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- Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as a $200 million student film. …Bridges explained that the Marvel superhero movie rushed into production to make its release date, with the director and star making up scenes as they went along.
- The movie based on the board game Battleship will actually contain an epic battle between the battleships and aliens, with focus on current naval technologies.
- Disney’s Tron Legacy team is going to be remaking Disney’s PG-rated sci-fi terrifying movie, The Black Hole.
- Pride Prejudice and Zombies is going to be made into a 6-part miniseries and a sequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, will be coming out in March 2010.
- For the first time, scientists have grown a pork chop in a laboratory, a breakthrough that could lead to a future of meat that could be harvested without killing animals. Researchers at Eindhoven University, backed by funding from a sausage manufacturer and the Dutch government, have grown pork from cells harvested from a live pig. Although meat from goldfish has been grown from a lab, this is the first time mammal meat has been grown in-vitro.
- Part two of Doctor Who: The End of Time will air in the UK on January 1st, 2010. Assume that means US transmission will be January 2nd, then.
- In the Saltan province of Argentina, hundreds of residents of a small town witnessed the arrival of a massive UFO, which hovered over the local power station. And then all the town’s electricity and phones went out for several hours. The ship is of the same type people have been seeing since the 1950s. Witnesses reported seeing the cigar-shaped spaceship and a “gigantic luminous creature.”
- The science of science fiction gets its own Mythbusters-style show, called Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible. The first two episodes will air on the Science Channel on December 1, at 10pm. The first episode is titled “How to Explore the Universe,” and the second “How to Travel to a Parallel Universe.”
- Harlan Ellison is infamous for his decade-long feud with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry after he rewrote much of Ellison’s only Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Now that the franchise is in the hands of J.J. Abrams, Ellison is offering his services for the second film in Abrams’ reboot (for a price, of course).
- Zombieland 2 will come out in 3D, probably sometime around 2012.
- There was recently a 10,000 person LAN, called Dreamhack, in Sweden.
- Chicago launched Wi-Max, where you can use the internet anywhere in Chicago for a price. It will soon be launched in any city with an NFL team.
- Eve Online Dominion came out yesterday.
- Mininova removed all of their pirated torrents on Thanksgiving.
- Actor changes for Iron Man 2.
- Left4Dead 2 has patched.
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