The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 223, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 6, 2003 Page: 32 of 87
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Entertainment
With ail the comic book-inspired
movies out lately, we asked super
celebrities which hero they'd
BY BRIAN TRUITT
■ T’S A LINEUP that would leave even Doctor
■ Doom shaking in his steel booties. Spurred by the
I success three years ago of X-Men and last year’s
■ smash hit Spider-Man, which spun its way to being
one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, comic-
book films are eivjoying a golden age. Daredevil pre-
miered in February with a $42.5 million opening week-
end, X2 has raked in more than $200 million so far, and
as of press time The Hulk was set for a monstrous open-
ing June 20 —all of which bodes well for next weekend’s
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
There’s more where those came from; Projects in
development or production include sequels to Spider-
Man and Daredevil (plus an Elektra spinoff) and fea-
tures starring icons such as Batman, Superman and
the Fantastic Four as well as lesser-known do-gooders
like the Punisher, Hellboy, Catwoman, Iron Man, Namor
the Sub-Mariner, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage and Iron
Fist. And comic companies such as Marvel and DC are
laughing—like the Joker—all the way to the bank.
So why are guys and girls with superpowers ruling
Hollywood?
“We call it ‘comics,’ and it’s sort of self-deprecating,
because this is really great literature,” says Avi Arad,
president of Marvel Studios. “No one will wonder why
they make movies based on Tbm Clancy [books], but
they’re hying to figure this one out What’s really
interesting is if you’re a filmmaker or an actor or a
studio exec, you can open a comic book and you’ve got
From left: Duncan
as Green Lantern,
Diesel as Silver
Surfer and Travolta
as Batman
storyboards, probably the most detailed storyboards
you’ll ever see. Then, you can see the movie.”
So, in an effort to help scads of casting directors
trying to fit the right celebrity to the right crime
fighter (Britney Spears as a singing She-Hulk, per-
haps?), we asked stars: If you could be in a movie
based on a comic book, whose brightly colored tights
would you most like to slip on?
► Vin Diesel (A Man Apart): “Well, there’d be only
one: Silver Surfer. I think the idea of an intergalactic
superhero is fascinating, and I always loved Silver
Surfer. The intergalactic superhero is, I think, one
step further than the [earthbound] superheroes.”
► Michael Clarke Duncan (Daredevil): “In some
comic books, they had a black Green Lantern and a
white Green Lantern. I would love to play the black
Green Lantern. You know, he had more muscles than
the regular Green Lantern. I don’t know why they
drew it like that, but his legs were bigger, his arms
were bigger, his chest, his traps, everything was a lit-
tle bit bigger than the regular Green Lantern.”
► Scott Hamilton (Olympic figure skater): “The
Incredible Hulk. It’s a little-guy thing, you know? You
get picked on and then you think about it, and what I
loved about the Incredible Hulk was he was pretty
easygoing until somebody just pushed all of his but-
tons. ... [Growing up] I was mainly into Superman
and Batman, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk. I
thought Spider-Man was pretty cool, too, but a buddy
of mine would be Spider-Man, and I wanted |
to be different than him.”
► Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the |
Richer): “Catwoman. I love that gal.” I
► Joey Fatone fN Sync): ‘Td be Superman, g
I know it’s been done by so many already, but
he is my favorite. I have a collection of all things
Superman. My collection is so big that I had to have
a room built to showcase it all.”
►Matthew McGonaughey (How
to Lose a Guy in 10 Days): “The
Incredible Hulk was my man. I got
an hour of television a night [as a kid],
and that would be my horn; and Bill
Bixby would be walking down the desolate
road outside of the carnival, stQl clean, got his
belt oa Here come the redneck hippies driving down
the road, throwing beer cans out, hitting him in the back
of the head. He had a great rule: The first time, he
always turns around — path of least resistance — he
walks away.... Second time, he always says, ‘No, really,
Pm just walking down the road, just going my way.’
Third time, guy grabs a 2-by-4, hits him in the leg. IPs
always the third time: All of a sudden, his eyes go white,
he turns green, rips his clothes off and comes back and
just whips everybody’s butt.”
► Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish): “I
would most like to play Wolverine, definitely. He’s my
favorite. He’s the baddest of the badasses. He’s just
always been my guy. I remember when they had that
intergalactic battle or something — I guess about 15
years ago — and at the end of it, all the superheroes
leave and Wolverine was the leader. I always thought
that was cool And when Magneto pulled the ada-
mantium out of his body, that was one of the most
painful things I’ve ever seen in a comic. That hurt just
to read.... Tell Hugh Jackman to look out”
►John Travolta (Basic): “I was approached for the
Batmans a couple of times, but that didn’t come to
fruition, and that would have been fim, because I grew
up with that I think you can be other comic characters
[like Batman] and move into other things, whereas
Superman seems to be so specific that it might actu-
ally hurt you.”
►Jorja Fox (CSI): “I wasn’t allowed to read comic
books when I was a kid. My well-meaning mother didn’t
consider them ‘literature.’ Instead, I read a lot of
Stephen King novels and any other horror [and] sus-
pense stuff I could get my hands on. So I don’t know...
but it would be really cool to play somebody’s hero.” ca
Brian Truitt last unite for USA WEEKEND about music in
commercials.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 223, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 6, 2003, newspaper, July 6, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051924/m1/32/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.