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OTHER NEWS
The film adaptation of "Neuromancer" has finally begun pre-production.
Plans for a film adaptation of the William Gibson's visionary 1984 novel, which is best known for its predictions about the Internet, and is even the source of the term “cyberspace,” have been floating around for years. But so far they have been mired by false-starts. This most recent revelation, however, makes it all but certain that film will actually become a reality. Filming is scheduled to begin in 2012, and take place in numerous locations around the globe, including Canada, Istanbul, London and Tokyo. Visual effects work has already begun. “Neuromancer” will be directed by Vincent Natali.
It's looking more and more like the opening of the next Star Trek movie could be delayed six months due to some production issues. Among the issues is the fact that while writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof have a 70 page outline for the sequel, they don’t have a final script written yet. Part of that is due to a holding pattern Paramount is in to get J.J. Abrams back into the directing chair for the film. Abrams hasn’t officially signed on yet and it’s reported the writers are waiting for his input before finalizing the script.Add to it that actor Chris Pine has signed on to a reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise.
In a surprising move, Disney has changed the name of its upcoming 3-D sci-fi epic "John Carter Of Mars" to simply "John Carter", without an explanation for the change. "John Carter" is based on the classic sci-fi character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs who appeared in the author's 11-volume "Barsoom (Martian) series of books. The only possible explanation for the move is that Disney hopes to distance "John Carter" from its most recent feature to include "Mars" in the title, "Mars Needs Moms, which proved a bomb at the box office.
Nine years after "Minority Report", Tom Cruise is going back to the future. Cruise has signed on to star in Universal’s sci-fi film "Oblivion". The movie, which will be directed by Joseph Kosinski, is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which the Earth has become so dangerous and inhospitable that humankind has moved up above the clouds. Cruise will play a soldier assigned to live alone on the planet’s surface, repairing the probes and drones that patrol the ruined wasteland to search out and destroy remnants of a savage alien race. One day, he finds a mysterious woman in a crash-landed space pod, setting off events that force him to question everything he knows.
Jeff Conaway, best known to genre fans as Security Chief Zack Allen in "Babylon 5, is in a coma, fighting for his life in a hospital bed, in Encino, Calif. The actor is also fighting pneumonia and a blood infection. Conaway grew up in acting, and was on the Broadway stage a early as 2 years old.
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SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C. Clarke, Address to US Congress, 1975
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