heart of the film."

Posted by: Three-nineteen at April 27, 2011 1:08 PM

@Three-nineteen: And that's why I've been excited that Joss will be doing The Avengers from day one. Sure, he could've handled a single hero film like Wonder Woman would get, but his real skill and ability comes from writing/directing ensembles. Buffy is nothing without her Scoobs, Angel would've been lost without his detective agency, and Mal would be dead without the Serenity crew. And Dollhouse sucked hardcore until it went from being the Eliza Dushku Action Doll Hour to being another Whedon ensemble piece with Big Ideas instead of Big Bads.

I guess the exception is Dr. Horrible, but NPH is his own ensemble cast, isn't he?

Posted by: RobP at April 27, 2011 2:31 PM

Posted by: antietam at April 27, 2011 12:16 PM

Elsie and I refuse to acknowledge that ever happened.

Posted by: , at April 27, 2011 8:00 PM

Also. That poster is the balls and you all know it and you're all jealous that you don't have a badass poster.

Don't get your Shu-nipples in an uproar, Sinestro.


-Pajiba's very own Green Lantern (yes, I've been here a while too)

Posted by: Green Lantern at April 27, 2011 9:02 PM

Greetings, you lowly dogs. Here’s some news for you. Try not to shit yourselves.

I was really hoping you'd be annihilated by Team JoRo in the Great Cadbury Egg War of 2011 so we'd be rid of this kind of abuse.

* raises middle finger

Posted by: Uriah Creep at April 27, 2011 9:35 PM

The only reason I play Black Ops is so that I can kill Zombies. It's the most fun ever. This expansion will cost like $20 but I'll still pay for it bc its awesome even if its a complete rip off and I already had to pay like $20 for the Ascension level.

I think I'm going to play Call of Duty...

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at April 28, 2011 1:26 AM