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Where does Jennifer Lawrence think Mystique is as X-Men Apocalypse starts? When did Chadwick Boseman agree to be Black Panther? Will the Gotham producers kill any major characters? Why did Matthew Vaughn do Kingsman instead of X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to hear the Warner Bros. CEO describe why they announced their DC Comics movies they way they did? Can Groot keep your coffee warm? What was the biggest female superhero movie of the year? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

Jennifer Lawrence talked to IGN about where she thinks Mystique will be in X-Men Apocalypse.

The people behind Gotham say that they can and might kill established DC characters.

Chadwick Boseman talked to multiple outlets about his process and history with Black Panther.

Gentle Giant is releasing Secret Wars action figures.

Check out a glimpse of the Atom suit from the recent episode of Arrow.

At a recent NY screening, Matthew Vaughn talked about why he chose to make Kingsman: The Secret Service instead of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Awesome Gotham art by Jock.

The CEO of Warner Bros. talked about the decision to announce all the DC movies on a shareholders call as opposed to the Marvel way.

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Warner Bros. has been trying to craft a new film adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel The Stand for several years. The studio has gone through a roster of writers and directors, but last year finally landed on The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone to write and direct.

Boone is a life-long fan of Stephen King, and has been pretty forthcoming with some comments about The Stand. Now, what was originally seen as a single-film adaptation has now expanded into something much bigger. Because WB likes the prospect of selling an event movie series rather than one single long dramatic horror movie, The Stand is now planned as a four-film series.

Josh Boone appeared on Kevin Smith’s Hollywood Babble-On podcast for a really great conversation (stream it below) and had quite a lot to say about The Stand. When he was first brought in to talk about it, he was given earlier script drafts to read.

[Those drafts] were not so much where I thought they should be going with it. [They were] much more like a big summer blockbuster. When I thought about The Stand it’s so much about the vast network of characters, and all their problems. It’s kind of a morality play set in post-apocalyptic America. The battle between good and evil is the battle for these peoples’ souls. They make choices which dictate the fate of humanity.

The first stage of developing the film started out, despite Boone’s initial concerns, as a single film adaptation. Boone scripted that, and had some specific ideas about how to compress the sprawling novel into a solitary film (note that this middle of this quote has a Stand spoiler in it):

I really wanted to do an A-list actor, really grounded, credible version of the movie. I sold them on that and they hired me…I sold them on a single, three hour movie. I went and got [Stephen] King sold on it, everybody’s really excited…I told the story non-linear and that was the way I was able to compress that book and get everything into that script. You open with Mother Abigail dying and sending the guys off, and then you jump back in time… So what happened is the script gets finished, I write it in like five months, everybody loves it, King loves it, $87 million is what it was budgeted at, really expensive for a horror drama that doesn’t have set pieces.

As he says, that’s a pretty good budget range for a film planned as a hard-R horror adaptation. Boone would have probably had to really be smart about using that money, but if he gets the characters right, a lot of The Stand’s tension can come from waiting for things to explode. (Elsewhere, Boone talks about the idea that the horror of The Stand is Larry Underwood trapped in the Lincoln Tunnel, and that it’s subjective horror, akin to Roman Polanski’s work, rather than a setpiece sort of horror.)

But WB actually wanted a more expensive film, something with setpieces that would make The Stand easier to market overseas. Boone just wanted to get the tone and characters right. But then Warners had another offer.

They came back and said “would you do it as multiple films?” and I said “fuck yes!” I loved my script, and I was willing to drop it in an instant because you’re able to do an even truer version that way. So I think we are going to do like four movies. I can’t tell you anything about how we’re going to do them, or what’s going to be in which movie. I’ll just say we are going to do four movies, and we’re going to do THE STAND at the highest level you can do it at, with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds. We’ve already been talking to lots of people, and have people on board in certain roles that people don’t know about. We’re looking to go into production next year, maybe in the spring.

Here’s the full podcast, which is very much worth listening to. Boone has great things to say overall about the span of his career so far, and making The Fault in Our Stars. His discussion of The Stand and Stephen King starts at about 15:30 when he starts to talk about his introduction to Stephen King. Then it gets more into details at 21:00, and there’s some talk of King characters, and how many King movies blow it by emphasizing the supernatural and losing the characters. The quotes above come from the conversation that kicks in well over the one-hour mark, at about 1:21:30.

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When a landfill in New Mexico was dug up last year, with those involved hoping to exhume thousands of dumped copies of Atari’s terrible E.T. video game, the whole event was captured on camera for a documentary. That doc is Atari: Game Over, directed by Zak Penn, and it is now available online. Thanks to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, you can watch Atari: Game Over for free.

As we discussed when the film’s trailer first arrived, the film documents not only the particulars of the E.T. game situation, but also talks about the video game industry at the time, and the business deals and thinking that set in motion the first big video game industry crash. That landfill — which contained hundreds of thousands of copies of the E.T. game — is a giant symbol for a set of factors that led to the crash.

The film can be seen on Xbox Live via the Xbox 360 and/or Xbox One. Don’t have an Xbox? No problem! There’s an online portal, and you can access the film here. (You’ll need to make an account with Microsoft, however.)

Here’s a behind the scenes video from Wired, featuring Zak Penn talking about the project.

Atari: Game Over is the Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” As the story goes, the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to “E.T.,” the video game for the Atari 2600, disposed of hundreds of thousands of unsold game cartridges by burying them in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.

Header Photo: Clever Raiders Of The Lost Ark Melting Nazi Face Candle

5 Reasons Why “Mockingjay – Part 1” Is The Darkest “Hunger Games” Movie Yet

Watch the Trailers for 10 Classic Mike Nichols Films

Go Back In Time With A Back To The Future Flux Capacitor Wristwatch

Predictions for House of Cards Season 3

Why ‘Citizenfour’ Deserves a Best Picture Oscar Nomination

Firefly And Star Wars Weapons Face Off In This Epic Pair Of Tattoos

8 TV Shows Cancelled After Just One Episode

15 Hollywood actresses who adamantly refuse to do nude scenes. No, you won’t be seeing Buffy in the buff

The Crossover We Never Knew We Wanted: Brainy Smurf Vs. The Brain

Ranking 11 Movie Bosses From Amazing to Horrible

Kentucker Audley (Open Five 2) Talks Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s Dumb and Dumber To

Must Watch: Gorgeous Hand-Drawn ‘Big Hero 6‘ Trailer from Japan

‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1? Inspires Movie Theaters to Pull Out All the Stops

Christopher Nolan, We Need to Have a Talk About Your Obsession With Dead Wives

Retro Solo Ladies’ Ringer Tee

Girl Found: GONE GIRL‘s Boring Masochism

PBS Adds New Series, Expands ‘Masterpiece’ In 2015

Sideshow Sixth Scale Speeder Bike Preview Video

Ranking the Greatest Movies from First-Time Directors

7 Scenes We Love of Movie Characters Doing Celebrity Impressions

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Outdoor movie screenings are so much fun. They’re not usually the ideal place to first see a movie, of course, but as a communal experience, where everyone knows the movie, it’s the best. Secret Cinema, however, is so much more than an outdoor screening series. It’s an outdoor screening coupled with a live performance and theme park experience where you not only watch the movie, you can live it.

Don’t know what we mean? A new video showing this past summer’s Back to the Future Secret Cinema event puts it into perspective. The organization not only rebuilt the town of Hill Valley; they have actors walking around, a beautiful big screening, and people performing the movie, under the movie, while you watch the movie. Check out a video of the greatest Back to the Future screening of all time below.

Thanks to Future Shorts for this new video of the Back to the Future Secret Cinema event.

Just so amazing. And, as we reported a few months back, the company is bringing this happening to Los Angeles at some point in 2015. You can see a bunch of their previous events at www.secretcinema.org/trailers but it’s pretty obvious this Back to the Future one is the biggest yet.

Now, I know some people reading this are going to watch that video and get upset. “The last thing I want to do when watching a movie is have all those distractions.” Well, I think in this case, if you haven’t seen Back to the Future so much you can quote it from memory, it’s probably not worth going to. This is all about the inside jokes, living in the movie and seeing people perform the stunts in the movie. The movie screening is the basically the least important thing. As a fan, I watch this video and get excited by the details. The sparks on the skateboard. The timing of the actor’s reactions. It’s all so perfect.

What do you think of the Back to the Future video?

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