I don’t know how many of you have seen The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode that spoofs Stephen King’s The Shining but this news hit me like a go-crazy-Homer-with-an-ax this morning. King has apparently been working on a sequel to what is probably his most famous book. It’s going to be called Doctor Sleep. Hit the jump to read the synopsis. If you dare.
While speaking to the media in Glasgow, Scotland, John Barrowman said that after Matt Smith decides to call it a day and regenerate into the 12th Doctor, perhaps a woman should take the TARDIS controls on Doctor Who. He’s even offered to put on a dress and do it himself. And once John Barrowman stops saying awesome things, we will stop posting them. (Dear John Barrowman: Never stop saying awesome things. Never.)
Bleeding Cool might have figured out who the mystery woman in the DCnU Justice League is, and it just might be an old friend.
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Big screen comic adaptations have grown darker and darker in the last 10 years, covering the Cuban Missile Crisis, parental abandonment and betrayal, the ethics of justified killing, threatened genocide, and allegories for contemporary terrorism, to name a few recent plots. So it’s something of a coup to see that DC has pushed up a summer tentpole undeniably for kids, one without the heft of the adult themes we’ve grown accustomed to from the Big Two. A movie whose uncomplicated trajectory and absolutist morality spell easy fun for the whole family. You know; Green Lantern.
