Academy Award contender Natalie Portman is denying rumors that she’s being considered for roles in the anticipated comic book adaptations ‘Superman: The Man of Steel’ and ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ Comingsoon.net is reporting. While comic books fans embraced her portrayal of Evey Hammond in the 2006 thriller adaptation of ‘V For Vendetta,’ the ‘Black Swan’ actress told Entertainment Weekly that she won’t appear in the Superman or Batman movies. When asked about being offered a role in director Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Portman said “No, I haven’t heard anything.” Of the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, she said “Oh, I don’t know anything about that.” Officials at Warner…

In a conversation with the Los Angeles Times, renowned comics writer Alan Moore, the delightfully twisted mind behind works such as From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V For Vendetta, and Watchmen, has declared his expected dislike of the upcoming big-screen adaptation of his groundbreaking graphic novel which deals with troubled former superheroes grappling with their own psyches as well as the end of the world. “There are three or four companies now that exist for the sole purpose of creating not comics, but storyboards for films,” he said to the Times’ Geoff Bucher. “It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is…