Sci-Fi Storm

It looks like they can get it done on time. After 20th Century Fox stepped up to fund The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader when Disney pulled out, Fox and Walden have announced a December 10th, 2010 release date for the next installment of The Chronicles Of Narnia.

Could Universal be planning on a yet another version of Battlestar Galactica? Glen A. Larson had been trying to resurrect his version of the show (as had Richard Hatch with a competing version, among others) when Universal elected to go with Moore and Eick version now finishing up on the SCI FI Channel. But now The Hollywood Reporter says that original series producer Larson may take another version to the big screen. Other than it seems to be yet another reboot, there are little details though.

Could Green Lantern make the latest leap from paper to film? According to Michael Green, who is co-writing the adaptation for Warner Brothers, says that director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) is attached and the studio appears to be moving forward. Could the extensive backstory could provide a lot of food for a franchise?

If you are interested in attending the Los Angeles premiere of Watchmen on Tuesday, March 2nd, now is your chance – To promote the March 6 release of “Watchmen,” WB.com is running an exclusive Sweepstakes for one lucky winner (and a guest) to be flown to Los Angeles for the official “Watchmen” Premiere on Tuesday, March 2. The winner will also receive hotel accommodations and $1,000 in spending money. Enter by February 18th.

As part of an interview with the New York Times says that although Warner Brothers could “go and hire some guy to make them a sequel…I don?t know that they would get any of those actors to do it, and I know that I wouldn?t have anything to do with it.” I’m not familiar with the source material myself, but I get a certain feeling there is a definite end to it…with studios looking for franchises lately, I’m surprised there wasn’t a built-in “out” for a sequel…

In case you missed it, TrailerAddict.com has the trailer for Land of the Lost. There is a fleeting glimpse of the Sleestak (classic style), Dinos reminiscent of Jurassic Park (including noise), and lots of things that look like they fell through the time portal – didn’t anyone notice the Golden Gate Bridge was missing?

It looks like the Dawn Trader may yet sail. 20th Century Fox, which now has a partnership with Walden Media, is set to co-finance the third film in the Narnia franchise, Voyage of the Dawn Treader after Disney stepped away. Details of the financing arrangement are yet to be worked out but they still hope to release the film for the holiday season in 2010. I guess the Narnia exhibit at Walt Disney World will go away quickly.

Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) and Sony/Columbia have won the bidding war to finally bring Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, with Emmerich and his partner Michael Wimer producing. Emmerich also has a remake of Fantastic Voyage (for which Asimov wrote the novelization based on the original screenplay) on his plate (although perhaps consigned to development hell), and 2012, about the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar, coming out this year, although its release has been delayed until November 13th.

Could a big-screen, big-budget Babylon 5 feature be in the works? Well, not yet, but according to JMS Warner Bros is warming up to the idea – now that JMS is a big screen writer. The first item for discussion from WB is apparently, “…how big a movie would it have to be for you to come back and make a B5 movie for us??

Jon Turteltaub, the executive producer of Jericho, while discussing about episodes of the series re-airing on The CW, mentioned that a theatrical feature is in development. As for the budget? ?Anything would be a huge budget compared to what we were dealing with,? he adds. ?If we had $40 million dollars to make a movie with, that?s 20 times more than we did before.?