Upcoming Comic Book Movies

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  • Robert Downey Jr. stars as cocky billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, the unlikely hero who suits up in super-charged high-tech armor to battle evil and protect the world as Marvel Comics' Iron Man. (May 2)
  • Edward Norton is fugitive scientist Bruce Banner, on the run from the military and desperately searching for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the destructive, green-skinned force of rage within him: The Incredible Hulk. (June 13)
  • In Wanted, Angelina Jolie stars as Fox, a beautiful hired killer who turns a bored cubicle-dweller's routine life upside down when she recruits him into "The Fraternity," a secret society of super-powered assassins. (June 27)
  • The planet's toughest, roughest (and reddest) superhero is back, and he's the only thing that stands between mankind and an unstoppable army of otherworldly creatures. Director Guillermo del Toro returns for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, another epic adventure with the kitten-loving horned hero from hell. (July 11)
  • Christian Bale reprises his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight, the highly-anticipated follow-up to director Christopher Nolan's dark re-invention of the Bat-mythos in 2005's Batman Begins. This time, the Caped Crusader faces off against Gotham City's deadliest threat yet: Heath Ledger as The Joker. (July 18)
  • In the action sequel Punisher: War Zone, Ray Stevenson takes over the title role as Marvel Comics' vigilante anti-hero, a one-man justice squad who takes on a vicious mobster-turned-super-villain named Jigsaw. (December 5)
  • Comic book legend Frank Miller adapts and directs Will Eisner's story of a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows of Central City as the masked crusader known as The Spirit. Samuel L. Jackson stars as the villainous Octopus, and Scarlett Johansson is the beautiful Silken Floss. (January 16)
  • Alan Moore's classic graphic novel comes to life in Watchmen, a gritty, realistic take on the superhero genre. Directed by Zack Snyder, and starring Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl, Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, and Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre, the story revolves around the brutal murder of a former costumed vigilante. (March 6)

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