Joel Silver, who makes movies where things blow up real good, says he’s planning to remake the 1976 science fiction classic, Logan’s Run.
"I love the original material but I think that version is a bit silly," he told reporters in Barcelona where he was promoting his latest film The Reaping starring Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank.
The original starred Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Farrah Fawcette and Roscoe Lee Browne. Directed by Michael Anderson, it won an Oscar for its visual effects.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the work of everyone’s favorite creepy cartoonist, Edward Gorey, will be made into a movie. The project is being developed by Walden Media (the people who brought you the Narnia movie), the Jim Henson Company, and Fox 3000.
Brad Peyton will direct from a script written by Matthew Huffman.
It’s hard to come up with a creature that you’ve never seen before in any medium, and he’s a unique little creation who is very appealing without being cute or cloying," Jim Henson Co. co-CEO Lisa Henson said. "He’s sophisticated yet simple at the same time, but it’s not overly juvenile. Adults can find him cute, too."
No word yet on a cast, or if the film will be live action or animated.
As you may have heard, earlier this week rock legend Keith Richards acknowledged snorting the ashen remains of his father. Within 24 hours, his publicist issued a retraction. April Fools, she said, a few days late.
O.K. Fine. I believed the former, I don’t want to believe the latter, but what the hell it wasn’t my dad.
But it was said by Johnny Depp’s dad – as in, "Keith Richards plays Johnny Depp’s father in Pirates of the CaribbeanAt World’s End."
There’s a wonderful opportunity for an exciting new ending here. Otherwise, Disney’s spin-meisters are going to have quite a tangled web to weave.
Pirates of the CaribbeanAt World’s End opens May 25th.
So it’s been about two weeks since the season 3 finale of Battlestar Galactica. “Crossroads Part 2” has aired, and I’m tired of sitting on what I have to say about it. If you’re one of the unfortunate one’s who have still yet to see the show, here’s the spoilers: Basically we learned: who the final four Cylons turn out to be, how everyone copes with the recently deceased Starbuck, the outcome of the Gaius Baltar trial, that President Rosaline’s cancer has returned and she’s back on the wacky drug that made her see snakes, and finally, that Bob Dylan is a Cylon!
Don’t worry; I know there is a lot here, so I’m going to break it down for those playing along at home.
Those of you who remember the set-up in “Crossroads Part 1” know that throughout the episode, Colonel Tigh, Sam, Chief Tyrol, and Press Secretary Tory Foster (played by Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas, Michael Trucco, and Rheka Sharma, respectively) hear strange sitar music that draws them toward the center of the ship. We don’t know where it comes from, only that these four are the only ones that can hear this music. We find out in the finale that mysterious music is a cover of the Bob Dylan song “All Along the Watchtower” – and not Jimi Hendrix’s, either! Now, those of you who read my review for the film 300 know my feelings about switching from orchestral beats to heavy modern guitar, but that goes full force when it’s a sci-fi show that uses an actual song when the show takes place millions of years ago and/or galaxies away!
Either way, we discover that these people hearing the music are drawn together and discover that they are all Cylon sleeper agents. This is probably one of the biggest moments in the season, and I feel likeit didn’t get the respect it deserved by clumping all of the Cylon-outings in one scene.
Moving on, we also get the verdict of the excruciatingly long trial of Giaus Baltar. The arc basically consisted of a whole lot of father/son Adama melodrama, cranky Rosaline explains how her cancer has returned (which should be a non-issue because we know that the bastard Cylon-baby is the cure) and some more mystifying lines from Batlar’s lawyer, Matt Murdock-lite Romo Lampkin (played by 24’s Mark Sheppard). After some deep prodding from the prosecution, a recently de-commissioned Apollo takes the stand and gives this entire speech on what he’s been feeling from day one. This was a great little monologue, because he talks about how the fleet has forgiven all of its past “crimes against humanity,” referencing a lot of the back story along the way. Essentially this is what persuades the tribunal of judges to give Baltar a verdict of not guilty.
Via Budgie, for your reading pleasure comes this post by artist Jesse Hamm on the ways in which writers drive him crazy, followed by a three part rebuttal by Mark Waid on why certain artists should perhaps choose their words as carefully as they choose their illustrations. Beyond the sarcasm and vitriol is some terrific information and useful advice on the collaborative process in comics.
ATT & T and Blizzard Entertainment today announced a free, two-week direct-download trial of World of Warcraft. The game is available at the AT & T blue room gaming site (http://www.attblueroom.com/gaming).
The press release claims this is the longest World of Warcraft trial available. It also claims that WOW is the most popular multiplayer online role-playing game, with more than 8.5 million subscribers.
"World of Warcraft‘s following is phenomenal. Its universal appeal extends to both experienced players and those brand new to gaming, so we’re thrilled to offer an extended online trial edition," said Glenn Broderick, executive director of gaming, AT&T.
* You thought this was going to be a post about that 52 spinoff co-written by our own John Ostrander, didn’t you? Made you look…
This time we talk about ComicMix a bit (!!!) and troll for some comments and we offer the lowdown on Marvel’s special Captain America convention edition (???), connect the music of Coheed & Cambria to Image Comics (Star Wars meets the Matrix?), uncover one of DC’s best kept secrets (no snitching!), we hear from writer/artist Jimmy Palmiotti and do a little kung fu jive and sing together for world peace – all in 10 exciting minutes.
You’ve done this on tests. Which of the following doesn’t fit?
Celeb fashion flops
Crafting the perfect lawn
Man films own death by meth
Clearing home clutter
If you picked “Man films own death by meth” then give yourself an A. I plucked this quartet as is from my MS Hotmail account; after I sent off an e-mail, a screen popped up asking me if I wanted to go back to the message or to the inbox. In the left margin, there were also some news stories that I might want to pick. These were the four headlines to choose from. Three innocuous bits of news fluff and one fairly grotesque news item.
Each headline had equal value. The type sizes were all the same size. Suicide is given the same value as “Crafting the perfect lawn.” They’re all just newsy bits, one no more important than the next. In a list we sometimes assume that the top or the bottom items have the most impact but not so here. Exchange the top two items and nothing really has changed. Put the suicide item at the top or the bottom and the list changes but nestle it in the middle and it’s just one more bit of fluff.
I’ve been looking at our little headline quartet and reacting several different ways. In this context, with everything being the same, death has no more importance than crafting the perfect lawn. It’s just another widget headline. If everything has the same value, then what has meaning? “Man films own death by meth” is grotesque, it should horrify. The quartet suggests otherwise to me. There is no sense of priority here, that this one thing is more important than this other thing. The context of its appearance in this quartet suggests that the death is mundane.
Which might raise the question – is it more important? An unknown man films his own death by meth. Should his death mean anything more to me than celeb fashion flops? Is his death noteworthy or the fact that he filmed it? If there wasn’t video, we wouldn’t care. Just another meth user screwing up his life. I’m not going to pretend that I care deeply about every person who dies; I don’t. The deceased may have family and friends who will mourn him; I hope he does. Me? I’m mostly appalled but that’s about it. Maybe for me it IS just another widget headline.
The Tribeca Film Festival, normally held entirely in Manhattan’s Tribeca district (it stands for "TRIangle BElow CAnal street") today announced Spider-Man 3 will have a star-studed gala premiere in Queens at the UA Kaufman Astoria 14 Theater. With a marching band, a "black" carpet and lots and lots of celebrities, it’s the culmination of Spider-Man Week in New York.
The Festival will also present other screenings in other boroughs, which the press release says will be free and open to the public. "Tribeca is thrilled to be premiering Spider-Man 3 and to be a part of ‘Spider-Man Week in NYC,’" said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Festival. "Bringing exciting and new events to NYC and its community is one of the major goals of the festival. Hosting the U.S. premiere of Spider-Man 3 in Queens and celebrating the release throughout the festival will give us the opportunity to reach out to a new community as well as to the devoted fan-base of the Spider-Man series."
You’ve done this on tests. Which of the following doesn’t fit?
