Posted on 15 June 2009 by Brent Hartinger, Editor
- Shia LaBeouf says that Steven Spielberg is apparently working on an Indiana Jones 5, wherein Harrison Ford supposedly “passes the torch” to Shia (as was obvious in the last movie). I don’t have a problem with this, but I do have a request: please keep George Lucas far, far away from the screenplay.
- It seems that Joss Whedon did get asked to participate in the new would-be Buffy movie franchise (that won’t include any of the supporting characters from the TV show), but he turned them down. This actually strikes me as a good call.
- Lots of great new photos from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction being built at Universal Studios Orlando. They’re clearly shelling out some serious cash.
Publishers Weekly profiles C.C. Finley, author of The Prodigal Troll and the Traitor to the Crown series. With his new historical fantasy series set during the American Revolution that begins with The Patriot Witch, “I immersed myself in magic sources from the period, everything from witchcraft trial records to grimoires [homemade books of spells], and I cherry-picked the most useful material,” he says. “A lot of modern fantasy tends to treat magic as a science. I wanted to do something more organic.”
- Speaking of amusement parks, apparently Disneyland is having some problems with their “Maleficent” dragon, part of their revamped Fantasmic show (called Nightastic). But the dragon-less show will go on!
- Nicolas Cage did not — we repeat, he did not — hire a voodoo priestess to break the curse that is supposedly plaguing the set of the new live-action version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
- The new Neverending Story movie? A big fat maybe, says producer Frank Marshall.
- After a strong start, summer movie box office is suddenly sluggish (with two fantasy-esque films, Imagine That and Land of the Lost outright tanking — for reasons that have nothing to do with their genre, I hasten to add). Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, opening July 15th, should turn things around a bit.
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