Sci-Fi Storm

When I heard recently about a video set to The Proclaimers “500 Miles”, I thought it was the video I’d seen before with David Tennant singing the song along with The Proclaimers themselves.

No, this was a new video – which looks like it was filmed at various stages in David Tennant’s tenure, and features various companions, enemies and the crew and even some old friends – I shed a tear when the late Lis Sladen appeared… 🙁

Two months ago it was announced that Harlan Ellison was filing a lawsuit against New Regency and director Andrew Niccol about the movie In time, which Ellison claims was too similar to his well known story, “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said The Ticktockman”, and would damage his ability to sell his own movie rights. He was seeking to stop the release, destroy all copies, and damages, but the film was released in time (pun!) anyways.

But I’m just learning today that Ellison had settled with the defendants last week, settling at least for screen credit (no mention on a monetary settlement) in future prints of the movie. This settlement echoes a similar lawsuit Ellison won against the producers of The Terminator, also receiving on-screen credit.

Updated 11/9: Maybe it hasn’t…I’m hearing through the twittervine that the original story may be false, and none of the other major orgs seem to have picked up on it. More news when known.

Update #2: Per Andrew Niccol’s lawyer, there has not been any settlement.