http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/11/04/ridley-scott-says-he%E2%80%99ll-direct-%E2%80%98blade-runner%E2%80%99-sequel/
SciFi Movie Sequels That Some Say Spoiled The Originals (12 Videos):
http://blastr.com/2011/11/12-disastrous-movie-sequels-we-wish-didnt-exist-to-spoil-series-we-love.php
One More Try With The Journey Films (Video):
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/film/journey-center-earth-sequel-trailer-picks-jules-verne-book.html
Voyager's Garrett Wang Says Series Needed More Action And Comedy:
http://www.treknews.net/2011/11/07/convention-report-garrett-wang-willaim-shatner-at-comikaze/
Is CGI Making Special Effects Worse?:
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2011/11/10/is-cgi-making-our-special-effects-worse/
"Germline" Author T.C. McCarthy On Military Science Fiction (Interview):
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/11/exclusive-interview-tc-mccarthy-on-military-sf-and-the-reality-of-war/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sfsignal+%28SFSignal%29
Ambitious Russian Mars Moon Mission Launches Then Stalls:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15631472
Breakthrough In Using Hydrogen As Fuel Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel-source.html
The Making Of "Terra Nova" Cities And Dino's (Video 1:33)
http://io9.com/5858505/a-revealing-look-at-the-making-of-terra-novas-amazing-visual-effects
Slick Cyborg Short - "Rosa" (Video 9:50)
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/rosa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
1982 "Return Of The Jedi" Set Fan Photo's (SciFi News Note - This set was located about 20 miles from where I live):
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/film/amazing-star-wars-set-photos-fan-wandering.html
OTHER NEWS
Deep Space Nine and Andromeda Producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe are developing a new as yet untitled Starship TV Series for The Syfy Channel. Not many details are known yet, however the official press release sums it up like this: "After decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring law and order."
As he gets ready to step into the role as The Man Of Steel, actor Henry Cavill says he won't watch other "Superman" movies. "I avoided watching anything which was someone else’s interpretation of the source material. I didn’t go back to the movies and watch them. I didn’t go back to the TV series and watch them. Where the character truly belongs and where the character truly comes from is not from the movies or the TV shows; it’s from the comic books. So I went straight to the comic books and had stacks of them and just read and read and read and read and read".
Emmerich has retained the services of futurist and author Raymond Kurzweil to help with the revisions. Here's the plot, according to Variety: Set 50 years in the future, story follows a famous nanotechnology pioneer who uses a dangerous new procedure to save his badly-injured son, whose consciousness is transferred into a swarm of nanobots that take his physical form, giving him all sorts of powers.
The BBC and Starz Entertainment have green-lit a new original adventure series titled "Da Vinci’s Demons". Written by David S Goyer.The eight-episode series is scheduled to begin production in early 2012. It's an historical fantasy following the untold story of the world’s greatest genius during his youth in Renaissance Florence. Goyer said: “Da Vinci was the original Renaissance man. A near-mythic figure that has worldwide appeal.
Weighing in at one ton,The Mars Science Laboratory, the largest and most complex machine that has ever landed on another planet, is on target to launch on Nov. 25 at 7:25 a.m. PST. The rover, nicknamed Curiosity is expected to survey the Martian landscape with HD cameras, examine the chemical surface composition within 20 feet of the rover, monitor the planet’s weather, and search for signs of habitability and life, past or present.
BOOK REVIEWS
"12 Visions of Tomorrow" - MIT Technology Review:
"The Ninth Circle" (Tour Of The Merrimack 5) - R.M Meluch:
"Spider Star" - Mike Brotherton:
"The Elysium Commission" - L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Do...or do not. There is no try."- Yoda From "Return Of The Jedi"
"Do...or do not. There is no try."- Yoda From "Return Of The Jedi"
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