SciFi News For 4-29-11

Arnold Schwarzenegger Returning For "Terminator 5" (Story)

http://backseatcuddler.com/2011/04/26/hes-back-arnold-schwarzenegger-returning-for-terminator-5 

SciFi News's Own Poster Design Of Possible New Arnie Movie (Image): 

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g413/janlafata/My%20Fake%20Movie%20Posters/AlmostTotalRecall.jpg

Burt Ward Remembers His "Batman" Days Fondly (Interview):

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2011/04/27/burt-ward-a-slice-of-scifi-interview/ 

Even The 24th Century Still Needed Counselors. Star Treks Marina Sirtus. (Interview)

http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2011/04/sci-fi-blast-from-the-past-marina-sirtis-star-trek-the-next-generation.html 

Science Fiction's Top Robots (Images):

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/01/best-robots/?pid=2580&pageid=57229&viewall=true 

30 Years After Launch Voyager Probes Are At Edge Of Solar System (Story):

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/newsflash-voyager-set-to-enter-interstellar-space-of-milky-way-30-years-after-launch.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29

Hunt For Alien Life On Hold As SETI Loses Funding; (Story) & Video 2:34):

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_17926565?nclick_check=1 

Why Our Vision Of Huge Space Stations & Planetary Spaceships Hasn't Happened Yet (Story): http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1830/1 

Starcraft Papercraft Must Be Seen To Be Believed (Images):

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2011/04/28/starcraft-papercraft-must-be-seen-to-be-believed/

OTHER NEWS

Following close on the discovery and release of his director's cut of 1989 scifi action picture "Cyborg", a version of the film dramatically different in tone from the version ultimately released, word is out that Albert Pyun is in the process of acquiring remake rights for the picture with an eye to finally making the film he always wanted to make. Says Pyun: "It will be an epic of post apocalyptic cyber punk movie filled with an Expendables type all star casting of action stars"

Remember how we all had faith in the upcoming "Total Recall" reboot because it was supposedly going to be closer to the original Philip K. Dick short-story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale?” Well, it appears that may not be the case, according to actor Colin Farrell. Farrell says that the script for the reboot comes more from the original film version that the short story. “There’s literally stuff to be done with that same story"

It's official: The female villain in director Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, "Man Of Steel" will be Faora, and Snyder has also found an actress to play the role. According to "Variety" German actress Antje Traue will join a cast that already includes Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod and Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Superman's adopted Earth parents, the Kents.

A source has revealed that Xenomorphs may be appearing in the upcoming movie "Promethieus". The film was labelled as an original science fiction movie in January, however, according to Alien Prequel News, the aliens from the original film, have been spotted on the set. British actor Emun Elliott was recently cast in the film to play a character called Chance, with Moon star Benedict Wong suggested as also being involved in the project. "Prometheus" also stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba.

Joseph Kosinski is already busy preparing to start on "Horizona" with Tom Cruise, however he's also now attached to direct another science fiction blockbuster going by the name of Archangel. Trade magazine Variety have it the story focuses on “a secret unit of the military that tracks and hunts down aliens among us." "Horizons" is based on a graphic novel and set in the outer reaches of space and follows a soldier character assigned to a far away planet to do some patrolling.

BOOK REVIEWS

"Galactic Alliance (Book 3) Honor Thy Enemy" by Doug Farren:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8552

"The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester (1956):

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/starsmy.htm

"Enclave" by Ann Aguirre:

http://www.wondrousreads.com/2011/04/review-enclave-by-ann-aguirre.html

Video for "Enclave": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mP5uIJ1H08

"Lost In Between Dimensions - Saga II" by Jorge Scerba (Review & Video 1:10):

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2011-04-0418-003-Bookstand.shtml 

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three" - Alice Kahn