- Hey, a movie based on Mistborn is in the works! And author Brandon Sanderson is actually optimistic that it might get made.
- The Vatican has come out strongly against Avatar, because it presents “nature-worship.” Sadly, I think this (a) completely misses the point of the movie, and (b) is just more of their usual “man is the center of the universe” nonsense. Expect them to denounce The Force soon too.
Everyone else is posting it, so I might as well: Star Wars burlesque — and Leia in the metal bikini is the least of it! The whole photo gallery here.
- Yes, I’m deliberately ignoring the whole Spider-Man fiasco. Everyone here knows what I think about sequels and “reboots,” especially in the superhero genre (cynical and unbelievably tired). You know what? There’s no Constitutional amendment that says that there must always be a “current” franchise for all these characters! Every time you retell one of these stories for the 30,000th time, that means there’s one more newer, fresher story that won’t get told. (Well, hey, I guess I didn’t ignore it after all.)
- It’s not fantasy-specific, but an interesting short piece on how all authors repeat themselves, but some outright recycle (*cough* John Irving *cough*).
- As I read this, it sounds like Buena Vista will release a soundtrack for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and another CD, Almost Alice, with the movie’s theme song and a bunch of other songs by familiar artists “inspired” by the characters in the movie (although the music doesn’t actually exist in the movie). This is either brilliant or cynical, depending on your point-of-view.
- Speaking of unnecessary sequels, Ivan Reitman will direct Ghostbusters 3. More bad news? The screenplay is by the writers of the painfully unfunny Year One.
- This interview with J.J. Abrams about Fringe, about how they’re still trying to decide the series’ overall story arc (and if, like Lost, it should have a definite “ending”), seems to be missing one crucial point: ratings have been lousy all season, and it may not be their choice when the show ends.
- Do you think D&D 4.0 is bland and homogeneous — that they tried to turn it into World of Warcraft? One blogger has a solution.
- I honestly thought this was a joke, but I guess it’s not: Christopher “Saruman” Lee (seen in the From the Palantir logo, above!) is releasing a “symphonic metal” album. Shades of Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?
- It’s official: Clash of the Titans won’t be 3-D. The glasses make my ears hurt anyway.
- The incredible shrinking sci-fi project! First, it was a series, then it was a mini-series, now it’s a two-hour movie! Poor Day One. If it does well, it could still be a series, but let’s face it: this (along with poor ratings for Heroes, Fringe, Flash Forward, and other shows) does not bode well for sci-fi on network TV.
- Are The Chronicles of Narnia being de-Christianed? The right-wing news outlet The Washington Times thinks so. But given how outrageously biased everything I read in that newspaper is — think Fox “News” without even Shepherd Smith — I am skeptical of anything they say.
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Oh Em Gee. I need some acid to put in my eyes after looking at those burlesque pictures. I don’t know why I clicked to look. I knew I shouldn’t have. And it’s not like I’m offended by boobies with tassels (you’ve been warned). I think it’s more the association of some of my favourite characters to it.
I like burlesque, and I like Star Wars, but they just don’t mix well. Gah.
That said, I’m SUPER excited by the idea of Mistborn being a movie. Done well, it’ll be fantastic. A little part of me wants to be skeptical, but we’ll see.
In respect of Spider-man, I think Sony *must* make movies every [X] years in order to retain the licence rights. Otherwise the licence rights would revert back to Marvel/Disney which means Sony would lose a major money maker.
I think there is a similar situation with some of the other Marvel characters like Hulk, Fantastic Four and maybe Daredevil. There’s been talk of a Fantastic Four reboot for a while (and I’m pretty sure that was the reasoning behind the rather terrible, but in a highly amusing way, F4 film from the 90s).
It is wrong that I’m kind of looking forward to Ghostbusters 3. At least, at this early stage I am. It’s the Ghostbusters - how badly can they ruin those characters? Actually, don’t answer that.