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variety.com - 11/13/2008

Showtime enlists gay superhero - Entertainment News, TV News, Media

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Stan Lee to produce hourlong series Showtime is developing an hourlong project from comicbook icon Stan Lee that tracks the life of a gay superhero. Project is being exec produced by Lee and the president and CEO of his Pow! Entertainment banner, Gill Champion. Story, which focuses on an ...

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hollywoodreporter.com - 11/19/2008

'Captain America' enlists two scribes

— hollywoodreporter.com — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are in negotiations to pen Marvel Studios' "First Avenger: Captain America." The... dealmaking occurs about a week after Joe Johnston boarded the project as director. Marvel's Kevin Feige is producing. Created in ... (more) 'Captain America' enlists two scribes

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hollywoodreporter.com - 11/19/2008

'Captain America' enlists two scribes

— hollywoodreporter.com — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are in negotiations to pen Marvel Studios' "First Avenger: Captain America." The... dealmaking occurs about a week after Joe Johnston boarded the project as director. Marvel's Kevin Feige is producing. Created in ... (more) 'Captain America' enlists two scribes

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Showtime Developing SuperGay Series HERO!!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — [image] [image] I am – Hercules!! The first novel from “Chronicles of Narnia” producer Perry Moore, about a closeted homosexual superhero, may become a Showtime series. Moore is scripting the “Hero” [image] pilot himself. Comics legend Stan Lee (“Iron Man,” “Hulk”) is aboard as a producer. Booklist describes the book’s premise: Thom Creed tries not to disappoint his dad, a disgraced caped crusader who now toils as a factory drudge, so he keeps his gay identity and his developing superpowers under wraps. Then he secretly tries out for the prestigious League, joining aspiring heroes in villain-busting adventures that escalate alongside ...

Discuss: Would You Support a Gay Superhero?
Cinematical — Filed under: Deals, Fandom, Home Entertainment, Comic/Superhero/Geek With Hollywood types running out of superhero ideas, it would appear the Showtime network has taken the next logical step: how about the gay superhero? And they're certainly not alone on this one; Variety reports that the hourlong project comes from Stan Lee and is based on the book Hero by Perry Moore. The story is said to focus on an "up-and-coming superhero who struggles to hide his secret identities." If anything, it certainly ups the ante and raises the stakes, and, in my opinion, is a pretty ...

Time for a Hero
Movie Dearest — Showtime, known for their gay-themed hits Queer as Folk and The L Word, is once again going where no network has gone before with Hero, a new series about the adventures of a gay superhero. Based on the novelby Chronicles of Narnia producer Perry Moore, the show will be overseen by Moore along with someone who knows a thing or two about men in tights, Stan Lee. Excelsior! ...