• There’s a wild rumor going around that Universal and Disney are thinking about creating a theme park based around Lord of the Rings. But /film asks an important question – who would go? Theme parks are built around families and children, and Mordor is cool, but is it kid-friendly? [Editor's Note: Are they kidding?! Me and 500 million geeks would go -- repeatedly!]

• R.I.P.D. is looking to make the jump to the big screen, and the rumor is they want Ryan Reynolds as the lead character, Nick Cruz. He gets murdered, but gets a chance for justice in exchange for 100 years of service in a form of divine law enforcement. It’s unclear how Reynolds would find time with the two Green Lantern sequels – rumor is he’s being forced to drop out of Deadpool.

• Joe Dempsie, most famous for playing Chris in the first two seasons of Skins, has been cast in HBO’s Game of Thrones as the armorer’s apprentice Gendry.

• We’ve got a new troll-centric trailer available for the Lord of the Rings: War In the North game. The graphics look a little preliminary, but hey, it’s trolls – they aren’t supposed to be pretty!

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has confirmed the splitting point. I’m not going to spoil the story point, but I will say it’s chapter 24 – if you get spoiled at the link, that’s on you.

• Also on the Harry Potter front, Entertainment Weekly has Rupert Grint and Emma Watson on the cover, and promises secrets inside.

• Narnia.com continues to launch new content. Now you can land the Dawn Treader on Magician’s Island, explore, and play games. It sounds like there are tricks to making it work, so head on over for tips.

• Adam McKay says his gritty, hard-R adaptation of The Boys might shoot in 3D, if the story calls for it. But it won’t be a conversion.

• There’s little doubt the superhero genre has contributed mightily to geekdom. Now Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics brings the history of the characters and the men who created them to life. It’s narrated by Ryan Reynolds.

• Nobody from Harry Potter showed up to Comic-Con (and no one was supposed to), and people were upset. Now James and Oliver Phelps are going to bring their Weasley mischief to Dragon-Con.

• Fantasy fans who live in Seattle have lucked out: Harry Potter the Exhibition will finish its tour at the Pacific Science Center October 23 to January 30^th.

• Daniel Radcliffe says he kept three pairs of glasses from the Harry Potter films as souvenirs. Of course he also claims he’s chasing girls, but getting very few responses, so we also know he lies. For all we know, he kept the Hogwarts Express train engine.

• I’m not completely sure of the details of Outcast from the trailer – I know there’s a beast, and there appears to be some symbology-based magic, but the setting is the modern world. It’s got a loose release date of “winter 2010.”

• The latest set of rumors, being fed by the Wall Street Journal, are that Spyglass Entertainment is nearing a deal to run MGM, and the debt will be converted to stock for the creditors. This would get the studio back to making movies, including James Bond and The Hobbit.

• While my movie plans this weekend are for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, people who have dates are probably going to see Eat Pray Love with Julia Roberts. I pity them. It would be more interesting this way though.

That’s it folks, have a great weekend!

As you know by now — what with the nine-point Richter scale fanboy squeal that detonated this time last week — the first Scott Pilgrim vs. The World trailer has finally dropped.

The film follows the “seven evil exes” arc from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s stellar graphic novels, and since I have not yet been afflicted with Michael Cera backlash, I loved it — especially the part where Mae Whitman’s Roxie Richter tells Scott Pilgrim that she’s going to kill him. (It was like the Bland Ann Veal/George Michael Bluth fisticuffs I always wanted! Remember when they were almost pre-engaged!)

It’s actually endearing how Scott Pilgrim fights Ramona’s former flames to win her affection, but as I was watching the trailer I realized that if Scott Pilgrim and/or Michael Cera were ever called upon to battle the worst fantasy ex-boyfriends and/or girlfriends, they would be toast.

With that in mind, my best friends and I made a list of the ten worst fantasy exes.

Jean Grey/Phoenix, X-Men: The Last Stand — In the third X-Men movie, a grieving Cyclops discovered that his girlfriend had risen from the dead, and was infinitely hotter than she had been in her first life. (That hair! My God!) He was overjoyed when he found her there by the lake, but then she kissed him and his head literally exploded. (She tried the same thing with another X-Man later on, but Hugh Jackman’s deltoids Wolverine’s willpower was too strong for her.)

Merope Gaunt, Harry Potter — Things with your ex-girlfriend are always going to be awkward, especially when the child you fathered while under the spell of her love potion decides to murder you and your new family in the genocide he spawns while he’s on his quest for immortality. Oh, also: It’s hard to remember when you ever thought it was cute that she spoke Snake.

Jill Roberts, Chuck — It wasn’t enough for Jill to break Chuck’s heart in college by leaving him for his best friend. Noooo, then she had to show up in his life years later as a triple-agent with designs to either: a) turn him over to the bad guys, b) kill him dead c) woo him into re-falling in love with her or d) break-up him and his soul mate. She almost accomplished all of the above. Unfortunately, brown-eyed/brown-haired women are my Kryptonite. So, I get it. But I don’t like it.

Darth Vader, Star Wars — Slashing innocent children to death with a lightsaber? Not exactly what I’d call “boyfriend material.” But once Padmé was out of the picture, things got even worse! Anakin quickly became a heavy-breather with a penchant for trying to kill his own son. And how about when he almost let his children fall in love with one another? Not cool, Vader. Incest is not cool.

Lex Luthor, Lois and Clark — In the first season finale of the Greatest Superhero Show of Our Generation, Lois stared at herself in the mirror in her wedding dress and practiced saying her new name: “Mrs. Lex Luthor. Lois Lane Luthor. Lois … Lois Lane … Lois Lane Kent.” Mr. Lex Luthor? Not so much a fan of her attachment to the name Kent. He even came back from the dead to prove just how much he hated it.

Boomer, Battlestar Galactica — Shot an admiral? Check. Joined the Cylons? Check. Had tricky-pretending-to-be-someone-else-adultery-sex? Check. Kidnapped children? Check. My best BSG buddy chose Boomer over Gaius and/or Six for all of those reasons, even though Gaius and Six did “so much bad things together.”

Frances ‘Frankie’ Kane, The Flash — Superheroes always have complicated love lives, but as soon as Wally West evolved from Kid Flash into The Flash, Frances walked out on him. Maybe if she’d stayed, she wouldn’t have gotten hypnotized into being Magenta. And maybe she wouldn’t have gotten her father’s demon soul implanted into her. It was always the blame game with Frankie Kane. She needs some serious therapy. And a new brain.

Zoebot, Caprica — Every date can’t be canoodling on a canopy bed floating on a pristine lake surrounded by rose petals. Or, you know, flying Vipers. But you’d hope your girlfriend might remember those good times when you want to burn her soul off her meta-cognitive processor. But not Zoebot. She came unhinged, flung her ex-boyfriend across the room, and cracked his skull. Apocalypse anyone?

Rolf, The Sound of Music — I know what you’re thinking: The Sound of Music is not fantasy, Heather Hogan! Well, why don’t you trek on over to Wikipedia and find out about the real von Trapp family (spoiler alert: Sister Maria pregnant out of wedlock!) and then tell me the musical isn’t fantasy. And so let’s talk about Rolf. I hated him from the moment he started that condescending “you need someone older and wiser” song-and-dance, but when he blew his whistle on Liesel and the whole von Trapp Family, well, that was just way over the line. I’ll take care of you, Rolf — with a swift kick to the Nazi sack.

Gollum, Lord of the Rings — There are exes who want to kill you, to kill your new partner, to blow up the whole world. And yes, that’s annoying — but then there are exes who just can’t let go. They hole up in caves and lose all sense of personal hygiene and before you know it, they’re walking on all-fours and muttering into the dark about “their precious” this and “their precious” that. That’s not just irritating; it’s downright menacing. We hates it. Tricksy little exes!

Thanks to Joe, Ashley, Kat, Abigail and Jennie for helping me make this list!

• Best of both worlds? The Spider-man team met with the Avatar team to discuss filming the next episode of the webslinger saga in 3-D.

• Speaking of Avatar, here’s a fun little story about how the power of love changed the ending of one particular screening of the movie on Valentine’s Day.

• And in case this just wasn’t enough Avatar news for you blue-cat-monkey-people lovers, James Cameron is planning to write a prequel to the blockbuster … in the form of a novel.

• In the never-ending avalanche of both remakes and franchises, this article speaks of the efforts to turn Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein novels into a series of films. Anyone excited about this? Hands?

• I know everyone out there is just dying for more vampire stories, something our culture is almost completely deprived of, so thank the powers that be that The Vampire Diaries has been picked up for another season. The article is informative, but I found calling the CW the “C-Dub” and the show’s performance its “perf” to be just on this side of obnoxious.

• And while we’re on the subject of vampires (don’t you love these segues?), here’s another potential 3-D story for you. Turns out that the masterminds behind the Twilight saga are trying to figure out if they want to project Taylor Lautner’s glorious six-pack abs into the third dimension.

• What’s that, you say? Can’t get enough of Megan Fox’s bust? Well, neither can a lot of people, but fortunately, you can soon own it when these busts are released as a tie-in to the Jonah Hex movie. Horndogs everywhere, you’re welcome.

• I’ll just own this: Lord of the Rings is my favorite fantasy story of all time, and I own all the various incarnations of DVD’s, including the pretty craptastic Ralph Bakshi cartoon. LOTR was the book/movie/video game series that made me a fantasy fanboy, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Therefore, I get majorly psyched when someone with the same love in their hearts busts out the elbow grease and makes a fan film such as Born of Hope. May I suggest a trip to their website? The trailer is below: