HEROES

New season, new threats, or so creator Tim Kring implies in quotes at Sci Fi Wire. "There's a couple new villains," Kring said. "We're doing 11 episodes in a row that start on Sept. 24. And somewhere in that run of episodes we're going to introduce a very scary villain. At the end of last season we gave in the season finale a premonition of someone who is a very scary villain out there, who has invaded the dreams and nightmares of this character on our show named Molly Walker, who can locate people just by thinking about them. [We] teased the idea that there was another villain out there. And the audience can expect to see him somewhere in the first run of episodes."

VIRULENTS

Variety is reporting that New Regency has optioned the Virgin Comics title and set John Moore to direct the adaptation. The film will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The story, to be adapted by John Cox, revolves around a ragtag group of soldiers who search for a lost patrol in Afghanistan. The soldiers, some from an American military unit, some from an Indian military unit, stumble into a nest of vampire zombies.

STARDUST

Neil Gaiman tells all in a video interview with CBR News.

INCREDIBLE HULK

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WATCHMEN

Couldn't see Zack Snyder's panel in San Diego? No problem -- it's on Comics2Film.

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