- Sigh. The filming of The Hobbit has reportedly been delayed (again!), and the studio has still not even greenlit the project. It’s like they’re saying, “What’s that? You have a machine that’ll print us billions of dollars? Yeah, okay, but we’re kinda busy right now. Maybe in three years, okay?”
Meanwhile, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has wrapped, and here are some pics from the film.
- Worst. Job. Interview. Ever. Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison says he’d “jump at the chance” to work on the Star Trek reboot, but that they’d have to pay him a lot of money, and oh, yeah, he’s spent the last few decades suing the Star Trek rights holders for work he did on previous incarnations.
- The voice-casting notices for the animated remake of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie are out, and it’s clearly going to be very different from the original short film.
- Most. Unsurprising. News. Ever. Breaking Dawn, the next Twilight book, will be split into two movies. First, The Hobbit, then Deathly Hallows — it’s clearly a trend. The thing is, I see no reason why each chapter of Breaking Dawn couldn’t be its own movie (I’m kidding).
- An interview with Dan Abnett, where he discusses making it as a writer of speculative fiction: “I think there’s a very fine line between innovation and commerciality in any market. In SF, particularly at the most marketable end of it, you want to try and walk that very fine line between identifying current popular trends and ‘flavors’, and not producing a bad reheat of something that’s doing well. There’s no simple formula — I wish there was.”
- First, it was “werewolves,” then it was “angels” that were supposed to be the next big trend. Now word is that “aliens” are poised to be the next “vampire.” (Incredibly, there are already at least 27 alien-themed movie projects in the works!)
- Who should play God on Supernatural (assuming they cast Him)?
- Torchwood is back for another 13-episode season. After the sloppy, horribly-written ending for “Children of the Earth,” I’m not sure I care.
- Stephen King is writing a sequel to The Shining, about Danny Torrance, the now-40-year-old son from the original book. “Maybe if I keep talking about it I won’t have to write it,” he told fans at a recent reading.
- The next next NEXT Harry Potter is Beautiful Creatures, the first in a five-book series being published today. Warner Brothers has the movie in development.
- I refuse to pretend it’s news that Daniel Radcliffe will be naked and embracing Emma Watson in Ron’s Deathly Hallows movie “vision”
Or does no one remember a movie called Independence Day? (and the legion of imitators that spawned!)
Regarding who should play God on Supernatural: a great many fans are behind the idea of Joss Whedon doing the role. After all, who better to play God than the God of Geekdom himself? :-)
And as for Torchwood: RTD really peeved me with the end of COE so it will take a fantastic trailer or some very cool leaked spoilers to entice me back to a fourth season of Torchwood.
And aliens are the next vampires? Been there, done that. Or does no one remember a movie called Independence Day? (and the legion of imitators that spawned!)
Breakin Dawn split into two movies–what the frak!!! There is absolutely no need. Wow. Talk about money grubbing. (I can’t deny, though, that I’ll go see them).
I love the idea of Jeffrey Dean Morgan as God on Supernatural. That would be awesome.
Harlen Ellison–Pompous a**. I won’t deny he is talented and he did write the best episode of any Star Trek series ever (City on the Edge of Forever), but give me a break. Even if they did hire him, he’ll just b*tch and moan that they made changes to his script and sue again.
Torchwood–Yay!! Yeah, I know a lot of people didn’t like CoE but I did. Sure it wasn’t perfect and the ending wasn’t as strong as I would have liked but I still loved the entire thing. I’m really excited that they are going back to the normal 13 episode format for next season (even without Ianto who I am still mourning). I need to email some friends this great news.
Re: God on Supernatural
I’m hoping they go with something other than an older white guy for “god”. Betty White as “god” would be great. Or Dakota Fanning (if she’s willing to appear in “New Moon”, then appearing in “Supernatural” would certainly be a step-up in the right direction). Or just someone other than the stock-standard depiction.
Of course, with their whole Dean = Michael, Sam = Lucifer thing, it would make sense for “god” to be played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. They’ve wanted him back on the series for a long time and playing “god” is something most actors won’t get to do in their careers, so that may entice JDM back. It would make sense from a story perspective and it would be great to see JDM back (even if he was playing a different character), so I’d be pretty happy if that happened.
Re: Torchwood
I thought I was the only person who considered the ending of COE to be “sloppy and horribly-written”. I thought the quality of the episodes declined with each subsequent episode and I was really surprised at the rather horrible ending (although, I shouldn’t have been that surprised since RTD is quite good at the “set-up”, but always seems to flounder when it comes to the ending).
Of course, Stephen Moffat’s “everyone lives happily ever after” type endings are equally annoying, even if he is slightly better at setting up the pieces. So, there may not be a huge improvement when it comes to the “epic finales” now that SM is in charge.