In a recent interview with Sci Fi Magazine writer Roberto Orci and producer Bryan Burk, spoke about their approach and main purpose for reinvigorating the Star Trek franchise.
“It’s so important to get out the message that this, in a way, is Star Trek Zero. Its a reintroduction. If you are not a fan, those things will be an introduction, and it won’t require you to know anything [about the history of Star Trek],” Orci said. “Our goal is twofold. One is to make sure that the fans, who have been stewards of the continuity and, who are some of the most intelligent fans of any franchises ever, that they be satisfied with anything that has the name Star Trek on it. But more importantly, the goal is really to introduce casual fans and people who dont know Star Trek at all to this universe and to connect it to today. The goal of Star Trek is that if you don’t like sci-fi or know Star Trek, this will bring you into [that] world.”
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William Shatner gets the nomination nod from the Golden Globes for his role as the hillariously funny, mad-cow infested founding lawyer for the Crane, Poole & Schmidt law firm in ABC’s mega-hit series “Boston Legal.” Bill has already one two Emmy’s for his performance as Denny Crane.
Ruben Fleischer is in negotiations to direct the zombie comedy “Zombieland” for Sony’s Columbia Pictures studio. We will have more about this film a little later on our sister site, the Zombie Channel.
SCI FI Channel’s hit original miniseries “Tin Man” will be released on DVD on March 11, 2008, by Genius Products, according to SCI FI Wire, the SCI FI Channel’s official news site. The $30 million update of L. Frank Baum’s classic story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” premiered to record ratings on December 2 and was the highest-rated show in SCI FI’s history, surpassing past record holder “Taken” by Steven Spielberg. The DVD will feature new bonus items, including a 30-minute “making-of” featurette. It will carry a suggested retail price of $19.95.
In a non-SF related story — Nightime TV talk show hosts may return in January 08, even if the strike isn’t settled. The two big boys in the game, David Letterman and Jay Leno are considering the idea, while late, late night hosts Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson may also return. The only hold-out is Jimmy Kimmel and even though his ratings have suffered the most, he will continue to refuse to cross the WGA picket lines regardless of how long the strike goes on. Letterman owns Ferguson’s show and while their staff workers have been laid-off due to the strike, all the major hosts including Kimmel, have been paying staffers out of their own pockets to ensure they continue to have some sort of income.
We now know which buyer the London dealer Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox was representing when it outbid all contenders at the recent Sotheby’s auction for one of J.K. Rowling’s never-to-be published book of her “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” which was mentioned in the last Potter book as having been left to Harry’s friend Hermione by their Head Master, Albus Dumbledore. Amazon.com was the purchaser and leveled out a tidy $3.98 million for it.
There are a total of seven books in the series. Six were given to close associates of Rowling who were attached on some level to her world famous Harry Potter series and the seventh was auctioned off with proceeds going to one of her chosen charity organizations.
To view some pics of the book and read Amazon’s own tale of the purchase — Go HERE.
The Showtime premium channel cable network has partnered with Meebo, a firm that fuses video programming and chat rooms, to offer “Dexter” fans additional content after the hit serial-killer show airs its season finale on Sunday, December 16.
Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum unveiled the skeleton of a massive dinosaur on Wednesday. The 85-foot long Barosaurus, the largest dinosaur ever to go on permanent display in Canada, is part of a new exhibit at the museum’s “crystal” addition, which will open to the public on December 15.
Francis Ford Coppola, known worldwide for his films like “The Godfather” series and “Apocalypse Now,” has a new film coming out today in limited release called “Youth Without Youth.” It is a sort of time altering movie starring Tim Roth as an elderly linguistics professor who’s zapped by lightning, becomes young again, is chased by Nazi scientists, reunites with the great lost love of his life, played by actress Alexandra Maria Lara, and tries to discover the origin of language. It explores such topics as philosophy, love, language and transmigrating souls. The movie will eventually go out in wide release.
“I look at it as a Twilight Zone [episode],” Coppola said. “I feel when you make a movie it can have lots of meaning and subtext, and if you see it again you might get a lot more again.”
The film is based on a novella written by the late Mircea Eliade.
