Welcome to today’s edition of Leftovers. We’ve some freshly reheated news for you, so sit down and make sure you clear your plate.

• Over at The Source, Geoff Johns teased the next big Green Lantern event, ‘War of the Green Lanterns.’ Green Lantern #63 and Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #7 will serve as prequels to the event. Here’s what Johns had to say about the upcoming event:

From REBIRTH to SINESTRO CORPS to BLACKEST NIGHT, Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner have stood by each other and fought together to save our universe. After all that, what could possibly tear them apart? We’ll find out in WAR OF THE GREEN LANTERNS starting in March’s WAR OF THE GREEN LANTERNS #1 and throughout the Green Lantern titles in March, April and May. Every Green Lantern is about to be tested — and tested against one another.

• In other Green Lantern news, a mini trailer of footage leaked online over the weekend. Head on over to MTV SplashPage for the full look. I’m still not sold on the suit, but everything else looks outstanding.
• Greg Pak will be writing a Sliver Surfer mini series. Check out CBR for the full solicit and some thoughts from Pak himself.
• Director Darren Aronofsky confirmed over the weekend that he’ll be directing the next Wolverine movie which will be titled ‘The Wolverine.’ It will focus on Logan’s adventures over in Japan. Check out Hitfix for the full details including some more details about the plot of the movie.
• The actress shortlist for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ reportedly contains Rachel Weisz, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Watts and Keira Knightley. Nolan is said to be looking for a two women, one to play a love intrest and the other for a villain role. Check out Deadline for the full report.

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All these news stories look tasty don’t they? Hope you’re hungry, because we’ve got plenty of leftovers for you today!

• DC Comics released an image yesterday that combines all the variant covers for Brightest Day into one, interlocking mural. There are plenty of details to speculate and discuss about, and I recommend Comics Alliance’s analysis of the image.
• Slashfilm has all the information on the possibility of multiple female characters in “The Avengers” movie. Whedon did confirm that Black Widow will be the only female Avenger in the movie.
• DC Comics unvield that Scott Kolins will be taking over art duites on JSA. You can check out some the art from his first issue on the series over at The Source blog.
• The Vulture has an exclusive report on turning the highly successful Locke & Key comic into a Television series. There’s some major talent attached to the project, including Steven Spielberg, Fringe’s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles‘ Josh Friedman.

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Welcome to today’s edition of Leftovers! We’ve got a ton of news, so let’s jump right into it:

• In X-Men: First Class casting news, Oliver Platt and Rose Bryne have joined the cast. Platt will play the mysterious “Man in Black” while Bryne will take on the role of Moira MacTaggert.
• Fred Van Lente’s heavily teased Avengers book has been titled: “Dead Avengers” and will spin out of the Chaos War event that launches soon. We’ve included some of the art at the top of the post, but check out this full CBR article for even more details on what looks to be an outstanding series.
• Bill Willingham of Fables fame will write a “Warriors Three” story due out this November. This is the first work the writer has done at Marvel in quite some time.
• The Avengers movie will be filmed in 3D, which is good news for us movie fans.
• CBR has your first look at some of the other “Vampirella” variant covers, including a bloody brilliant cover by Alex Ross.

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Without further delay, here are your leftovers for July 15, 2010:

• Marvel is prepping a crossover between ‘Hawkeye & Mockingbird’ and Black Widow later this fall. Marvel.com has the full story, but the basic plot sounds fairly interesting.

• Inception has an official comic prequel that’s actually pretty good. Check it out here!

• Tony Daniel will continue on ‘Batman’ as the writer and the artist.

• Marc Guggenheim will be new the on-going writer on ‘Justice Society of America’ along with Shane Davis on covers.

• American Vampire writer Scott Snyder will take over as the on-going writer of Detective Comics.

• J.T. Krul, who was previously announced as the new writer on Teen Titans, will be joined by Nicola Scott on pencils. Even more interesting is that Damien will be the team’s Robin.

Howdy folks! Welcome to a new column called ‘Leftovers’! This is where we’ll post any news that we missed or just didn’t get around to posting. We’ve got a fair amount of news for today, so let’s take a look below:

• IGN Movies has all the details on the Iron Man 2 Blu-ray and DVD sets. There looks to be a myriad of special features and I’m really interested in Jon Favreau’s director commentary.

• Production Weekly tweeted yesterday that the ‘Runaways’ movie will go into production in January 2011 and will run through July 2011.

• IGN Comics has the exclusive details on a new Loki mini series that will focus on his early years.

• Geek Tyrant posted an exclusive about the Superman Reboot that has all tons of rumor news, including Jonathan Nolan directing, but more interesting is the rumor that ‘Chuck’ star Zachary Levi has auditioned for the lead role of Superman. We’ll see how this one shakes out, but it’s VERY interesting to say the least.