Jon Favreau, Seth Green, Star Trek Writer Collaborate on TV Show
The director of Iron Man, the creator of Robot Chicken and the writers of Star Trek and X2 will all be coming together for a new show called Ex-Comm. Jon Favreau, Seth Green, Roberto Orci and Michael Dougherty have all combined powers to write Ex-Comm, which sounds like a combination of The X-Files and The West Wing. The show features a new President and his Executive Committee that work to investigate unusual situations in America in order to protect the country. The sci-fi comedy-drama will have a pilot directed by Favreau, with Orci and frequent collaborator Alex Kurtzman producing the... read more
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"I want to see Emma Frost and Loki have a pillow fight!" The raucous statement echoes anonymously in a large, industrial room filled with 500 people at 2009 New York Comic Con. Each of the 500 in attendance laughs because they are well aware that a) Emma Frost is a fictional bleach-blonde mutant telepath who notoriously flaunts a leather Victorian corset. She is also a comic-book character. They're also aware that b) Loki is a the Norse Goddess of Trickery who often fights the Asgardian God of Thunder, Thor. She was once male before morphing into an extremely attractive female (magical possession, not transgender surgery,... read more
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