Archive | July, 2007

Ritchie to adapt his own comic idea for movie

30. July 2007

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In an announcement that probably won’t surprise anyone director Guy ‘Mr Madonna’ Ritchie, best known for his London gangster movies like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, is to adapt the comic he devised for Virgin, the Gamekeeper, reports the BBC (via Variety). Ritchie devised the story but the actual comic was written by top [...]

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Zenith

30. July 2007

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Hipster Dad makes an impassioned plea for Grant Morrison and all concerned publishers to sit down and sort out the legal wrangling over the brilliant Zenith strip from 2000AD so we can actually have it reprinted. I second and third that request – Zenith is a piece of gold from early Morrison work and if [...]

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Dante in Manhattan

30. July 2007

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Simon Fraser has a new episode of Lilly MacKenzie up on Act-I-Vate and also mentions that he is about to get cracking seriously on a ten-page new Judge Dredd script and he has received the first script for the next Nikolai Dante story which he says will boast opening splash pages of Manhattan and Times [...]

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Heroes graphic novels

27. July 2007

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Reports are coming out that DC will be announcing a graphic novel for the hit Heroes TV series, which will collect the mini-strips which appeared on the Heroes website in print for the first time, along with new covers by Alex Ross and Jim Lee (I’d have thought Tim Sale would be the obvious choice [...]

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You can’t keep a good Vulcan down

27. July 2007

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ICV2 reports that Paramount announced at the San Diego Comic Con that Leonard Nimoy has been confirmed to return as Spock for the new Star Trek movie JJ Abrams is working on (scheduled for release in winter 2008). Zachary Quinto from 24 and Heroes will play the younger Mr Spock, with Abrams saying he was [...]

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Cory speaks from SDCC

27. July 2007

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Top tech and society guru, science fiction writer and Boing Boing-er – and soon to be comics creator – Cory Doctorow has put up a voicepost as he goes around the San Diego Comic Con. I was particularly interested by Cory contrasting the attendance – both numbers and the age range of attendees – of [...]

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Hup two three four, I like fighting video war…

27. July 2007

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Hi-tech weapons systems often attract criticism from people noting that they turn war into a video game where soldiers are operators and removed from the first-hand consequences of their actions. Now the US Army has taken it one step further and actually commissioned an official army video game for arcades. The game supposedly has missions [...]

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Blogging meme

27. July 2007

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Ariel at the Genre Files has kindly tagged me with one of those pesky memes which we online folks like to annoy one another with (gee, thanks, bud), which normally I wouldn’t bother with too much, but since the theme of the meme is blogging tips and the folks who have taken part so far [...]

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Heroes on the radio

27. July 2007

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The BBC has scored a ratings success with the terrestrial UK debut of Heroes, which pulled in an audience of over 4 million for the opening double bill on Wednesday evening. The Beeb, no stranger to the popularity of cult SF TV, is also producing Heroes: the Official Radio Show on digital channel BBC7; each [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group does Gaiman

27. July 2007

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The July meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place on Tuesday 31st from 6pm in Henderson’s on Hanover Street. The book under discussion this month is by one Mister Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere, an intriguing tale of the shadow world of London, a realm where there is a real earl holding [...]

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Perelandra on Radio 7

26. July 2007

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BBC Radio 7 is airing an 18-part adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra, which started on Monday (use the Listen Again feature to hear it for up to seven days after transmission) and continues weekdays at 6pm. Lewis’ science fiction shows its age in depicting a Venus which is inhabited by human-like beings (as many writers [...]

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Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever Planned Parenthood can…

26. July 2007

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How cool is this? Andrew Farago found an unusual Spider-Man comic from the 1970s while browsing in San Francisco, a comic with the brilliant title of “Stan Lee presents: A Special Planet Parenthood Issue Of The Amazing Spider-Man”. Our scheming bad guy is planning to tell impressionable teens that they should have wild, unprotected, care-free [...]

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30 Days of Night on FearNet

26. July 2007

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Ahead of the movie adaptation of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s excellent horror 30 Days of Night FearNet has announced they will being showing a mini-series called 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails on September 13th; the mini-series will cover events leading up to those seen in the upcoming feature film (link via Broadcast Newsroom). [...]

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Family Guy next for the big screen?

26. July 2007

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E! Online reports that Seth McFarlane and Fox are considering a big screen outing for Family Guy, although they will probably hold off green-lighting it until they see how well the imminent Simpsons movie does at the box office. Even if the go-ahead is given McFarlane cautions it would be a while, possibly years in [...]

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Starship sofa has new forums

26. July 2007

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The guys who run the highly enjoyable science fiction podcast Starship Sofa (which has recently been focusing on the works of Bob Heinlein) have now got themselves shiny new forums open for discussions, so swing by and say hi.

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