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Sony won its option bid for the rights to develop Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Sony appears to have already tapped veteran producer and director Roland Emmerich to take the lead on this production, which already gives me positive feelings. Emmerich has plenty of big-screen experience including Stargate, Independence Day, and The Day After Tomorrow, but his work directing episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation gave him some real Sci-Fi chops.I’m still concerned about how Foundation will be treated. We’re not talking some pulp fiction 150ppg scifi rag here. We’re talking one of the more complex and wide reaching tales of a possible future. Having just re-read the first two books, I’m rather well placed to make observations.

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I’m not sure what to make of this. AICN is reporting that Keanu Reeves will play the role of Spike Speigel in 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop for the big screen. Now, Cowboy Bebop ranks among the best anime series of all time (up there with Neon Genesis Envangelion and Ghost in the Shell [...]

James Cawley, the creator of the interesting, long running fanfic web series Star Trek Phase II (formerly known as Star Trek: New Voyages), has licensed the Buck Rogers property from Dille Syndication and is preparing a web-based series for 2010. AICN is reporting that Cawley Productions will base the new show on the original comic series, [...]

Its not often an animated film will slip past me, but its all the more shocking that I was informed of this movie by AICN, and they were caught unawares! Wow! Anyway, $9.99 is a stop-motion animated film which is Rated R (US) and it involves an English man finding the meaning of life in a [...]

Producer’s Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) have gotten together to prepare a new animated featured called ”9”, helmed by Shane Acker. Voice talent includes Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connely, Crispin Glover (where the hell has he been!), Martin Landau, and Christopher Plummer. Click here for the trailer page at Apple. Here’s [...]