Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

• "Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects." This means we're a step closer to a real invisibility cloak! Which is awesome and horrifying at the same time.
• Ooh, new Star Trek character posters! (Via)
• Robert Duvall is reprising his role as Tom Hagen in the Godfather 2 video game. Hagen features prominently in the game as an adviser to the player, and Duvall is recording new voiceover dialogue for the part.
• Plans to adapt Grant Morrison's graphic novel We3 into a film have apparently been in the works for some time. Morrison says he's recently been able to beef up the screenplay, making it even better than the source material, and now a "big, hot director" is attached to the project, although he won't say which one.
• AMC is looking to develop a TV series based on The Conversation. Wha?!
• A film called Saint John of Las Vegas just entered production. It's loosely based on Dante's Inferno and stars Steve Buscemi as "an ex-gambler who's under the tutelage of a maverick insurance fraud investigator." Romany Malco plays the investigator and Emily Mortimer, Tim Blake Nelson, John Cho, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and Peter Dinklage also star.
• A couple of new character-centered trailers for Burn After Reading have hit the web.
• We've also got a few video game trailers for you: Rise of the Argonauts, an upcoming video game with a mythological theme, and Star Trek Online, which will give players the ability to choose which alien species they wish to play as, or create their own. "New players will then captain their own Starfleet or Klingon ship, the size and crew of which will grow as the player progresses. Players will also be able to leave their ships to explore planets." The game is set a few generations after the last Star Trek film.