Sci-Fi News pilfered from SciFi.com!
I was reading through SciFi.com's recent news and found a few tidbits that might excite or incite us sci-fi fans:
To celebrate the life of James Doohan, who died July 20, Spike TV will preempt its normal Friday prime-time lineup to present a two-hour block of Star Trek episodes featuring Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.
I hope one of them is the The Trouble with Tribbles episode, in which Scotty and the gang rough house with the Klingons and try to rip off their fake beards.
Batman Begins screenwriter David S. Goyer told SCI FI Wire that he's producing an hour-long television series based on his Blade movies for Spike TV, to begin airing next June. "We're doing a Blade TV show," Goyer said in an interview at CBS' fall press preview in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he was promoting his upcoming SF series Threshold. "I'm co-writing the pilot with [comic writer] Geoff Johns, and it's going to be Spike's first dramatic show, and it's going to air next June."
I think it could be quite a revolutionary show - a black, supernatural character who is on the side of good! Because let's be honest, there aren't too many minorities starring in sci-fi/fantasy shows as it is, unless they're evil or cannon-fodder. Rule: Mr. Trick, Black Vampire in Buffy: TVS; the two Black and one Asian Slayers who were killed off in Buffy: TVS; Exceptions: Gunn, in Angel, Benjamin Sisco in Deep Space 9 and that Black Egyptian Stargate dude in Stargate SG:1.
Ray Liotta, Will Sanderson, Brian J. White and Eva Padberg have joined the cast of director Uwe Boll's upcoming video-game sword-and-sorcery movie Dungeon Siege, producer Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures announced. Based on the popular video game of the same name, Dungeon Siege follows the hard life of lowly Farmer on a mission to save his wife and child. An unspeakably evil army, led by Gallian (Liotta), rampages across the land, destroying everything in its path, with the aim of conquering the Castle Ehb and vanquishing the King himself.
I've never played the game, but do we really need another movie based on a RPG? I saw Dungeons & Dragons and almost had to choke on my own bile. And the plot seems so pale and pointless next to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
To celebrate the life of James Doohan, who died July 20, Spike TV will preempt its normal Friday prime-time lineup to present a two-hour block of Star Trek episodes featuring Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.
I hope one of them is the The Trouble with Tribbles episode, in which Scotty and the gang rough house with the Klingons and try to rip off their fake beards.
Batman Begins screenwriter David S. Goyer told SCI FI Wire that he's producing an hour-long television series based on his Blade movies for Spike TV, to begin airing next June. "We're doing a Blade TV show," Goyer said in an interview at CBS' fall press preview in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he was promoting his upcoming SF series Threshold. "I'm co-writing the pilot with [comic writer] Geoff Johns, and it's going to be Spike's first dramatic show, and it's going to air next June."
I think it could be quite a revolutionary show - a black, supernatural character who is on the side of good! Because let's be honest, there aren't too many minorities starring in sci-fi/fantasy shows as it is, unless they're evil or cannon-fodder. Rule: Mr. Trick, Black Vampire in Buffy: TVS; the two Black and one Asian Slayers who were killed off in Buffy: TVS; Exceptions: Gunn, in Angel, Benjamin Sisco in Deep Space 9 and that Black Egyptian Stargate dude in Stargate SG:1.
Ray Liotta, Will Sanderson, Brian J. White and Eva Padberg have joined the cast of director Uwe Boll's upcoming video-game sword-and-sorcery movie Dungeon Siege, producer Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures announced. Based on the popular video game of the same name, Dungeon Siege follows the hard life of lowly Farmer on a mission to save his wife and child. An unspeakably evil army, led by Gallian (Liotta), rampages across the land, destroying everything in its path, with the aim of conquering the Castle Ehb and vanquishing the King himself.
I've never played the game, but do we really need another movie based on a RPG? I saw Dungeons & Dragons and almost had to choke on my own bile. And the plot seems so pale and pointless next to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
posted by Alan at 11:30 AM
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