October 31st, 2007
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (MI3) has won the lead in Omega Entertainment and Baldwin Entertainment Group’s Mandrake, with Chuck Russell (The Scorpion King) calling the shots.
Mandrake the Magician is a syndicated U.S. comic strip created in 1934 by Lee Falk about a crime-fighting illusionist whose work is based on an impossibly fast hypnotic technique. In the long-running strip, Mandrake is accompanied by perhaps the first black comic book hero, a character called Lothar, Prince of the Seven Nations.
‘This is a rare opportunity to reinvent one of the all-time classic comic book characters and create a new kind of hero for international audiences,’ Russell said.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.