• It’s been a good week for Browncoats (or Firefly fans). Castle is on a role, so is Chuck. Alan Tudyk was just cast in the reboot of The Rockford Files, and now comes news that Sean Maher and Jewel Staite have an upcoming storyline on the mystical SyFy Warehouse 13 season coming up.

• MTV says that actor/comedian Patton Oswalt is prepping a one-shot comic with a new chapter to the Firefly story called Serenity: Float Out. It will center around a group of Wash’s friends getting together to christen a new ship.

• I suppose I can’t avoid it any longer – the trailer for Twilight: Eclipse has hit the interwebs, and other than a few more long, angsty pans, the only major additions I see are Dakota Fanning and her backup singers (whoops – that’s The Runaways). You can watch, or just catch the boss’ review of the teaser.

• Need to clear the taste of that from your mouth? How about 9 Lame Vampires Still Cooler Than the Vampires in Twilight? Personally, 3-year-old me found Count von Count terrifying.

• Casting is underway for Men In Black 3. This is totally unnecessary. Current names tossed into the hat are Josh Brolin and Sacha Baron Cohen, plus Flight of the Conchords‘ Jermaine Clement. Why can’t a tentacled green alien come up from the subway and eat me instead?

• I’d talk about casting for Captain America, but every time I pause writing to check my browser, there’s another name in the mix. With all these guys they’ve considered, they could have cast all of The Avengers and Ultimate Avengers as well.

• Charles Stross wrote a delightfully quirky pair of books that take place in The Laundry, which is kind of like the British Secret Service for dealing with the occult. Now it’s being turned into a roleplaying video game called, naturally, The Laundry.

• The creators behind the very odd and original Being Human have turned their attention to a new show for BBC One based around superheroes. Not a lot is known at this point, but it does sound like it takes place on a world similar to Earth, but not quite. The “not quite” part won’t be obvious in the beginning — which, let’s face it, is intriguing.

• Speaking of British things, there’s a new trailer for Robin Hood out, and it looks possibly worse than Twilight: Eclipse (see, I have a running theme). I don’t remember any epic battles of thousands of knights battling for the king’s throne in the versions I’ve read (OK, watched the Disney cartoon). It’s included here for you to mock, plus it has knights and castles and battles on horseback, so it almost fits.

• Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts has agreed to star in Roger Corman’s Sharktopus for Syfy. I hope he plays the sane guy that saves the day, because he doesn’t look crazy enough to invent a sharktopus.

• Speaking of Sharktopus, if you recall a few columns back I said I wanted SyFy to make Pirahneagle because it was the most terrifying thing I could imagine. A bunch of you jumped in with other great suggestions. We’ve all been one upped, because someone else came up with a list that while lamer than ours, had Photoshop applied to create the beasts. But seriously – Wolfoenix looks like a gay pride mascot.

• Most people have a reaction to the name J. Michael Straczynski. He created Babylon 5, which people either think is better than Star Wars, or dumber than Twilight. I don’t know how to react to the news he’s taking over both Superman and Wonder Woman comics.

• I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe Box of Shadows. It’s about a 15^th century steampunk coffin that lets live people play ghost. But like any good Final Destination rip-off, death isn’t amused they just want to play dead and wants them to stay dead. Still, the box is kind of neat.

• Night of the Living Trekkies is headed your way from the publisher of Pride, Prejudice and Zombies. It’s been described as “Galaxy Quest meets Dawn of the Dead” which is either the most terrifying thing I’ve ever heard, or the most brilliant. Head over to the link to see Zombie Spock.

• Christopher Nolan did a long interview with the Los Angeles Times that they pitched as being about Inception’s dream thieves, Dark Knight, and Superman. As far as I can tell, all they said is the equivalent of “we know what we’re doing.” No details of any of it emerged other than Superman is a reboot, and Dark Knight 3 is an epilogue. If anybody else finds more content than that, put it in the comments.

• The latest analysis over at the always cynical TVbytheNumbers.com has the ratings for Legend of the Seeker up slightly, but not a ton. Needless to say, they have the show on deathwatch.

• Robert Englund has the most ridiculous looking horror/comedy micro-budget film in the works called The Moleman of Belmont Avenue. This has camp classic, Troma-should’ve-done-it written all over it, and I can’t think of a better way to start the weekend.

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