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We have a brand new plot description for James Cameron's long-awaited Avatar, for your spoilery pleasure. And we also have a blurry glimpse of the filming of Star Trek, if you want to risk eyestrain for the sake of the Federation. We also have exciting spoilers for Star Wars: Legacy, Doctor Who, Lost and Stargate: Atlantis.
Avatar is about a paraplegic war veteran from Earth, played by Australian actor Sam Worthington. He's taken to another planet, inhabited by a race of humanoid aliens who are at war with Earth.
Meanwhile, Avatar director James Cameron suggested Worthington to McG, who's directing Terminator 4. (This may mean Cameron is warming up to the sequel.) Worthington will play Warren, a "key figure" in the war against Skynet alongside Christian Bale's John Connor. [Variety]
More spoilers:
- A local station's traffic copter flew over the filming of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie. You can see a fake ice sheet, some greenscreen shooting, and a spaceship. [TrekMovie]
- Not only will there be lots of new robots in Transformers 2, but we'll see different "species" as well, says director Michael Bay. [Comic Book Resources]
- General "Thunderbolt" Ross isn't a villain in The Incredible Hulk, he's "conflicted," says actor William Hurt, who has an incredibly long and boring explanation. [CBR again]
- Dark Horse comics for May include Star Wars: Legacy #24, in which Cade Skywalker hatches a desperate plot to stop the Sith, and Serenity: Better Days #3, in which a member of Mal's crew is captured and tortured (again?). [Comics Continuum]
- The new Doctor Who series may feature a topless Dalek, and the return of the Judoon. At least, those costumes were removed from an exhibition for "filming purposes." [Elsmore]
- Heads up, shippers: Lost episode six features a "passionate kiss" between Jack and Juliet. [Spoiler Geeks]
- New details about some fifth-season Stargate: Atlantis episodes. "The Daedalus Variations" will probably focus on the Daedalus, the battle-cruiser commanded by Col. Steven Caldwell. Another, as-yet-untitled, episode will feature "extreme Shep-whumpage," meaning John Sheppard gets beat on. Also, the Replicator storyline will continue despite the absence of Torri Higginson, who appeared to be the leader of a new rogue group of Replicators in the episode "Be All My Sins Remembered." [Gateworld]
Comments
Interesting video but turn down the audio! The talking heads on local news are clueless. They one guy kept calling it "Star Track" and referred to "the Star Track Enterprise". They're at their best (which ain't great) when talking about themselves. Ugh.
Warren? Worthington? Is this some kind of encoded hint about a new xmen movie?
Topless Dalek... Hmm... It must be Davros!
Woo! Topless Dalek!
wait. eww.
also for different "species" in TF2, does that mean the Head Masters? oh man, that would just be perfect.
"WE ARE...THE HEAD MASTERS."
(entire audience breaks out laughing.)
@mitchel_stevens: I hope that he means Dinobots.
@braak:
this begs the unfortunate question: are the dinobots actually a different species of intelligent, transforming robot? wouldn't they just be like a varying robot ethnicity?
...and why, re-reading this, do i suddenly think i'm high as a kite?
@mitchel_stevens: The only way to know for sure would be to get dinobots to interbreed with regular transformers, and see if they produced viable offspring. But, since--so far as I know--there's only ever been one transformer chick, this experiment seems impossible.
Certainly, the dinobots represent different species of dinosaur. So, I guess the question is, are they robot humanoids that turn into robot dinosaurs, or robot dinosaurs that turn into robot humanoids?
Did I blow your mind there? Whoah! Here, let me fix it:
NO! ME GRIMLOCK AM KING! ME GRIMLOCK SAY EXECUTE THEM!
I'm mad about Torri Higginson's departure from Stargate: Atlantis. I got all excited when she appeared at the end of "be all my sins..". i'm ready to see some more ass kicking of the replicator variety!
@braak: Dinobots would rock!
@braak: I don't think transformers reproduce by sexual reproduction. But there are quite a few female transformers...they stayed on Cybertron in the G1 cartoon series.
@braak: I don't think the transformers reproduce by sexual reproduction. But there were several female Autobots...they stayed on Cybertron in the G1 cartoon series.
@braak:
Bay has already said no Dinobots, so move along, folks.
@braak:
whoa. mind: BLOWN.
@zguy: Don't be mad at Torri, be mad at the writers/producers. They essentially wrote her off the show. I imagine that she finally got sick of being treated like shit and said, "Nope, bugger off," to Season Five. Good for her.
@Plague: Bay also said that he'd be releasing tons of misinformation to throw people off, until the film's release. So, the "no Dinobots" thing could just be a hoax. I'm sure we'll see them eventually. They'd be nuts, not to.
So, does "different species" imply... Quintessons? No, but I can dream...
@Sharpless:
How is that even going to work in a live action setting?
"Oh look, a GIANT METAL DINOSAUR. That's a pretty good disguise."
Torchwood Spoilers from last nights episodes:
When Jack was a kid he and his kid brother were playing when an unknown enemy attacked and his father told him to keep hold of gray (his brother), he didn't and at some point let go and Gray disappeared, his father died in the same attack.
And the big spoiler:
Owen is killed at the end of Reset.
Where did you get "Warren" from? The Variety article says "Marcus".
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