New Dark Knight trailer debuts
Director Christopher Nolan debuted another trailer for the much anticipated Dark Knight at the recent New York Comic Con. According to a report by Sci Fi News, the trailer clocked it at just over two minutes and featured scenes of Heath Ledger’s Joker putting moves on Rachel Dawes, a scene with Dawes arranging a meeting between Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent and the Joker addressing a gathering of Gotham City criminals. The trailer ends with Dent warning Wayne, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
The new trailer is set to debut in theaters in the next several weeks. Dark Knight opens in theaters July 18.
Producers know how Lost will end
Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse teased the media and fans last week, revealing that they know how the final scene of the hit series Lost will play out.
“The last scene has definitely been determined,” Lindelof said. “There would have to be some major shift in both our mindsets to back off that. That’s what we’ve been working towards for a couple years now, even before the end date was announced. Now that the end date is announced, we’re able to determine at what speed we’re working. … So we’ve got both pieces of bread that are eventually going to make the sandwich that is the remaining two seasons of the show, and now it’s the matter of how much mayo we want to put on.”
“We view the show as a mosaic, [and] we’re putting tiles in all over the mosaic,” Cuse said. “And when the mosaic is complete, Lost will be complete. And obviously we put tiles in the present and the past. And with the flash-forwards, now we’re putting them in the future. But it’s entirely possible as we move into future seasons that that notion of what is the past, what is the future and what is the present on the show could change. So in other words, it’s somewhat dependent from what point of view we are telling the stories. I don’t think we have any hard-and-fast rules about what we must or must not do. In fact, we approach it and say, ‘Hey, this is the narrative we’re going to be telling in this season of the show. What is the best storytelling method to tell that story?'”
Lost’s fourth season started up again last Thursday and continues through the end of May, culminating in a two-hour season finale.
Fox: Final five episodes of Lost‘s season four will blow your mind.
As Lost concludes its strike-shortened fourth season, fans of the show have a lot to look forward to teases actor Matthew Fox. Fox recently told reporters that the final five shows of the season (which began last Thursday) will blow fan’s minds.
“You won’t believe what happens in the next five episodes,” Fox said. “The show is building to its climax of the year, and it’s a lot of things happening. It’s big, and it’s going to be good.”
If the first new episode back was any indication, the show is backing up Fox’s praise. And Fox says he is looking forward to finding out more about Jack Shepard’s life off the island in the flash-forwards.
“Jack’s a frickin’ mess in the future,” Fox said. “So that’s been not pleasant, to revisit that. It’s never fun to put yourself into a place where you’re suicidal and really, really messed up and desperate. So, yeah, he’s really gotten to the rock bottom, but I understand why we’re taking him there, and there will be a turn in there where he begins to sort of build towards a redemption. And taking him to the very pit of despair is going to make, I think, that more rewarding.”
Locus awards nominees announced
Finalists have been announced for this year’s Locus Awards, which are presented to the winners of Locus magazine’s annual readers’ poll. Winners will be announced on June 21 during the Science Fiction Museum’s Hall of Fame weekend in Seattle. A complete list of finalists follows.
SF Novel: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Halting State by Charles Stross, Spook Country by William Gibson, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Fantasy Novel: Endless Things by John Crowley, Making Money by Terry Pratchett, Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe, Territory by Emma Bull, Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Young-Adult Book: Extras by Scott Westerfeld, The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter, Magic’s Child by Justine Larbalestier, Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin, Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
First Novel: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce, Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
Novella: “After the Siege” by Cory Doctorow, “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis, “Memorare” by Gene Wolfe, “Muse of Fire” by Dan Simmons, “Stars Seen Through Stone” by Lucius Shepard
Novelette: “Dark Integers” by Greg Egan, “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang, “Trunk and Disorderly” by Charles Stross, “We Never Talk About My Brother” by Peter S. Beagle, “The Witch’s Headstone” by Neil Gaiman
Short Story: “The Last and Only, or Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French” by Peter S. Beagle, “Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter, “A Small Room in Koboldtown” by Michael Swanwick, “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear, “Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?” by Ken MacLeod
Collection: The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick, The Jack Vance Treasury by Jack Vance, Overclocked by Cory Doctorow, Things Will Never Be the Same by Howard Waldrop, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories by Connie Willis
Anthology: The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds.; The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.; The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, eds.; The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds.; The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.
Nonfiction: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher, ed.; Breakfast in the Ruins by Barry N. Malzberg; The Country You Have Never Seen by Joanna Russ; Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines From 1970 to 1980 by Mike Ashley; Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe by Peter Wright
Art Book: The Arrival by Shaun Tan; Dreamscape: The Best of Imaginary Realism, Claus Brusen and Marcel Salome, eds.; Emshwiller: Infinity x Two, Luis Ortiz, ed.; Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, compiled by Sebastian Peake and Alison Eldred, edited by G. Peter Winnington; Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner, eds.
Editor: Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Gordon Van Gelder