DC May Produce Comics Based On George Reeves Version

Above, George Reeves as Superman.

For the baby boomer generation, George Reeves is the one and only Superman in their eyes.

Yesterday, DC Comics representatives indicated that the publisher is looking to produce a comic series of Superman based on the George Reeves Adventures of Superman television show of the 1950s.

Bleeding Cool reported:

During the “DC Meet the Publishers” panel at New York Comic Con today, representatives from DC Comics indicated that the company is looking into making Superman stories based off George Reeves‘s take on the character. Reeves, not related to fellow Superman actor Christopher Reeve, was the first actor to have the pleasure of portraying the iconic man of steel for the Adventures of Superman tv show in the 1950s.

To read more, go here. 

Bleeding Cool Looks At The Gamera Trilogy of the 1990s

Above, Sendai Station is featured (and blown up by a Legion flower pod) in Gamera 2. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Ten more days from now, the new Godzilla epic will be unleashed on theaters across the United States (some lucky countries will have it in theaters a day earlier).

In the meantime, Bleeding Cool takes a look back at Japan's other big-name kaiju, Gamera. They focus in on the "Heisei Trilogy" of movies produced in the 1990s by Daiei and directed by Shusuke Kaneko.

They begin with:

For the fans and pop culture watchers who like to watch these things, the new Godzilla movie is eagerly-awaited, and the studios are taking advantage of this interest by releasing the older movies on remastered Blu-Ray, including the darker, more series movies from the 1990′s. 

There is, however, another Dai Kaiju series that deserves attention, and that is the Gamera Trilogy from the 1990′s. These movies are considered by fans of the genre to be the ones the new Godzilla movie has to beat.

The article has one interesting line:

 What Alan Moore did for Swamp Thing, this trilogy of movies did for a giant flying turtle.

Of the three Shusuke-directed Gamera movies, my favorite is Gamera 2: Advent of Legion. It has plenty of monster action with great special effects by Shinji Higuchi and topped off with an interesting and compelling story.

Above, the tickets to the April 29, 2006 Gamera The Brave premiere in Tokyo.

The article leaves out 2006's Gamera The Brave (also known as Gamera, The Little Braves). It is not part of the Heisei Trilogy and is (at least so far) a stand-alone film. It is a lot better (as a film) than most of the Showa Gamera movies. I attended the 2006 premiere of Gamera The Brave in Tokyo.

To read the full article, go here.

About That Millennium Suit At Godzilla Encounter...

Above, yours truly with the Gira-Goji suit at Toho Studios
in November 2001.  Photo courtesy of Richard Pusateri.

Bleeding Cool.com has posted many photos of the Godzilla Encounter exhibit that was set up in a San Diego warehouse for Comic Con International.

What caught my attention were the photos of what is purported to be the millennium Godzilla suit used in Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) and Godzilla x Megaguirus (2000).

First of all, although the suits in the two movies are similar, a different suit with modifications made to the design was used Godzilla x Megaguirus (known as Gira-Goji).  The neck was modified and the shoulders were more pronounced in that movie.  Also, the Gira-Goji suit was greenish in color. The photo above is the Gira-Goji suit in November 2001. Note the differences in the neck and shoulders as well as the color from the suit shown at Bleeding Cool.

The suit shown is charcoal-grey in color and the neck and shoulders look more like the suit in Godzilla 2000: Millennium.  I kind of doubt the suit on display was an actual filming suit, unless extensive repairs were made to it (after all it is about 14 years old).  It could be an event suit as well.

But you can be the judge by going here.