Posted on 02 December 2009
Tags: Dan Abnett, Frankenweenie, Harlan Ellison, News, Stephen King, The Hobbit, The Shining, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Torchwood
- 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”
