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R.I.P. Majel Barrett Roddenberry
She passed away of leukemia at age 76. Link
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The Day The Earth Stood Still Reviews
The Crotchety Old Fan, who’s been vocal about his opposition to a remake of the classic in much the same way that Muntadhar al-Zeidi was vocal about his opposition to President Bush, bit the bullet and watched the remake. I believe it’s safe say that he was not impressed. The couple of examples above do…
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More Remakes
Alternate post title: “WTF, Hollywood?” The Website at the End of the Universe recently pointed to a list of remakes (and a couple of sequels) to classic SF movies that don’t actually need remaking, such as When Worlds Collide and Creature from the Black Lagoon. I could at least see why they were planning to…
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Comic Books to Movies
When Hollywood appropriates a genre, it really appropriates the holy living crap out of it. With the success of Iron Man and the various X-Men movies, it’s not surprising that other comic books are being adapted for the screen. What is surprising–at least to me–is that a whopping 84 titles are scheduled for production. Den…
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Dr. Horrible on DVD
Joss Whedon’s “internet experiment” Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is finally coming to DVD. The release date is given as December 19, although Whedon says that they hope to have it available sooner. Over on Whedonesque, he talked it up thusly: Is it worth fifteen hard-earned dollars? Absolutely. In fact, I can say without reservation that…
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Books That Should be Movies
Considering all of the unnecessary remakes of classic SF movies, you’d think that there was no new material available for adaptation. Au contraire, says Topless Robot, now that it’s had a foreign language upgrade. They’ve put together a list of The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies. I’m not sure that…
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Plausible SF
Newsarama has published a roundup of the most plausible science fiction movies (hint: none of them involve FTL). Gattaca (1997) In the not-too-distant future world of Gattaca, children’s genes are pre-selected by their upper-class parents for the best traits; those babies whose genes are imperfect are treated as second-class citizens. Today DNA analysis is common,…
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Red Mars Coming to TV
After nailing the early 60s milieu of the outrageously good dramatic series “Mad Men”, AMC is ready to try its hand at a more technically challenging setting. From Locus – November 2008: Kim Stanley Robinson’s RED MARS is being developed as a TV series for AMC with executive producer Jonathon Hensleigh. Ralph Vicinanza, Vince Gerardis,…
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This is Weird on So Many Levels
A few years ago Bruce “Fear My Chin” Campbell made an odd little movie called Bubba Ho-Tep, in which he played an elderly Elvis fighting the mummy that’s been killing people in his old folks’ home.* It’s become something of a cult classic, and writer Don Coscarelli is now considering a sequel. Entitled Bubba Nosferatu.…
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
After an original release date of last April, this rock opera is finally scheduled for limited release (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Las Vegas) on November 7 and will be released on DVD next January. It’s a kind of cyberpunk-gore-goth-drama…thing. The plot involves a not-too-distant dystopian future where massive organ failure is…