Liverpool have signed 25 year old goalkeeper Charles Itandje from Lens. This one seems to have happened rather quickly. Scott Carson decided he wasn’t happy playing second fiddle to Pepe Reina meaning Liverpool needed another keeper. So who is he?

Vital football tell us;

He has been capped at U21 for France. Wikipedia notes that he became known for his dance to destabilize opponents during the penalty shootout. Looking like another great penalty stopper at the club along with Pen King Pepe Reina.

I’m happy enough with this deal. Carson has never looked convincing to me in a Liverpool jearsey. Maybe it was because he knew he was always going to be dropped in favour of Reina, but he never looked comfortable. I did expect Carson to have to sit on the bench this season because he does have a contract with Liverpool after all. I don’t see a time when Carson will ever oust Reina so if Liverpool intend to loan him out rather than keep him as an excellent understudy then I don’t see why they don’t just sell him? Maybe they’re hoping his value will soar?

I hope Itandje is good enough to fill in when needed. Would have been nice to sort this deal out earlier but Reina is the clear number one anyway and having just recieved his second Golden Glove award in as many years and saving a penalty in the last pre-season game he should be full of confidence.

I guess the real question is will Rafa shave the goatee?

For those of you who don’t know JJ Abrams, creator of Lost and Alias, is to produce and direct a new Star Trek film. The 11th to be precise. Although it doesn’t have an official title other than Star Trek XI, I doubt it will be called that as it is a prequel. Yes ladies and gentlemen it’s back to the days of Kirk and Spock, but not as we know them. It is their academy days.

Casting breakdowns have appeared on Ain’t It Cool

STAR TREK
Feature Film
SAG
PARAMOUNT PICTURES/BAD ROBOT

[JAMES KIRK] 23-29 Handsome,cocky self assured and earnest. Great physical condition. 6 ft or less

[LEONARD(BONES)MCOY] -28-32 Medic on the Enterprise. Smart, clever and a bit danger-loving. Dark hair, blue eyes.

[UHURA] 25ish -African American. Brilliant, beautiful, heroic and FUN!, Uhura is almost tom-boyish - as if she grew up in a houseful of brothers.

[SULU] 25-32 -Asian American male (preferably Japanese). Helmsman on the Enterprise. Extremely fit, capable and dedicated. A bit of a wildcat

[MONTGOMERY(SCOTTY) SCOTT] -28-32 a brilliant ship’s engineer. Must be able to do a flawless Scottish accent!

The big news though, is that Spock has been cast and it’s Zachary Quinto from Heroes. I don’t know much about him as I don’t watch Heroes, but I’ve been told it’s good and it’s on my to-do list. I’ll report back if I ever get round to watching it. He looks the part though.

I think this film is going to be good!

The rumours are rife that the Justice League movie is to be directed by George Miller! Yes ladies and gentlemen the man that brought us Babe and Happy Feet is to direct a film about Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Green Lantern.

Of course he also directed the Mad Max trilogy!

There’s also talk that Warner Brother’s are making the Justice League a higher priority than the Superman Returns Sequel, Superman:The Man of Steel which is due out Summer 2009, that Christian Bale and Brandon Routh have clauses in their contracts tying them to a Superman Vs. Batman film and so might be contracted to the Justice League, and that the Justice League film will feature a superhero death.

If that’s not enough to keep you going for now try this fan video.

Comic Con has become one of the big industry events in Hollywood and this year its status was confirmed when they were treated to a look at the cast of Indiana Jones 4. I thought ye might be interested in a look.

Nice bit of work to unveil the much rumoured return of Karen Allen.

Indianajones.com is updating with lots of things including on set footage. Nice to hear the theme tune again!

There were a few teaser posters handed out at Comic Con too one of which can be seen over at slashfilm.com.

It’s been a little quite in here of late. Let’s kick things off with a new picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker.

and the Dark Knight teaser trailer.

Thanks to the Dark Knight unofficial movie blog for the picture.