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- Grant Morrison, writer of Batman RIP and Final Crisis storylines, may be tapped to write the Flash movie.
- Elder God for two? German game designer Reiner Knizia has published a new game, Cthulhu Rising, a mathematics based puzzle game published by Twilight Creations, who also published Zombies!!!
- Social Conservative group, “Focus on the Family,” has begun spreading a short story called, “Letters from Obama’s America,” written y a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama regime. Pronography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private ownership of guns has been outlawed. Homosexuality will be legalized as a constitutional right, the Boy Scouts will disband when they refuse to let homosexual tent masters sleep in young boy’s tents, the far Left will control the Supreme Court, a few U.S. cities will be attacked by terrorists and Israel will be nuked, Russia will invade Europe, and the Bible will be classified as hate speech. “Letter” is more frightening in that Conservatives are turning to sci-fi as a weapon. Expect to see a lot of right-wing sci-fi protest literature in the future as the right remakes itself.
- Despite internet rumors, Megan Fox will not be playing Wonder Woman.
- CNN has holograms, kind of. Using 35 HD cameras in a special ring, they beamed images of the correspondents to the studio and choreographed the movements of the studio cameras with images from the rig. The anchors then talked to a hidden monitor, giving the appearance of a 3d image in the studio.
- It’s dead, it’s not dead, it’s dead, it’s not dead. Preacher the movie has risen from the grave again. Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to the 90′s series, for an adaptation to be directed by Sam Mendes.
- Researchers said Tuesday that it is possible to protect spacecrafts with a portable system known as a magnetosphere that could keep space environmental threats, such as solar wind and flares, away.
- Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael Straczynski, is writing an update of the classic Forbidden Planet for WB.
- The current leader for the next Dr Who may be Billie Piper, however Steven Moffat says he should be 40-plus and weird looking.
- Heroes execs Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been fired, because of Peacock exec’s frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budge overruns this season, going well beyond its already sizable 4million/seg pricetag.
- Michael Crichton died at 66 of cancer.
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