Christian Bale has been cast as John Conner in McG’s upcoming Terminator film, according to AICN. The movie will be set in the future during the war between the humans and Skynet.

Bruce Willis has been cast in Disney’s upcoming Surrogates film, according to Variety. The movie is based on Robert Venditti’s graphic novels about a not-too-distant future where people link into androids and use them to live their lives.

Additional chatter surfaced today about the Star Trex XI casting. Variety is reporting that Shaun of the Dead star and writer Simon Pegg has been selected to play Scotty in the new movie.

I find it’s getting harder and harder to watch Eureka. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a fun show and fills the space between the Atlantis season ending and everything else starting nicely. I love the setting. I love the casting and characters (except for maybe Matt Frewer as the Australian zoologist, Taggart).

It’s the science that’s getting hard to stomach. Now, I’m not a scientist. I’m not even a detractor of soft science fiction– unless you count that time in high school when I got in a fight with Vince and Mark about the plausibility of the TNG series finale, which I don’t. There’s a statute of limitations on these things.

Last week on the show, in the episode E=MC…?, someone grew chicken parts from stem cells, which is all fine and good. Except that the lack of a chicken brain attached to the parts turned everyone who ate them into idiots. Would I have been okay if they had left it at that? Sure, it would still be silly, but I could let it go. Add in some technobabble with fictional terms? Fine. But they didn’t. They decided to explain: low levels of GABA can cause Alzheimer’s in rats. What? How is that related to stupidity or lab grown chicken? One leap of logic per episode, please.

I guess the writers themselves should lay off the genetically-engineered poultry.

According to Variety, Keanu Reeves has been cast as Klaatu in a remake of the 1951 scifi classic, The Day The Earth Stood Still. The movie is probably best known to people who haven’t actually seen it for it’s key line “Klaatu barada nikto”, parodied in Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness.