Movie Preview - The Summer of the Geek
Not only is this week’s opening of Iron Man the first summer blockbuster of 2008, it’s also the first of a long string of comic book or super hero movies (Click on the movie name to link to the trailers, where available):
- Speed Racer, which actually hails from a cartoon background, opens next week (May 9)
- The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, June 13)
- Hancock (Will Smith, original (non-comic book) super-hero, July 2)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (July 11)
- Christopher Nolan’s second Batman movie, The Dark Knight crowning the hero slate on July 18.
Insert the non-superhero comic book adaption Wanted (Angelina Jolie, non super-hero, June 27) and the latest movie adaptation of the cult tv comedy Get Smart (June 20) between long-awaited installments in the Indiana Jones (May 22), X-Files (July 25), and Mummy series (Aug 1), and you’ve got a geekilicious summer.
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