Newsbites: The heroes and comics edition!

Newsbites: The heroes and comics edition!

1. The first three X-Men movies (2000-2006) are coming to Blu-Ray April 21, in a set that is packed, packed, packed with extras. Meanwhile, there are conflicting reports over the length of the next movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and whether it will still feature a cameo by Storm when it opens May 1. And, in other news, Josh Schwartz insists that, while he may be writing X-Men: First Class, he is not going to direct that film. — MTV Splash Page (x2), Hitfix

2. Many Pixar fans want to see a sequel to The Incredibles (2004), but they will just have to wait until after director Brad Bird has had a chance to make his San Francisco disaster movie 1906. — Jim Hill

3. James McTeigue, a protégé of the Wachowski brothers, reportedly gave an interview in Germany recently in which he said the Wachowskis had been approached about making the next Superman movie. — Ain’t It Cool News

4. John Malkovich will play the title character’s nemesis in Jonah Hex. Malkovich’s character, Turnbull, is “a wealthy Southern plantation owner” who blames Hex for the death of his son during the Civil War; Hex himself will be played by Josh Brolin. — Variety

5. Mandate Pictures is developing a big-screen adaptation of The Ghouly Boys, a “spooky and comical graphic-novel series about a quartet of young monster outcasts and their efforts to fit in.” — Hollywood Reporter


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