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There Will Be Chrome

So it’s been about a year and a half since the announcement of Blood and Chrome, a story that would take place between Caprica and Battlestar Galactica, and which would feature a young Bill Adama during the first Cylon war.

Cylon war

Since then, Blood and Chrome’s announced status has shifted back and forth among three possibilities: being a pilot for a new series, being a standalone tv-movie, and being a sequence of online webisodes. The only two definite things we’ve known about it are a) that filming has been completed, and b) that no release date has been announced.

Well, it’s still the case that no release date has been announced; and we still don’t know whether to expect a series, a standalone tv-movie, or a mere congeries of webisodes. But we do know, now, that Bear McCreary, the composer for BSG, has just finished the score for Blood and Chrome. (See here and here.) So that means the project is still a go; and if music is indeed typically “the final piece to be added to a television production,” i.e. after special effects etc., there’s some reason to think we might see it reasonably soon.

In related news, a BSG theatrical movie is also still in the works. This is reportedly yet another reboot, following the continuity of neither the 1978 nor the 2004 series.


Señales Mixtas

I just saw an ad in which ethnic-cleansing governor Jan Brewer was inviting people to “come to Arizona.”

Muchas gracias por la bienvenida, Señora Brewer.


Native Soil

Nosferatu

There is a place in Finland called Vampula.

That is all.


A Way With Words

I see from the AP that Tommy Tuberville “intends to defend the allegations against him.” I must say, that’s remarkably broad-minded of him.


What If Steve Jobs Were a James Bond Villain?

Word is that the following video is a promo for, but does not actually appear in, Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus film, which takes place in the Alien universe but whose precise connection to the Alien franchise is not yet clear. The speaker, Peter Weyland, is presumably connected with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the main (human) antagonist in the Alien movies; Weyland and Yutani companies, not yet yoked by hyphens, figure in the (chronologically earlier) Alien vs. Predator movies.


Sherlock Holmes versus Spock

So whoever it is that Cumberbatch is playing, it’s a) someone very strong and skilled at fighting (since he seems to be kicking Spock’s butt), but b) not transcendentally or supernaturally powerful (which would seem to scotch the rumour that Cumberbatch is playing Trelane of Gothos):

 
(CHT AICN.)

At least we now know how Holmes survived the end of “The Reichenbach Fall.” He was beamed up!


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