The Incredible Ed Norton...

There has been interesting talk about the upcoming movie about The Incredible Hulk ever since San Diego Comic Con, when Ed Norton surprisingly and unexpectedly announced that he was the writer. Here's an item about it.

Now, if you saw the last movie version of The Incredible Hulk, starring the talented Eric Bana, you'll know that it was (a) the worst movie Ang Lee ever made,¹ and (b) nothing like the comic.

If you saw X-Men: The Last Stand, you'll remember that the script was not the strong point of that movie. It was... pretty bad. I haven't seen Elektra, because she's a Marvel character I love and I've heard nothing good about the movie. So getting Zab Penn off the script is probably a really good idea. Why not get Bruce Jones as scriptwriter? Or Peter David? Both are writers whose skill and experience - not to mention knowledge of the character - would bode well for a movie script.

I am so tired of seeing bad movies made about good comic book characters.

But... Ed Norton. He's also starring in the movie as Bruce Banner - it's a good sign they aren't renaming him David. If he can write as well as he can act, we'll probably get a good movie.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for all this.

Or... maybe not.

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¹ Or a contender to be one of the worst movies anyone ever made. Part of a long list of 'movies that just don't work'.

David Tennant in the Mrs Bradley Mysteries: Death at the Opera...

I had dinner with Beulah at the Green Door restaurant: delicious as always.

Then we came back to my place, and she did a repair job on the wooden chair at my computer desk - she says it's incomplete, but it looks great. The right arm had come off. It's on now. Hooray for Beulah and her tools!

That being done, we watched The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Death at the Opera, starring Diana Rigg as a 1920s British sleuth. We got a great surprise right off: one of the key roles, Max Valentine, is played by David Tennant. Which we hadn't known or expected. And that isn't the only Doctor Who connection, since Peter Davison plays Inspector Henry Christmas.

Max Valentine, needless to say, was gorgeous. Here he is with braces, like Captain Jack. And dressed up. There are more pictures on this site.

Aside from Max Valentine, my favourite role in the story was Neil Dudgeon as George Moody, Mrs. Bradley's resourceful and charming chauffeur. He wore very sexy boots.

Demolishing my office...

My office for several weeks now has been under several levels of plastic as they demolish the box office around me. My desk area isn't exactly in the box office; it adjoins the box office, and to get to my desk now involves climbing over, around, under and through several filing cabinets and other oddly placed (but large) items, not to mention numerous layers of dust and the sound of jackhammers, half a dozen workmen (many of whom seem to be perpetually on ladders) and piles of rubble as the walls fall.

There is so much semi-transparent plastic hanging all over the lobby and office areas, that I keep getting flashbacks to the Doctor Who episode "Doomsday" and expecting to see a Cyberman behind it.

Which would at least be exciting. No such luck.

So I hide out in Gord's office, where there is at least no construction going on, even though I don't have any of my stuff. And his office is more or less in the middle of the area where the Summer Drama Camps are being held, so his office is surrounded by screaming children. (What do kids learn at Summer Drama Camp? They learn to scream. Loudly. Trust me on this.)

But this afternoon, I got to go to a meeting at the Canadian Police Sector Council. I almost never have meetings. I get maybe two meetings per year. It just so happened that I unexpectedly had two meetings this afternoon at 2 p.m. Dunno how that happened.... But one could be postponed till tomorrow, and was, and the other found me at the Canadian Police Sector Council examining a proposal to redesign our website in such a way that it will be easier for me to update it. I heartily approve.