Sci-Fi Storm

This even showed up on CNN.com – Trek Today is reporting that Scott Bakula is in negotiations to take the captain’s chair for the rumor-laden fifth Star Trek series. Will there be a holographic Al?

While the game-playing world sits and waits for Duke Nukem Forever, the celluloid world may get him first: Dimension Films has acquired the rights to a Duke Nukem movie and plans to kick it off this year, aiming for a PG-13 rating. No word on a script or cast, only that it deals with an alien ship heading to Earth.

JMS, who already has two comics in print and a bunch of other projects, takes over the writing duties for Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, with the first issue due next month. Find out what’s on tap with Fandom.com’s interview…

Park Wars: The Little Menace has just been released. It is a parody of The Phantom Menace with South Park characters filling the roles. There is some original material, but mostly it takes directly from the audio of the movie (and mentions as much in the original material). Originally planned for 64 minutes, it was cut to under 12 minutes to avoid legal issues…

Is Aeryn really dead? What about Crichton’s brain? Well, it is a Sci-Fi show after all, so we can probably be safe in our assuptions that all will be well – but then again, this is Farscape, so something could still linger in the depths. Farscape‘s season 3 premiere airs at 9:00PM Friday, March 16th, preceded at 8:00PM with a special, Farscape Undressed, on The Sci-Fi Channel.

Updated 3/15: Just a reminder…

Received this in e-mail: The Museum of Television and Radio in Los Angeles will be holding a writing seminar entitled “From The Outer Limits to Roswell: Writing the Fantastic for Television” on March 26th from 5:30-7pm. The panel includes Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Ronald D. Moore, Steve Roberts, and JMS. Read More for the details.

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JMS just posted in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated that the first two B5 DVDs – The Gathering and In the Beginning will be delayed a month (I’m guessing to August) because Warner Home Video was apparently planning to release the original version of The Gathering instead of the Special Edition. JMS has managed to convince them otherwise (even after WHV spent $100k on it).

The Sci-Fi Channel will begin airing all 13 episodes of Crusade Monday through Thursday nights at 8:00PM, starting on April 9th. This means it should end on April 30th.

Here is a glimpse of headlines running on Sci-Fi Wire – head there for the full stories: Voyager co-producer Fuller may take on new Trek series; Sci-Fi will air RoboCop: Prime Directives mini-series; A Sound of Thunder postponed; Hayden Christensen is impressive as Anakin; security is tight on Matrix sequels; ABC bids on A.I. despite still being in production; Sci-Fi auction items score big; Wang unhappy about being turned down for directing Voyager.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released to final ballot for the 2001 Nebula Awards. Read More to see the finalists…

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