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Tuesday, 21 April 2009

The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky news who might otherwise have missed...

(1) Primeval Goes Big Time: ITV's much-improved, time-travelling dinosaurs' action, adventure serial Primeval is to be turned into a Hollywood movie. The prospect of a big screen Hannah Spearritt dancing around in her underwear is too exciting to contemplate!

(2) Outlander Preview: See the first five minutes of Outlander, the vikings versus alien monster movie, on the new-look Sci Fi UK website.

(3) Work With A Legend: Rob Kuntz, of Pied Piper Publishing and co-DM of the original Dungeons & Dragons campaign with Gary Gygax, is looking for designers and graphic artists to work on projects for his company.

(4) Clone Troopers On Parade: An exhibition of props, artwork and costumes used in the development of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will run at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis until January 31, 2010.

(5) Random Doctor Who Rumour: The Sun newspaper claims that Russell T Davies was so impressed by Lee Evans in Planet Of The Dead, at Easter, that he is considering giving Evans' character his own spin-off show!

(6) Design A Dungeon, Win Prizes: Wannabe dungeon-builders have until May 14 to design a one-page, systemless dungeon and be in with a chance of winning a selection of role-playing game goodness.

(7) Starlog Signs Off: That venerable old sci-fi magazine, Starlog, is ceasing print publication after 33 years and going 'online'.

(8) Force Is Strong In The Force: Eight police officers - and two civilian members of staff - in a Scottish police force list jedi as their religion, according to Jane's Police Review.

(9) Behind The Scenes With Tintin: Empire Online has exclusive behind-the-scenes action from the new motion-capture Tintin movie.

(10) Interesting 4e Statistics: Scott Rouse WoTC's Senior Brand Manager for Dungeons & Dragons reveals some interesting facts and figures about D&D 4e at the GAMA Trade Show - and an insight into the furture plans.

(11) JG Ballard Dies: Science-fiction writer JG Ballard has passed away. He was 78.

(12) Pushing Daisies Lives Again: Axed-before-its-time Pushing Daisies will rise from the ashes of its aborted televisual odyssey as a comic book.

(13) Wanted: Lumpy: The sequel to the tiresome Wanted is being penned by Evan Spiliotopoulos, whose portfolio includes Pooh's Heffalump Movie - a big favourite around HeroPress Towers (as is anything Lumpy-orientated).

(14) To The Castle: Chapter Eight Of The Chronicles of Tekralh is due to commence this evening with The Tuesday Knights heading towards White Rabbit Castle.
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2 serfs have something to say about this!:

  1. (1) Agreed!

    (5) Oh, Sun, never change!

    (11) Wow. I just recently read The Atrocity Exhibition and allowed it to blow my mind. Definitely a seminal New Wave SF author.
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  2. Have no fear The Sun will never change :D

    And I'll try and keep you abreast of any developments in the Primeval movie.
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