Pop Culture Roundup July 20, 2007

There's a new video game based on the "Asterix at the Olympic Games" comic book.

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Actor Seth Rogan, now appearing in the film "Knocked Up," has signed on to write and star in a new Green Hornet movie.

Rogen is just the newest player in a large and varied cast of characters who have tried to bring Green Hornet to the big screen. A Green Hornet film was previously announced at Universal with Ron Underwood directing. Three years ago Miramax entered a deal with Kevin Smith to adapt and direct a Green Hornet film. Actors as wide ranging as George Clooney, Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Wahlberg have been rumored to be in talks to play Reid over the years. And at one point or another Jason Scott Lee and Jet Li have been rumored to play Kato.

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Director Gavin Hood is set to helm a solo Wolverine film starring Hugh Jackman.

Using several resources that include the Marvel Comics lore, along with the more recent Weapon X graphic novels by Frank Miller, "Wolverine" mixes action with an origin story about how Logan emerged from a barbaric experiment as an indestructible mutant with retractable razor-sharp claws.

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The U.S. Postal Service's Marvel Comics stamps go on sale July 26.

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