New Day Title

The New Day title for this blog refers to a new day in movie-making. Whether the movies are good or bad these days, there are still good ideas being made and that's important. The day of the fanboys is here. Iron Man really kicked it off by helping Marvel launch it's own studio. Now the studio has announced projects for the next few years. Iron Man 2 in 2010, Thor and Captain America in 2011, and the Avengers in 2012. I truly hope they get JJ Abrahms to direct The Averngers movie. He would be perfect. There aren't a lot of directors out there who have the edge and intelligence to be right for this material and that seems to be the biggest problem. Get a good director like Chris Nolan and you're set. His two Batman movies proved that. Get a lousy one like Louis Letterier, Gavin Hood, or McG and you are sealing your own fate.

But still the new day refers to an enthusiasm about these movies getting made, whether they turn out good or not. It's great that they made another Terminator movie, a second Transformers movie, a Wolverine prequel, and a GI Joe movie. All four of these films might be terrible (so far the first two that came out already are), but just the spirit that got them made is something to embrace. Now that we know people want to see them, we need to start making them right. That's what Iron Man did, that's what the Dark Knight did, and that's what JJ Abrahms did with Star Trek.

Also on the radar should be Spider Man 4 in 2011, and you know that Sam Raimi wants to prove that he can do much better than Spider Man 3. There's even talk of Bryan Singer returning to the comic book movie world, maybe to make a Magneto prequel. Yes, he screwed up with Superman, but that's a movie that really had no chance of working in today's day and age of the cool superhero (starting with Blade and The Matrix). Singer knows all about the cool superhero, with what he did for Wolverine in the X-Men movies, but with Superman he had to stay true to the wholesome hero and there was no way that the movie was going to work.

So even though things are lousy with comic book movies and sci-fi action movies at the moment, there is promise on the horizon. Sam Jackson signed with Marvel to play Nick Fury in a number of their movies. That cross-over stuff from last summer with Jackson's cameo in Iron Man and Downey Jrs. cameo in Hulk, goes a long way. I'm happy that studios know what projects need to be made. They know what we want to see. Now they just need to find the right directors to bring them to us. Get Darren Aronofsky and David Fincher on board. See what happens then.