Tuesday, 29 September 2009

The Week In Geek...

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

(1) Dalek Meets Its Match : A man from Bognor Regis, Sussex, has taken two years to build a life-sized dalek out of 480,000 matchsticks.

(2) Drawing Out Dru: A video interview with actress Juliet Landau about the Drusilla issues of the Angel comic, which she co-wrote.

(3) Buffy Baby: Sarah Michelle Gellar (aka Buffy Summers) and hubby Freddie Prinze Jnr have had a baby girl called Charlotte.

(4) Buffy - Season Nine: Joss Whedon confirms that once the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic book series from Dark Horse wraps up, a Season Nine will definitely follow.

(5) Dollhouse On Death Row Already: The second season of Dollhouse premiered in the States to the show's worst viewing figures to date.

(6) Heroes Down, Big Bang Up: The new season opener of Heroes tanks in the US, while Big Bang Theory rockets!

(7) HeroClix Returns With A Vengeance: The revitalised HeroClix line is relaunching with Marvel HeroClix: Hammer Of Thor.

(8) Elementary, My Dear Ianto: Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd joins Star Trek: Enterprise's Dominic Keating in Asylum's next direct-to-DVD mockbuster, Sherlock Holmes, which sees the venerable hero defending London from giant monsters!

(9) There Can Be Only One... More: The Highlander franchise is getting another chance at life thanks to Fast & Furious director Justin Lin and the scriptwriters of Iron Man, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

(10) Two X-Projects In The Pipeline: X-Men franchise producer reveals plans for X4 (with the original cast from the earlier films) and New Mutants film, based on the Marvel comic book.

(11) Star Wars Tops Hit Parade: the music of the original Star Wars movie has been voted the best sci-fi film score by readers of Total Sci-Fi.

(12) Riding High: David Goyer is working on a Ghost Rider sequel, with the idea that Nic Cage will return to the lead role.

(13) Flying Again: Body horror auteur David Cronenberg is remaking his 1986 horror classic The Fly.

(14) There's Gold In Them Thar Fields: a haul of 1,500 gold artifacts has been unearthed in a Staffordshire field, the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure collection yet discovered in Britain.

(15) Water On The Moon: New data from the Moon suggests "a surprising amount" of water in the Lunar soil. Could be an important stepping stone to further space exploration.

(16) Ultramarines: A 70-minute, animated Warhammer 40,000 movie, Ultramarines, is being developed as a joint project between Games Workshop and Codex Pictures.

BREAKING NEWS - (17)
Primeval Lives! Time-travelling/dinosaur-hunting Primeval has been given a new lease of life by BBC America and UKTV, three months after it was axed by ITV for being too costly to produce.

2 persons have something to say about this!:

Nimbus said...

(5) Sad to hear Dollhouse isn't doing too well (not that I've seen it yet).

(17) But fantastic news about Primeval. Hurrah!

The Acrobatic Flea said...

Now we just have to wait 18 months - two years for the next series of Primeval :-)

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