There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!  Where is my Earth-shattering kaboom?

Man, the news really does just get weirder and weirder, doesn’t it?  First Brittany Murphy dies, then Dan O’Bannon dies, and now we’ve got Marvin the Martian making his way to the big screen!  It was rumored dead for a while, but it just got better.

It’s currently slated for a Christmas 2011 release, so we’ll have a long time to wait on this one.  But the wait may be worth it, as it’s being planned as being Marvin as a CG character in the midst of a company of live actors.  And they’re planning to get the voice of Shrek himself, Mike Myers, to do the voice of Marvin.

Nothing’s solid yet, of course, as they’re just getting things around, but still–the idea that we could get a full-on Marvin the Martian movie this time two years from now is really a very good idea.

We’ll be keeping a weather eye on this one, so keep it here for the latest.