“Leap” by Dan Gaud is a really cool Sci-Fi short that I wish was a longer movie or a book right now. It’s seven minutes long, but packs a lot of interesting stuff in there. Somehow, a young guy can move between universes to a place where things are decidedly weird and watery. There are creatures there and girls, or at least one girl, that saves him from drowning when he arrives. How he gets to this oddly hued world is pretty interesting. He jumps from a tall building. Now, I’m just wondering, how do you know that you can do this until after you take the plunge? Dan needs to expand this story. I’m interested. Thanks io9 for the heads up.
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Has Patrick Stewart Joined The Cast Of Fury Road?
Patrick Stewart is in Australia currently and George Miller is also down there filming “Mad Max 4: Fury Road” with Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Tom Hardy. AintItCool had a spy down under at a fan’s event and the smitten female fan asked Patrick if he would like to make a movie in Australia. Patrick said he was just about to make one with George Miller. Fan asks “Happy Feet 2″? Mr. Stewart says “No, another one”.
Zachary Quinto Assures Trekkies He’ll be in Trek 12. Like, Duh.
As I wrote yesterday in my Quinto post about the actor saying he’s going to take two years off from all things “Trek”, there is no way, no how he’s going to miss coming back for “Trek 12″, even if the movie shoots before that self-exile expires. Quinto must have gotten an insane amount of mail about that Wired interview, because he’s now addressed it.
Deleted Scene from Avatar: Jake Sully Gets Recruited
You may or may not have heard by now, but James Cameron’s “Avatar” is doing pretty good at that there box office. I believe it could prove profitable for the studio, so let’s all cross our fingers that ol Jimmy boy gets to eat tonight. Anyways, if you’ve read the “Avatar” script (it was put online as a free download, get it here), you read the beginning, which was set on Earth and featured Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) getting into a fight at a bar before being promptly tossed out on his ass. Well here’s an image from that deleted scene, featuring Jake on his back as he’s approached by two MIBs with a proposition. Via I09.
Zachary Quinto Wants Nothing to Do with Star Trek For at Least Two Years
In an interview with Wired.com to promote his upcoming “Star Trek Online” game (available on the PC February 2, 2010), where he’ll be voicing a character not named Spock, the man who played young Spock in J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” reboot claims that after this gig, he’s not going to be touching, appearing, or even thinking “Trek” for at least two years.
Is Pre-Production For Avatar 2 Already Underway?
Well I would hope so, considering how long it took for James Cameron to make the first one. Of course, there’s a lot of material all ready to yank from the assets of the first extravaganza. There is tons of blue tinted stuff and leafy bio-luminescent alien flora. Mountains somehow defying gravity, check, got that. Toothy alien jungle critters. Plenty of those.
Nicholas Hoult Joins The Cast Of Fury Road
The cast of “Mad Max 4: Fury Road” is starting to fully flesh out and director George Miller has now added Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man) as a fellas named Nux to the cast that includes Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Teresa Palmer. Zoe Kravitz (Daughter of Lenny) is also reportedly in talks to play a character named Five Wives. We are pretty much in the dark about the plot of “Fury Road” besides the fact that it takes places soon after Thunderdome. Thanks EmpireOnline for the tip.
Pursuit of Happyness Director Boards Keanu Reeves’ Passengers
Italian director Gabriele Muccino, known primarily in Hollywood as the director of Will Smith Oscar Bait aka “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds”, has come onboard the Keanu Reeves sci-fi love story “Passengers”. Reeves was already onboard the Morgan Creek production, which is set for a summer start date, but now with Muccino attached, the project is halfway home. The film finds Reeves playing a passenger on a spacecraft making a centuries-long interstellar voyage to a new planet, but due to a glitch, is awakened 90 years too early. Still uncast is the female love interest, who in the film is awakened by Reeves’ character in order to keep him company.
Guy Ritchie Probably Leaving Lobo to do Sherlock Holmes Sequel
Let’s face it, the possibility of movie based on D.C. Comics’ interplanetary, bountyhunting badass Lobo should fill every comic book geek and sci-fi nut with glee. If you’ve read the comics, then you know Lobo is probably un-D.C. as a comic book from that publishing house can get. It spent a lot of time making fun of all the colorful characters that populate the D.C. universe (when it’s not killing or maiming them), and what’s more, it’s gratuitously violent, unnecessarily vulgar, and completely un-kid friendly. And they’re going to make a live-action movie based on it! Holy shit.
New Video Footage Of Iron Man 2 Thanks To AC/DC
AC/DC has a new video just out called Shoot To Thrill and it features some new footage from “Iron Man 2″ where Robert Downey Jr. flies around in his little suit and drops the dump truck on various evil doers while the crowd goes wild, girls rip off their tops, etc. Just like a typical day of work for your average Sci-Fi blogger. Thanks Aintitcool for the heads up.
The Apocalypse Goes Underwater With Dark Life
The folks behind “The Spiderwick Chronicles” have optioned the not yet released novel “Dark Life” by Kat Falls. In “Dark Life”, the world as usual has all gone to hell and the seas have swallowed up just about every scrap of land. Here’s the official synopsis:
The Next Star Trek Will Have A Better Villain
While “Star Trek” was, on the whole, a pretty awesome affair, there were a few troublesome moments. The whole ditch Kirk out a porthole onto the Planet Of The Old Spock thing had a faint odour of cheese and I’m afraid Nero the misunderstood villain was a .1 on the tribble scale of soft and fluffy.
New Posters From Repo Men
Some shiny new posters from “Repo Men” out for you this morning, illustrating the cost of your typical organ. “Repo Men” stars Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. When the biologicals you’re born with wear out, these are the puppies you’ll be socketed with. But you better make your payments or, well, let’s let the official synopsis do the dirty work. “Repo Men” opens in the bright light on April 2nd. Thanks Collider.
Spike Jonze’s I’m Here Short Film Is Why More Human Than Human Might Not Be So Great A Thing To Be
Spike Jonze, director of the weirdly disturbing but great “Where The Wild Things Are”, has made a little 30 minute film called “I’m Here”, sponsored oddly by Absolute Vodka. I suppose funding is funding but I’m betting Spike isn’t hard up for sponsorship these days. No matter who pays the bills, this story of two droids in love looks pretty interesting. The male bots head looks exactly like a PC I once had (and maybe still do). “I’m Here” is due to be premiered at the Sundance Film Fest. Fast Company interviewed Mark Figliulio and Matt Bijarchi, the producers of the film. Thanks Io9.
Justice League Crisis on Two Earths Action-tastic Clip
This is basically what every comic book geek lives for — superpowered people going at it full-speed ahead. Check out one action-packed clip from DC’s upcoming “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” direct-to-DVD movie. One hopes the rest of the movie will be just as action-packed. This is animation, after all, the possibilities for superpowered fights are endless and only limited by the imagination of the writers.
