Sci-Fi Storm

tchansen writes “According to TheForce.Net, LucasFilm will officially announce that the original Star Wars Trilogy will be released on September 21st, 2004. The site is reporting that the announcement will come on Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 and will include four discs. No mention of any extras or the content of the fourth disc. Maybe the Christmas special? 🙂 We’ll see in the morning…” Ah, the special that wouldn’t die…Update: It’s official.

Peter Jackson gave a few hints as to what may appear in the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, although not everything filmed will make it in. I’m a bit confused as to whether these will or won’t be included, but I hope they are, even if they aren’t “true to the book”: a drinking contest between Gimli and Legolas, and a scene with Frodo and Sam pretending to be orcs. And Peter Jackson won the Director’s Guild of America award for RotK, which bodes well for is Oscar chances.

The nominees for the 2003 Nebula Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and you can read excerpts and even complete stories of some of the nominees.

The hoped-for release for a fourth Indiana Jones movie in 2005 is unlikely to happen as George Lucas has reportedly rejected Frank Darabont’s script. Darabount (The Green Mile) had been brought on to develop a concept that Lucas, star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg all liked, but appanretly didn’t come through and a new scribe will be brought in.

Patrick Stewart has apparently spilled the beans about X-Men 3, saying the movie will be due out next year, and that he hopes it will go several more. As for Trek, “I think Star Trek is over.”

Well, SCI FI has picked up the options on contracts for Battlestar Galactica, but apparently still hasn’t given a green light to production. It would seem foolish to have to pay everyone and not produce it, but this is television – and this is the SCI FI Channel after all.

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