Geek News for Friday July 25, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

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First up, according to The Wienstien Company's website, Fanboys is coming out in September at some point. For those that don't know Fanboys is about a group of friends who in 1998 journey to Skywalker Ranch to try to steal Episode 1 before its release.

Next up, according to The Hollywood Reporter Appian Way, Leonardo DeCaprio's production company, and Warner Bros. want to make a Twilight Zone movie. They are currently looking at the episodes for a couple that could be used to create a story line for the movie.

In other movie news, according to Slashfilm the God of War movie has a director and that director is Brett Ratner, director of such great films as X-Men 3 and Rush Hour 3. Hopefully he'll leave the project or else I'd bet this movie will suck.

And finally, ign has the new trailer for Punisher: War Zone.

VIDEO GAME NEWS

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First up, Gamer Reports has some screen shots of Soul Caliber 4's character selection screen that reveal that Vader will be available on the X-Box 360 version and Yoda will be available on the PS3 version as downloadable content.


And in other fighting game news, Siliconera has revealed that the Joker and Green Lantern are in Mortal Kombat vs. DC universe. At this time it is unknown which Green Lantern will be in the game.