Behold the "darkest" Predators yet, and their new canine best friends. Last night at SXSW, producer Rodriguez and the director Nimrod Antal showed the first ever footage of their new Predators film. Check out this video sneak peek. More »
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2 Minutes Of Footage From Robert Rodriguez's New Predators [Predators]
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March 13 2010, 5:57am | Comments »
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Will Steven Spielberg Save Science Fiction Television? [Steven Spielberg]
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Spielberg is ready to redeem the struggling genre of science fiction on television. His third genre TV show, Nine Lives, might be airing on NBC, and we think Spielberg could be the TV savior we've been hoping for.Spielberg created Nine Lives for the Syfy Channel but it never saw the light of day. The 12-hour miniseries brings back Spielberg's collaborator Les Bohem, who was a writer on Taken. The series was supposed to be centered on people who seek out near-death situations in order to reunite with dead loved ones. But the project never happened. But the trades are now reporting that NBC is interested in bringing back this series, if Bohem updates the script. That makes 3 new scifi show under Spielberg's thumb. First is the untitled TNT alien invasion project with Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood which will have 10 episodes. And penned by Saving Private Ryan's Robert Rodat. Next up is Terra Nova the dinosaur time traveling pitch to Fox. Which is so expensive they will have to jump straight into series production instead of trying to make a pilot and then test the waters, hope it's good. And finally there's the NBC Nine Lives possibility. Since Spielberg is already planning on contributing to 3 stations, we figured why not direct/produce for all of them. Here's our "steal this pitch" for you Spielberg. ABC: Now that Pushing Daisies is gone, we need another whimsical feel-good show. Speilberg bring us singing aliens that run a cake shop, with extra-terrestrial frosting that gives one child of a single-parent family magical powers. Also walkie-talkies are guns, and we all learn a lesson each week about the things that really matter in life. Like youth and believing in the unknown. And robot children. CBS: Indie Jr.Indie is single father juggling sci-fi crime solving with pressures of raising his daughter. If only he could make it work with his partner in crime and Gal Friday who stands by his side through countless mysteries, hijinks and foibles. HBO Tom Hanks stars in a sepia tone series about the founders of NASA. It's like Mad Men, IN SPACE, and with tasteful nudity.
February 19 2010, 2:30pm | Comments »
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Ridley Scott's Alien Could Have Looked Like This [Concept Art]
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Here's screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's original concept art for the creature in Ridley Scott's Alien. Other Alien/Aliens concept art floating around online includes H.R. Giger's early face-hugger drawings and the heavy loader design that James Cameron rejected. This is a bunch of concept art and rare images we came across on the web, some of which appears to be screenshots from the rare Alien/Aliens laserdisc. None of it is new, but it's all new to us. (You can view it in non-gallery format here.) Check out more Alien-related goodness at these links, and also check out H.R. Giger's website. [When is evil cool? and Skiffy] Concept artist Ron Cobb's original alien design - he worked on the film before H.R. Giger came on board. The original alien's articulated jaw - note that the alien actually had a human skull in its forehead, which isn't really visible in the film. Another view of that weird skull-forehead thing. H.R. Giger's original facehugger concept art. H.R. Giger alien concept art! H.R. Giger alien concept art! H.R. Giger alien concept art! H.R. Giger alien concept art! Moebius' concept art for human uniforms Ron Cobb concept art The Nostromo cockpit concept art by Ron Cobb, which became the actual blueprints. More Cobb concept art. More concept art. More Cobb concept art. More Cobb concept art. Early concept art for the ship with the alien eggs in it. Ridley Scott drew his own storyboards for the film. More Ridley Scott storyboard art. James Cameron's painting of the alien planet. James Cameron's concept art for the alien egg sacs James Cameron's alien queen concept art. Syd Mead's concept art for the heavy loader, which Cameron rejected.
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February 19 2010, 11:00am | Comments »
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Ridley Scott's Alien Prequel Gets A Little Background [Alien]
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We've been eagerly awaiting more details on Ridley Scott's new Alien picture ever since the announcement this summer. The details are slowly trickling in, including a few hints on the new alien timeline. Empire Online caught up with Alien progenitor Ridley Scott, and got the details on when this futuristic movie is going to start, since it's a prequel for a future film. "The prequel will be a while ago," he explained. "It's very difficult to put a year on 'Alien,' but [for example] if 'Alien' was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior." I wonder if this prequel will recreate the super old technology and green screen computers that ran everything on the futuristic space ships, if so the crew if going to have to buy up a load of old school computer screens.
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October 29 2009, 12:00pm | Comments »
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