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Ridley Scott Protege Carl Erik Rinsch To Direct Logan’s Run Reboot

Carl Rinsch is a name often mentioned here at SciFiCool. Carl is the dude originally rumoured to helm the “Alien” reboot before the suits insisted that Ridley Scott take over the deal.

Jerry Bruckheimer And Disney Buy Themselves A Sci-Fi Epic Called LightSpeed

For 3.5 million bucks. That’s just for the pitch, which basically means a couple of pages of synopsis and a guy jumping around using his hands for space stuff.

The project is called “LightSpeed” and is the creation of Terry Rossio and Bill Marsilii, two guys walking around with pretty big smiles today.

New Character Posters From Inception

We’ve got a nice batch of great looking and revealing character posters from “Inception” a film by Chris Nolan coming in early July to hopefully give us at least one guaranteed bad-ass Sci-Fi flick to feast on.

Biowares Mass Effect Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You

Desperate for the next mega movie “tent pole” Sci-Fi franchise, studio types are moving from comics as their go to genre source to games as their new inpiration.

60 Second British TV Inception Video

Here’s a nicely extended (and wicked) 60 second “Inception” trailer originally for those Brits and now embedded here for your considerable viewing pleasure.

With “Iron Man 2″ sucking so badly, it’s up to Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” to provide us with the big budget summer Sci-Fi goods. July 16th is the date. Mark your calendars.

James Franco Will Star in Planet Of The Apes Prequel

When they started talking about another “Planet Of The Apes” movie I thought they were joking. Hoped they were joking.

Two New International Posters For Predators

I thought that I would never again see my beloved “Predator” return to the silver screen in the manner that it deserved. I think that, maybe, hopefully, I may have been wrong.

Jemaine From Flight Of The Conchords To Play The Heavy In Men In Black 3

Jemaine Clement, the hilariously dry New Zealand lad from HBO’s Flight Of The Conchords has been cast as the villain Yaz, in “Men In Black 3″.

New International Trailer And One Sheet For Splice

I’m having a difficult time getting the significant other to commit to seeing “Splice” with me. She’s intriqued by the concept (she’s a professional Nerd) but the horror bits look over her limit.

First Concept Art Image For Spielberg’s Terra Nova

The fall schedule for Fox has been released and on the docket is Mr. Spielberg’s Terra Nova, which will be “Jurassic Park” except for real and with rayguns.

Paul Dano, Keith Carradine And Clancy Brown Join Cowboys And Aliens

Three more stalwart fellas have joined the now packed cast of Jon Favreau’s “Cowboys And Aliens” along with such luminaries as Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde.

The Fight Clubs David Fincher To Direct Jules Verne?

The hot rumour in Sci-Fi movie making circles this morning is that David Fincher (“Fight Club”, “Seven”, “Ben Button”) is in talks with Disney to direct a re-telling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Bruce Willis Joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Time Traveler Looper

Bruce Willis has hopped on aboard Rian Johnson’s sci-fi flick “Looper”, according to Deadline Hollywood.

In “Looper”, Bruce and Gordon-Levitt will play the same character with some juicy time travel complications.

A synopsis,

Stargate Universe Episode Recap 1.17: Pain

Well, week 17 has come and gone on the good starship Destiny, hurtling away on it’s 5 bazillion year mission to nowhere. In this episode, entitled Pain, it’s time to call the Orkin man. Lets hope it’s not bed bugs, because a certain mattress is going to be getting some extended use not covered in the warranty. Let’s just see if the last episode was a one shot pants full or if the writers got it all packed back together for this weeks extravaganza .

Flash Forward Mercifully Gets The Axe

It’s over kids. ABC has cancelled the wooden, leaden and hopeless Flash Forward without comment.

I myself tried to watch the thing but gave up pretty early. It tried to be LOST, but without the good writing and good acting. Thank God it’s over.