Sci-Fi Storm

Finally got out to see The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers yesterday. This installment definitely pushes The Lord of the Rings saga into one of the best epics of all time, if not THE best.

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Three years in the making, Mad Max: Fury Road has finally has a green light, with star Mel Gibson slated to get $25 million. George Miller, director and co-writer of the first three, got the rights back from Warner Bros. and the new project is happening at Twentieth Century Fox.

dugh writes “It looks like Asimov’s “I, Robot” will be turned into a movie starring Will Smith. Shooting starts in April, according to this article.” I hope he’s not playing the robot… :^)

Finally got to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets this weekend, and since no one else has posted a review I guess I’ll do so. I’ll attempt to use the Review Guide posted previously. Read More for the full review and leave your comments, but beware – there could be spoilers. Overall, 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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Corgi writes “The ‘casting game’ must be one of fandom’s favourite indoor sports, and
Harry Potter fandom is no exception, as the Internet almost froths with
speculation about who will portray the characters introduced in the next
HP adaptation (currently in preproduction).

One group of fans aren’t just sitting down and speculating — they’re
trying to do something about it. With a focal website
at http://www.SFF.net/people/Corgi/JasonCarter/,
fans of Babylon 5 and Harry Potter both are writing letters to the
casting director and staff of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
politely asking that Jason Carter be cast in the role of Sirius Black.”

Read More for the full details. Not sure I can picture it – I think they need someone more imposing…

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Paramount, with its new two-year first-look deal with Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment, will get the option to make the long-in-development (we first reported on it in January 2001) big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama.

Sequels can do well – at least for popular young wizards. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets took in $87.7 million for the weekend, ranking third all-time behind its predecessor and the number 1, Spider-Man.

Dark Horizons has a bit reported from a BBC1 interview with Harrison Ford regarding the fourth Indiana Jones adventure. Both he and Spielberg have cleared their schedules in 2004 for production, and George Lucas and Frank Darabont are working on an outline script. And Ford’s age (he’ll be sixty) will be taken into account.

SCI FI Wire today gives us a triple dose of X2 news – Bryan Singer says that all the characters will get equal screentime; Oscar winner Halle Berry’s newfound status did not affect her relationships with other cast members; and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos tell us what she’s going to do once filming wraps.

A couple of bits of Harry Potter news – after denying he had major health problems, the agent for actor Richard Harris, who plays Professor Dumbledore, says he is in fact hospitalized for treatment of Hodgkin’s Disease. Fortunately Hodgkin’s is very treatable, and he’s done well, and is expected to be available for filming the third movie. In the meantime, catch the UK trailer.