Sci-Fi Storm

THR’s LiveFeed has a complete schedule of TV related panels scheduled so far for Comic-Con – some interesting highlights – a A Leap Of Faith, Battlestar Galactica panel hosted by Richard Hatch; A Quantum Leap Retrospective; a panel about Hawaii Five-0 featuring various genre actors and crew; and the The Joss Whedon Experience.

It appears that the big green guy’s alter ego will get a new face for the upcoming Avengers multi-superhero movie. Marvel has announced that Ed Norton will not return to the role of Bruce Banner that he himself took over from Eric Bana for The Incredible Hulk, with the producers opting to recast the role, alluding to wanting someone who might work better in an ensemble. Norton’s agent issued his own statement calling Marvel’s statement “offensive” and saying that Norton was “enthusiastic at the prospect of being a part of the ensemble cast.”

It seems that David Prowse may have stepped on George Lucas’ toes, and Lucas ain’t happy. It isn’t clear exactly what precipitated this, but the British actor who portrayed the figure of Darth Vader in the original films says on his official web site that he is not only not invited to appear at Celebration V in Orlando, but also isn’t welcome at future Lucasfilm-involved functions. Prowse has been known to have disputes with Lucas in the past, often stating that he assumed he would be providing the voice of Vader in addition to the form, and also about a leak regarding the character’s death and thus did not appear as Anakin in Return Of The Jedi, but there has been no official reason given other than Prowse having “‘burnt too many bridges.” I saw him last year, and he seemed reasonable personable, although I know others have different opinions.

or rather, in Vulcan. Vulcan, Alberta, Canada, founded in the 1900s.

As I suggest in my blog entry (Your Child Can Be Born on Vulcan), wouldn’t it be totally cool for your child to be born in Vulcan? If you’re nine months pregnant, and healthy with it, and have the funds, why not give it a try?

Then, whenever your child is asked where he or she is from, they’ll be able to say with perfect truth, Vulcan.

The Emmy nomination list is out, and here are some of the genre nods, in order of how many: Lost (12), The Big Bang Theory (5), True Blood (5), Flash Forward (3), The Prisoner (2), Stargate Universe (2), and Caprica, Chuck, Fringe, Heroes, V, Virtuality, and Warehouse 13 all receiving 1 each.

Just think of putting this on and yelling, “KHAN!!!!!!!” Admiral Kirk’s set-worn jacket and shirt from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan is up for auction at Heritage Auction Galleries. Also included are the trousers worn by Leon Russom, who wore the same jacket in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Starfleet’s Commander-in-Chief. Opening bid: $10,000, with the estimated winning bid to be in excess of $20,000.

Warehouse 13 returned for its sophomore season last night (missed it? Fortunately my TiVo didn’t – I should have had it in the Storm calendar, but it will air several more times this week), but ratings were down 14% from its series debut last year. The news is not all bad, though – it was still SyFy’s most watched telecast this year, with 3 million viewers. P.S. Eureka returns this Friday at 9PM ET…

Stumbled upon an interesting article on io9…it is about how Vonda McIntyre got into writing one of the first Star Trek tie-in novels, [asin=1451607539]”The Entropy Effect”[/asin], and how through that she gave Sulu his given name of “Hikaru”. Why? Because a love scene was awkward without it…

Bill Warren is perhaps best known for his seminal books on science fiction movies of the 1950s, Keep Watching the Skies, first published in two volumes in the 1980s, recently released in an expanded and updated version.

Bill was kind enough to give our Matt Sanborn an interview:
Bill Warren Interview

Sony has its Peter Parker for the reboot of their Spider-Man franchise – Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) has been named for the role after having been named to a short list a month ago. Production is expected to start in December, with the film set to be released 2 years from today on July 3rd, 2012.