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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
12:00 AM, 08-AUGUST-08 | | Sony has signed writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to write the script for its new take on Flash Gordon, just a few months after winning rights to the classic SF franchise from Hearst, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Flash Gordon centers on the title young polo player, who is kidnapped and taken to the distant planet Mongo, where he and companions Dale Arden and Hans Zarkov embark on a series of adventures fighting a ruler named Ming the Merciless.
Sony's live-action Flash is the latest incarnation of the 75-year-old franchise, which has been adapted in many media after beginning life as Alex Raymond's comic strip. Flash was a movie serial in the 1930s, a Sam Jones feature film in 1980 and a SCI FI Channel series recently.
Sazama and Sharpless are also writing the vampire tale Dracula Year Zero for Universal and Zack Snyder's Cobalt 60.
The new Flash originally had been set up at Universal, but rights reverted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate after the project sat in development for several years. [from scifi.com]
Breck Eisner is attached to direct and Neal Moritz to produce, as they were when the project was set up at Universal. (Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) |
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Battlestar Galactica Prequel This Year |
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Written by Roger
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
| SCI FI Channel announced that it will air a new Battlestar Galactica two-hour prequel movie, set to air in 2009 following the conclusion of the series.
Directed by star Edward James Olmos, the as-yet-untitled new film will be set before the events of the original Battlestar miniseries and will focus on Cylons: Number One, known as Cavil (Dean Stockwell), resistance leader Sam T. Anders (Michael Trucco) and Chief Galen Tyrol (Aaron Douglas).
In the beginning, the Cylons had a plan, but it didn't account for one thing: survivors. During the chaotic aftermath of the nuclear destruction, two powerful Cylon agents struggle with plots and priorities on the human ships that got away and among the resistance fighters who were left behind.
The film will be written by Jane Espenson and will begin shooting in Vancouver, Canada, at the end of the summer. After airing on SCI FI, it will be released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
The final 10 episodes of the fourth and last season of Battlestar Galactica will begin airing on SCI FI Channel in 2009. |
[from scifi.com] |
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Tron 2 Sneak Peak At Comic-Con |
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Written by Roger
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
| Disney unveiled computer animation that for a sequel to its classic 1982 animated SF movie Tron in a surprise announcement to more than 6,500 fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 24.
The sequence opens with a camera twisting through the clouds during a thunderstorm, then down and across a grid. In the center, a figure in a new version of the blue light suit runs and jumps, and a new version of the lightcycle materializes under him.
He engages a second lightcycle rider in yellow-green in a chase, down stairs, up ramps, over planes of transparency, hurtling toward the grid's edge, beyond which loom gray mountains, split by a narrow crevasse.
The cyclists speed side by side toward the crevasse, each trying to sideswipe the other one and throw him off balance.
Blue reaches the mountain and disappears into the gap. Green skids to a stop, perpendicular to the opening, and then takes off in a different direction.
Blue travels on a twisting path through the mountain; beyond lies a bridge leading to a vast cityscape.
Blue crosses Green's laser trail, and his lightcycle shatters into a million pieces, throwing Blue through the air.
The footage then cuts to a vast, white live-action room in which sits an older version of what seems to be Kevin Flynn from the original film, still played by Jeff Bridges. He looks out a broad window and sees Green below him on the bridge.
Green has gotten off his bike, and is carrying a collapsed version of his lightcycle, approaches the crumpled body of Blue.
Green stops and looks up, toward a gigantic mountain rising above them. We can see white light shining from a rectangular window cut into the mountain side. Is this where Flynn is watching?
Blue says to Green, "This is just a game!"
Green replies, "Not anymore."
Green throws his cycle at Blue and the footage cuts to black. The footage ends with a stylized "2," which merges into the word "Tron." |
[from scifi.com] |
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