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Trek-ulation begins

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  • February 28, 2007

Paramount has announced the next Star Trek movie (number XI, for those of you counting Roman-style) will premiere on Christmas Day 2008, no doubt delighting many Jewish Trekkers, as going to the movies on December 25 is almost as popular among Jews as going out for Chinese food.

Eleven is  being helmed by fan favorite director J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, etc.) and speculation has already started as to what actors will be chosen to play younger versions of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and so forth, since the screenplay from M:I 3 writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci is said to follow those familiar characters during their Starfleet Academy years and into their first space mission.  If Abrams & co. are smart, they’ll go with unknowns.  If they’re smarter they’ll hold and publicize open auditions.

Meanwhile, Saw IV director Darren Lynn Bousman is said to be remaking Scanners, scripted by another fan favorite and sometimes comic writer, David Goyer.  That should be coming out right around the same time.

The twelve levels of fan agreement

The twelve levels of fan agreement

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  • February 22, 2007

Via Dirk Deppey at ¡Journalista!, we have Ragnell the Foul’s 12 Levels of Comic Book Fan Agreement.

No, it’s not a twelve-step program to combat comic addiction. Rather, it’s a fan hierarchy, ranging from number 1: "Your favorite series is my favorite series" to number 12: "I think your favorite series would be better this way, I won’t even look at it until its changed to be that way, you’re a fucking idiot for disagreeing with me, and I write terrible fanfiction to demonstrate the rightness of my way with a thinly veiled self-insertion character, and a character from another series that I felt was fucked up unless written my way too. Oh, and if you think my fanfic is bad/un-entertaining/uninteresting/not as good as your favorite series, you must personally hate me and everyone who shares my interests."

It’s very good, and I’m tempted to write the 12 Levels of Comic Book Pro Agreement — except we’re going to have certain levels beyond 12 that will include things like "I think your favorite series would be better this way, and I’m going to write a 12 issue maxiseries that shows why I won the Wizard poll" and "I’m the editor, and I don’t care what you think; what I say goes."

Whedon clocks in at The Office

Whedon clocks in at The Office

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  • February 15, 2007

As reported earlier on ComicMix, Buffyverse creator (and writer of Dark Horse’s much-anticipated Season 8 comic) Joss Whedon directed the episode of The Office that premieres tonight. 

Short plot description from NBC’s site: Ryan invites Michael to be a guest speaker at his business school. Meanwhile, Dwight battles a bat that gets loose in the office while Pam (Jenna Fischer) invites co-workers to her first art show.  In her nigh-indispensable blog, Office star Jenna Fischer writes, "I loved having Joss around on set.  He is a huge fan of the show and knew every little detail and nuance about our characters.  As a result, he was very focused on how to direct us to get the very best performances.  I remember one day I was doing background work for a couple of hours and out the blue he came up to me and said, ‘Jenna, I love the reaction you are doing back here.  It’s perfectly Pam!’ He was watching our background performances…so awesome." Jenna insists it’s pure coincidence that the episode happens to feature a bat – which the cast named Gary and which she describes as "super-cute."  That’s so perfectly Pam!

 

Dark Tower – Googling the Mainstream

Dark Tower – Googling the Mainstream

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  • February 9, 2007

Has the Dark Tower launch event made it past the usual insular comics fan circles? Let’s take a look:

Four pages via Google News, including articles from Maine Today, the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, the Kansas City Star, the Newark Star-Ledger, the San Jose Mercury News, the Toledo Free Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer (of course, the latter is Mike Sangiacomo so that’s a bit of a ringer), the Pike County Courier, the Elmira Star-Gazette, the Kane County Chronicle, the Capital Times, and a few other subscription-only papers. That’s a nice cross-section of coverage around the country!

Stan Lee on Heroes: Geek Factor Upped

Stan Lee on Heroes: Geek Factor Upped

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  • February 9, 2007

The TV series Heroes is bound and determined to rope in not only the mainstream audience garnered by its intricate serial plotline(s), but the comics cognoscenti and related fan hobbyists whence its genre fiction originates. First Christopher Eccleston ("Dr. Who"), then George Takei ("Star Trek"), and now Stan Lee ("The Man") will make a cameo on the show, in a scene with character Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka, easily the best reason to watch the show for those of us who don’t particularly care for it).

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