• Roland Emmerich is already talking a televised sequel to his apocalyptic film, 2012, pretty much giving away the ending for everyone in the process.

• A new Japanese trailer for James Cameron's Avatar shows even more alien fauna.

• Geek celebrity Wil Wheaton -- that's right, Star Trek's Wesley Crusher himself -- has a voice cameo in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek.

• The next Doctor Who special, Waters of Mars, will be airing in the U.S. later this year. If you're curious what to expect, check out the three minute sneak peek. I'm going to miss David Tennant.

• Doctor Horrible co-writer Zack Whedon spills on the eponymous mad scientist's secret origin in his new Dark Horse comic series.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 11.06.09 - Emmerich Talks 2012 TV Series, Wheaton Cameos Star Trek" »

• If you have the time or patience to rearrange the whole 330,000 word novel by 5,000 word chunks, all of Stephen King's Under the Dome can now be read online.

• Daniel Wilson's How To Survive A Robot Uprising is coming to the big screen. That ought to be a fun apocalyptic picture.

• SciFi Wire posts the ten greatest scifi Obama "Hope" poster mash-ups. They're probably a year late, but who cares? It's still a lot of fun.

• David S. Goyer says that Ghost Rider 2 will not be a reboot, but instead a sequel set eight years after the original.

• SF Signal hosts another Mind Meld: Scifi books that ought to be taught in school. Ender's Game ought to make that list a dozen times over.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 11.05.09 - Goyer Talks Ghost Rider 2, Robot Uprising Gets Movie" »

• The Life Aquatic director Wes Anderson wants to do a scifi film physically shot in outer space. Good luck with that.

• The latest Star Trek deleted scene has been released, in which Kirk shows a callous disregard for both alien identity and sexuality.

• Nathan Patrelli from Heroes will be killed off this season. Presumably, the languishing show will be next.

• Now that the rights to the Terminator franchise is up for grabs, Joss Whedon wants a crack at it. His idea? Terminator... of the Rings!

• Speaking of our fanboy favorite Joss, Nathan Fillon says that Dr. Horrible 2 already has a title, with several songs already written.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 11.04.09 - Whedon Wants Terminator, Anderson Wants Space" »

• Hot off her stint as a post-apocalyptic babe in The Road, Charlize Theron will play a post-apocalyptic babe in Mad Max 4: Fury Road.

• By Odin's beard! Anthony Hopkins will play the king of Asgard in Kenneth Branaugh's Thor. Is there any famous English actor not yet signed for this movie?

• Roland Emmerich discusses his reasons for destroying every monument in the world for the forthcoming disaster flick, 2012, with one exception: The Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca.

• According to original V show-runner Kenneth Johnson, the series originally wasn't going to be about aliens at all: It was to be about neo-fascism in a scifi setting.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 11.03.09 - Hopkins Sires Thor, Theron Seduces Mad Max" »

• Robert Zemeckis says that the sequel to the cartoon fantasy Who Framed Roger Rabbit is on its way.

• Science fiction is experiencing a resurgence in 3D unseen since the 1950's, but this time, the fashionistas can take part with designer 3D glasses.

• Count Dooku, Saruman, Flay and Dracula have been knighted in the person of Sir Christopher Lee. No one could deserve it better.

• Men in Black 3 has a screenwriter in Tropic Thunder's Ethan Cohen, but no one knows if Will Smith will come back. My guess is yes: If he'll do Bad Boys 2, he'll do MiB 3 any day.

• At next year's Berlinale film festival, the original cut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis will be shown, after having been feared lost for decades.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 11.02.09 - Roger Rabbit 2 Is Coming, Men in Black 3 Finds a Writer" »

• Ridley Scott says that his upcoming Alien prequel will take place about thirty years before the first movie, and not be about the elephantine aliens after all. That's a shame: I really want to know The Pilot's story.

• James Cameron's Avatar gets a second trailer, though you've probably seen most of this footage before.

• ABC was intending on doing a publicity campaign for V by writing the eponymous letter in blood red smoke across the sky, but they ditched their plans, remembering that sort of thing doesn't go over too well since September 11th.

• Lost's Damon Lindelof says that Season 6 won't wait until the last episode to answer big questions. Plus, Libby Bulloff might be back, and we'll finally find out what was so special about Walt.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 10.30.09 - Ridley Talks Alien Prequel, Lindelof Talks Lost Secrets" »

• Director Peter Berg is reportedly departing his latest Dune project, to be potentially replaced by District 9's Neill Blomkamp.

• ABC has released a bizarre music video promo for their upcoming alien invasion series, V.

• It's hardly official, but a number of blogs are now reporting that not only is actor Dylan Baker back for Spider-Man 4, but he will finally indeed transform into The Lizard.

• Another depressing side effect of Nickelodeon buying the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The twenty five year old comic series is now coming to an end, at least as far as Mirage Studios is concerned.

• Firefly sure as heck isn't the only space western out there, so the eponymous spacewesterns.com has compiled a list of the ten most influential.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 10.29.09 - Blomkamp Helms Dune, Lizard Terrorizes Spider-Man 4" »

• Leonard Nimoy says he'll be leaving Fringe, essentially because he finds the character he is playing to be uncompelling.

• With shades of Farenheit 451, author Philip Roth sees a future in which the novel is dead, and television reigns supreme.

• According to Lucasfilm, rumors of a new Star Wars trilogy directed by Steven Spielberg in 3D are just stupid.

• The director of Paul Blart, Mall Cop will be helming the Short Circuit remake. I'd say "yeesh" but the original was a pretty stupid crowd-pleaser too.

• J.J. Abrams, who wrote a script for a failed reboot of Superman years ago, says he'd still do the Man of Steel if Warner Bros. would ask him.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 10.28.09 - Abrams Wants Superman, Nimoy Leaves Fringe" »

• A man named Paul Johnson is making his very own Doctor Who anime, and the first clips are very impressive indeed.

• Did James Cameron rip off Poul Anderson's novella, Call Me Joe, for Avatar? My guess is no, and that fifty years is long enough for two people to chance upon the same idea.

• Zatanna and Martian Manhunter will be coming back to Smallville this season.

• The creators of Judge Dredd are hopeful for the new movie, but say they haven't even been contacted yet.

• Ouch! Jason Sanford lists 42 reasons not to read Eoin Colfer's new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book.

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 10.27.09 - Zatanna Returns to Smallville, Star Trek Gets Viral" »

• The first eight minutes of ABC's V reboot are now online.

• Mad Max 4 is in production again, and it is strongly being rumored that Sam Worthington will be the next Max.

• Masamune Shirow's famous Ghost in the Shell manga is to become a major live-action movie.

• District 9's Neill Blomkamp has been given a budget for his next science fiction movie, which he describes as an epic.

• Harlan Ellison has won his lawsuit against Paramount for not paying him licensing and merchandising fees for a series of Star Trek novels based off the plot of "The City on the Edge of Forever".

Continue reading "Daily Scan for 10.26.09 - Worthington Is Mad Max, Blomkamp Begins Next Epic" »