So it looks like the fourth Indiana Jones movie isn’t going to be called Indiana Jones and the City of Gods after all.
Instead it’s going to be called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Wherein Is to Be Found a Skull Composed Entirely of Crystal – or, well, something like that.
One of my favourite authors from childhood has died. I learned about the fourth dimension from A Wrinkle in Time, and was haunted by The Arm of the Starfish.
Frank Frazetta did some art for the original 1970s Battlestar: Galactica. Now I’m a Frazetta fan, but these paintings really weren’t his best work. This one is presumably supposed to be Athena, Apollo, and Starbuck facing in the wrong direction as Cylon raiders attack. The ships and weapons don’t look quite right. I don’t know why the Galactica has a traffic signal stuck to its underside.
This one shows some female crew members (it illustrates an early episode when all the male crew were sick) running for their Vipers as Cylon raiders again attack. If that’s supposed to be Athena, she’s still facing the wrong way. And the second woman from the right is clearly about to fall on her face.
Allegedly this pic was also supposed to be Galactica-related, but it beats me how.
Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie also did some early Galactica art: see here, here, here, here, here, and here. Too bad the show never looked as good as his paintings. I remember seeing some of these pics in an old Starlog.
For everyone who wanted a fifth season of Galactica – looks like you may get it, sort of, but sure as hell not the way you wanted it.
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
The Atlas Shrugged film project, which had recently slid back into development hell, seems to be crawling back out. (Conical hat tip to AICN.)
Also note the reference to The Changeling, the film Jolie plans to do before Atlas; that’s a J. Michael Straczynski script.
A “good choice”? Keanu Reeves is a “good choice” to play Klaatu in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still?
No. I’m sorry. No.
And why does The Day the Earth Stood Still need a remake anyway? It’s like an (original) Twilight Zone episode. It’s stark and perfect. Leave it alone.
