• What The 'I Am Legend' Zombies Could Have Looked Like

    He's blown the "What If" doors off Tim Burton's Superman Lives, Ang Lee's Hulk and next up in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend. Special Effects guru Steve Johnson has just released a video that shows an unused makeup test for the zombies in the 2007 Will Smith hit. Apparently Lawrence wasn't entirely happy with how…

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  • Ang Lee's Unused 'Hulk' Robot

    Before eventual Oscar-winning director Ang Lee decided on going full CGI for his 2003 superhero film Hulk, the production  experimented with a fully animatronic version of the character. How do we know? Steve Johnson, of course. The special effects master who has been blowing the doors off superhero pre-production is back again. This time, though,…

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  • More Costume Test Photos From Tim Burton's 'Superman Lives'

    Each and every one of us probably has a bunch of websites we go to in the morning and, if you're reading this, /Film is probably one of them. Thank you very much. It's getting to a point now, though, where we might all have to add one more site to our daily surf schedule: …

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  • Concept Art Revealed For Aborted 'Superman' Films By J.J. Abrams And Bryan Singer

    One of the first pieces of online film journalism to truly legitimize the profession was Drew McWeeny's September 2002 evisceration of a J.J. Abrams script for a film eventually referred to as Superman: Flyby. McWeeny, then working for Ain't It Cool News under the name "Moriarty," ripped apart Abrams' script so completely, and in such…

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  • Costume Test Photos From Tim Burton's Failed 'Superman Lives'

    Hey Zack Snyder! Here's how not to make your new Superman movie. It seems like every few years, we get another glimpse of the incredible amount of money Warner Brothers threw into pre-production on a Tim Burton directed Superman film called Superman Lives. As far back as 2006, concept art from the film began surfacing…

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