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- 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.
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