Now that Games will soon be published, the live action Titans movie that Warner is not making is next up. If they ever do turn to the project, would they consider the Judas Contract for the screenplay? Or the Terror of Trigon? Other big storylines are the team's first trip to Tamaran, Titans Hunt, or a Brother Blood film. Below the jump, a post that shows the Titans a little love. This is my favourite possible cast for a Titans film. There are other suggestions out there (here, here, here, here, here and here), some of which I've drawn from for this post.Funny, I was just reading Jim Shooter's blog (E[ditor] I[n] C[hief] at Marvel from 1978 - late 80's (I think)). Someone had posted something in the comments that reminded me of the current DC way of thinking:
"Steve Englehart has said on his website that around 1990 or so, Marvel editorial decreed that character development should basically stop, since the characters had evolved "too far from their roots."
And I think Marvel went bankrupt in the mid 90's.
Let's see if DC can do better with their version of this idea.
In 1919 a young man named Max Glücksman decided to construct a theater house that would be both grand and splendid. Newly immigrated to Buenos Aires [from Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire], Glucksman was a visionary who saw his dream realized and opened his new theater, appropriately named The Grand Splendid. For years the theater presented Argentines with performances of all kinds and local greats such as Gardel and Corsini graced the stage. In 1924 Glucksman began broadcasting Radio Splendid from the fourth floor of the building, and his recording company Odeon recorded some of the early Tango greats. In the late twenties the theater was converted into a movie house and in 1929 showed the first movies ever presented with sound.The theatre once had a seating capacity of 1,050. It is located at 1860 Avenue Santa Fe. There's a café where the stage once was; and reading areas are in the box seats. In 2008, The Guardian named El Ateneo Grand Splendid as number two in a list of the world's ten best bookshops, many of which are breathtaking and impressive - or in some cases, already out of business (go here).
In its final metamorphosis the Ateneo was converted into the bookstore that it is today, but despite the abundance of books, the building still feels very much like the glorious theater it once was.
I was reminded of my early posts on shortening attention spans and procrastination, here and here. This is the problem of time bleed, caused by overexposure to tech and the Internet, which erodes our days. But what interests me more is motivation and emotional responses to time as they relate to Cyberspace. One commenter on the Writers Beware! blog felt that procrastination results from fear. But there is something larger to this if people feel so helpless that they can no longer turn off the Internet by themselves and need a program to do it for them.I also know I'm not alone in struggling with this problem--which is why I was doubly pleased to discover this blog post by ShelfTalker's Elizabeth Bluemle. She spoke with a number of writers about their distraction-circumventing techniques, and got some fascinating responses (it's really interesting how many writers move to a different spot, or use a different computer). She also links to a program called Freedom, which lets you block the Internet for up to eight hours at a time. You can disable it once you've set it--but you have to re-boot, and, theoretically at least, "the hassle of rebooting means you're less likely to cheat."
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