Sci-Fi Storm

The first two new Babylon 5 stories in the new The Lost Tales series, collectively titled “Voices of the Dark”, has begun production. Confirmed actors are Bruce Boxleitner (President John Sheridan), Tracy Scoggins (Captain Elizabeth Lochley) and Peter Woodward (Galen). I was looking all over for the actual WB press release, but I wasn’t able to find it…in the meantime, everyone else started reporting it…

Think you an produce a commercial that would help keep Stargate SG-1 on TV? Now’s your chance. Check out the “Keep the Gate Open” Video Contest, where you can utilize the provided materials and/or use your own to create a video. Grand prize is $1000 and a signed script of the episode “200”.

Have you always wanted to conquer a planet? Now you can get your chance – but so will hundreds of other would-be emperors who would rather end your existence. Boundless Planet, a new massively-multiplayer online real time strategy (MMORTS) game went gold today. Check out the trailer. Subscription price is $8.95 – fairly cheap for MMO games.

As promised, watch the new trailer below, or download high-definition versions from here.

Bad news for UK SF fans – I just caught wind that the 2007 Eastercon (the British National SF Convention) called “Convoy” has been cancelled – and the official Convoy web site seems to agree. From the message, it appears that they lost their venue. It was supposed to be held April 6-9 in Liverpool.

There is a nice interview running over at Twitch Guru where Harlan Ellison conducts an interview with Ronald D. Moore, after presenting him with the Screenwriting Expo’s award for Television Writer of the Year. Ellsion said it’s for “the astonishing job of making one of the worst television series ever made into one of the best television series ever made.”

Roger Corman (of many genre films) and John Davison (Starship Troopers) will work together to produce Space 3001, an SF action movie to be produced in Ireland on a budget of $20m US (with Irish subsidies). No info on the plot available. This is not the old Mike Judge production that at one point was called 3001: That actually saw a very limited release a couple of months ago as Idiocracy.

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A new trailer for next year’s Spider-Man 3 will debut on the net on Thursday at 10PM ET. You’ll be able to watch the trailer right here on Sci-Fi Storm, or download high-definition versions from here.

A new animated holiday special, Shrek The Halls, is being developed by ABC for airing this December, and expected to become a perennial special. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, and Antonio Banderas are all named as appearing as their characters. Shrek 2 will air on ABC at 8pm ET on November 24th.