I’m part of The Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi! As announced in Entertainment Weekly‘s article and at Comic-Con International: San Diego, I’m one of four authors giving viewers a look at Canto Bight, the playground for the rich seen in this December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars: Canto Bight releases as a hardcover, audiobook, and ebook on December 5, a week before the film opens. I’m …
Welcome to Fanboy Anonymous. We’ve got someone new with us today. Introduce yourself, please… “My name is John, and I saw Tim Burton’s Batman movie theatrically 12 times. I know that sounds excessive, but it just sort of happened.” Happened how? “It was summer session in a college town — everyone had left. The trendiest nightspot was the campus commissary where each hour Hair-Net Harriet would loudly announce the alley …
Some spookily ill-starred timing below in mentioning Star Trek characters frozen in time — with the loss today of Ricardo Montalban. ABC, CBS, and NBC each had segments on Montalban in tonight’s evening news broadcast; both ABC and CBS mentioned Fantasy Island and the Chrysler commercials — only NBC also included a Star Trek clip (which sort of makes sense, as Island was ABC and Trek was NBC). NBC also …
The L.A. Times has a piece on Mickey Rourke potentially appearing in Iron Man 2, potentially as Crimson Dynamo. One would suspect not in the Anton Vanko incarnation (and certainly not the teen-age Gennady Gavrilov incarnation). I don’t recall a variation that was a basic arms dealer, so this, if true, would be another incarnation. (The same piece has a section on George Lucas and a “Force trainer” shown at …
Just a few notes today: I’ll be on the Fictional Frontiers radio show this Sunday — it airs 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon EST on WNJC 1360 AM-Philadelphia. A few days after, the podcast goes online here. My segment is prerecorded and was an enjoyable interview to do — covering both both my past and future Star Wars work with an interviewer who knew the series really well. It’s part …
Newsarama has a piece up on Yahoo (!) on the “five most scientifically plausible science fiction movies.” First off, props to Matt and Mike for getting Newsarama syndicated out to Yahoo — should be some great exposure for them there. (My Comichron column runs monthly there, as well.) And, of course, the list itself — which is intended to inspire debate, and almost certainly will. Off the bat, I would …
I was very sorry to learn this morning of the passing of Michael Crichton. The first movie that ever gave me nightmares was the original Andromeda Strain, which I saw on TV at age eight — it’s still the better of the two adaptations, I think. I read both The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man in junior high, one summer working (or when I should have been working) in …