Avengers Movie Announcement

Ahh, the Avengers. You're no X-Men, guys, but you aren't nothing, either. With Marvel's forthcoming "Heroic Age" reinvention of the classic line comes the announcement that SLWMAC "Stuff (and people) that i like" official selection Joss Whedon will be directing the new film, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Edward Norton rumoured to be playing Bruce Banner (Hulk, dumbass) and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury.

Allegedly. We've heard this before (wonder woman Pre-production purgatory, anyone?), so be ready for a whole lot of pointless waiting. Not to be a negative nancy or anything but once bitten, twice shy, babe.

Bummerama

Joss Whedon's (often painfully erratic but potentially AWESOME)'Dollhouse' has been put back in the box. It's said that fellow Fox sci-fi show 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' was cancelled to make room for the doomed 'Buffy' scribe's high concept meditation on um... (human trafficking? ethics in technology and science? eliza dushku's vast array of facial expressions?) whatever?


Summer Glau in a promo poster for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

This SERIOUSLY sucks for actress Summer Glau (Firefly, the Firefly movie known as 'Serenity'), who starred in T:SCC, and was recently announced to be joining the cast of Dollhouse as well. Also unhappy: heterosexual geekboy virgins, who will surely refer to 2009 as the "Year Without a Summer," or "That time that Fox gave me blueballs for 7 consecutive months."

Joss was not at the top of his game with this show (blame fox if you want, but he just didn't BRING IT as much as he normally does), but i am choosing to focus on the forthcoming Whedon-helmed horror film "Cabin in the Woods," which is boasting the following marketing campaign. It's nice to see that JW still has a sense of humor- the absence of which is why almost anybody that watches all his shit likes 'Buffy' the best.