Finally somebody’s going to film this book. I’ve been whining “forever” about the absence of a Forever War movie. Now, according to Variety (by way of Ain’t It Cool), it’s in the works, with the redoubtable, apparently indestructible Ridley Scott directing. The plot summary they give is typically lame and distorted, in the manner of [...]
They’re here. A mixed bag, predictably enough. I watched The Ship, which is done in Unreal Tournament. It looks beautiful, but it’s kinda slow and has no dialogue and appears to actually — I could be wrong — mean something.
Your daily dose of simulated-HUD-porn:
Doesn’t this sound like it’s straight from the keyboard of some action sci-fi movie writer? Well it’s not. It’s real.
Director Zack Snyder is doing a kind of traveling road show, screening clips from Watchmen ‘cross the nation. Yesterday that road show traveled to the Warner Brothers screening room in Manhattan. The movie will be out in March, assuming Fox and Warner don’t sue each other back to the stone age before then, but I [...]
Those crazy Covenants are up to their old artifact-exploring tricks. But were their mandibles always that freaky-looking?
In an effort to shed the very last of our regular readers, I am pressing on with a near-liveblog of my reading of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. (This follows up on the last installment for Parts 1-5.) I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I [...]
According to Ain’t It Cool, there’s further evidence that a Tron sequel is actually happening. Apparently the costume designer for 300 and Watchmen is on board. Maybe Flynn will get trapped inside an iPod and have to escape from its restrictive DRM. For nostalgia’s sake, here’s the trailer for the original. Apparently some test footage [...]
