• The Thing prequel gets its stars, but doesn't anyone care what happened to the Norwegians?

• This isn't looking good: Both Katheryn Bigelow and Robert Rodriguez have passed on a Planet of the Apes movie.

• I think Captain America director Joe Johnston is just messing with us: He says that Cap will be joined by The Invaders in the new movie, but that they'll all be British... which doesn't make any sense.

• Bill Murray confirms his role in Ghostbusters 3: He'll be a Slimer ghost after all.

• Doctor Who has generated some wonderful concept art.... in fact, too wonderful and creative to ever be done justice by such a low-budget television show.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.09.10 - Murray Confirms Ghostbusters Role, The Thing Prequel Gets Cast" »

• The SciFi Writer's Guild is not happy about Amazon's latest game of chicken with Houghton Mifflin. I'm on their side, but I'm a non-Rand-eseque libertarian, so I do tend to believe the market should sort itself out.

• Disney is so happy with Tron Legacy that they are already planning a television series.

• This is getting a lot of news recognition, but it's clear director Joe Johnston was winding people up: He says Captain America will start as a USO officer in the next movie.

• Neil Gaiman confirms he's written an episode of Doctor Who.

• Oh dear. Daredevil is being rebooted... by the author of The Day the Earth Stood Still remake.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.08.10 - Daredevil Gets Reboot, Gaiman Writes Doctor Who" »

• In the wake of Moon not being nominated for best picture, io9 lists the ten worst scifi snubs in Oscar history.

• M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender got a preview screening, but the reviews were pretty mixed.

• With DC Comics being restructured into DC Entertainment, the previously sacrosanct Watchmen now looks likely to get a sequel.

• District 9's married writer/director couple are looking at stone monsters and gritty worlds for their next projects.

• Star Trek and Transformers writers Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman have just signed a three year development deal with Fox.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.05.10 - Watchmen Gets Sequel, Airbender Gets Screened" »

• Don Cheadle says there'll be no War Machine solo movie.

• Rupert Murdoch says that Fox is already in negotiations with James Cameron for Avatar 2.

• With little less than a week until the game's release, the underwater scifi sequel Bioshock 2 gets a great trailer.

• SciFi Wire lists 35 things you probably didn't know about James Cameron. Who knew he was gay and half-robot?

• Tron: Legacy gets its first official image. It's not very informative, but at least Jeff Bridges looks cool.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.04.10 - Fox Negotiates Avatar 2, Tron 2 Gets Official Image" »

• io9 aims to cease all confusion by listing the worst superhero movies of all time. I'm not sure Superbabies counts though.

• Patrick Stewart would like to make a Nimoy-esque cameo in Star Trek 2. It makes sense: the Star Trek comic prequel setting up the reboot prominently featured Picard.

• The creators of Clone High and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs have been shot down as the directors of the next Muppets movie. Instead the job will go to Flight of the Conchords helmer James Bobin. What an ineffably stupid decision.

• The New York Times posts an absolutely fantastic interactive timeline to Lost.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.03.10 - Sir Stewart Wants Trek Cameo, Bobin to Direct Muppets Movie" »

• Surprising perhaps no one who actually saw it, Michael Bay's Transformers 2 has won the Razzie Award for worst film of the year.

• The Season 6 promo for Lost raises more questions than it answers... but it wouldn't be a good promo if it didn't.

• The guy who did that incredibly insightful Phantom Menace review is back with a great Avatar review... now with 90% fewer wife-killing jokes.

• Robert Downey Jr. talks about his involvement in The Avengers.

• Now that Sam Raimi's off Spider-Man, what's his next project? Apparently, rebooting The Shadow.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.02.10 - Transformers 2 Wins Razzie, Downey Jr. Talks Avengers" »

• SciFi Wire examines the ten most influential scifi movie scores.

• Doctor Who writer Phil Ford is now writing a bizarre, scifi-themed game shown on the BBC.

• Order your plane tickets through Kayak.com and you too can book a flight on Lost's Oceanic Flight 815.

• The director of Taken, Pierre Morel, confirms that he will helm the Dune remake.

• There'll be no point speculating about what direction the sixth season of Lost will take in a mere two days, but for now look, marvel and wonder at the first four minutes of the premiere online.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.01.10 - Taken Director Helms Dune, New Lost Footage Is Online" »

• The Fanboy Wife blogger has a hysterical post up about the frankly bizarre female anatomy on display in DC's Blackest Night comics.

• Mad Max 4 will be a direct sequel to Beyond Thunderdome, but Mel Gibson won't appear.

• Zachary Quinto says he's done with Star Trek for the next couple of years... then immediately clarifies he didn't mean it.

• SciFi Wire lists fifteen weird roles Lost's actors did before they were lost. Evangeline Lilly... in a phone sex ad? What's the number!?

• Terminator Salvation's execrable head honcho, McG, will be producing the new La Femme Nikita reboot. Ugh.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 01.29.10 - McG Produces Nikita, Gibson Dodges Mad Max Cameo" »

• After all the 3D frenzy, it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros. announced that the penultimate Harry Potter movie will grow a dimension.

• Slashfilm says that Avatar 2 is already in pre-production. A billion dollar gross and Cameron's own claims that it will be a trilogy epic makes that a 'no duh' prediction for me.

• There's some awesome and officially confirmed concept art from Ryan Reynolds' upcoming Green Lantern adaptation over at Cosmic Book News. Kilowog looks pretty gnarly.

• The Avengers movie may have The Incredible Hulk as a team member or villain, but it probably won't have Ed Norton as Bruce Banner.

• An age old question, finally settled: Who would win in a showdown between Captain Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard?

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 01.28.10 - Harry Potter Goes 3D, Cameron Gears Up for Avatar 2" »

• Rumors had this pegged, but now it's official: Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time.

• io9 lists some of scifi's worst recastings in the face of Don Cheadle's appearance as Rhodey in Iron Man 2.

• Samuel L. Jackson is in the cast list for Kenneth Branagh's Thor, but says his appearance is news to him.

• Star Trek 2 screenwriter Roberto Orci says the sequel is more challenging to write because there are fewer limitations on what they can do, but we should expect a strong focus on a villain. Khan?

• Marketsaw claims that Gremlins 3D is coming to IMAX theaters in the next few years, but I'm not interested unless Joe Dante directs.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 01.27.10 - Jackson Cast in Thor, Gremlins 3D to Hit IMAX" »