Sci-Fi Storm

X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch will star as the title character in Disney’s John Carter Of Mars production, which should finally get started in 2010. It will be the first live action production from director Andrew Stanton, whose Pixar efforts Wall-E and Finding Nemo won Oscars.

Could a game resurrect a franchise? That could possibly happen with Ghostbusters. A long-in-development game is set to release on Tuesday (Formats: Standard Edition Windows, PS3, XBox 360, Wii, PS2, DS, Amazon Exclusive Slimer Edition: XBox 360, PS3, Wii), and it has renewed the interest in another film, not only from the producers but the actors as well.

Apparently I missed the original announcement, but the final season of Stargate Atlantis will be released on DVD on June 30th. This concludes the releases of all currently published Stargate episodes/movies, until Stargate Universe hits the screens.