Superhero Bits: First Look At Sif In Thor, Jennifer Love Hewitt Is Fighting For Wonder Woman Role, Brian Michael Bendis Turned Down Venom Spin-Off Movie?
We have a few superhero related mini movie news items to get to, so I thought we’d compile them in one post. After the jump you’re able to see a low-resolution first look atJaimie Alexanderas Sif in Marvel’s big screen adaptation ofThor,Jennifer Love Hewittis campaigning to playWonder Womanin the long in development movie adaptation, and we find out that comic book writerBrian Michael Bendisturned down the chance to pen theSpider-ManSpin-OffVenommovie.
Last week we posted avideo set visit for Marvel’sThorfrom Entertainment Tonight. It turns out that the televised edition featured a couple extra seconds of footage, which included our first look atJaimie Alexander(Kyle XY) as Sif, a “skilled Asgardian warrior who can hold her own, and is a love interest of Thor.“SHHhas got some screencaptures, which can be seen above.
This past week it was revealed onWENN(viacinematical) that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is “fighting so hard” to be cast in the title role in Warner Bros/DC adaptation ofWonder Woman. Love Hewitt is quoted as saying:
“I really want to play Wonder Woman. I’m obsessed with Wonder Woman.”
The studio recently promised that the project was in active development, but we don’t know how close Warner Bros is to ato moving forward — remember, the adaptation has been in various stages of development for years.
During a recent Word Balloon podcast (via:Digital Spy), comic book writerBrian Michael Bendis(who launchedUltimate Spider-Man) revealed that Sony Pictures offered him the chance to write the screenplay for a Spider-Man spin-off/tie-in project.While Bendis said that the film project is to be set “in the same universe” as the Spider-Man series, he did not say if it was the in-development Venom spin-off movie. But many comic book fans believe this to be the case.
Zombielandco-writersRhett ReeseandPaul Wernickhave previously penned drafts of the Venom project, but as far as I can tell, that was before the reboot plans were revealed. Bendis claims that turning down the tie-in project may have hurt his chances of acting as script consultant on the upcoming Marc Webb-directedSpider-Manreboot.
