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New Star Trek Trailer is Here The new trailer for Star Trek is out and it's intense. Some fans are furious at the changes to canon, such as Kirk being a daredevil in his youth whereas in the original series Kirk said he was "positively grim" when he was at the Academy: he was a real bookworm. Uhura takes off her shirt. Spock tries to kill Kirk, etc etc. We have seen every episode of every Star Trek show made and have seen all the movies. We say: wait and see. We'll not pass judgment until we see the finished product. That hits theaters in May, 2009. Here's the trailer: Posted on November 20, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) The Twilight madness continues. Every teen in the Westwood area of Los Angeles was hounding her parents for tickets to the Twilight premiere. They eventually allowed 2,000 screaming teens to see the flick. No, really. They were actually screaming. Last night, the way to show you were a big shot in Hollywood was to get tickets for your daughter and all her friends to the "Twilight" premiere. The preem had what one exec called "the nag factor": many, many teenage girls telling their parents they had to attend or they would die. To accommodate demand, Summit Entertainment filled both the Village and Bruin theaters with 2,000 attendees. "It reminds me of the 'Batman' premiere in 1989," said Summit co-chair Rob Friedman, who was an exec at Warners at the time. "I haven't felt this energy in Westwood since then."There has been a lot of screaming associated with Twilight, most of it directed at the film's star Robert Pattinson. Pattinson himself seems a bit bemused by all the attention, but has gamely been giving lots of interviews and showing up at premieres with a phalanx of bodyguards. After all, there's nothing more frightening that a horde of hormonal pre-teens screaming your name. Posted on November 17, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Terminator Salvation Concept Artwork ![]() Some scary new Terminator forms in the concept artwork above that is for the upcoming Terminator Salvation movie. The film is out in May, 2009 and stars Dark Knight star Christian Bale. One of the Terminator forms is a motorcycle with red eyes. NextAutos.com has more on the Moto-Terminator motorcycle. Production director Martin Laing was responsible for envisioning some of the near-future killing devices, and has created (among a lot of other scary looking metal) this Moto-Terminator motorcycle. The bike seems to be the chilling Terminator character we know and love in motorcycle form (note the signature red "eyes"), replete with plenty of new mean toys attached.We are enjoying the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series so much that it is hard to focus on a film that will have different actors but it looks like they are going all out on the varieties of forms the Terminator machines will take. You can see more images here on Quiet Earth. Posted on November 14, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) In case you missed them here are the winners of Spike TV's 2008 Scream Awards which were totally dominated by The Dark Knight. Spike's official
Scream awards website can be found here.
Posted on November 5, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright May Scribe Spidey 4 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is in negotiations to be the screenwriter to write Spider-Man 4. Tobey Maguire will star and Sam Raimi will direct. Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer in 2007 for his drama "Rabbit Hole," is in final negotiations to write "Spider-Man 4" for Columbia. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are back as director and star, respectively, as are series producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. Kirsten Dunst also is expected to return for the latest movie featuring the Marvel Comics character. Plot details are under lock and key.Well, he certainly knows how to do great dialog. We'll see how he is at writing a great action scene. Posted on October 31, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Frank Miller talked to Sci Fi Wire about the feel of the new Spirit movie, which is based on the Will Eisner comic about a young cop who becomes the hero called the Spirit. "It's romantic, but as in Sin City, you don't know what date it is," Miller said in an interview on the red carpet for Spike TV's third annual Scream Awards on Oct. 18 in Hollywood. "It's a very urban/Zorro story. I tried to make it as timeless as possible, so you will see cell phones and vintage cars and not really know where you are."The Spirit opens in wide release on December 25, 2008. Posted on October 20, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) M. Night Shyamalan May Pen Unbreakable Sequel M. Night Shyamalan says he is considering writing a sequel to Unbreakable, the film which really was a precursor to Heroes. He explained why he took so long to write it. M. Night Shyamalan said he is considering working on a sequel to his hit Unbreakable, a superhero tale about a man (Bruce Willis) who finds that he is impervious to harm and is called to become a savior.We just loved Unbreakable. He needs to start writing, right away. And hopefully Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson will be up for return appearances. Posted on October 8, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Universal Acquires Film Rights to Wheel of Time Series Universal Pictures has acquired
the film rights to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. The films will begin with the first book, The Eye of the World.
Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will produce for Red Eagle Entertainment, which published graphic novel adaptations of Jordan's books. "The Wheel of Time" follows, among its dozens of characters, Rand al'Thor, the latest incarnation of a force for good called "The Dragon." Rand is born to fight an evil character called Shai'tan.Jordan died last year at the young age of 58. The last book in the series is being written by Brandon Sanderson, who is working from Jordan's tapes and notes. It is due out in fall of 2009. Posted on August 13, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) British academics have rated Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as the science fiction film that most realistically portrays man's future reports Wales News.
The pioneering 1968 film, an adaptation of a screenplay by Arthur C Clarke, deals with questions about the evolution of mankind, and the nature of artificial intelligence - epitomised by the supercomputer HAL 9000.The article says Ridley Scott's Blade Runner film starring Harrison Ford was ranked second in the study. Following that was the 1971 version of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. A remake of this film was just released as a mini-series on A&E - it will also be available on DVD on June 3rd. Posted on May 28, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) I Want To Believe Trailer Here is a new trailer for the upcoming X-files movie I Want To Believe. The film will be out July 25, 2008. You can find the trailer and film details on the website at xfiles.com. Blogs like Xfilesnews.com and xfilesultimate.com are tracking the film. There is a lot of discussion and possible spoilers on the Internets. X-Files 2 screenwriter Frank Spotnitz warns fans not to believe any speculation about the film they read online. And likewise, according to fellow "X-Files 2" screenwriter Frank Spotnitz, audiences should beware of idle speculation online. "They shouldn't believe anything because they're going to feel burned or disappointed inevitably that day," he argued. "So that's really been our stance all along because there's so much misinformation on the Internet. And people saying they have credible sources or call-sheets that are of dubious authenticity. The best thing is to view everything skeptically and wait for the movie." Posted on May 16, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Noah Wylie is the Librarian Noah Wylie will return
to his duties as the globetrotting, adventure-seeking Librarian, in the third movie for TNT. The first two movies were monster hits for TNT, so the entire cast is returning, including Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin. This time the Librarian heads to New Orleans in search of a mysterious evil chalice.
Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), who directed the second Librarian installment, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, will once again take the helm. Electric Entertainment's Dean Devlin, Kearie Peak and Marc Roskin are executive-producing. Wyle and Electric's Phil Goldfarb are producing, with the company's Rachel Olschan co-producing. The project began shooting in New Orleans this week.It's a fun, family-friendly franchise. Posted on March 10, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) 10,000 B.C.: A Prehistoric Adventure The premiere of the film 10,000 BC in Germany featured life-sized figures of Woolly Mammoths. The movie is directed by Roland Emmerich, who also diected Indepence Day, Stargate and The Day After Tomorrow. In the video clip below, Emmerich says the period is a fascinating time in history because we know so little about it. The film stars Steven Straight as a mammoth hunter named D'Leh. Some of the many dangers include sabertooth tigers, ground sloths and angry warlords. 10,000 B.C. bears little resemblance to One Million Years B.C. - the film that made Raquel Welch's figure famous - or other caveman movies. There were also films and tv shows called Korg: 70,000 B.C. and 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing). Newsday says 10,000 B.C. marks a new era of caveman flicks. You can find out more about the film on IMDB, Wikipedia and on the official website. Posted on February 29, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) 20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction Discover Magazine lists 20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction. Here's a snippet: 1 Arguably the inspiration for much science fiction traces back to classical mythology. Think of it-Earthlings abducted by beings from the sky, humans morphing into strange creatures, and events that defy the laws of nature.Actually, book editors will tell you that the term "SF" means "Speculative Fiction" which denotes a more serious or even literary science fiction. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of SF, for example. Sci Fi is used to denote space opera, like Star Trek or Star Wars. But it's true that some fans use the term "Sci Fi" to refer to anything in the genre and others use it to refer to B movies. When in doubt, say "SF" so as not to offend an author you might meet at a convention. Hope that clears things up. Posted on January 31, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) J.J. Abrams and the Mystery Box J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, Lost, and the upcoming Cloverfield, gave a fascinating presentation (via Boing Boing) at TED where he explains his love of the unseen mystery. Abrams says his interest and magic and mystery started with his granfather who encouraged him to make stuff. Abrams also displayed a Mystery Box which remains unopened to this day. He bought the box from Lou Tannen's Magic store in New York decades ago. To Abrams the box represents infinite possibility, hope and potential. He also compares scripts and stories to mystery boxes. Here's his presentation at TED.
Posted on January 15, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Michael Bay Promises New Robots to Transformers Fans Michael Bay has promised fans some cool new robots in the Transformers sequel in a short posting to his blog. I want to thank Nelson for running such a good site!New robots are always good. According to the IMDB page for the film, the release date is June 26, 2009. Posted on January 3, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Paramount Announces 2008 SF Movies Paramount announced its 2008 slate of sf films. The year begins on Jan. 18 with Cloverfield, the mysterious monster movie from producer J.J. Abrams. On Feb. 15, The Spiderwick Chronicles debuts, a family fantasy based on the children's books.The writers' strike is still going strong, which means no scripts can be revised until the strike is over and no new films can move forward. That means the SF slate for 2009 is going to be absolutely dismal unless the studios come to their senses and cut a fair deal for the writers. Posted on January 2, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Sarah Michelle Gellar Talks Southland Tales Sarah Michelle Gellar
talks
about her role as an entrepreneurial stripper Krysta Now in the upcoming post-apocalyptic film, Southland Tales.
In the movie, Krysta Now finds an amnesiac action-movie star, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), in the desert, and the couple become key characters in the epic drama-comedy, set on the eve of an unspecified apocalypse.Sarah Michelle is on the cover of Maxim; the editors selected her as their Woman of the Year. She's promoting the film and has obviously carried a bit of her character into the covershoot, which features the former vampire slayer in pants, suspenders, high heels and fingerless gloves. It's all very 80s, but somehow it's working for us. In a big way. You can see all of Sarah Michelle's semi-racy pics for the issue here. Posted on November 13, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Mad Max Rides Again Moviehole reports the film Mad Max 4: Fury Road is back on track. But don't panic, Mel Gibson won't be reprising his role. Instead a younger actor will take center stage. It's production quarters re-opened at Fox Studios in Sydney this week. One of Moviehole's longest - not as in length (well not that we know of) but in terms of how good he has been to us over the years (setting up set visits.. basically giving us access to things we normally couldn't have gotten) – friends called today from the lot to let us know that Fury Road has finally got a greenlight, with pre-production commencing immediately.So Mad Max rides again, eh? Once upon a time we would have been thrilled about this news. But somehow Mel has become less appealing an an actor over time. His off-screen antics have bled over into his professional life, we suppose. And after Waterworld, we got kind of weary of the whole post-apocalyptic genre. Unless it had vampires in it, of course. Or mutants. Mutants are always good. Posted on October 27, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) The Great Jawa Village Conspiracy Theory
The Great Jawa Village Conspiracy Theory is gaining steam. Hal Wamsley claims he played the Chief jawa in Star Wars: A New Hope movie and saw an entire jawa village set that was created in the California desert. He worked on the Death Valley set of the film with the second photography unit, but was never formally credited on the film, although he is listed in the IMDB database. And LucasFilm won't say he wasn't in the film. But they do deny that there was ever a Jawa village set built in the California desert.
According to Wamsley, both he and the late Jack Purvis (who is in the movie's actual credits) played the Chief Jawa. Wamsley told me, in a 1999 interview, that many of Purvis's scenes, which were filmed in Tunisia, had to be reshot in Death Valley. Thus, the only scene in Star Wars in which Purvis appears is the droid sale at the Lars homestead. Wamsley took credit for spying on R2-D2 and zapping him, carrying the droid to the sandcrawler, putting a restraining bolt on him (the spring 1978 issue of Cinefantastique has a picture of this being shot at Industrial Light & Magic, not Death Valley (CFQ volume 6 no. 4/vol. 7 no. 1, page 90)), and directing the other jawas up the vehicle's stairs.It's all very mysterious. We don't know quite what to think. Posted on October 25, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Southland Tales Movie Trailer Here is the trailer for Southland Tales. This is a science fiction film from writer/director Richard Kelly - the creator of the Donnie Darko cult film. The year is 2008 and the setting is Los Anegeles during a three day heat wave. The economy and environment are getting worse and the government is spying constantly on citizens from an agency called US-IDENT. Richard Kelly has also created a series of graphic novels to go along with the film. Southland Tales' cast includes The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Bai Ling, Mandy Moore, Jon Lovitz and Justin Timberlake. The film's official website for the movie can be found here. It is scheduled to be releaseed in the United States on November 9, 2007. Posted on September 27, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge Wins Hugo Award For Best Novel The winners of the Hugo awards were announced this past weekend in Japan, at the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, better known as WorldCon. Awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards showcase the best in science fiction and fantasy in several media. The winners are: Congratulations to all the winners! Posted on September 4, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) |
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