Flight of the Conchords, a folk parody duo (the forth most popular folk parody duo in New Zealand), has a show on HBO (which I refuse to pay extra for so I have to live with online clips). This is one of the songs from the shows latest episodes, not one of the best but it made me laugh.
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 13
I know you missed it so it's back!
First, big news from the San Diego Comic con
Zachary Quinto, Syler from Heroes, is going to be in season 2 of Heroes, he's also going to play Spock in the JJ Abrahms Star Trek movie, the 11th in the franchice. And so is Leonard Nimoy. I smell time travel, or at least flashbacks. source : HR
Kevin Smith is writing at least one episode of Heroes: Origins ! That is sooo cool!
Source: Superherohype
I am sooo hyped for the next season! Season 1 DVDs are due out Aug. 28th.
First, big news from the San Diego Comic con
Zachary Quinto, Syler from Heroes, is going to be in season 2 of Heroes, he's also going to play Spock in the JJ Abrahms Star Trek movie, the 11th in the franchice. And so is Leonard Nimoy. I smell time travel, or at least flashbacks. source : HR
Kevin Smith is writing at least one episode of Heroes: Origins ! That is sooo cool!
Source: Superherohype
I am sooo hyped for the next season! Season 1 DVDs are due out Aug. 28th.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 11
Say it isn't so!
A reviewer at AICN reports that Bruce Campbell isn't in Bubba Nosferatu, the sequel to Bubba Ho-tep. This is like the book of John without Jesus. But his review of My Name is Bruce confirms that it's a must for fans of "The Chin". Hopefully this will change or my heart will break.
The Mach 5 looks AWESOME!
A new pic of the Mach 5 from the upcoming Wachowski Brothers movie, "Speed Racer" has shown up on AICN. Very cool, I am having good feelings about this movie.
A reviewer at AICN reports that Bruce Campbell isn't in Bubba Nosferatu, the sequel to Bubba Ho-tep. This is like the book of John without Jesus. But his review of My Name is Bruce confirms that it's a must for fans of "The Chin". Hopefully this will change or my heart will break.
The Mach 5 looks AWESOME!
A new pic of the Mach 5 from the upcoming Wachowski Brothers movie, "Speed Racer" has shown up on AICN. Very cool, I am having good feelings about this movie.
Heroes adds 6 new cast members
NBC has annonced that it has added six new cast members for the upcoming season of Heroes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joining the cast in recurring roles will be Barry Shabaka Henley, Holt McCallany, David Anders, Eriko Tamura, Lyndsy Fonseca and Dianna Agron. Anders, best known for his recurring role on Alias, will play the ancient samurai warrior Takezo Kensei, the childhood hero of Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka). The last scene of the finale showed Hiro inadvertently transporting himself back in time to ancient Japan, where he is likely to encounter Kensei next season. Japanese pop star and actress Tamura will play a Japanese princess in the same time period. Henley will play Detective Fuller, a New York police officer. McCallany will play Ricky, the ringleader of a group of Irish thugs. Fonseca and Agron will play beautiful cheerleaders in Southern California, where Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is expected to move. Fonseca's character April is sweet, while Agron's Debbie is a mean girl. The six join Nick d'Agosto, who recently landed a recurring role on Heroes next season, as well as Dania Ramirez, who was cast as a new regular.
Source: Sci-fi Wire
If Luke Cage has a movie, where's Iron Fist?
Tyrese Gibson (Transformers) told SCI FI Wire that it's looking increasingly likely that he will star in a big-screen movie featuring the Marvel Comics hero Luke Cage. If everything goes according to plan, Gibson will play Cage, the first black comic-book superhero, in a film to be directed by John Singleton, who previously directed Gibson in the drama Baby Boy. "They're doing rewrites on it now, and we actually have a meeting coming up on it soon, from what I hear, just to see where we are with the whole thing," Gibson said in an interview while promoting Transformers. "Right now they're in the process of getting the rewrites done, and then they'll, I guess, do kind of a formal presentation to see if it's going to be a go." Asked what interests Gibson most about the super-strong and hard-to-hurt Cage character, he replied: "I just love his presence, and I love the fact that he's one of the first black comic-book characters. I'd like to make the comic-book world proud with what I'm looking to do with Luke Cage. So hopefully the opportunity all pans itself out. Me and Singleton are both looking to be a part of it, if the screenplay turns out right. I met with [producer] Avi Arad, and he's very excited about the possibility. But you can't do a great movie without a great script, and the ducks have got to line up."
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 9
The Incredible Hulk
William Hurt has joined the all-star cast of Marvel Studios' "The Incredible Hulk." The movie, which Louis Leterrier is directing, sees Bruce Banner/Hulk on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into a monster. Hurt will play Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the man who has dedicated his life to capturing the Hulk -- and who also is the father of Banner's love interest, Betty Ross."Hulk" is shaping up to having one of the stronger comic book movie casts in quite a while as Hurt joins two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton, who is playing Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty and Tim Roth as villain Emil Blonsky/the Abomination. Zak Penn wrote the latest big-screen adventure of the green goliath, which Universal Pictures is distributing.The film is being produced by Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, while Jim Van Wyck, David Maisel, Ari Arad and Stan Lee executive produce. Shooting is slated to begin this summer in Toronto.
Source: HR
Vermsnote: This Hulk sounds like it will be so much better than the last one, which I did like, mostly, but still, let's hope. Plus it has Liv Tyler! Liv=love
Oh wow! A modernized Dante's Inferno by stick animated cardboard cutouts!
You have GOT to check this out. I love Inferno, always have, I've read or seen maybe a dozen versions of it, from the standard high school translation in Brit Lit to the cool graphic novel Sinergy. Check out the trailer and the website, you'll be amazed.
Thanks to twitch for the heads up.
Dragon War
This looks pretty damn cool, dragons fighting in LA. Due out this summer in Japan, should be here not too long afterwards hopefully. It only took The Host a few months to make the leap.
D-war
Science Fiction Dictionary
Editor/lexicographer Jeff Prucher told SCI FI Wire that his book Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction attempts to cover the shared language of science fiction writers, critics and fans—as well as those terms that originated in SF and have subsequently been adopted by mainstream society or other subcultures. "By 'shared language,' I mean those terms that have been used (in more or less the same sense) by several writers in multiple settings," Prucher said in an interview. "Thus a word like 'dilithium,' which will be familiar to most people, is not included, since it has little use outside the Star Trek universe, but a word like 'ansible,' which is most often associated with Ursula K. Le Guin's works, is included since other authors have subsequently used the term." Brave New Words is also a historical dictionary, which means that, in addition to the usual dictionary content (definitions, parts of speech, etymologies, etc.), each definition is supported by citations taken from a variety of sources, Prucher said. "These citations play a variety of different roles. One of the chief ones is to show the earliest known use of a term in a given sense. But they can also show how a word has been used over time or be used to indicate variant spellings and even to some extent show when words have been used in non-SF contexts." The dictionary is in many ways an offshoot of an ongoing project of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is actively seeking evidence for words related to science fiction, Prucher said. "The project maintains a Web site that lists all the terms the OED is interested in; anybody is welcome to contribute, and they've collected several thousand citations this way," he said. "I've been involved in the project for some time, first just as an enthusiastic contributor and later as one of the site's administrators." Prucher sees the dictionary as filling several roles, he said. "On the one hand, it is a serious dictionary, and I hope it will be both a valuable contribution to lexicography and to the study of science fiction and popular culture," he said. "On the other hand, I hope that most people will read it at least partly for enjoyment—I think that there is a lot of pleasure to be had in reading through the citations, finding connections between words, maybe being reminded of forgotten works or discovering that a familiar term is older (or newer) than you thought or has unfamiliar meanings." Prucher said it was exciting to realize how much of the language of science fiction has become part of the mainstream language. "Obvious examples are words related to space exploration, like spaceship," he said. "One of my favorites of these, since it refers not to a technology but to a sensation, is 'space-sick,' which was coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1911 but was not actually experienced by a human until 1961." —John Joseph Adams
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Vermsnote: I'm so buying this!
A pair of Stargate SG-1 stories
A third Stargate series?
Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he's developing a third series with the working title Stargate Universe, but remained mum on details. (The project has not yet been picked up by any network, including SCI FI Channel.) "It's being developed," Cooper said in an interview on the Vancouver, Canada, set of the two series. "Not a lot to say at the moment, other than it's ... not the characters from SG-1 or Atlantis. It's a completely third entity. The third series is born of the mythology that's been established." SG-1 will draw to a close after 10 seasons with the episode titled "Unending," airing June 22. Atlantis is currently finishing up its third season and will return with a fourth season later this year. Cooper added that the proposed third series will take place in the present day. "One thing that we think contributes to the success of [all of] the series and the concept behind the series is that it takes place in the here and now. ... It's about us and our age of people dealing with fantastic things, like Stargates and wormholes and aliens. And then there's an identifiable quality to the people in the show. It's not like an antiseptic version of humanity sometime 500 years in the future. [SG-1's] Jack O'Neill [Richard Dean Anderson] was a guy who everybody could relate to, and his reactions to the more fantastic elements of the series were the reactions the average Joe on the street might have." SG-1 and Atlantis executive producer Paul Mullie added: "It's all top secret." Either that, added fellow executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, or "it just hasn't been written yet. I'm not sure which." —Melissa J. Perenson
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Stargate SG-1 direct to DVD movies
Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate SG-1, told SCI FI Wire that the franchise's saga ends and begins anew in the upcoming direct-to-DVD movies Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. The Ark of Truth will wrap up the arc begun in the show's ninth season, which introduced the Ori and their crusade to conquer the galaxy, Cooper said in an interview on SG-1's set in Vancouver, Canada, last week. SG-1 wraps up its 10th and last season on SCI FI on June 22, and some of the story arcs will remain open-ended. "The idea for the first movie [The Ark of Truth] was going to be [the] cliffhanger ending to season 10 and the start of an arc that would have lasted most of season 11, if season 11 had been picked up," Cooper said. "But that didn't happen, and we revised that concept and turned it into the story for the first movie." The second movie, Continuum, will be a stand-alone story conceived by Cooper's fellow executive producer Brad Wright. Wright, who co-created SG-1, leveraged the show's ties with the military for Continuum. "In some respects, Brad's idea evolved out of the fact that the Navy had come to us and said, 'If you ever want to shoot in the Arctic, we'd love to take you up there,'" Cooper said. "'We have a couple of nuclear submarines you could shoot on.' So Brad said, 'Wow, I'm just going to write a movie around that.' We were the first production ever to shoot that far north. It was a pretty cool experience for everyone that went." Cooper paused, then added: "A very cold experience." Stargate SG-1's warm relationship with the U.S. military began in season one, when the producers needed permission to use stock shots of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, which is the home of Stargate Command in the show's fictional universe. Eventually, the military vetted scripts for accuracy, and two chiefs of staff had cameo roles as themselves. "As things progressed, we started to say, 'Hey, send us up a C-130 or a couple of F-18s,'" Cooper said. "There are two F-15s that are parked out at Vancouver airport now that we're shooting in [for Continuum]." Fans mourning the loss of SG-1 after this season can take comfort that the franchise will live on in other ways. "SG-1 ran for 10 successful seasons," Cooper said. "We've ended that run on SCI FI, and now we're continuing the story with those characters. Our DVD packages sell so well that, if the movies sell as well as the series sells, it's going to be a tremendous success. And MGM [which produces the series] will eagerly want more." —Melissa J. Perenson
Source: Sci-fi Wire
William Hurt has joined the all-star cast of Marvel Studios' "The Incredible Hulk." The movie, which Louis Leterrier is directing, sees Bruce Banner/Hulk on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into a monster. Hurt will play Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the man who has dedicated his life to capturing the Hulk -- and who also is the father of Banner's love interest, Betty Ross."Hulk" is shaping up to having one of the stronger comic book movie casts in quite a while as Hurt joins two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton, who is playing Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty and Tim Roth as villain Emil Blonsky/the Abomination. Zak Penn wrote the latest big-screen adventure of the green goliath, which Universal Pictures is distributing.The film is being produced by Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, while Jim Van Wyck, David Maisel, Ari Arad and Stan Lee executive produce. Shooting is slated to begin this summer in Toronto.
Source: HR
Vermsnote: This Hulk sounds like it will be so much better than the last one, which I did like, mostly, but still, let's hope. Plus it has Liv Tyler! Liv=love
Oh wow! A modernized Dante's Inferno by stick animated cardboard cutouts!
You have GOT to check this out. I love Inferno, always have, I've read or seen maybe a dozen versions of it, from the standard high school translation in Brit Lit to the cool graphic novel Sinergy. Check out the trailer and the website, you'll be amazed.
Thanks to twitch for the heads up.
Dragon War
This looks pretty damn cool, dragons fighting in LA. Due out this summer in Japan, should be here not too long afterwards hopefully. It only took The Host a few months to make the leap.
D-war
Science Fiction Dictionary
Editor/lexicographer Jeff Prucher told SCI FI Wire that his book Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction attempts to cover the shared language of science fiction writers, critics and fans—as well as those terms that originated in SF and have subsequently been adopted by mainstream society or other subcultures. "By 'shared language,' I mean those terms that have been used (in more or less the same sense) by several writers in multiple settings," Prucher said in an interview. "Thus a word like 'dilithium,' which will be familiar to most people, is not included, since it has little use outside the Star Trek universe, but a word like 'ansible,' which is most often associated with Ursula K. Le Guin's works, is included since other authors have subsequently used the term." Brave New Words is also a historical dictionary, which means that, in addition to the usual dictionary content (definitions, parts of speech, etymologies, etc.), each definition is supported by citations taken from a variety of sources, Prucher said. "These citations play a variety of different roles. One of the chief ones is to show the earliest known use of a term in a given sense. But they can also show how a word has been used over time or be used to indicate variant spellings and even to some extent show when words have been used in non-SF contexts." The dictionary is in many ways an offshoot of an ongoing project of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is actively seeking evidence for words related to science fiction, Prucher said. "The project maintains a Web site that lists all the terms the OED is interested in; anybody is welcome to contribute, and they've collected several thousand citations this way," he said. "I've been involved in the project for some time, first just as an enthusiastic contributor and later as one of the site's administrators." Prucher sees the dictionary as filling several roles, he said. "On the one hand, it is a serious dictionary, and I hope it will be both a valuable contribution to lexicography and to the study of science fiction and popular culture," he said. "On the other hand, I hope that most people will read it at least partly for enjoyment—I think that there is a lot of pleasure to be had in reading through the citations, finding connections between words, maybe being reminded of forgotten works or discovering that a familiar term is older (or newer) than you thought or has unfamiliar meanings." Prucher said it was exciting to realize how much of the language of science fiction has become part of the mainstream language. "Obvious examples are words related to space exploration, like spaceship," he said. "One of my favorites of these, since it refers not to a technology but to a sensation, is 'space-sick,' which was coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1911 but was not actually experienced by a human until 1961." —John Joseph Adams
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Vermsnote: I'm so buying this!
A pair of Stargate SG-1 stories
A third Stargate series?
Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he's developing a third series with the working title Stargate Universe, but remained mum on details. (The project has not yet been picked up by any network, including SCI FI Channel.) "It's being developed," Cooper said in an interview on the Vancouver, Canada, set of the two series. "Not a lot to say at the moment, other than it's ... not the characters from SG-1 or Atlantis. It's a completely third entity. The third series is born of the mythology that's been established." SG-1 will draw to a close after 10 seasons with the episode titled "Unending," airing June 22. Atlantis is currently finishing up its third season and will return with a fourth season later this year. Cooper added that the proposed third series will take place in the present day. "One thing that we think contributes to the success of [all of] the series and the concept behind the series is that it takes place in the here and now. ... It's about us and our age of people dealing with fantastic things, like Stargates and wormholes and aliens. And then there's an identifiable quality to the people in the show. It's not like an antiseptic version of humanity sometime 500 years in the future. [SG-1's] Jack O'Neill [Richard Dean Anderson] was a guy who everybody could relate to, and his reactions to the more fantastic elements of the series were the reactions the average Joe on the street might have." SG-1 and Atlantis executive producer Paul Mullie added: "It's all top secret." Either that, added fellow executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, or "it just hasn't been written yet. I'm not sure which." —Melissa J. Perenson
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Stargate SG-1 direct to DVD movies
Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate SG-1, told SCI FI Wire that the franchise's saga ends and begins anew in the upcoming direct-to-DVD movies Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. The Ark of Truth will wrap up the arc begun in the show's ninth season, which introduced the Ori and their crusade to conquer the galaxy, Cooper said in an interview on SG-1's set in Vancouver, Canada, last week. SG-1 wraps up its 10th and last season on SCI FI on June 22, and some of the story arcs will remain open-ended. "The idea for the first movie [The Ark of Truth] was going to be [the] cliffhanger ending to season 10 and the start of an arc that would have lasted most of season 11, if season 11 had been picked up," Cooper said. "But that didn't happen, and we revised that concept and turned it into the story for the first movie." The second movie, Continuum, will be a stand-alone story conceived by Cooper's fellow executive producer Brad Wright. Wright, who co-created SG-1, leveraged the show's ties with the military for Continuum. "In some respects, Brad's idea evolved out of the fact that the Navy had come to us and said, 'If you ever want to shoot in the Arctic, we'd love to take you up there,'" Cooper said. "'We have a couple of nuclear submarines you could shoot on.' So Brad said, 'Wow, I'm just going to write a movie around that.' We were the first production ever to shoot that far north. It was a pretty cool experience for everyone that went." Cooper paused, then added: "A very cold experience." Stargate SG-1's warm relationship with the U.S. military began in season one, when the producers needed permission to use stock shots of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, which is the home of Stargate Command in the show's fictional universe. Eventually, the military vetted scripts for accuracy, and two chiefs of staff had cameo roles as themselves. "As things progressed, we started to say, 'Hey, send us up a C-130 or a couple of F-18s,'" Cooper said. "There are two F-15s that are parked out at Vancouver airport now that we're shooting in [for Continuum]." Fans mourning the loss of SG-1 after this season can take comfort that the franchise will live on in other ways. "SG-1 ran for 10 successful seasons," Cooper said. "We've ended that run on SCI FI, and now we're continuing the story with those characters. Our DVD packages sell so well that, if the movies sell as well as the series sells, it's going to be a tremendous success. And MGM [which produces the series] will eagerly want more." —Melissa J. Perenson
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Sunday, June 3, 2007
A long time ago in a far out family
OMG, check out this echoey recording of the Star Wars Family Guy episode released at Star Wars Celebration IV
Episode IV
A NEW HOPE
It is a time of civil war,
and renegade paragraphs
floating through space.
There's cool space battles,
and the bad guy is the good
guy's dad, but you don't find
that out 'till the next episode.
And the hot chick is really
the sister of the good guy,
but they don't know it, and
they kiss. Which is kind of
messed up. I mean what if
they had done it instead of
just kissed?
Angelina Jolie kissed her
brother. Yeah she did it. You
know it, I know it and her
dad knows it. That's why
they hardly ever talk
anymore.You can run away
to Africa but you can't run
away from the truth.
Oh, by the way, here's a tip
for you; when this is over, go
out and rent the movie
"Gia."She's way naked in it,
and makes out with another
chick and everything. It's
awesome. I stumbled across
it late night on HBO after I
just got back from hockey,
and I almost fainted. But I
digress...
Princess Leia was coming
back from buying space
groceries when this
happened...
Monday, May 28, 2007
The Nightly Nerdlinger News
Time to kick this sucker into gear.
Back over the winter I had a thread at Hobietopia called The Nightly Nerdlinger News. Basically I scoured the internet for news of note to geeks and nerds; news about science fiction, fantasy, anime and even horror, be it movies, television, books, games or comics. I had a lot of fun doing it and it was pretty well received but I got tired of the amount of time it took to compile. Well, I've decided that I'm going to get back into it here. While I may not be able to keep it up nightly, I'll at least update 3 or 4 times a week. Weekends are typically slow news times anyway so I'll mostly update during the week. So those of you that enjoyed my nerdly updates can look forward to them again.
So without further ado, let's get geeky!
Silver Develops He-Man
FilmProducer Joel Silver is developing a new film version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Warner Brothers, working with toymaker Mattel, Variety reported. Justin Marks is set to write the script.Mattel, which owns the toy-based franchise, must approve an outline for the project. He-Man was born as a Mattel action figure, and the toymaker created an animated series in hopes of selling dolls. The series became a cult favorite and a campy 1987 movie that starred Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella. The toymaker, which now licenses He-Man for high-end merchandise sold to hardcore collectors, has been wary of going Hollywood again. An attempt by Fox 2000 to make another movie, this time with director John Woo, ended in futility as the toymaker didn't spark to the screen plans, the trade paper reported.The franchise has been reimagined by the producer and the writers and pitched to Mattel as a classic good-vs.-evil battle, using the kind of visual effects strategy employed in 300. A warrior is touted as the last hope of a magical land called Eternia, which is being ravaged by technology and the evil Skeletor.
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Vermsnote: Just a little more on what I had reported earlier. Should be a much grittier He-man this time around.
Dead's Hall Joins Knight
Anthony Michael Hall (USA Network's The Dead Zone) told the Los Angeles Daily News that he has a role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins. Hall won't say what it is."I signed a confidentiality agreement, and I can't say which part I'm playing because it affects the story," Hall told the newspaper. "I can't give away the suspense—it's a $200 million surprise, and I don't want to be the guy to ruin it."Hall added: "I'm excited about it. Christian Bale [is] back as Batman. Heath Ledger is joining the cast as the Joker. Of course, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine return, and they're great."Hall is currently shooting the sixth season of The Dead Zone, which returns to USA on June 17. The TV series cast and crew bent over backward for him to be in London for the first day of Dark Knight earlier this month, he said. "My crew agreed to take a three-day weekend so I could fly Friday to go to London," Hall said. "It was just a thrill. I felt like a rock star leaving the set, flying to London, going to shoot on a Saturday, you know? ... My crew really gave me a gift, because they had to all vote union-wise to agree to not take a day's pay to help me out. I felt very honored that they did that for me."Hall is not scheduled to resume shooting the movie until August, after The Dead Zone wraps. (USA is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Vermsnote: Man! who's Hall going to play? Has to be someone early in Batmans career. You know who I'd like to see? Soloman Grundy.
Rodriguez To Helm Barbarella
Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse) has signed on to direct Barbarella, a new film adaptation of the classic SF comic-book series that Universal Pictures is fast-tracking for a 2008 worldwide release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The character was immortalized in a 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda. Dino De Laurentiis, who produced the original film, will produce the update with Martha De Laurentiis.Barbarella tells the story of a female mercenary who roams across the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require physical fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality. The character debuted in 1962 in a French graphic magazine written and illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest and was known for her many adventures, often involving sex. There also was a musical produced in 2004.Rodriguez is working with writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Casino Royale), who are developing a completely original adventure for Barbarella. Rodriguez's coming on board puts to rest questions about what the in-demand director would do next, including The Jetsons at Warner Brothers and Land of the Lost at Universal. (Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Neuromancer Headed For Film?
William Gibson's cyberpunk SF classic Neuromancer is heading for the big screen in an independent production from producer-distributor Peter Hoffman, Variety reported.The $70 million movie is being fast-tracked to replace the Paul Verhoeven project The Winter Queen, the trade paper reported.Joseph Kahn, a commercials director who made Torque, has signed to direct.Hoffman's company, Seven Arts, made no formal announcement about the project. Hoffman discussed the project with the trade paper from his yacht at the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Heroes Flies To DVD In August
NBC's Heroes comes to DVD and HD DVD when the entire first season of the hit series arrives in stores Aug. 28 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The seven-disc DVD set has several bonus features, including five featurettes and more than 50 deleted scenes. The set also includes the extended, 73-minute cut of the pilot, from creator Tim Kring, which never aired on television. The DVD version carries a suggested retail price of $59.98. (NBC and Universal Studios Home Entertainment are owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Scorce: Sci-fi Wire
So tonight just the stuff from one main site that's good for general mainstream stuff. Over the next week I'll feature more esoteric stuff from foriegn sites, Anime sites and horror fan sites.
Back over the winter I had a thread at Hobietopia called The Nightly Nerdlinger News. Basically I scoured the internet for news of note to geeks and nerds; news about science fiction, fantasy, anime and even horror, be it movies, television, books, games or comics. I had a lot of fun doing it and it was pretty well received but I got tired of the amount of time it took to compile. Well, I've decided that I'm going to get back into it here. While I may not be able to keep it up nightly, I'll at least update 3 or 4 times a week. Weekends are typically slow news times anyway so I'll mostly update during the week. So those of you that enjoyed my nerdly updates can look forward to them again.
So without further ado, let's get geeky!
Silver Develops He-Man
FilmProducer Joel Silver is developing a new film version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Warner Brothers, working with toymaker Mattel, Variety reported. Justin Marks is set to write the script.Mattel, which owns the toy-based franchise, must approve an outline for the project. He-Man was born as a Mattel action figure, and the toymaker created an animated series in hopes of selling dolls. The series became a cult favorite and a campy 1987 movie that starred Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella. The toymaker, which now licenses He-Man for high-end merchandise sold to hardcore collectors, has been wary of going Hollywood again. An attempt by Fox 2000 to make another movie, this time with director John Woo, ended in futility as the toymaker didn't spark to the screen plans, the trade paper reported.The franchise has been reimagined by the producer and the writers and pitched to Mattel as a classic good-vs.-evil battle, using the kind of visual effects strategy employed in 300. A warrior is touted as the last hope of a magical land called Eternia, which is being ravaged by technology and the evil Skeletor.
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Vermsnote: Just a little more on what I had reported earlier. Should be a much grittier He-man this time around.
Dead's Hall Joins Knight
Anthony Michael Hall (USA Network's The Dead Zone) told the Los Angeles Daily News that he has a role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins. Hall won't say what it is."I signed a confidentiality agreement, and I can't say which part I'm playing because it affects the story," Hall told the newspaper. "I can't give away the suspense—it's a $200 million surprise, and I don't want to be the guy to ruin it."Hall added: "I'm excited about it. Christian Bale [is] back as Batman. Heath Ledger is joining the cast as the Joker. Of course, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine return, and they're great."Hall is currently shooting the sixth season of The Dead Zone, which returns to USA on June 17. The TV series cast and crew bent over backward for him to be in London for the first day of Dark Knight earlier this month, he said. "My crew agreed to take a three-day weekend so I could fly Friday to go to London," Hall said. "It was just a thrill. I felt like a rock star leaving the set, flying to London, going to shoot on a Saturday, you know? ... My crew really gave me a gift, because they had to all vote union-wise to agree to not take a day's pay to help me out. I felt very honored that they did that for me."Hall is not scheduled to resume shooting the movie until August, after The Dead Zone wraps. (USA is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Vermsnote: Man! who's Hall going to play? Has to be someone early in Batmans career. You know who I'd like to see? Soloman Grundy.
Rodriguez To Helm Barbarella
Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse) has signed on to direct Barbarella, a new film adaptation of the classic SF comic-book series that Universal Pictures is fast-tracking for a 2008 worldwide release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The character was immortalized in a 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda. Dino De Laurentiis, who produced the original film, will produce the update with Martha De Laurentiis.Barbarella tells the story of a female mercenary who roams across the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require physical fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality. The character debuted in 1962 in a French graphic magazine written and illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest and was known for her many adventures, often involving sex. There also was a musical produced in 2004.Rodriguez is working with writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Casino Royale), who are developing a completely original adventure for Barbarella. Rodriguez's coming on board puts to rest questions about what the in-demand director would do next, including The Jetsons at Warner Brothers and Land of the Lost at Universal. (Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Neuromancer Headed For Film?
William Gibson's cyberpunk SF classic Neuromancer is heading for the big screen in an independent production from producer-distributor Peter Hoffman, Variety reported.The $70 million movie is being fast-tracked to replace the Paul Verhoeven project The Winter Queen, the trade paper reported.Joseph Kahn, a commercials director who made Torque, has signed to direct.Hoffman's company, Seven Arts, made no formal announcement about the project. Hoffman discussed the project with the trade paper from his yacht at the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: Sci-fi Wire
Heroes Flies To DVD In August
NBC's Heroes comes to DVD and HD DVD when the entire first season of the hit series arrives in stores Aug. 28 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The seven-disc DVD set has several bonus features, including five featurettes and more than 50 deleted scenes. The set also includes the extended, 73-minute cut of the pilot, from creator Tim Kring, which never aired on television. The DVD version carries a suggested retail price of $59.98. (NBC and Universal Studios Home Entertainment are owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
Scorce: Sci-fi Wire
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