Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Newsweek has an extensive report from the set of Brian Synger’s Superman Returns movie. They do a pretty good job of setting out the whole story of the 11 year journey to film a new Superman movie. With highlights from some of the failed attempts like the Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage movie that was under consideration at one point.

Superman Returns is both very different to the previous Superman movies…

HPANA have got their hands on a couple of new pictures from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The first picture is Professor McGonagall (complete with hat) sitting in the great hall. From the look of things this picture comes from the movie itself, perhaps the beginning of term?

The second photo is a publicity still of Cho Chang. It’s a posed shot and quite similar to ones that have…

Aint It Cool News has posted a couple of reviews from the test screening of Disney’s movie adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The tone of the reviews is distinctly different. The more positive one is by a fan of the books while the more negative one is by someone who isn’t very familiar with the books.

It wouldn’t be surprising if C. S. Lewis fans were more…

Is Steven Spielberg on some sort of crusade to remake all 1950’s films with world in the title? He might be as it seems that not content with remaking War of the Worlds, Spielberg will now turn his attention to a remake of When World’s Collide. Spielberg will produce the movie, but it’s not known yet if he will direct it too.

The original When World’s Collide was released in 1951…

Scriptwriter Erik Jendresen was signed to write a script for the next Star Trek movie ealier this year. In an interview with Dreamwatch magazine recently he confirmed that he has now turned the first draft of that script in to Paramount.

According to Jendresen the working title for the next movie is Star Trek: The Beginning (which ought to give you some hints about where they’re going with it). The plan…