Tag: Warren Ellis

Comic Book Reviews: Marvel NOW!

Posted: November 29, 2012 at 1:11 pm   /   Comic Book Reviews, Comic Books, Local

The Marvel Now! relaunch is in full swing.  New creative teams and new titles have launched, and I have taken it upon myself to read almost all of the new titles (you can thank me later).  Notice that I said “RELAUNCH” and not “REBOOT”.  Rather than start all over with a new beginning, as DC has […]

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Red

Posted: October 15, 2010 at 1:40 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

This year has effectively answered, what should aging action stars do? Well, if Red is any indication, embrace the age and make solid action comedy out of it. Based on the Warren Ellis DC Comics graphic novel of the same name, Red stars Bruce Willis as a “RED” or as Ernest Borgnine’s character Henry tells […]

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“Red” Character Posters Featuring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, and Mary-Louise Parker

Posted: July 20, 2010 at 11:21 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Check out the image gallery below to see the new character posters for the upcoming DC comic book adaption, Red.  I can’t help but be slightly excited for this film, but only because I’m a huge Warren Ellis fan. Red is one of the few stories he’s written that I’ve never read before, and I […]

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Guy Ritchie Working With Warren Ellis on “Excalibur”

Posted: March 5, 2010 at 4:28 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Guy Ritchie just had his biggest financial success since marrying Madonna this winter with the blockbuster Sherlock Holmes.  Now he has his sights set on a script written by famed comic book writer, Warren Ellis. The script is an updated version of the King Arthur tale.  Warner Bros. apparently like the treatment that Ellis gave, […]

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Production Starts For Warren Ellis’ ‘Red’

Posted: January 19, 2010 at 12:54 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Principal photography has started in Toronto for Summit Entertainment’s adaptation of the Warren Ellis’ DC Comics published tale, Red. Red tells the story of a black-ops operative, Frank Moses, as he has to come out of retirement due to an assassin to who is trying to kill him and those around him. He must put […]

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Legendary Pictures picks up Warren Ellis’ ‘Gravel’

Posted: October 9, 2009 at 12:05 pm   /   Local, Movie News

This is great news. Although, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard of a Ellis story being adapted for the screen, and never coming to fruition. I’d have at least twenty-five cents by now. Ellis’ stories are very hard to adapt for the screen. Why? Well, because they are incredibly nihilistic and […]

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