The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 10

After a rather slow week last week I'm back with more news for nerds, geeks and propeller heads.

Wall-e

Pixar has a teaser up of it's next feature film, this time a science fiction themed story about a 700 year old metal compacting junkyard robot named Wall-e.

Godzilla returns... in 3-D!


Godzilla is returning to the big screen, for the first time in 3-D! This contemporary version of the largest classic cinema creature of all time will take full advantage of the growing popularity of digital 3-D theaters to bring Godzilla to its worldwide audience in a way that has never been experienced before.Kerner Productions recently announced that Tokyo based Digital Motion, have provided initial development funding for the project. Kerner Productions and Kerner Optical LLC staff will also be providing miniature, creature creation, physical effects, and visual effects support.

Tokyo based Producer/Director Yoshimitsu Banno and Producer Kenji Okuhira, have teamed up with Hollywood 3-D veterans Producer Brian Rogers, Director Keith Melton, and Director of Photography Peter Anderson, ASC to form the core production team.

“Godzilla 3-D” will be designed to take full advantage of the composition, staging, and dynamic editing of original three dimensional photography. The film will also incorporate updated creature technology along with cutting edge motion capture and 3-D CGI animation to bring a more fluid and realistic energy to Godzilla. This will create more subtle facial moves and will allow the filmmakers to expand and enhance Godzilla’s character.

The anticipated start date for this original production is slated for February 2008, and will lens in South America, Mexico, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Casting for this English language film will take place in Los Angeles.

by way of Twitch

The Bat Pod


Check out the clip at Today that shows the new batcyle, dubbed "the Bat Pod". Rumour has it it's launced from the "Tumbler", plus it's just as heavily armed and armoured (though where the hell the armour is I can't see).

Vermsnote: As a biker this makes my dick so hard!

Watchmen Casting part 2

Well, it seems that Keanu is a greedy baster and too much of a "Movie star" to be in Watchmen. He'd been offered the role of Dr. Manhatten, but the paycheck was too small and really, he's not much of an ensemble player, is he now? Now it's likely the Jason Patric is to play the blue skinned genius reports AICN. Chud reports that Jackie Earle Haley has been tapped to play Rorschach, the mask vigilante that learns of the conspiracy that's the pivotal to the story. Coming Soon has an interview with Patrick Wilson where he practically comes right and and confirms that he's going to play Night Owl.

And one last great piece of news, AICN hints that they have it on good authority that a certain punishing actor will play The Comedian, the hero that get's killed that starts the whole shebang off. Can you say, Thomas Jane? I knew you could.


Jay and Seth Vs the Apocalypse

Oh My God! I can't wait to see this short by Seth Rogen.