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A Surprise Villain Gets Involved In Star Wars: Clone Wars

Fans have been spying on the Doctor Who filming, and gotten a glimpse at a villain that nobody knew was returning... until now. We also have a couple of clips from next week's Lost, which give away a plot twist that you probably did see coming. Plus there are intriguing new details about X-Files 2, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Speed Racer. Set your time-distort to maximum, because we're bringing the future to you.

In X-Files 2, Billy Connolly plays a good priest, Father Joe, and Adam Godley plays Father Ybarra, a bad priest, according to a recent call sheet. Meanwhile, Mulder is very interested in one of the patients Scully is treating at the local hospital. Also, that kiss between Mulder and Scully? Was staged to confuse the fans. [XFilesNews]
The villain in Speed Racer puts a $1 million bounty on Speed's head for any racer who can take him out. At one point, Racer X punches another driver in the face while both their are cars are spinning in mid-air. [IESB]
In the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated movie/pilot, Anakin and his apprentice Ahsoka lead a platoon of clonetroopers to assault a mountain fortress, with vehicles that climb the sheer rock face while the Jedi follow on ropes. And Count Dooku sends assassin Asajj Ventress to try and win the favor of Jabba the Hutt's son. [IESB again]
A fan got to watch some of the location filming for the tail end of Doctor Who season four, featuring new companion Donna's parents. One fan thought he heard them mention Daleks. In this video snippet, though, they say something about the "filthy swine" aliens being gone, and Donna's father warns her mother that "they always want the women." And then Donna's mom looks up at the skies. [Thanks Tim!]
And look here for a video showing every single pic of Billie Piper from the new season, including a bunch at a police barricade. And some very silly faces. [Next VDO]
And here's another fan's set pic, which seems to indicate the Judoon (those stompy aliens who transported a hospital to the moon last year) will be back. (But it's also possible they've already started filming 2009's three one-hour specials.)[StuffonTV]
Here are a couple of preview clips of next week's Lost. We were right about who Ben's spy on the freighter was, and here he is now! [SpoilersLost]

6:00 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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shan6 at 06:09 AM on 03/14/08
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So Mulder and Scully won't be getting freaking in this flick? I always sort of wanted them to hook up for some reason.
moff at 06:13 AM on 03/14/08
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David Duchovny: Yeah, I know. I'm tempted to kiss again just so we can confuse them some more.

Gillian Anderson: And why would that confuse them some more?

DD: Oh, I mean, to freak them out.

GA: Yeah, but that doesn't make sense.

DD: Well, isn't that what makes it funny? I'm laughing. Go fish! Uno.
shan6 at 06:17 AM on 03/14/08
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continued from moff

GA: Mulder, seriously you are creeping me out.

DD: Just go with it.

And thus ends the X-Files saga.
Mr. Praline at 06:36 AM on 03/14/08
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@moff: +1 frozen banana. Kudos.
E0157H7 at 06:45 AM on 03/14/08
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I will not acknowledge the X-Files craziness. I will only watch the first few seasons and selectively delete everything else after that from my reality and refuse to address it. If anybody tries to talk about the new movie with me I will cover my ears and sing loudly.
I wonder if Clone Wars in hinting at a proto-MT-AT. That could be interesting to see in action.
TommySez at 06:48 AM on 03/14/08
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Duchovny just wants a chance to suck face with Gillian.

I don't blame him.

Still have a photo of her in a vinyl catsuit somewhere around here.
tetracycloide at 06:54 AM on 03/14/08
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i feel like the speed racer spoiler isn't so much a spoiler as it is a confirmation of something we all knew was going to be there all along. as soon as i saw the trailer for speed racer and X showed up i thought to myself, 'now there's a man that's punched another man whilst driving through the air.'
Thieu at 08:07 AM on 03/14/08
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I think the Doctor Who villains are Sontarans. The costumes are about write and swine-like certainly fits.
modernboy at 08:32 AM on 03/14/08
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the old man in the video is donna's grandfather, wilf played by bernard cribbins, not her father. the actor who played her father in the xmas special passed away so that the character is not included in season 4. wilf is the man in the newsstand from "voyage of the damned," this year's xmas special.

those are definitely judoon, but i wouldn't call them villains they're an intergalactic swat team, they just get in the doctor's way like other military/police/government agencies can sometimes do. unit and torchwood anyone?
Charlie Jane Anders at 09:42 AM on 03/14/08
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@Thieu: I thought he looked a bit like a Sontaran too...until I noticed the weird utilikilt.
sncreducer at 11:38 AM on 03/14/08
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Uh...I'm not sure how Michael being Ben's man on the boat counts as a "spoiler", since, you know, that was revealed the night before you posted this item.
Sharpless at 02:16 PM on 03/14/08
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@sncreducer: It isn't a spoiler, but they always post LOST preview videos here, which is what that video was. Also, I love how Ben just bluntly told them it was Michael. I'm so unaccustomed to characters outright revealing anything.