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Bryan Singer, director of the X-Men movies and the upcoming Superman Returns, is strolling through the rolling cornfields around what will soon be Clark Kent's childhood home. The corn is 12 weeks old, he says proudly, and was grown especially for the movie. "This entire house was constructed on a soundstage," Singer explains, "and then disassembled, rebuilt here in Tamworth [Australia] and then redressed." Not only are we not in Kansas anymore, but apparently we were never there in the first place...
...strategy reminiscent of recent cinema history: use the vision of independent artists on big studios’ big-budget bonanzas. It is the career path followed by such well-known directors as Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk), Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects to X-Men) and Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead to Spider Man 2), and one that often leads, interestingly enough, to comic book adaptations...
...parallel world of comic “studios” consists of Marvel Comics (house of Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain America) and DC Comics (home to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) and indies like Dark Horse Comics, Oni Comics and Fantagraphics Books...
Simply, there are not enough graphic novels that take place in the real world; while the strange dreamlands of The Sandman or the mutant-racism allegory of X-Men allow for beautiful artistic and narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...
...Science fiction] might have become so big lately just because of a few movies that were done really well—X-men, Spiderman, and then you have Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings,” von Korff, the guest coordinator for Vericon said. “They got the public imagination going...