- Original series Sanctuary, starring Stargate‘s Amanda Tapping has been renewed for another season on the Sci Fi Channel.
- Josh Schwartz, creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck, and The O.C., has been signed by Fox to reboot their X-Men movie franchise in a new project called X-Men: First Class. Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat, who have appeared prominently or made cameos in prior pics are likely to star.
- Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson is reportedly vying for the directors chair for a new He-Man movie. Given that so many others have passed on the project Warner Bros killed it, it should be no great difficulty to prove that he’s the only man for the job.
- Hollywood rumors report that Universal Studios is considering making Tremors: The Thunder From Down Under. Either the movie will be set in Australia, or the Ass-Blasters from Tremors 2 are back.
- Real Life News Easily Adapted to Sci Fi Story #7564-b: One of the spiders sent up to the International Space Station is missing. Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says ‘We don’t believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days.”
- “India’s scariest movie ever” called Agyaat (The Unknown), features a group of people trapped in the jungle with an invisible alien killer who’s picking them off one by one. Ram Gopal Varma, director of breakout horror hit Phoonk, says the real star of Agyaat, filming next year, will be the first-of-their-kind special effects. No word yet on if the Governator has given his blessing to the project.
- Disney is rebooting the Witch Mountain franchise, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, explosions, shiny lights, and preteens than can stop an SUV with their body and levitate a macbook air with their mind. Oh and there’s a green armored thing chasing them that we shall call Master Fett or Bobba Chief.
- Simon Pegg’s new movie, Paul, will have him and Hot Fuzz co-star Nick Frost taking a space alien to San Diego Comic-Con, It has also been revealed that the alien in question is going to have a Cloverfield-esque pedigree. Says Pegg “I think it’s a bigger film than probably Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz put together… We’re figuring [the logistics of the alien] out at the moment and having real fun, working closely with Double Negative who did Shaun and Hot Fuzz and Cloverfield and Hellboy II.” Paul starts shooting next April with Superbad‘s Greg Mottola directing.
- Excelsior! ShowTime and Stan Lee are working on a project together – an adaptation of Perry Moore’s award-winning 2007 young adult novel Hero, which tells the story of the world’s first gay superhero dealing with his ex-superhero father, his sexuality, and a superhero serial killer. Moore,will work on the new series as a writer and executive producer, alongside Lee, whose production company Pow! Entertainment, is behind the show.
- Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and David Fincher have all signed on to work with Blur Studio on the new Heavy Metal movie. No movie studio backing yet but with powerhouses like that, its much closer to reality. Blur is known for their work on the Warhammer Online games, Harry Potter, and more.
- Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster has been tapped to helm the zombie epic, World War Z. The movie is based on Max Brooks’ novel which is a fictional collection of accounts from survivors after the zombies infested the world and mass panic took over. The action packed underwater walking zombie extravaganza is being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company. J. Michael Straczynski is penning the screenplay, which is still not finished.
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Attendance: 18 and lots of cookies
Meeting Start: 10:01:and 30 seconds after finishing a cookie
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Anti-Mike, Alex, and Dan are here.
Movie: Quantum of Solace has an imaginary plot. The bad movie: House 2, the Second Story.
Office Resource: The office is still there. Please remember to turn off the lights and TV.
Trivia: By phone: What class of starship is the Enterprise? Xeen has it again with the Soverign.
Party: None.
Discussion Group: How did Han Solo turn into Indiana Jones?
Fundraising: Anti-Mike raised 6 cents.
No Report: Alex disappeared for a couple weeks, visited Indiana grad school, and helped move a 500lb stone around.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Is actually here. The play has claimed his body and soul.
Constable: Second annual Jack Porkin’s day; you will be bapped if you do not comply. Guaranteed to succeed if he wears dark hats and drinks 10 shots.
Com Officer: ?
Grand Nagus: Has been playing Fallout 3 and Planescape: Torment. Gained a wisdom from someone disappearing. Went outside at 4am to smoke a cigar.
First Officer: Been hiding at home except for classes. She feels no need for grenades at home.
Captain: Slept through most of this week. Found his Lord of the Rings gamecube game.
Old Business: None.
New Business: None.
Other Organizations
Anime: Nothing.
MCS: Maybe playig Starcraft.
Order of Xeen: Traveller will be happening.
Theater: None.
Other: LAN will be there at 7pm.
Meeting End: 10:45 and seconds after Comma Chameleon
Quotes
Jack: Oh, it’s the plot of Indiana Jones.
Alex: I don’t remember dinosaurs.
Jack: Time constraints. You understand.
Forrest: There will be no eating. There is only Zuul!
Adam: Resurrection spell that gives full HP, mana, AND it’s your turn.
Erik: We call this the Mulligan.
Jack: Meeting on Friday. At 5.
Jon: Wow. New and different.
Anti-Mike: Remember: Next time I play SBAM, I will play the US and invade Canada. I will use the moose to invade Mexico.
Jack: I had an overwhelming urge to smoke. I’ve never smoked before.
Sarah: Are you pregnant?
Jack: Yes. That must be it.
Erik: I did read the constitution. Sober this time.
Jon: That’s cheating!
Anti-Mike: Careful. Reading the constitution might summon the demons within the bapper.
Dan: You forgot to mention that when you entered my house.
Anti-Mike: And you called me your friend.
Jack: I think that’s the only reason I would ever smoke a cigar: To be a bad ass.
Jon: I don’t need to go onto Wiki and look up “multidisc gamecube games.” I have that kind of time, but I don’t want to use it that way.
Those interested in the Quantum of Solace away mission should meet outside of the Student Center at 7:50pm. We’ll be heading to the RAVE theater for the 8:30pm showing.
See you there.
Attendance: 16
Meeting Start: 10:04:02
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Sign the log book!
Movie: 007 away mission is being planned. The bad movie is The Wizard of Speed and Time.
Office Resource: Still there.
Trivia: Xeen still has trivia by answering the name of the arch-lich who created the Tomb of Horrors.
Party: Needs money.
Discussion Group: Mike is locked in a soundbooth. New topic: Good ways to become immortal.
No Report: Xeen used a Gutenberg machine to make huge explosion.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Not here. Again.
Constable: Survived Week of Death: 3 tests, 2 papers, head cold, AND Obama won. Racked up lots of kills in Fallout 3.
Com Officer: Has been visiting prisons.
Grand Nagus: Has been watching Fantastic Four. Also emailed a guy who worked on music for ComicZone to ask about the best lamb in San Francisco.
First Officer: Nothing.
Captain: Told by his teacher that he would fit in well at prison.
Old Business: None.
New Business: None.
Other Organizations
Anime: Punishment by Lucky Star.
MCS: Friday at 5. Starcraft is now understood?
Order of Xeen: None.
Theater: Go see play.
Other: Jon needs voice talent for podcasting.
LAN will meet at 8pm, hopefully in the right room.
Meeting End: 10:32 and a half hour after I found the hammer.
Quotes
Adam: I didn’t see Forrest.
Jon: Is your gaydar broken?
?: Forrest, I wonder what you’d see when you looked at Tim Gunn.
?: Negative space.
Forrest: Sparkly negative space.
Jon: If I can cockblock Psi Phi with Reboot the Reboot, I’m happy.
Erik: It was more like blue balls.
Erik: The first lawyer that makes a statement… the judge will say, “Why so serious?” and run out laughing.
Jack: If we had a good general, we would have won the first time around.
Erik: We still would have won with a drunk general and an army of dinosaurs.
Erik: Actually, I cut [the office] off from the building a bit ago.
Forrest: Ow, it hurts. Give me money.
Erik: So… since I haven’t given money and I just paralyzed you, here’s $2. Hey! He can move his arms!
Jon: Lawsuit averted.
Jack: No one will mess with Kelty. He already has a nickname. He’s on a killing spree.
Erik: I get a black screen.
Adam: Is it plugged in?
Erik: Yes.
Adam: Both ends?
Erik: Yes. It’s a laptop.
Erik: I could do it.
Adam: Hey! He said talent.
- The captain may wish to cover his ears for this one. Red Eagle Entertainment is readying not only big-screen adaptations of the Wheel of Time novels, but video games as well. They’ve just launched Red Eagle Games, a video game publishing company that will oversee the release of video games to coincide with the launch of the movies.
- Reboot ze reboot! NBC’s Knight Rider is getting a makeover. “It’s a reboot,” “Knight” executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson said. “We’re moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen.”
- Engineers at the University of Washington have developed contact lenses with integrated circuitry. This achievement could lay the groundwork for the “bionic eye,” and another element of science fiction will join the ranks of simply science.
- The new Ghostbusters video game will be backed by Atari. This is not a repeat from 1984. With much of the original cast signed on for voice acting, developed by Sierra and then bounced through Activision Blizzard, the project has found its new home with Atari now owned by Infogrames, it should be published in 2009.
- The Army wants to use Eve Online and WoW to test AI sending in virtual soldiers to see if human players can tell the difference. Finally. after billions of dollars in funding, the US military has caught up with the Chinese gold farmers. The army is also trying to use hands free tech to have soldiers in constant, silent communication with each other, with the ability to silently activate and control machines just by thinking about it.
- A new game is in development by veteran game designer Richard Berg that will feature Godzilla, along with some of his friends. Confirmed monsters include Rodan, King Ghidorah and Gigan. There will likely be miniatures representing the monsters, but no word on the scale or design of the pieces. A 2009 release is anticipated and more details and development can be found at boardgamegeek.com
- The mayor of the Turkish town of Batman is suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. blaming the highly successful movie franchise of the same name for the town’s high rate of murders and teen suicides. Legal experts have this to say about the case “bwahahahahaha.”
- Will Smith’s son Jaden is a near lock for the Karate Kid remake. No word yet if Ralph Macchio’s work on Ugly Betty and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead will allow for a cameo or not.
- Warner Bros. is in talks with Sam Worthington to play the role of Perseus in the Louis Leterrier-directed “Clash of the Titans.” Leterrier also directed Unleashed and The Incredible Hulk reboot.
- Ridley Scott has officially moved onto Park Avenue. Scott will direct Universal Pictures’ bigscreen version of Hasbro’s Monopoly board game from a script by Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride).
- “Professor Cline’s Dinosaur Kingdom,” imagines a lost chapter from Civil War history. It supposes that in 1863, a group of paleontologists inadvertently stumbled upon a valley of live dinosaurs. The discovery comes to the attention of the Union Army, who decide to capture them and unleash them on the Confederate Army. Where can you find this story? A new movie? No. A new web series? No. A book? No…Dinosaur Kingdom is a detailed fiberglass roadside attraction in Natural Bridge, Virginia, just across the street from Foamhenge.