- After surviving an expected shut-down a year ago, Realms of Fantasy, the fantasy magazine, is finally no more: a victim of the bad economy and (I would add) a radically changed media landscape.
- The man who played “Boy” in the Tarzan movies has died. Needless to say, at 79, he was no longer a boy.
- Remember that cool trailer we had for that Norwegian movie Troll Hunter a few weeks back? The film has found world-wide distribution for 2011.
Sigourney Weaver talks about the Alien 5 she wanted to make: go to the planet of the Aliens. Duh! I’ve been saying this for twenty years!
- Really cool “fantasy” pumpkins (right)! (Plus, instructions on how to carve the “Death Star”.)
- I’m never as excited about “deleted scenes” as other people seem to be (they always seem to me to have been deleted for a reason!), but here’s one from Avatar.
- Glee is doing a Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed ep, and now the show’s creator, Ryan Murphy, might re-make the movie.
- Now Anne Hathaway and James Franco are reportedly interested in the back-on-track Alien prequel.
- Daniel Radcliffe wants to play Sirius Black or Dumbledore in the inevitable Harry Potter remakes many years from now.
- Fifteen fantasy or sci-fi novels that publishers repeatedly rejected. Wow, a couple of my all-time favorites, including Left Hand of Darkness, Dune, and Octavia Butler’s first book.
- Oh, Lord, a movie based on the Ouija Board. That’s it, no story yet, just somehow “based on” the game. That’s like saying a movie “based on a handkerchief.”
- Not a good sign: ABC has reduced its order for new eps of V.
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It greatly angers me that Glee is desecrating– I mean, covering– Rocky Horror songs. If a bunch of square Glee viewers start coming to RH shows just because of Glee, I’m going to be gravely disappointed. A remake would pretty much destroy all my faith in humanity. Seriously, leave RHPS to be its wicked, fabulous self.
(Also: it makes me immensely happy that RHPS is mentioned on this site. It is sci-fi after all!)
Weavers’ idea Aliens 5 sounds great.
I’d happily watch an older Ripley kicking azz. If Helen Mirren can kick azz in Red, then surely the cinema’s first lady of kick azz, the one and only Weaver, can continue kicking azz for as long as she wants to.
The rumoured casting for the Alien prequel is ridiculously good. Portman. Franco. Hathaway. Etc. The script must be something amazing if these talented people are truly interested in being cast.
Glee’s Rocky Horror sounds far, far too sanitised. Of course, I’ll still be tuning in, but it will be a shame to see all the “shock” value of the original removed.