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Report: Marvel Comics to publish Stephen King’s “The Stand” in comic form…

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After Stephen King teaming with Marvel Comics to release the Dark Tower series into comic book form, the Dark Tower graphic novels were such a hit and a big success, that Marvel has decided to work with Stephen King even more. Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group and Marvel Comics has reached a confirmed deal to release Stephen King’s popular novel “The Stand” in graphic novel form. “The Stand” comic series will be available in bookstores everywhere across the United States, the first installment of “The Stand” comic series is slated for release in September of 2008.

“The Stand” was also released into a 1994 TV mini series film that starred Gary Sinise as the leading character Stu Redman.

From Stephen King’s official website:

http://stephenking.com/pages/news/the_stand_pr/

Marvel probably wants more of King’s books into comics.

Some of his books I’d like to see Marvel do in comic form: The Dark Half, The Shining, Pet Sematary and Needful Things. They’d make good comics in my opinion.

Kev

 

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Report: Paul Verhoeven wrote biography on Jesus…

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Film maker Paul Verhoeven just wrote a biography novel about Jesus Christ. Paul Verhoeven directed iconic films such as “Basic Instinct”, “Robocop” and “Total Recall”. Verhoeven’s book on Jesus is titled, “Jesus of Nazareth: A Realistic Portrait”. It will be published and released sometime in September this year.

The story of the novel is focused that Jesus could be fathered by a Roman soldier that raped Mary. It has been speculated for years that Mary was a virgin and this book wants to prove people wrong. Verhoeven also plans on making a film adapted from his own novel.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWD1oTAC2skcWlOdLrS9ql8zIWRAD907PNL02

I wouldn’t call it a non fiction biography. It’s fiction. Verhoeven trying to rewrite religion history into his own vision and delusional mind.

Just trying to compete with Mel Gibson.

Kev

 

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Report: Harry Potter court drama day #4…Judge slams J.K. Rowling by calling her work “gibberish”, lol!!!!

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The judge in the Harry Potter court room drama today criticized J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter work by calling it “gibberish” and “too complex”, lol, hilarious. The court hearings are finished but sounds like the judge just completely ignored all the bickering which caused him to order them to settle their differences out of the court room.

More on it here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/04/17/2008-04-17_judge_in_harry_potter_trial_called_books.html

It sounds like there is going to be no lawsuit. The judge clearly wants them to grow up to settle things their own way. The judge don’t need to be the babysitter of Mrs. Loudmouth Rowling. Kudos to the judge, he’s doing the right thing, Rowling is just wasting her time, solving nothing.

Kev

 

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Report: Stephen King… new updates…

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Stephen King the master of horror, have a few exciting updates.

First, he just launched the official website for the Dark Tower series, the books and the graphic novels:

http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/

He also just launched his own official message board where die hard fans can log on and chat everything Stephen King related:

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/index.php

Enjoy King readers!

Kev

 

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Report: Harry Potter court drama day #3 – Judge orders Rowling to settle things with RDR Books and Vander Ark out of court…

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Day #3 in Harry Potter court drama. Today in court, the judge wants J.K. Rowling or Mrs. Loudmouth to settling things outside of court with RDR Books and Steven Vander Ark.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIGNIcztySvpGhm95iGPhNL7ov1AD9032GHG1

Oh my, the judge is getting tired of her whiny bitching already and doesn’t want to hear anymore of it. I can’t blame him though.

Kev 

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Report: Harry Potter court drama – day #2 Vander Ark testifies…

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It is now Steven Vander Ark’s turn to testify in the lawsuit for the “Harry Potter Lexicon” controversy today for Day #2. As I predicted, Vander Ark is upset. He actually cried to tears as he spoke in court today. Vander Ark says the book publishing company talked him into doing the encyclopedia but he did have concerns on whether or not it violated the copyrights to Rowling’s work.

The Associated Press reports:

http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8170345&nav=menu554_2_4

What a way to treat your own fans Loudmouth Rowling. Never try to make friends with your favorite celebrities or they could stab you in the fucking back like Mrs. Loudmouth did to this poor fellow. Not all celebrities are the nicest people in the world and this shows it. Can you believe this shit? Mrs. Loudmouth got Vander Ark so upset that he got him crying in court. What a selfish stupid idiot she is.

Kev

 

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Thought: Why I think Loudmouth Rowling is wrong…

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Yes, Loudmouth Rowling has every right to control her work since she owns the copyright to Harry Potter, I even said it was all about copyright when I first reported the story. So I know all about copyright infrigement.

What’s fucked about this story and what pisses me off so much about it, that Steven Vander Ark commended nicely to Rowling that she supported his website, and respected her to visiting his website, he wrote an open letter to her thanking her for it:

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/jkr-letter.html

In an article I posted earlier, she responded back saying nice things to Vander Ark and the website, and such.

In today’s court hearing she said nasty things about Vander Ark like accusing him of “jumping the Harry Potter phenomenon” bandwagon, and call him out in all kinds of nasty bullshit. Vander Ark have to be upset right now. I’m sure he’s sad about it.

She has the right to control her work how she wants but if you read the article I posted below again…

right here…quote from article “Vander Ark was contacted by an RDR Books employee, who told him that publication of the lexicon would not violate copyright law, he said.”

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080413/D9012L9O0.html

The book publishing company even flat out said that the book would not violate copyright law. This is why Vander Ark has every right to do this Encyclopedia. This is why he is going to win. Maybe the employee was wrong when he said it doesn’t violate copyrights, but a book company wouldn’t lie about something like that.

If writers can continue to write Star Trek and Star Wars fiction novels, it does not violate the copyright to those. Vander Ark’s “Lexicon” is written so Harry Potter fans can be entertained by, not to create a negative impact, I don’t know what Mrs. Loudmouth is worried about.  She should appreciate his promotion and marketing of Harry Potter and appreciate him being a fan, this is how he gets treated, being treated like dirt by an ego driven author. This is coming from the same woman who said one of the Harry Potter characters is gay when it wasn’t mentioned in the books and it created controversy in the news, this woman is a loudmouth because that’s what she is.

Oh yeah, and this gets better, she once said she was quitting the Harry Potter series for good and now she’s thinking about doing another one. Mrs. Loudmouth Attention Whore. I can come up with a lot of funny names for her.

Keep your head up high Steven, don’t let this egomaniac bring you down.

Kev

 

 

 

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Whose Side Are You On: J.K. Rowling vs. Steven Vander Ark…

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Legendary author of the “Harry Potter” series, J.K. Rowling is set to battle in court against a die hard Harry Potter fan who plans on releasing a “Harry Potter Encyclopedia”. Rowling is set to testify Monday (that’s tomorrow) in court where she had her lawyers to arrange her a private security for Rowling in the courtroom to be away from die hard fans in attendance.

Rowling filed the lawsuit against the publisher of the “Harry Potter Lexicon” (the name of the Encylopedia) last year to stop them from publishing it. The author of the book is die hard Potter fan Steven Vander Ark. Rowling actually loves Vander Ark’s website that he runs himself: http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ but she draws the line of publishing it and charging $24.95 for the Encyclopedia.

Rowling wants to prove that this book is violating her copyrights and she is worried that the Encyclopedia will create a negative impact with Harry Potter fans:

The Associated Press Reports:

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080413/D9012L9O0.html

I’m with Vander Ark on this one. This just shows how much of an egostitical and money grubbing woman that J.K. Rowling is, she doesn’t care about the fans, she only cares about herself and her own ego.

Vander Ark has every right to release this Encyclopedia.

Look at all these legendary movie franchises that has released Encyclopedias, everything from Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, the Terminator, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, etc. You can find those Encyclopedias everywhere in bookstores.

I don’t think you need permission from it’s original creator to do those movie Encyclopedias.There’s a 1st amendment in writing novels. If J.K. Rowling loves his website and has no problem with it, I don’t see what’s the big deal about a book. She has no case and nothing to prove. Vander Ark will win all the way.

Kev

 

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Thought: Stephen King has lost it…he is not a good writer anymore…

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I just got done watching the film “Stephen King’s the Mist” which was written and directed by Frank Darabont, I can tell you right now, that “The Mist” is possibly one of the worst movies I ever seen. It was downright horrible. Bad acting, bad directing, bad writing by Darabont, just an all out terrible movie that I’m not gonna review it. What’s worse about the movie is the ending to the movie version of “The Mist”. I will not talk about the ending since I don’t want to spoil anything. “The Mist” was crap crap crap. I don’t see how this film is getting good reviews by critics and the fans. The movie was awful. King didn’t write the script/direct “The Mist” Darabont did I know, but Darabont did work closely with King for this movie just like Darabont did with “The Green Mile”, and “The Shawshank Redemption”, those two movies were better than “The Mist”.

I used to admire Stephen King’s novels back in the 80’s and early 90’s but his new work hasn’t been that great. I am currently reading Stephen King’s new novel “Duma Key” and it’s hard to get into, I’m not getting into that story, it’s boring to read. King’s work keeps getting lamer and lamer. I believe he really has lost it since his accident when he got hit by a van years back. His writing was great before then, his writing is horrible now.

He can’t come out with any good “movies” or “books” anymore. His past work with books like “The Stand”, “It”, “The Shining”, “Pet Sematary”, “The Talisman”, “Needful Things”, “The Dark Half”, “Christine”, “The Tommyknockers”, the Dark Tower series, etc. They were all amazing and mind blowing stories.

Hollywood can’t make good movies for him anymore as well. Not even his new TV mini series movies are good anymore. COME ON STEPHEN! Come out with some decent work so we can all worship the writer we all once loved back in the good old days.

Stephen King used to be one of my big heros back in the old days but I’m losing interest in him. One of his new books “Lisey’s Story” was the only good new novel he put out. “Lisey’s Story” was amazing but his other new stuff is trash.

The problem is, Stephen has been staying away from the horror genre lately. He’s been writing more serious stuff. If he gets back to writing true “horror” again, he’ll get all his old fans back. We need the real Stephen King back, where’s the “master of horror” that he once was?

Kev

 

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Thought: “Into the Wild” the novel by Jon Krakauer…

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So this weekend, I finished reading the original novel of “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer that was later adapted into a film made by the great Sean Penn. Like always, the books are always different from the adapted films. Let me tell you that the novel “Into The Wild” is very different from the film Sean Penn made. Pretty much the same story about Christopher McCandless, but Sean Penn left so much important stuff out of the book that wasn’t in the movie. I picked up the novel at the bookstore a few weeks ago, it only took me a week to read since the book is only around 200 pages long, very short novel.

The stuff that Sean Penn didn’t put in the film:

-The book was written by the author’s point of view, he was telling the story from friends and family of Chris McCandless by interviews. In the film the movie was narrated Jena Malone who played Chris’s sister, Carine. (the real Carine McCandless helped Sean Penn write the narration for the script by the way)

-Chris McCandless helped prostitutes/hookers and homeless people by giving them money and food, even making friends with them.

-Chris McCandless was busted and put in jail for a while after being caught on the train.

-Chris’s real parents visited the bus 142 shortily after they learned Chris died there, I was dissapointed that Sean Penn didn’t put that in the film, that would have been a perfect ending.

The book is definitely way different and a very good read. Sean Penn totally had his own vision of the film. Basically all the scenes in the movie were taken from the book, some the dailouge was taken from the book as well, but there are some scenes in the film that wasn’t in the book that Sean created himself.

Living out in the wild and living off the land to be away from society may sound fun and amazing, but the truth is, it’s dangerous. People just don’t realize how dangerous nature and the wild can be. Chris McCandless wasn’t the only person who dissapeared and lived off the land in the wild, there are plenty out there and most died from it too. Chris McCandless never wanted to die that soon, he put out an SOS note begging people to save him and rescue him from the bus 142 before he passed.

I’m sure there are plenty of people today in this world who just dissapear to live in the woods to be away from society. Think why there are so many missing people reported in the news, you never know if they’re dead or out in hiding away from everything. These people will be found when they want to be found. I think Chris McCandless’s story was made famous because his story is almost identical to Jack London’s book “The Call of the Wild” which is why people became fascinated.

If you enjoy the movie, “Into the Wild”, I’d reccomend the book too for you readers out there. Pick it up at the bookstore next time you go shopping for a new book to read.

Kev