Tuesday, 18 November 2008

The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky new that you might have missed...

(1) Obama = Geek. Official: Barack Obama's "one of us". The next US President's coolness continues to grow as we find out more about the man - he collects Conan and Spider-Man comics (and he's read every Harry Potter book)!

(2) Boldly Going: Have a sneak peak at the new look for Kirk's Enterprise in the forthcoming Star Trek movie, due out May 8, 2009.

(3) Weekly Doctor Who In 2009: The Doctor may be absent from our TVs for most of next year, but Big Finish will be releasing new, weekly, audio adventure episodes for download for 16 weeks from March 7.

(4) Lost Returns: Season 5 of Lost is scheduled to premiere on January 21 in the United States.

(5) Ratner Directs Conan: Brett Ratner has been named as the director of the new Conan movie.

(6) Johnston Directs Cap: Joe Johnston has been named as the director of the new Captain America movie.

(7) 28 More...: Danny Boyle is thinking about a sequel to 28 Weeks Later, but insists that his two "28...Later" zombie films are not zombie films. If it looks like a zombie, growls like a zombie, bites like a zombie, runs like a (Zack Snyder) zombie and spreads the love like a zombie... then it's probably a zombie.

(8) Thor Gets Animated: Marvel is prepping a 26 episode, cartoon series revolving around Thor, to debut in 2010.

(9) Once A King Always A King, But Once A Knight Is Enough: The next meeting of my game group, The Tuesday Knights, is due to take place this evening.

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Nimbus said...

I meant to say this the other day but, regarding the Children In Need Dr Who thing, do you think that's actually the new Doctor when Mr Tennant leaves?

I've never seen David Morrissey in anything else but from that very, very brief glimpse of him as the Doctor I can't say I was impressed. Still, maybe he'll grow on me?

The Acrobatic Flea said...

Oh no, have no fear.

David Morrissey is not going to be the next Doctor.

For one thing we still have a year of David Tennant to go, and my understanding is that this "Doctor" (as seen in the brief clip) is a con-man pretending to be our Doctor (as in the Big Finish audio drama: The One Doctor).

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