T.J. Scott – Director for the New Flash Gordon Guest Stars on Slice of SciFi Show #118

This week’s show will star one of the directors for the new SCI FI Channel series “Flash Gordon.”

T.J. Scott, no stranger to genre film and television, talks about his work on the new series which will give Flash a whole new look and feel and bring it well into the 21st Century mindset — less camp and a more serious take on the idea of despotism and survival, with just a tad of a homage from time to time to the 1980’s film and 1930’s film serial.

T.J. has a resume that looks like a blueprint for making scifi and fantasy films and television. He has directed episodes of the highly acclaimed “Charlie Jade” series, “La Femme Nikita,” “Andromeda,” “Xena: Warrior Princess” and even “Kung Fu” and the “Robo Cop” television series just to name a few — and oh yes, that infamous series that we try to never name, “Cleopatra 2525,” but we won’t hold that against him.

In the News:

Isaiah Washington, straight off his PC faux pax on “Grey’s Anatomy,” has signed on with his own development deal with NBC and will also be a guest star on the new “Bionic Woman” series. — The nightmares begin as “Clive Barker’s Jericho” video game allows the player to enter Barker’s disturbed mind that will deliver a slice of the supernatural. — Starting in October “Battlestar Galactica” will begin preparing its audience for the upcoming November special 2-hour movie “Razor” by presenting a micro-series of episodes centering on a young William Adama and his pre-season one dealings with Admiral Kane.

Movie Talk:

The studio gang go freelancing and talk about all the movies they want to see that will be coming out between now and December. Mike has already gotten some early looks and trailers for several films including “Cashback,” “I Am Legend,” starring Will Smith and “Stardust,” which we have featured on a past show. The crew get all geeky over the anticipation for what appears to be a great SF 2nd half of 2007 in theaters.

Special Segment:

Sam Sloan, our Farpoint Media Executive News Director, has a cool DVD movie review of the Graham Robertson written and directed film “Able Edwards” which holds the distinction of being the first ever film to be shot entirely without sets or props against a green screen beating out such big budgeted films as “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” and “Immortal (ad vitam).” A Scanner Darkly’s Steven Soderbergh served as Executive Producer for “Able Edwards.”

Future Talk:

Masi Oka, who plays time-traveling hero Hiro Nakamura on NBC’s Emmy nominated hit SF series “Heroes,” spills the beans on season two of the show. Beware, there be spoilers here. — And, finally after a nearly 10-year wait the script for the second X-Files film is completed and it comes from the pen of series creator Chris Carter and collaborator Frank Spotnitz. David Duchovny says he and Gillian Anderson will be getting the script within the week.

This will be one of our best shows yet. “Flash Gordon” director T.J. Scott and loads of news, snark and information on this Slice of SciFi Show #118 ready for you on the net this Saturday, July 21, 2007 and two days later (Monday) on XM-Satellite Radio. Some of our West Coast listeners can hear us on KVON-FM in the Napa Valley. Don’t forget to also download our Slice of SciFi Voicemail show which comes out every Friday.

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