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selenakWE WILL GET A BLACK WIDOW ORIGINS MOVIE. Yes, yes, yes! Of course, now my next question is how much of Natasha's comicbook origins they'll be able to keep. Starting with the date problem, and I doubt they'll go the "genetically enhanced, hence not aging normally" route of retcon that would allow her to have grown up in the Soviet Union, but if she's Scarlett Johannsen's age today, you lose the entire Cold War background. Ah well. We'll find out, I suppose, and am I ever thrilled that we'll get a chance to.
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Just to prove I can think of non-Avengers-related things as well these days: The BBC will produce a tv show based on the Three Musketeers. Or rather, characters of same as the careful phrasing has it. Quoth the announcement: The Musketeers is being written by Adrian Hodges, whose credits include Primeval, and the BBC said the series “bursts with escapism, adventure and romance”. I haven't watched Primeval, so I don't know whether this is a recommendation or a deterrent, but his Eminence Cardinal Richelieu would like to state that he hopes the show will remember he actually had other things to worry about than D'Artagnan and friends and ruled France till his dying day (which happened in bed), so it would be appreciated if they make him something ever than a generic Hollywood evil vizier. As for Milady de Winter, she appreciates the chance to show why she was the best secret agent of baroque France and England some more and hopes to be played by a woman older than 30 with a non-starved physique, and considering this is a British show, not an American one, the odds are actually in her favour there.
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Blast from the past:
John Cleese versus Rupert Murdoch . Or John Cleese versus The Sun, if you want to get technical. Both hilarious and frustrating in the way that Sun editor just refuses to acknowledge making up racist quotes is in the slightest bit a problem.
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Just to prove I can think of non-Avengers-related things as well these days: The BBC will produce a tv show based on the Three Musketeers. Or rather, characters of same as the careful phrasing has it. Quoth the announcement: The Musketeers is being written by Adrian Hodges, whose credits include Primeval, and the BBC said the series “bursts with escapism, adventure and romance”. I haven't watched Primeval, so I don't know whether this is a recommendation or a deterrent, but his Eminence Cardinal Richelieu would like to state that he hopes the show will remember he actually had other things to worry about than D'Artagnan and friends and ruled France till his dying day (which happened in bed), so it would be appreciated if they make him something ever than a generic Hollywood evil vizier. As for Milady de Winter, she appreciates the chance to show why she was the best secret agent of baroque France and England some more and hopes to be played by a woman older than 30 with a non-starved physique, and considering this is a British show, not an American one, the odds are actually in her favour there.
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Blast from the past:
John Cleese versus Rupert Murdoch . Or John Cleese versus The Sun, if you want to get technical. Both hilarious and frustrating in the way that Sun editor just refuses to acknowledge making up racist quotes is in the slightest bit a problem.
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Date: 2012-05-07 07:16 am (UTC)As long as Cardinal Richelieu is not plotting to become king, Three Musketeers could be good. (I haven't even seen that version and yet I'm still not over that particular bit of adaptation idiocy.)
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Date: 2012-05-07 08:29 am (UTC)She could pull it off, though if I were a first time audience member new to the story, I would immediately wonder why, if the Russians can do that, the various Kremlin leaders didn't make themselves genetically enhanced. :) Also, if Natasha is given this backstory, I demand the obvious Alias crossover where she's a Derevko cousin. Because COME ON.
Richelieu: indeed. I blame Disney. Ever since the 90s it's the lame motivation given to him. Bah.
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Date: 2012-05-07 08:06 am (UTC)Also, yay Black Widow! I think a post-Cold War spy story could work for Natasha - there's still plenty of nasty missions for KGB stand-ins to accomplish, though more likely against fellow Russians than against the West as such!
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Date: 2012-05-07 08:32 am (UTC)And the frustrating thing is that Dumas, whom nobody has ever accused of being a stickler for historical accuracy, managed to use Richelieu as an antagonist without the ridiculous ambition or incompetent minions. See, scriptwriters?
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