Webshooters confirmed? Downey Jr. to play Peabody;"Powers" TV update (sort of) ; Aronofsky to do test script as a comic

While at the Golden Globe Awards, MTV was asked Emma Stone about the possibility of Spiderman having webshooters. After a slight pause, she did say there was "a device." So what does that mean, I guess we'll find out more down the road.

Robert Downey Jr. has signed on to do the voice of Mr. Peabody, the time traveling dog who's adventures were part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. The DreamWorks animated film is slated for a 2014 release. If it is straight animated, I'll be there. I loved "Peabody's Improbable History" segments. This should be fun.

Ign TV caught up with FX's president, John Landgraf and asked about the status of the

tv adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis' Powers comic book.

"I'm really excited about what's going on with Powers now. It's funny, it's taken a long time. It's really hard I think to adapt a graphic novel into a successful television show. I realize they did it with Walking Dead, at least in the first six episodes they had on the air, but there have been very few wholly successful adaptations. We're now on our third writer. It's Chic Eglee who worked on The Shield and worked on Dexter and most recently worked on Walking Dead. And I'm really, really excited about it. I mean, it's gotten better all along, but I think we've had some real creative breakthroughs and I think Chic's doing some really exciting work."

 Powers comic book follows the lives of two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, police officers in a Homicide department devoted to cases that involve "powers" (people with superpowers). Walker himself used to be a costumed superhero named Diamond, but became a police officer after he lost his abilities.

Clothes on film found out that director Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream, The Wolverine) is planning to do a comic book based on one of his scripts...

Well, we’re actually doing [a comic]. It hasn’t really been announced, I don’t know if I should give you the scoop! But we’re getting there. We’re doing a comic book of a script that’s really hard to make and we’re going to do a comic version first and see what happens…
It seems like if you come up with an original script, in Hollywood it’s not as effective as a comic book. It doesn’t even have to be successful as a comic; I mean how successful were Kick-Ass or Scott Pilgrim? Those were fringe comics, right, and they were basically turned in to big pictures.

Most of the news blogs assumed it was the Batman script he co-wrote with Frank Miller based of his "Year One" arc. Remember Aronofsky was asked to reboot the Batman franchise, but later dropped out to do "The Fountain." It has been cleared up that it's not the Batman script, but something else.

This seems to be the trend now days - scripts turned into comics so the movie can be made. The most recent example is this summer's Cowboys and Aliens. It was shopped around as a script and executives were asking "Is this based off a comic?" Then turning the project down. Now that the story is in comic form - tada! - studios wanted to do a movie adaptation. I guess whatever works...