Feb 20, 2006
So I’m two days late on this, cut me some slack I spent half of my weekend working. Anyway turns out that Warner Brothers have released a full trailer for their Philip K Dick movie adaptation A Scanner Darkly. Try to put aside (at least for the moment) that it’s yet another genre movie starring Keanu Reeves.
The movie is supposed to be a pretty accurate version of Dick’s story and…
Feb 19, 2006
So we already know that there’s going to be a sequel to the Fantastic Four movie that was released last year to mixed reactions. For the moment at least that sequel is going by the name Fantastic Four 2. For a while now there have been rumors swirling around this movie and what the plot might be.
The majority of those rumors have firmly centered on the possibility that the…
Feb 18, 2006
Jeremy Beard contacted me about some excerpts from his science fiction novel that he’s started posting on a new blog. I don’t know much about the novel itself beyond what is available on his site, but the blog is called The History of the Future, so I’m guessing the book may have the same title.
Right now there are two excerpts up for you to read. The History of Transport/The Internet and…
Feb 18, 2006
Bryce Zabel posted on the subject of short lived sci-fi series Dark Skies recently. The post itself is worth reading as he talks about how they pitched the series to network executives and what he thinks made the series special.
Dark Skies only actually ran for one season (sound familiar?) and appeared shortly after the X-Files had revolutionized hollywood’s perception of sci-fi. It did give its own unique twist on the…