Hammer goes Steampunk with Boneshaker
Hammer Films have acquired the rights to Cherie Priest’s steampunk zombie novel Boneshaker, which will be adapted by John Hilary Shepherd. The Hugo Award-nominated novel is the first in a […]
Life of Bryan as Singer joins Fuller’s Munsters reboot
X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer will executive produce and direct the pilot of Bryan Fuller’s reboot of The Munsters for NBC. According to the report at Deadline, Singer has monitored the project, and has now signed up to helm the opening hour. In addition to his feature film work, he also directed the pilot for House. The new […]
Star Trek sequel confirmed for May 2013
Paramount Pictures have moved their sequel to the 2009 Star Trek movie to May 17, 2013, and have announced that it will be shot and released in 3D. J.J. Abrams will once again helm the adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, from a script by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. According to reports at unofficial […]
Fringe’s Kreisberg seeks Syfy glory for Booster Gold
Fringe writer/producer Andrew Kreisberg is penning an adaptation of the DC character Booster Gold for Syfy as a potential one hour show. The character was created by Dan Jurgens in […]
Area 51: The TV Series?
Gale Ann Hurd, whose work in the genre stretches back to the original Terminator film in 1984, is developing a new series about the mysterious US Air Force base at […]
RIP Pern creator Anne McCaffrey
Writer Anne McCaffrey has died at her home in Ireland. The 85 year old author suffered a stroke on November 21, her publishers, Del Rey and Random House, announced. Born […]
John Neville, Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen, dies aged 86
John Neville, who had a long and distinguished career before achieving fame with genre fans as Baron Munchausen in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy adventure, has succumbed to Alzheimers at the age […]
Soderbergh abandons UNCLE
Steven Soderbergh’s long-gestating adaptation of the 1960s hit series The Man From UNCLE seems to have come to the end of the road, according to reports emerging today. According to Deadline, Soderbergh has “dropped out of the project because he and Warner Bros couldn’t agree on budget,” although George Clooney’s decision not to take on the role of Napoleon Solo […]
Liam Neeson narrates Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds: The New Generation
Over thirty years after the release of the original double album, Jeff Wayne is completely revising his version of HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds for the new live […]
Chuck’s Yvonne Strahovski joins Aaron Eckhart in I, Frankenstein
While the final season of Chuck rolls out in the States, star Yvonne Strahovski has found her first major post-Sarah Walker role, playing a “beautiful and gifted scientist” in the […]
NBC orders Munsters pilot from Bryan Fuller
Bryan Fuller’s reboot of the classic 1960s TV series The Munsters has received a pilot order from NBC less than two weeks after he delivered the script. According to the report at Deadline, NBC is looking at making The Munsters either a summer or an “event” series. The Pushing Daisies creator is also working on the script for his adaptation […]
Moffat reacts to Who movie news?
Current Doctor Who head writer Steven Moffat has issued a tweet, apparently in response to the recent news that Harry Potter director David Yates is working on a film version of Doctor Who which will be completely separate from the TV series. “Announcing my personal moonshot, starting from scratch. No money, no plan, no help from NASA. But I know where […]
Gilliam’s Brazil comes to Blu-ray
One of the most visually stunning fantasy epics of the 1980s is coming to Blu-ray this December, with the release of the original theatrical edition of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil […]
Doctor Who Movie Confirmed!
Harry Potter movie director David Yates is set to direct a big screen Doctor Who movie for the BBC. Yates told Daily Variety he was preparing to start work on […]
Potter’s Yates explains why he didn’t take The Stand (Updated!)
A few weeks ago, fantasy fans were surprised by the news that the Harry Potter team of director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves were going to tackle Stephen King’s The Stand as their next project. They were more surprised a little later when it was announced that Ben Affleck was taking both roles on the Warner Bros. film. Promoting […]
AMC Thunderstruck by new David Eick series
After achieving an international hit with The Walking Dead, AMC are looking for a new genre series, and have purchased Thunderstruck, a new hour-long UFO drama from The Exorcism of […]
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