December 12, 2007
It’s not so often that science fiction and fine art cross paths. When they do, it’s often for magazines and books in the form of cover art. Sometimes I think that’s for the best because, trust me: as you get older, it gets harder and harder to explain or justify that giant print of a green-skinned Orion woman straddling a laser canon. That’s art, but it isn’t fine art.
December 9, 2007
It’s Sunday. There’re probably a million things I should be doing—Christmas shopping, for example—but I just had to bring you this new movie trailer. It’s for “Jumper,” a scifi thriller following a 17-year-old who suddenly discovers he can teleport. He soon learns that this gift has been around for centuries, and that there’s a war on to annihilate him and his fellow jumpers.
Teleportation combat? Sweet.
It’s based on the early nineties novel of the same name by Steven Gould. The book’s been out of print for a while now. But for those of you who love to read the book before seeing the film, Amazon’s got a reprint on the way about two weeks before the film premieres.
Looks like the film is a pretty significant departure from the novel, but I think I can forgive them now that I’ve seen this trailer. But don’t take my word for it. Watch the trailer for yourself!
“Jumper” comes out on Valentines Day, 2008.
November 29, 2007
I looked outside and noticed it’s looking a little less like Arrakis and a little more like Hoth. That’s when I realized: the Sundance Film Festival’s coming! We at SciFiSurplus have assembled our crack team of researchers to search through the Sundance catalogs and find those films that are of most interest to you, the discriminating science fiction, fantasy, and horror fan. And just like in years past, there are some real gems coming to the Festival this year. All of them are World Premieres except for "Diary of the Dead," which, as we mentioned before, premiered in Canada.
You’ll find our picks after the jump. If you think we missed anything else, just let us know, and we’ll add it to the list!
November 1, 2007
In what is starting to look like an internet firestorm, news of Eliza Dushku’s new pairing with Joss Whedon for his upcoming “Dollhouse” project is sweeping the nets. E Online’s “Watch With Kristin” blog broke the news yesterday that Eliza Dushku will be in the starring role and a producer of the show; Tim Minear will be involved; and that Fox has committed to seven episodes so far. Some of the writers for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” are even migrating over.
October 31, 2007
We complete our Halloween Zombie Stories trifecta with word from the Hollywood Reporter that George A. Romero, the father of all Zombie movies, is now green-lighted to add yet another Zombie flick to his famous Trilogy of the Dead series (now known simply as the “Dead Series”).
The fifth film of the Dead series, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is named “Diary of the Dead.” It follows a group of film students as they make a documentary about their experiences during a zombie attack. The as-yet-unnamed sixth film will pick up right where the previous movie leaves off, according to THR, and will follow the survivors to a remote island where they will — you guessed it — fight more zombies.
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October 24, 2007
What are you thinking?
That’s the thought that ran through my mind when I read the Hollywood Reporter yesterday and learned that Randall Wallace had taken on “The Arcanum,” a film adaptation of the book of the same name.
In its written form, “The Arcanum” is a historical fantasy novel set in 1919 that follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as he leads his cadre of similarly famous figures — Marie Laveau, Harry Houdini, and H.P. Lovecraft — in an attempt to save the world from a madman bent on destroying it. It’s a first-time novel that was absolutely blasted by Publishers Weekly, which recommended readers skip it and read Tim Powers and Alexander C. Irvine instead.
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