Hideout #185 - There Be More Assholes

It's the 3rd annual asshole show, where we list the best and biggest assholes so far. Of course there a rant about Charlie Sheen - but now what you think, news, review and more insanity that you can shake an asshole at. Enjoy.

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Bad Hurley

English actress Elizabeth Hurley, who is perhaps best known for her role as Vanessa in the Austin Powers movies, will play Wonder Woman’s antagonist in the pilot for the new David E. Kelley-created Wonder Woman TV series. Hurley posted on Twitter today, “Thrilled to be doing the NBC pilot Wonder Woman. I’ll be playing the evil villain. Can’t wait.”

Whose Your Mommy

Warner Bros. has announced that the Oscar-nominated actress Diane Lane will play Martha Kent, Clark Kent's adoptive mother in the new Superman film directed by Zack Snyder. Deadline reports that Lane will star opposite Henry Cavill, the 27-year-old English actor, who will play Superman/Clark Kent.

Bored Runner 2

The Warner Bros.-based production company Alcon Entertainment is in final negotiations to acquire film, television, and ancillary rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic 1982 iconic science fiction thriller Blade Runner. Although it will be able to produce films based on situations introduced in the original film, Alcon will not have the right to remake Bladerunner, which was based on Phillip K. Dick’s classic novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

FX Powers Activate

FX has placed an order for the pilot episode of the Powers series, based on the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Charles Eglee of Walking Dead fame wrote it. Bendis said in a Tweet, “Powers pilot was just greenlit by FX! It’s official! Your window of reading Powers while it was still cool is running out.”

Hideout #184 - Dwayne McDuffie

We do this show old school, including the Media Talk section in the show as we honor an artist and genius who left us too soon, Mr. Dwayne McDuffie. At the end we play the 2007 Hideout interview from ECBACC. Enjoy.

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Directed Preacher

D.J. Caruso has been signed to direct the big-screen adaptation of Garth Ennis’ Vertigo series Preacher, according to Variety. The film had been helmerless after Sam Mendes bowed out to direct the next James Bond film.

Firefly Ressurected

Two Fox science fiction series have found homes on cable. Firefly will run on the Science Channel beginning on March 6th at 8 p.m., with the two hour pilot and first episode, according to EW. The show will continue to air on Sunday evenings, all upgraded to high definition. Each episode will be wrapped in intersitial segments featuring physicist Michio Kaku, discussing the theoretical science behind the show's concepts. The 31 episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will run on Syfy beginning on April 7th at 9 p.m., also according to EW. After the premier week, four episodes per week will air every Thursday beginning at 7 p.m.

Dwayne McDuffie Passes

The author of a popular comic and animated features, Dwayne Mcduffie has died Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at the age of 49. Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was born in Detroit on Feb. 20, 1962. Growing up, he later said, he encountered few comic-book characters who looked like him; he encountered fewer still who were simultaneously black, heroic and even remotely authentic. Mr. McDuffie, a resident of Sherman Oaks, Calif., died of complications from heart surgery. McDuffie wrote comics for the New York-based DC and Marvel. His works include runs on “Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight”, “The Fantastic Four and the Justice League of America”. The animated features credited to his talents are “All Star Superman”, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths”, and two animated TV series - - “Static Shock” and “Ben 10: Alien Force”. Mr. McDuffie was best known as a founder of Milestone Media, described by The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 2000 as “the industry’s most successful minority-owned-and-operated comic company.”

An independent company whose work is distributed by DC Comics, Milestone produces comics with ethnically diverse casts. Among its major characters (all of whom Mr. McDuffie helped create, in collaboration with illustrators and other writers) are Static, Icon and Hardware, all of whom are African-American; Xombi, who is Asian-American; and the Blood Syndicate, a crime-fighting group of men and women that includes blacks, Asians and Latinos.

Static, perhaps the most famous, is the alter ego of a mild-mannered teenager, who uses secret electromagnetic powers to do valiant things. Mr. McDuffie named Static’s alter ego Virgil Hawkins, after the black man who waged a midcentury fight to be admitted to law school at the University of Florida, a process that eventually led to the desegregation of Florida’s public university system. That comic inspired the animated television series “Static Shock,” originally broadcast on the WB television network from 2000 to 2004, for which Mr. McDuffie was a creator, story editor and writer.

Mr. McDuffie received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan, followed by a master’s in physics there; he later studied film at New York University. After a stint as a copy editor at Investment Dealers’ Digest, he took a job as an editor with Marvel Comics in 1987.

At Marvel Mr. McDuffie helped develop the company’s first line of superhero trading cards and wrote for established series like Spider-Man and Captain Marvel. He also created Damage Control, a mini-series published at intervals from the late ’80s to the present. Mr. McDuffie devised the series to address a long-overlooked but perennially nagging question: Who cleans up the comic-book universe after the preternaturally messy battles between the forces of good and evil?

After leaving Marvel in 1990, Mr. McDuffie did freelance work for DC and other comic publishers before founding Milestone with three partners in the early ’90s. The company’s first comics appeared in 1993 and were published regularly by DC until 1997 and in reprints afterward; two new Milestone series, Xombi and Static Shock, are scheduled to be published by DC this year.

Mr. McDuffie’s honors include a Humanitas Prize in 2003 for an episode of “Static Shock” about gun violence.

Mr. McDuffie’s first marriage, to Patricia Younger, ended in divorce. He married Charlotte Fullerton, a writer of comic books and animated TV shows, in 2009. She survives him, as does his mother, Edna McDuffie Gardner.

To those who thought comic books unlikely vehicles for advancing social justice, Mr. McDuffie’s reply was simple.

“You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media,” he told The Chicago Sun-Times in 1993. “There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.”

A Real Stop-Motion Boy

Guillermo del Toro is proceeding with a 3D stop-motion animated feature film based on illustrator Gris Grimly’s version of Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s tale Pinocchio. Del Toro is joining forces with the Jim Henson Company and Pathe to bring a new edgier version of Pinocchio to life. Grimly and Mark Gustafson will co-direct the film, which is based on a screenplay by Matthew Robbins written in consultation with del Toro.

Hideout #183 - Recommendations 2011

The 2011 recommendations shows where we talk about TV, Movie, Books and comics we thing you should try out. Also Wonder Woman on TV, 3D Spider-Man (hopefully without injuries) and the usual Hideout insanity. Enjoy.

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New Wonder Woman

Adrianne Palicki, who starred as Tyra Collete in Friday Night Lights, will play Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in the new NBC series being developed by David E. Kelley. Jeffrey Reiner will helm the pilot from a script by Kelley.

Turn On the Ticket Sales

After another round of scathing reviews in which critics from the New York Times and the Washington Post called it “one of the worst musicals in history,” ticket sales for the still-as-yet-unfinished Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark were up by 3%. The new musical, which is still in its tryout phase, grossed $1.33 million during the past week, making it the second-highest grossing show on Broadway, just behind Wicked.

It's Amazing

It’s official. Sony announced today that the title of Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot is The Amazing Spider-Man. The film, which will be shot entirely in 3-D, will debut in theaters on July 3, 2012.

Devoted to Kirby

Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek are re-teaming for Kirby Genesis, their first full collaboration since 1993’s Marvels. Busiek and Ross are planning to provide the same perspective on and treatment of Kirby creations like Captain Victory and Silver Star that they brought to the Marvel Universe in Marvels. The 32-page Kirby Genesis #1 ships in May with a special introductory cover price of just $1.

Seeing Red, Again

Nu Image has decided to go forward with production of Red Sonja. Producer Avi Lerner told Empire “We will definitely shoot Red Sonja between Conan and Conan 2.” Simon West, who directed The Mechanic, will be directing the Red Sonja. And in the front running to play the role is Drive Angry co-star Amber Heard.