Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

This particular opinion piece could equally easily have been titled:
Why I don’t Want To Know About Actor’s Personal Lives

The recent media blitz that has been Tom Cruise’s promotion of his new film War of the Worlds has had the exact opposite effect on me that I think it was supposed to have. I’ve gone from being disappointed that it didn’t look like a faithful version of War of the Worlds,…

Aint It Cool News links to a new clip from the Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean movie MirrorMask. I’m not clear where the clip fits into the film’s story. I’m not even sure exactly what is happening in the clip. One thing I am sure about though is that it’s damn creepy.

Seriously, the tune is creepy/catchy (at least in this context), the look of the film is pure Dave McKean…

Here’s an interesting item that either hasn’t had much coverage or just slipped right by me. Scottish author Campbell Black who writes under the name Campbell Armstrong, is suing George Lucas for £2 million. The suit is for unpaid fees for writing a novel based on the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Campbell Black is accusing Lucas of fraud. The Raiders of the Lost Ark book was a huge bestseller…

According to a report at XMenFilms.net the Nightcrawler was dropped from current scripts of X-Men 3 for a very simple reason. That being quite simply that the studio felt there were too many X-Men in the story. The studio was keen for the new heroes like Beast to get a decent amount of screen time and with so many X-Men in the script something had to give.

A second, but related…

Human Iterations has posted a review from one of the pre-screenings of Serenity, the movie version of Joss Whedon’s shortlived science fiction western series Firefly. The review doesn’t give many details, but it is spoiler free.

It’s also overwhelmingly positive, but I’ll throw a big heaping of caution on that. The writer is just a little bit biased. By his own words, he was a huge fan of Firefly and he…