Daily Scan for 08.27.09 - Fox Wants X-Files Reboot, McTiegue Wants Darker Superman

• Market Saw has an exclusive first look at Sigourney Weaver and her Avatar. It's just Weaver as a younger, bluer and more neotonous alien.
• Chris Nolan is thinking of filming the third Batman movie entirely in IMAX.
• Will Ryan Reynolds's Green Lantern movie be delayed by a strong Australian economy?
• A third X-Files movie may be on its way, but 20th Century Fox is eyeing the reboot look.
• Ninja Assassin director James McTeigue, who is rumored to be helming the next Superman movie, thinks Big Blue needs to be darker. Reason enough not to hire the man.
• SF Signal hosts another Mind Meld: The most intelligent films of science fiction. I was supposed to contribute to this one, but then got some sort of Venusian death flu.
• SciFi Wire reviews a new volume from Richard Matheson, collecting all his unfilmed screenplays, which includes his own script for I Am Legend!










Venusian death flu is the bad news. The good news is how you got it. Hiyo!