Sci-Fi Storm

It isn’t clear if these images are being presented to the producers of the upcoming Glen Larson/Bryan Singer-led Battlestar Galactica production, but Eric Chu, the designer behind the more recent SyFy series, has some images as how the new production might look. I don’t know about the giant daggit, though…

The lawsuit between the Tolkien Estate and New Line Cinema over profits from the three movies has been settled. The estate had sued for $150 million, claiming that New Line failed to pay them 7.5% of the gross receipts, and also sought to revoke rights to any other Tolkien works, including The Hobbit, but with the settlement in place New Line and MGM can move forward with the adaptation as planned.

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At Dragon*Con this past weekend, Patrick Stewart spoke to a packed house about various things, including how his doctor called the production staff to get the Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms changed – but most interesting was that while he and Ian McKellan (who starred together in a production of Waiting for Godot) would like to further explore their X-Men characters of Professor Xavier and Magneto, he really doesn’t see a full return to Captain Jean-Luc Picard, saying only a cameo is likely in the future.

Disney announced today that Tron Legacy will have a release date of December 17th, 2010, and reportedly Bruce Boxleitner will also return as the title character along side Jeff Bridges. This puts it head to head currently with The Green Hornet.

So, if you can’t wait to make sure you are among the first of the goth thralls to see the upcoming Twilight: New Moon when it opens November 19th, you can now lock it in with an advanced ticket purchase, as tickets have gone on sale through Fandango – the catch is they are only for Carmike Cinemas. Not quite the lead time given to Avatar by AMC Theaters (4 months) though.

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No news isn’t good news when it comes to an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter Of Mars series. We last heard in June, so we are glad to hear of additional casting taking place. Samantha Morton (The Daisy Chain) will play Sola, the daughter of Tars Tarkas (Willem Defoe); Dominic West (300) is Sab Than, price of the Zondagans; and Polly Walker (Caprica) will play the Thark Sarjoka.

You can now view the teaser trailer for Avatar in various Quicktime resolutions.

Warner Bros. is now looking to remake the Sean Connery 1981 vehicle Outland, which was about a police officer who arrives on Jupiter’s moon Io at a mining colony and proceeds to clean up the place, much to the chagrin of some others, in what some describe as a Space Western. Newcomer Chad St. John will write and Michael Davis (Shoot ‘Em Up) will direct with an expanded vision of the original idea.