The world will look up and shout, "Save us," and I’ll whisper, "No…I’m too busy watching the Olympics." On to the news!
- BBCAmerica continues its iTunes festival of awesome by adding Primeval to the list of available shows (Torchwood and the new Doctor Who). If you hurry, you’ll be able to download the pilot for free with each new episode popping up for purchase the day after it airs.
- Speaking of iTunes and the good Doctor, there’s a plethora of Doctor Who: The Classic Series adventures also available for purchase including "Mark of the Rani," "The Three Doctors," "The Hand of Fear," and "The Claws of Axos."
- Yes, you are already mourning the loss of Battlestar Galactica but this might ease your pain – you’ll be treated to a special two-hour movie event directed by Edward James Olmos.
- Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly got the scoop that Seth Green and Breckin Meyes are in talks to do a guest arc on Heroes. They’ll be playing comic nerds in Atlanta who’ll advise one of the characters. I love those two but do we really need more new characters on the show? But hey, whatever stops the whining and helps facilitates more butt-whopping…
- Warner Bros. and DC have been discussing how to ramp up movie adaptions according to Variety. Very little info has come out but whatever they have planned may be announced in a month’s time. The only thing that can be gleaned from the article is that the snail’s pace is partially because DC doesn’t have a dedicated development exec and partially because they don’t want to make any more movies that cause fans to march on the studio with pitchforks and torches. *coughBatman & Robincough*
- In other adaption news, Just Jared was posted some pics of Jake Gyllenhaal walking around off the set in costume. Looks promising but, since Disney has pushed the film back from a Summer ’09 release to a Summer ’10, we’ll have to be patient to see if it pans out. The delay has been attributed to making sure there’s enough time to work out the special effects. I’d rather wait a few extra months than have crap fx so you’ll hear no complaints from me.
- Speaking of delays, the sixth Harry Potter movie won’t be coming out in November after all. It’ll be out in July ’09 instead. Sucks to be Entertainment Weekly – they feature the movie prominently on the cover and interior of the latest issue, the Fall Guide. The move has facilitated a second change. Craz…er, enthusiastic fans rejoice for Twilight will take over Potter‘s original release date of Nov. 21st.
- After the release of four posters at Comic-Con, four more Star Trek posters have popped up on the web featuring John Cho, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban and Anton Yelchin (Sulu, Scotty, Bones and Chekov respectively). Admittedly I didn’t quite know what to make of the casting at first. I love all the actors but I couldn’t quite picture them in the parts. Well, this totally helps. I think I’m digging Pegg’s poster the most.
- Yes, CBS axed Moonlight but they’re hoping to keep those 7 million plus viewers by locking up star Alex O’Loughlin in a talent holding deal. In other words, they’re probably looking to snooker you into watching a totally unrelated and most likely crappy show by placing O’Loughlin in it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy he got a deal. I’m just hoping he doesn’t get screwed. Again.
- And finally, MTV for some godforsaken reason has decided to remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its creator isn’t happy about it. According to the BBC, Richard O’Brien (who played Riff Raff) wants nothing to do with it and wasn’t even consulted prior to the announcement. Dear Executives: Stop it with the remakes of movies that were great to begin with. You’re killing me. Thanks.
Let’s close it out with some trailers:
First up – Max Payne. I never played the game but it looks like a decent shoot ’em up…though maybe not as fantastic as Shoot ‘Em Up which was absolutely delicious.
Here’s the full trailer for Babylon A.D. which you may or may not have seen by now. I was ambivalent before but now I feel like I need to see it.
Ah…animated Wonder Woman. You look so promising and I have such hopes for you but, somehow, I feel you will disappoint me. But I really, really, really hope you won’t.
The Spirit is quite the ladies’ man. I’m suspicious of the film but self-aware enough to know that I will go see it regardless.
The full trailer for Punisher: War Zone. The red band version makes this one look like the promo for Care Bears: The Movie.
Twilight has a new trailer up and running. Whenever I see Edward traveling with Bella on his back it makes me think of Inuyasha.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince looks awesome. Too bad we won’t see it until next year…
Um…here’s the Watchman trailer again. Because…um…yes.
Re: DC Comics and WB. Well one way of doing this is to not spend 10 years playing “will we or won’t we”. The production delays on Superman, the likely-never-to-be-made Wonder Woman and even Batman (which has finally picked up steam but it took forever for them to do Batman Begins) were unacceptable. Marvel doesn’t seem to be having any trouble getting movies made, and even scored a giant hit with Iron Man – a superhero 9 of 10 people have never heard of before. Maybe they ought to forget about WW and Supes and go with, say, a proper Birds of Prey movie, or a film about Checkmate or the Legion of Superheroes. And I don’t mean some “Smallville”-style bastardization either.