Over at Mesh's crib, I learned from Amy that Michael Chabon wrote the screenplay for this summer's sure-to-be-kick-a-awesome Spiderman 2. Let me just take this moment to say to the reading public - if ever you believed that because I'm always talking about comic books, movies and economics, that I therefore much be an authority in any of those three categories, please know that that would be false. I had no idea Michael Chabon wrote this movie, and if I wasn't so absolutely ecstatic at learning this, I would be embarassed and ashamed.
Posted by scott at March 25, 2004 11:27 AM | TrackBackScott, have you read "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" yet? Chabon's careful love for comics in that book has me convinced that this movie will reach emotional depths never before charted in Marvel movies. Which isn't saying that much, but still.
Posted by: mesh at March 25, 2004 02:26 PMMesh, I've read bits of him here and there, but I still haven't read that book. What I've read I liked. But I knew that Cavalier and Klay were comics in the golden era of comics, and I once read a screenplay he wrote of the X-men which was great. The director of the movie mentioned that this movie wasn't as over the top as the previous one, and that the characters were more developed than in the previous movie. All together, it sounds like it's going to be wonderful.
Posted by: scott cunningham at March 25, 2004 03:55 PMDid you see Wonder Boys? (or read it?)
Posted by: Paul Baxter at March 25, 2004 05:27 PM