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Secrets Of Gondry's Utopia And Star Wars' Dystopia

Here's a new clip of awesome train-jumping action, from plague-ravaged thriller Doomsday, which opens Friday. Two more clips below the fold show car-bezerkering, plus Malcolm McDowell giving away what may be a major plot point. In this morning's spoiler roundup, we also have a new hint about the direction of the PG-13 live-action Star Wars TV show, and tons of details about Michel Gondry's demented next film. Plus a look at the tail end of this season of Lost, and what's coming next year on Smallville. Click through to become a jaded, know-it-all spoiler whore.

It sounds as though Rhona Mitra's mission to a plague-quarantined Scotland, to find a cure for the plague which is starting to hit the outside world, may turn out to be futile. Unless, of course, Malcolm McDowell is wrong... which is almost unthinkable.

In Michel Gondry's next film, Return Of The Ice Kids (not Kings, as previously reported), teenagers invent water that makes you hear music while you drink it. And in one scene, a teenager relives a moment when he made a farting noise with his mouth during an exam, and everyone noticed, so he kept making noises "to cover his nerves," but it sounded like he was covering up a fart. Apparently this actually happened to the teenage Gondry. The kids in the film are "writing a book of peace," and it features some utopian scenes. [MTV movies]
The live-action Star Wars TV series, which takes place between episodes three and four of the movies, may be about a Sopranos-esque crime family during the rise of the Empire. [IESB]
Sam Rockwell's space traveler stranded in a moon base is "lonely but not alone," in Moon, the directorial debut of David Bowie's son Zowie, which just finished shooting. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Lost's ageless island-dweller Richard, played by Nestor Carbonell, will be back in at least one episode later this Spring, and his return leads to "interesting revelations." Also, in one of the season's final five episodes, we meet two Bedouin horsemen and a luxury doorman of "British extraction" in a flash-back or flash-forward... and they may have something to do with the enigmatic Charles Widmore. [Ask Ausiello]
With Lana missing for much of Smallville season eight, Clark's next love interest may be Lori Lemaris, the mermaid living among people from the comics. Also, season eight will still feature Chloe as a series regular, and may feature a fair bit of no-longer-regulars Lana and Lex too. [Ask Ausiello again]

6:00 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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SunZhiQian at 06:15 AM on 03/12/08
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not sure I like that Star Wars idea...
braak at 06:23 AM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: What, you mean you're not a fucking robot programmed to like things that you've already seen?
TommySez at 06:24 AM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: After the last few movies, I'm not sure I like *any* Star Wars idea.
Macloserboy at 06:24 AM on 03/12/08
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Lori Lemaris. Heh. Sadly, that makes me want to watch.
Mathmos at 06:24 AM on 03/12/08
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Sorry, didn't listen to Malcolm. Couldn't get past (or through) the poor man's Mad Max.
Falconfire at 06:24 AM on 03/12/08
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Im shocked you didnt point out the fact that the Star Wars TV show ALSO will be in the PG-13 realm, and that there absolutely will not be any "Skywalker" family on the show, that George is clear that their story is over.
MilesFromNowhere at 06:28 AM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: I KNOW I don't like that Star Wars idea. Surely, if you're going to mine Star Wars for ideas because you're creatively bankrupt, you can come up with something better than Sopranos in Space. Maybe not. I don't have any better ideas right off, but then, I am located at the consumer end of the food chain.
Jeff-Minor at 06:37 AM on 03/12/08
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The Star Wars universe is just the setting. Any great story you want could be played out there, for the most part. I think a cop show set on Trantor could be fun.
SunZhiQian at 06:39 AM on 03/12/08
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@MilesFromNowhere - I agree with you there. How about a relatively localized (planetary system in scope) story set in the Star Wars universe, one where the Empire plays a part but isn't necessarily the main antagonist. There are endless possibilities to explore the cultures in different systems. They could even pick a different system to focus on in each season or every couple of seasons.
extracrispy at 06:47 AM on 03/12/08
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Indiana Jones Chronicles was a pretty good show. So I still have faith that LucasFilm can pull off this Star Wars TV show. Of course, I kept saying that about each of the prequels too. Lucas has made me a masochist.
codydog at 06:54 AM on 03/12/08
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Hot Wookie love...
MilesFromNowhere at 06:58 AM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: Good. Hollywood; Are you listening? Probably not.
tetracycloide at 07:24 AM on 03/12/08
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a star wars series that isn't about jedis where everyone and thier mother doesn't have a lightsaber? sure it's a tired concept relative to the rest of TV but this is lucasfilm we're talking about, baby steps people.

i think i'm just latching onto this because it has a very small chance of actually being good...
StevieQ at 07:24 AM on 03/12/08
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How is this Doomsday different from Mad Max? Because Max is a chick this time?

You know things are bad in Hollywood when even the trailers are boring.
makyo at 07:27 AM on 03/12/08
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the gondry movie sounds similar to a novel called "tintagel" by paul cook, where you can actually get so emotionally involved in a piece of music it takes over your life.
SunZhiQian at 07:29 AM on 03/12/08
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I'd like to see some sort of "Tales of the Jedi" kind of show set way before any of the movie events, when the Jedi and the Sith were at their peak. There's no way that show wouldn't make it, even if Lucas was doing the writing.
tetracycloide at 07:55 AM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: you mean 'knights of the old rebublic: the series?'
Lars at 08:00 AM on 03/12/08
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@tetracycloide: You just made me think of the two "Ewoks" films. *Shudder*
SunZhiQian at 08:00 AM on 03/12/08
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@tetracycloide...that'd be it.
Plague at 09:08 AM on 03/12/08
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I'm beginning to think that IO9 is on the Doomsday payola list.
lillian27 at 09:25 AM on 03/12/08
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@Jeff-Minor: Trantor? Do you mean Coruscant? Wasn't Trantor the main planet in the Foundation Trilogy?

Regardless I like your idea. Something like a pre-Ep.4 film noir? Or Law and Order with droids?
vadmspartan at 09:41 AM on 03/12/08
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I know this would be in a different time period, but I've always wanted a Rogue Squadron series. Just Wedge and the boys doing roguish stuff. It's not going to happen of course.
Jeff-Minor at 10:15 AM on 03/12/08
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Lillian27, Yes, I meant Coruscant, but since it's an obvious use of the Trantor idea, I thought I'd give Asimov some due credit. I was thinking something as gritty as Alterd Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. If you like cop stories you might find this one very interesting. I did.
Angryrider at 10:18 AM on 03/12/08
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Superman falls in love with a mermaid. I'm pretty sure he'll make that work better than Fry.
joemono at 12:05 PM on 03/12/08
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@SunZhiQian: That reminds me of those books years ago - Tales of the Bounty Hunters, Tales From the Cantina, and Tales From Jabba's Palace that told stories about all the minor characters that ended up in various scenes in the background. I would watch a TV show based on that.
SunZhiQian at 12:09 PM on 03/12/08
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@joemono - Exactly! That's the kind of thing I'd like to see.
Kounji at 04:45 PM on 03/12/08
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@vadmspartan: I'm totally with you on this one as well. It was one of my favortie series of books; the comics and the novelization, and I'm so sad to hear its done.

I think a much better series with a lot of fun uninhibited exploration is the knights of the old republic time line.
lever2k at 06:58 PM on 03/12/08
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Best Star Wars idea: George loses control of the franchise.
ithidet at 04:29 AM on 03/13/08
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Malcolm McDowell

wrong!

MADNESS!
CmdrHunt at 11:40 AM on 03/13/08
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@SunZhiQian: I hear ya. Eveybody who has plyaed KOTOR or KOTOR II, knows that you got a great base for a running series!

Hell, steal the damn characters from the game if Lucas is tapped for ideas! Mandalor and Revan would make interesting characters. Shucks, a KOTOR series would even have droids for all the kiddies to latch on to... killer droids hehehehe.