Sci-Fi Storm

Heroes creator Tim Kring is lobbying NBC to allow for a wrap-up miniseries to the show, which ended with the world knowing about the Heroes. The mini-series would pick up 1 year later, seeing the effects of the revelation.

Also on the resurrection front, Flash Forward fans plan to stage a “flash” blackout of their own – on June 10th, at ABC offices and other locations in major cities, fans plan to stage a blackout in which they with “faint” for 2 minutes and 17 seconds…

The upcoming Starz mini-series Camelot now has some actors associated with it. Joseph Fiennes (Flash Forward) will be Merlin against Eva Green (Casino Royale), who will play Morgana. In addition, Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, New Moon) will play the (young) King Arthur and Tasmin Egerton (St. Trinians) will play Guinevere. No idea if this is going to follow the classic stories or be totally original yet…Egerton is no stranger to the stories, having also appeared in The Mists Of Avalon as a young Morgaine (a.k.a. Morgana, a.k.a. Morgan le Fay).

HO! The cult fave 1980s cartoon Thundercats is coming back, all new. Warner Bros. announced that the cartoon will return in 2011 on the Cartoon Network. Interestingly, they are calling it an “anime”, although it is being produced directly for the U.S. market.

EW.com has picked their list of the greatest 100 characters over the last 20 years. Here is a quick summary of genre-related characters:

91. Hancock from Hancock
89. Wikus van de Merwe from District 9
87. Tony Stark from the Iron Man series
72. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace from Battlestar Galactica
63. John Locke from Lost
59. Master Chief from the Halo series
53. Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga
36. Gollum from The Lord of the Rings
33. Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
19. Morpheus from The Matrix series
5. The Joker from The Dark Knight
3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series

And #1 on the list – Homer Simpson…

Shock: Guillermo del Toro has officially announced his departure from The Hobbit as director. “In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming ‘The Hobbit,’ I am faced with the hardest decision of my life”, Guillermo said. At this point he will continue co-writing the screenplay. Update 6/1: Peter Jackson says that he might direct instead.

When will The Hobbit go before the cameras? Director Guillermo del Toro doesn’t know. “You know, there cannot be any start date, really, until the MGM situation gets resolved, because they do hold a considerable portion of the rights,” del Toro said in a conference call, referring to MGM’s financial troubles, with the studio looking for a buyer to avoid bankruptcy. He also states unequivocally that “It’s not green-lit. That’s categorical. It is not green-lit.”

Just got wind of this…the long languishing remake of William F. Nolan’s Logan’s Run (last to surface in 2007) appears to have gotten yet another director in Carl Rinsch, known for directing commercials (as was his predecessor on the project). But Rinsch is already involved in two projects – Creature From The Black Lagoon and 47 Ronin, so it will likely be some time before it really gets traction.

After about a decade of development, production, post production, and a long search for distribution, Hyper Image is releasing their debut feature on DVD on May 25th.

Distributed by Phase 4 Films, the computer animated sci-fi action film follows the renegade Team Earth, as they struggle to compete in the high speed Star Car 5000 racing circuit.
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So the shock should be over now. No surprise that the finale of Lost had the highest ratings for the night and was the highest rated episode in two years – but it may not have been as high as some expected. Perhaps some of the thunder was lost by the finale of Celebrity Apprentice given that Brett Michaels’ medical problems have been big news. But anyways, there is much to talk about, and I’ll start off some discussion points below. Feel free to chime in. But BEWARE – there are spoilers below, so if you haven’t watched yet, what are you waiting for?!? Come back later…
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I was thinking about something recently, and a discussion on a mailing list provoked my mind to come up with a new term. “Unrealitivity” – A merger of “unreal” and “relativity” (as in Einstein’s theories of…). It is any sort of SF technology or phenomenon that allows for incredible speeds without regards for relativity, speed of light, acceleration forces, etc. without any sort of basis in other potential theories or at least a technical explanation – like warp drive, hyperspace, etc. For instance: “The nuclear waste dump that exploded on the dark side of the moon thrust it out of Earth’s orbit at unrealitivistic speeds across the universe…” Or, “The spaceship’s unrealitivity drive brought them to Tau Ceti in two days…”

A Google search at least seems to indicate that it is fairly unique, with only a handful of hits and nothings to indicate usage other than a mistyped word…