The Will Ferrell starring film based on the Sid and Marty Krofft creation, “Land of the Lost” has been moved up from its July 17, 2009 date and will now be released on June 5. Universal has moved “The Fast and the Furious 4” from June 5 to a week later – June 12.
Josh Friedman, the creator and executive producer of Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” recently told SCI FI Wire that fans of the show can expect to see more visitors from the future–as well as more scenes set in the post-apocalyptic future. And the show will visit one of the locations from the original Terminator movie and re-use an iconic prop as well.
Shawn Christensen’s (lead singer of the indie rock band stellastarr) penned SF thriller “Karma Coalition” will be made into a motion picture. The story revolves around a wrongly accused man searching for the killer of his wife as the world is tumbling to its end.
LucasArts has two new games that will be released this fall. “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” will hit all platforms on September 16, and a pair of “Star Wars The Clone Wars” games will come out on Nintendo platforms on November 11. In addition, “Darth Vader,” for PlayStation 3, and “Yoda,” for Xbox 360, are exclusive playable characters in Namco Bandai’s recent release, “Soul Calibur IV,” according to Reuters.
Nicole Kidman (“The Invasion”) was named the most overpaid celebrity in Hollywood in the second annual list of least bankable stars by U.S. magazine Forbes, taking the top slot from another Aussie, Russell Crowe. Kidman’s films were estimated to only earn $1 for every dollar the Oscar-winning actress was paid compared with $8 only a year ago.
In a recent interview with our good friends at AMC’s SciFi Scanner, director J.J. Abrams said that there had been a scene for William Shatner in the original script of the next Star Trek feature film. It had to do with a flashback of an older Captain Kirk, before his death in the film “Generations.” However, it was later taken out when Shatner indicated he wanted a larger participation in the movie. Abrams and his writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, simply couldn’t find a way to do that and still keep the all-important Star Trek canon intact.
“The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling,” stated Abrams. “It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.”
