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Sci-Fi Scramble: Wonder Woman, Vampire Diaries – oh the Never Ending..
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | Movies, Sci-fi | No Comments
Warner Brothers is going to see if their Luck Dragon will hold out another round with a reboot of “The Never Ending Story“. The franchise has seen 3 movies, a tv show on Hallmark and a cartoon. The project is in early development stages, and original producer Dieter Geissler will produce. Word is the new movie will examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first film. Classic fantasy movie ruined? We will see.
Vampire Diaries is based on books originally published in 1993. It’s being done by the CW and well..its about VAMPIRES. Two brother vampires. One good, one bad and hey are fighting over the soul of a teen aged girl and the souls of those living in her town. WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS BEFORE? Close..sorrta..Twilight? Yeah, but Vampire Diaries was written well before Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.
Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, who voices Queen Hippolyta in the new feature-length direct-to-DVD animated film Wonder Woman, told SCI FI Wire at WonderCon in San Francisco over the weekend that she’d like to reprise her role in a live-action version of the story. Whos Virginia Madsen?
Nope. I don’t see it..at all..
Sci-Fi on TV is where it’s at!
Friday, February 6th, 2009 | Sci-fi | No Comments
Fox has Fringe, Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Fox network is leading this new spur of programs with 5 pilots ordered with a Sci-Fi theme.
- Masterwork is about a race against time to recover the world’s most sought-after artifacts.
- There is an as-yet-untitled reincarnation project, about past-life investigators who use reincarnation to solve mysteries.
- Human Target, based on the DC Comics title, about Christopher Chance, a mysterious security-for-hire who assumes the identities of people in life-threatening danger, becoming the “human target” on behalf of his clients
- Eva Adams, about a male chauvinist who wakes up in woman’s body.
- Virtuality, from Battlestar Galactica’s Ron Moore, a sci-fi drama set in two different worlds, outer space and a seemingly limitless virtual reality.
So, kinda like an exploration of what we will see on Caprica? If you haven’t seen the sneak peeks online. Virtual Reality plays a part in everything going on around the creation of the first “skin job” Cylons.
ABC follows along with 3 pilots..
- Eastwick based on John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick, about three modern-day women who discover they have magical powers
- Flash Forward, where everyone in the world blacks out for two minutes and has a vision of their future
(WHAT?? Huh??)
- V, from The 4400’s Scott Peters and based on the 1983 miniseries, which chronicles human resistance fighters battling aliens.
NBC only has one pilot ordered up that is full of Sci-Fi fun.
- Day One from Heroes writer Jesse Alexander: In the aftermath of a “global event” that devastates the world’s infrastructures, a small band of survivors strive to rebuild society and unravel the mysteries of why the event took place.
With pilot season coming its nice to see major networks exploring the Sci-Fi option. Sci-Fi > Reality TV. CBS has no sci-fi pilots. WHY CBS, whats so important you cant be like the cool kids? Oh..political drama, family drama and comedy. Ok..at least it isn’t reality TV.
“Best Day Ever”
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | Sci-fi | No Comments
This season of Heroes has been better then the second by a long shot. I honestly think the writers strike may have been a blessing in disguise for this series. (For so many others it ended the series before it began. LOL Bionic Woman take two, remember that?) Cutting the last “chapter” short, rethinking direction and writing. All good things.
Iv enjoyed the season so far, over all it seems to recapture what drew me to the series in the first place. It’s kept me wanting more, unlike season two that kept me asking myself if it was over so the new “chapter” could start.
As I don’t like what they did with El, they have done some interesting twists and have left me guessing on which person is lying, and which isn’t.
One of my favorite parts so far?
Breckin Meyer and Seth Green guest star as comic shop owners who help Hiro figure out what he needs to do next to save the world. The entire time this is going on, Breckin Meyer is all giddy that the people from the comic are real. Seth is swearing up and down this is a practical joke. He ends up delivering an inspiring speech of sorts to Hiro, who then proves to Seth that he is in fact, the person from the comic and blinks away so Save the cheerleader, save the world!
Cylons will be back in 2010.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | Sci-fi | No Comments
It has been announced that Sci-fi has given the green light for “Caprica” to be made.
The series will be set 50 years before the events seen on Battlestar Galactica. The entire plot sounds interesting. So far details have revealed that the series will rotate around Joseph Adama, father of future Battlestar commander William Adama, and Daniel Graystone, a wealthy technologist and their respective families.
Graystone, riddled with grief over the death of his daughter creates a copy of her. The first Cylon to look like a human. The series will be kicked off with a 2 hour “movie” made for TV that sets up this plot.
From what I have read, it sounds like were going to see more details into how the 12 colonies worked. More court room scenes ahead. Maybe William Shatner can stop by and defend someone?
Production picks back up in 2009, series is expected to premiere in 2010. The question is, will it fly? Battlestar Galactica is an amazing show with a dynamic cast and the plot already laid out before the series aired. After all it is a remake that in so many ways became its own. Caprica is going to be a Family saga/drama, and covering things that happened before something we have already seen.
I can see myself enjoying the show, yet not. Since it sounds to me like more court room scenes are ahead I cringed. As interesting as it may have been to some to see these scenes, and I can understand that the goal was to show how the humans were trying to pull things together to resemble some form of society- it bored me. The only thing that I liked about the entire thing was the scene were Lee was being all hardcore lawyer man. Doing what he felt needed to be done and expose the President. I loved watching her smack him down by insisting he ask why, and then announce the reasoning behind her still taking chamalla.
If you don’t know what chamalla is. It’s a drug on the series used to treat cancer. The medical community doesn’t really approve of us. Not many people do, as side effects can include from hallucinations or prescient visions. Plus it doesn’t seem to really cure cancer.
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