The 500th Edition Of Superhero Bits Featuring A ‘Dark Knight Trilogy’ Exclusive
Five hundred days of small superhero news; my, how far we’ve come. Today, to commemorate this landmark column edition, we have an exclusive clip fromThe Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Editionfeaturing two of the best superhero directors of all time:Christopher NolanandRichard Donner.
Besides that, do you want to know how you can be an extra inBatman vs. Superman? How did Christopher Nolan decide to use the Tumbler inBatman Begins? Can you see theAvengers: Age of UltronComic-Con tease? Which raccoon was the model for Rocket Raccoon inGuardians of the Galaxy? Want to see concept art of Galactus fromFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer? Read about all this and more in the 500th edition of Superhero Bits!

Here’s our exclusive clip fromThe Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s EditionfeaturingChristopher NolanandRichard Donnertalking about music and editing their films,The Dark Knight RisesandSuperman: The Movie. The full discussion is on the Blu-ray box set.
The top image is from a great post onBatman-NewscelebratingThe Dark Knight Trilogy.

The Comic-Con tease forAvengers: Age of Ultronisfloating around online. It’s bootleg, so we aren’t gonna post it, but that’s an image above viaCBM.
/Film readerJean Msent us a casting call searching for extras to be in a big scene forBatman vs. Supermanon October 18…in France.Visit this linkfor more information.

The above raccoon, named Oreo, isapparently the modelfor Rocket Raccoon inGuardians of the Galaxy.
Speaking to theBelfast Telegraph(viaX-Men Movie),Alan Cummingexplained that he was almost cast inX-Men: Days of Future Past:

There was a time when it was maybe going to happen, but I wasn’t available so it didn’t happen. I really loved that film I was in, don’t get me wrong, I thought it was a great film, but it wasn’t my favorite experience of my life.
Galactuswasn’t always a giant cloud inFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.Film Sketchrposted some concepts images byDaniel James Coxof a more traditional take.

Regular /Film contributor Joanna Robinson put her unique spin on the premiere episode ofMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.over atPajiba.
Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Superhero Bits, we have to split this post over TWO pages. Click the link above to continue to the second page of Superhero Bits.
This will probably be taken down, but it’s a very long segment of the casting feature on theDark Knight TrilogyBlu-ray featuring not only Christian Bale, butEion Bailey and Cillian Murphy. Thanks toCBM.
MissMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.premiere? It’ll re-air Thursday night at 8pm.
Film.composted several unusedWatchmenposters.The Hollywood Reporterhas some suggestions on how to deal with the new TV showGotham.
Another fantastic clip fromThe Dark Knight Trilogy(via Yahoo) about the original conception of the Tumbler.
Da7e over onLatino Reviewdid some digging and speculating on recentAvengers: Age of Ultronnews.
DONY Customs(viaFashionably Geek) mades some awesomeSpider-ManandVenommotorcycle helmets.
One final note, thanks so much for clicking on this column every day. 500 of them and the fans keep on coming back. I really appreciate it.