Across the Ist-a-Verse
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- You may vaguely remember from long ago the idea for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off show called Ripper that was meant to follow the adventures of Anthony Stewart Head's character in England, along with a whole cast of new characters. Well, good news! It sounds like it's actually going to happen now, with Joss Whedon in the captain's chair, and shooting beginning next summer. (Via Mike V)
- Thank you, Penny Arcade, for being filthy, wrong, and hilarious. (Btw, that comic won't make much sense if you don't know at least a little bit about BioShock.)
- Man, we love free music. XPN has for us the first track off Josh Ritter's new album.
- The Chinese Communist Party's Disciplinary Committee made their own MMO and it became so popular that their servers crashed and they had to take it down. Here's the best part: "The game requires players to learn government anti-corruption measures and to kill corrupt officials while avoiding attacks by their henchmen and mistresses clad in bikinis." Um... wow.
- The latest news from David S. Goyer: Magneto, which he's writing and directing, is in preproduction (they're doing location scouting and budgeting). Meanwhile, Super Max, the Green Arrow movie he's producing, is in much earlier stages: they don't even have a script yet.
- Guess who's joined the cast of Witch Mountain now? The Rock, that's who!
- Corey Haim is having immigration problems that are preventing him from getting to the set of the new Lost Boys movie. Word is the film is called The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, and it will star Angus Sutherland, Kyle Cassie, Shaun Sipos and Merwin Mondesir, apparently as a pack of vampire surfers who will be encountered by brothers played by Tad Hilgenbrink and Autumn Reeser.
- Oh good lord, no! Now Zack Snyder of 300 infamy is going to be directing an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man.
- The new Punisher movie has changed its title to Punisher: War Zone.
- The Movie Blog got its hands on possibly genuine plot spoiling details about Superman: Man of Steel. Click at your own risk!
- George Lucas has been planning on making a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen for some time, and now it may finally be on its way to happening, as he has just hired a screenwriter for the flick: John Ridley. Thank God he's not going to try writing it himself! One of the pilots would end up talking like Jar Jar.
- Oliver Stone is returning to the subject of the Vietnam War with a film called Pinkville about the investigation into the infamous My Lai massacre. Bruce Willis will play General William R. Peers, who supervised the investigation into the massacre, and Channing Tatum will play Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who saw what was happening, rescued the remaining villagers, and reported the atrocity.
- Sounds like Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd is going to be super gory.
- Cinematical collects some excellent responses to the question "If you could own any movie props, what would they be?" Yes, we definitely also want the One Ring, the Time Map, Rosebud, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, and the Glowing Suitcase. Also, put us down for Luke's lightsaber and the Maltese Falcon.
- How about some gameplay footage from Raving Rabbids 2?
- Apparently there's a silly message from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, to Samus, hidden inside Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
- Blender has for us a list of The Worst Jobs in Rock & Roll.
- Scientists say we will eventually be able to make a Spider-Man suit that will allow us to scale vertical walls. Sweet. (Via)
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