Sneak Peek: The Battlestar Comic Book!: "The Battlestar Comic Book!"
BSG is rising in popularity, crossing into other mediums. Anyone else have that humungous comicbook version of the original pilot in the 70's. It was like the size of an area rug, wish I still had that now :)
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Create AJAX from Java, Then Face West and Bow 4 Times
Our Good Company has released the Web ToolKit. It allows you to build AJAX applications using their special Java framework, and they claim its what they use for Google Maps and other things. This looks very interesting; I hope I can get some time to play around with it.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Wonder Woman
Breaking News: Whedon considering women, men, and gerbils for the lead role in his upcoming Wonder Woman movie. Funny stuff for your Monday morning via YouTube.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
IceBurrg...Ask and you shall recieve :)
Four 2 Has Silver Surfer?:
Variety reported that Marvel Comics' cult superhero Silver Surfer will make an appearance in the upcoming sequel film Fantastic Four 2. The character, a shiny alien who plies intergalactic space on his metallic board, is on course to becoming a linchpin in the sequel Fox is readying for a July 4, 2007, premiere, the trade paper reported.
Silver Surfer has evolved into one of Marvel's more sophisticated comic-book heroes, and a Surfer feature has been in Fox's arsenal for a decade.
A Fantastic Four 2 storyline is being finalized, with the studio about to choose between a script by X2 writer Mark Frost and another by Don Payne, who scripted Fox/New Regency's Super-Ex Girlfriend.
Sources told the trade paper that Payne's script has the nod, and the Surfer. But a studio spokesman denied to the trade paper that anything was set and added that the Surfer was one of several plot possibilities."
Variety reported that Marvel Comics' cult superhero Silver Surfer will make an appearance in the upcoming sequel film Fantastic Four 2. The character, a shiny alien who plies intergalactic space on his metallic board, is on course to becoming a linchpin in the sequel Fox is readying for a July 4, 2007, premiere, the trade paper reported.
Silver Surfer has evolved into one of Marvel's more sophisticated comic-book heroes, and a Surfer feature has been in Fox's arsenal for a decade.
A Fantastic Four 2 storyline is being finalized, with the studio about to choose between a script by X2 writer Mark Frost and another by Don Payne, who scripted Fox/New Regency's Super-Ex Girlfriend.
Sources told the trade paper that Payne's script has the nod, and the Surfer. But a studio spokesman denied to the trade paper that anything was set and added that the Surfer was one of several plot possibilities."
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Many more Comic Book Movies in production
Favreau Helming Iron Man
Jon Favreau is set to direct Marvel Studios' live-action movie Iron Man, which will now be distributed by Paramount, part of a slate of directing and writing deals Marvel announced, Variety reported. Marvel is developing the titles, which it will independently finance out of a $525 million fund from Merrill Lynch.
All of the films will be distributed by Paramount under an existing service agreement, except for The Incredible Hulk, a sequel to 2003's Hulk.
Iron Man is Marvel's top priority and will be written by Arthur Marcum and Matt Hollaway (Convoy).
The second Hulk movie, meanwhile, is proceeding despite the first film's lackluster performance at the box office. Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) will pen the script. Universal, which handled the first Hulk, would distribute the follow-up.
David Self (Road to Perdition) has been tapped to pen the long-awaited feature version of Captain America.
Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) will direct and co-write with Joe Cornish the feature film Ant Man, with a comedic twist.
Andrew Marlowe (Hollow Man) will write the script for Nick Fury, based on Marvel's military super spy.
Mark Protosevich (Poseidon) will pen Thor.
Marvel hasn't committed to put any of the films into production yet, though it's hoping to release the first one by 2008.
Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
Jon Favreau is set to direct Marvel Studios' live-action movie Iron Man, which will now be distributed by Paramount, part of a slate of directing and writing deals Marvel announced, Variety reported. Marvel is developing the titles, which it will independently finance out of a $525 million fund from Merrill Lynch.
All of the films will be distributed by Paramount under an existing service agreement, except for The Incredible Hulk, a sequel to 2003's Hulk.
Iron Man is Marvel's top priority and will be written by Arthur Marcum and Matt Hollaway (Convoy).
The second Hulk movie, meanwhile, is proceeding despite the first film's lackluster performance at the box office. Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) will pen the script. Universal, which handled the first Hulk, would distribute the follow-up.
David Self (Road to Perdition) has been tapped to pen the long-awaited feature version of Captain America.
Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) will direct and co-write with Joe Cornish the feature film Ant Man, with a comedic twist.
Andrew Marlowe (Hollow Man) will write the script for Nick Fury, based on Marvel's military super spy.
Mark Protosevich (Poseidon) will pen Thor.
Marvel hasn't committed to put any of the films into production yet, though it's hoping to release the first one by 2008.
Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
More than meets the Eye
Voight Up For Transformers?
Jon Voight told SCI FI Wire that nothing is finalized, but it looks likely that he'll be joining the cast of director Michael Bay's upcoming big-budget Transformers: The Movie. "I'm playing this ... well, we haven't signed the papers yet," Voight said in an interview. "But it looks like I'm going to play the secretary of state."
Transformers: The Movie will star Shia LaBeouf (Constantine) as the unlikely hero, Sam, in a story based on the comic book, cartoon and Hasbro toy lines that were popular in the 1980s. The movie will center on the central saga of the Autobots vs. the Decepticons.
The film will mark Voight's second collaboration with Bay, following Pearl Harbor. The Oscar-winning actor, whose genre credits include the Manchurian Candidate update and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, said that Transformers will no doubt be one of the largest-scale movies he's ever worked on, and he said he was intrigued by the notion of working on such an F/X-heavy feature.
"Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems," Voight said. "So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like that—when you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuff—it's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know? It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work." Production on Transformers: The Movie is set to begin soon, with an eye toward a July 4, 2007, release date.
Jon Voight told SCI FI Wire that nothing is finalized, but it looks likely that he'll be joining the cast of director Michael Bay's upcoming big-budget Transformers: The Movie. "I'm playing this ... well, we haven't signed the papers yet," Voight said in an interview. "But it looks like I'm going to play the secretary of state."
Transformers: The Movie will star Shia LaBeouf (Constantine) as the unlikely hero, Sam, in a story based on the comic book, cartoon and Hasbro toy lines that were popular in the 1980s. The movie will center on the central saga of the Autobots vs. the Decepticons.
The film will mark Voight's second collaboration with Bay, following Pearl Harbor. The Oscar-winning actor, whose genre credits include the Manchurian Candidate update and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, said that Transformers will no doubt be one of the largest-scale movies he's ever worked on, and he said he was intrigued by the notion of working on such an F/X-heavy feature.
"Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems," Voight said. "So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like that—when you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuff—it's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know? It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work." Production on Transformers: The Movie is set to begin soon, with an eye toward a July 4, 2007, release date.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Smith is no Legend
Smith Is Legend
Will Smith will star in I Am Legend, the long-gestating Warner Brothers adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic SF novel, to be directed by Constantine helmer Francis Lawrence, Variety reported. Smith has a pay-or-play deal to make Legend his next project, after he completes Tonight, He Comes at Sony.
Akiva Goldsman rewrote an original script by Mark Protosevich. An early 2007 start date is planned for the movie, which will be shot in New York.
The film moves the story from Los Angeles to a post-apocalyptic New York and will center on the last healthy man following the release of a virus that decimates the population. To survive, he must battle mutants that wreak havoc during the night.
Legend came closest to getting made back in 1997 with Ridley Scott directing Arnold Schwarzenegger. Warner applied the brakes because the budget hovered around $108 million, a figure considered high at the time. Michael Bay and Smith then aligned to have a go at the film in 2002, but the pairing didn't advance.
Matheson's book was the basis of previous movie adaptations, including the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth and the Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man.
To paraphrase Heston "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God... damn you all to hell!" Will Smith Does not = Sci-Fi He has regained his Tool of the day mantle in my eyes.
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Will Smith will star in I Am Legend, the long-gestating Warner Brothers adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic SF novel, to be directed by Constantine helmer Francis Lawrence, Variety reported. Smith has a pay-or-play deal to make Legend his next project, after he completes Tonight, He Comes at Sony.
Akiva Goldsman rewrote an original script by Mark Protosevich. An early 2007 start date is planned for the movie, which will be shot in New York.
The film moves the story from Los Angeles to a post-apocalyptic New York and will center on the last healthy man following the release of a virus that decimates the population. To survive, he must battle mutants that wreak havoc during the night.
Legend came closest to getting made back in 1997 with Ridley Scott directing Arnold Schwarzenegger. Warner applied the brakes because the budget hovered around $108 million, a figure considered high at the time. Michael Bay and Smith then aligned to have a go at the film in 2002, but the pairing didn't advance.
Matheson's book was the basis of previous movie adaptations, including the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth and the Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man.
To paraphrase Heston "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God... damn you all to hell!" Will Smith Does not = Sci-Fi He has regained his Tool of the day mantle in my eyes.
Technorati Tags: willsmithsucks, scifi
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