Three cheers for John Scalzi! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America today announced their nominations for the 2009 Nebula Awards, and SciFi Scanner's esteemed columnist has been honored with two nominations -- one for his novella The God Engines, and another for his young adult novel Zoe's Tale.
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• The International Space Staion might be a clump of junk, but it still resembles a pretty mean TIE figher.
• Jim Lee and Geoff Johns are now huge and major players in the D.C. Comics universe. In fact, they're running the whole damn show.
• Everything you wanted to know about Iron Man 2? It's on the back of the toy packages!
• Five characters will return from the dead during this final season of Lost.
• Steven Spielberg is returning to the land of dinosaurs with the television drama Terra Nova, about a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to prehistoric Earth.
• Scientists say that warp speed would have actually killed Kirk and Spock.
• Just a couple days after the largest lightsaber battle ever, UK Trekkies stage the largest gathering of Starfleet personnel ever.
• Graham Annables has posted a hysterical series of cartoons depicting Lost's most memorable moments.
• Yes, Virginia, there will be a third Riddick movie, but it'll be a back to basics affair after the execrable second movie's "Conan in space" plot.
• Just a reminder that as some of your favorite scifi shows get canceled in the coming weeks, a charity single trying to save the show never helps anyone.
Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.18.10 - Trekkies Strike Back, Riddick Gets Threequel" »
• Peter Sarsgaard talks to SciFi Wire about what it takes to be Green Lantern's hydrocephalic, telepathic super-nemesis.
• Death Race is getting a sequel... starring Ving Rhames as Rupert Murdoch?
• Luc Besson's next movie will be a 3D scifi actioner called Section 8.
• James Cameron has spoken to Mark Webb about his upcoming 3D Spider-Man movie.
• A charming trailer for a short flick about two children who pilot a robot squid around Canada.
• The Halcyon Group's bankruptcy has seen the Terminator franchise rights pass to hedge fund Pacificor, who have given Sony Pictures and Lionsgate a window of opportunity to make first bid on the next movie in the series.
• On that note, io9 has some great thoughts on why it would be better to reboot the Terminator franchise rather than do a straight sequel... and after McG's turn, I agree.
• James Cameron is apparently hard at work penning a prequel novel to Avatar. I was skeptical, but I actually would like Sigourney Weaver's initial meetings with the Na'vi illuminated.
• Will Neo Kirk himself, Chris Pine, be the new Captain America? I'd never thought about it before, but he'd make a great choice. I'm still rooting for Aaron Eckhardt, though.
• Roland Emmerich intends to destroy Isaac Asimov's Foundation series by turning it into Avatar.
• Some possible Batman 3 plot details for you, including a rumor that the Riddler will be the new villain. I wish they'd give the role to Jim Carrey to redeem himself.
• The Hollywood Reporter has a list of all the television shows in danger of cancellation this season... and surprise! Almost every new scifi series is on the list.
• Lost'a opening credits... circa 1967.
• As a belated Valentine's Day treat, science fiction's greatest love potions and devotion rays.
• Palestinians are using Na'vi make-up to protest the Israeli West Bank barrier.
Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.15.10 - Batman 3 Has Riddler, Tron Goes on Ice" »
• SciFi Wire lists fourteen of the goriest, most heart-ripping scenes to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day.
• And on that note, more St. Valentine's Day list-making: Screwtopia! The five types of erotic dystopia in science fiction.
• Dune's new director tells his new screenwriter, Chase Palmer, to stick to the book, stupid.
• It looks like the Escape from New York remake is a go again, thanks to a rewrite from Alan Loeb that reportedly has much better Snake Plisskin one-liners.
• The original screenwriter of Terminators 1 and 2 wants to take a crack at 5 and 6.
• The Hughes Brothers, directors of Book of Eli, are now slated to direct Akira.
• Uh huh. Sam Raimi's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea won't have a giant squid? Why the hell not? Hollywood seems to think they're ridiculous, but they are actual real creatures.
• Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie is now in pre-production, officially.
• After Tron Legacy, Joseph Kosniski plans to remake Black Hole.
• Edgar Wright's Ant Man might still be a go if his meeting with Stan Lee is anything to go by.
• Spike Jonze's strange, weird and sad robot movie, I'm Here, gets a website.
• The latest B-Minus-list celebrity to join Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern: Tim Robbins as a totally new character who has never appeared in any of the comics.
• The Terminator franchise has been slurped up by a hedge fund. Well, they can't possibly do worse with the property than McG did with Terminator Salvation.
• Speak of the Devil, now that the execrable McG has been kicked off the Captain Nemo movie, Sam Raimi has some exciting ideas.
• Warner Bros. has asked The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan to mentor their upcoming Superman reboot. Can he do for Big Blue what he did for the Caped Crusader?
Continue reading "Daily Scan for 02.10.10 - Nolan Mentors Superman, Robbins Joins Green Lantern" »
• 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.
The comic-book writer talks about Stan Lee, Nicolas Cage, and playing a homeless character in his new movie.
It shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone who followed the race closely.
In Batman Returns, Tim Burton redefined the character of Catwoman. How well do you know the many incarnations of that feline femme fatale?
