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The Star Trek movie I'd love to see: The Mirror Universe invades the regular Universe. War! Pick your era. It'd be awesome.

(Ashley Judd) turns up as Wesley Crusher's wife!

not even the FanFic writers would be so bold as to predict Wesley pulling that caliber of tail.

Bruce Campbell needs more roles. Period.

"And Peter Davison, the early 80s New Wave Doctor, will pop up for at least one multi-Doctor storyline."

...erm TimeCrash anyone?

It's funny. I just heard that Bruce Campbell will play Mysterio in Spider-Man 4.

@tr1ck: Correct.

@KhaiJB: Yeah, but that was just a brief skit. This was a rumor he would be in at least one full-length episode.

@tr1ck and Log1c: People with #s in their names unite for Bruce Campbell!

Daleks = Yay!
Hobbits = Yay!
Daleks + Hobbit Feet = *tears*

it's still counted as Canon... skit or no.

I heard a rumor that the Star Wars prequels would be good... I didn't believe it of course.

I remember that "Supershadow" guy from when I was heavy on the "theforce.net" boards. Even then we all knew that guy was a load of crap, those scripts for Ep. 7, 8, an 9 were so bad they were funny. What was funnier, though, was all the people who would come on and post "I read on some site that " referencing supershadow's supposed spoilers. I think he was even banned out of theforce.net, can't remember.

Kind of on-topic around that, did anyone else on here frequent the ROTS board on theforce.net in the year or so prior to that movie's release? There was a mysterious (at least, at the time - haven't followed up to see if he was ever revealed) writer with the name "JW Titus" who wrote a novelization of ROTS over the course of many months (generally a chapter every week or so) based on theories and known spoilers. Got some things wrong (some of the ones he got wrong were better than the real story, though), but a lot right, and his book was probably better than the story that Lucas finally gave us (though I still have my signed-copy of the Matthew Stover novelization). Extremely well written (people thought for a while that he was going to be the author of the official novelization and was testing his visualization of the scenes and dialog). I think I still have the complete copy of it on my hard-drive somewhere.

Yeah some of this did come true in weird ways.

Dalek Sec got legs when he hybridized.

Bruce Campbell was Mysterio in the Games, and having him always being a frustrated pissed off member of the entertainment industry in the movies would definitely set him up for that.

Peter Davidson - TimeCrash, there were multi doctors and no one said the storyline had to be long.

And was there a point where Natalie Portman had clothes on in the prequels? Or was that something that my brain did for me to make them watchable?

@zerofritz:
Are you writing to us from 1997?

Wheaton would be a major conquest for her now. I mean god, look at the numbers the guy's blog pulls.

These are movies and shows that, at least, got made. The one that always breaks my heart is when you hear about a cool movie or show coming out and it dies in production. (alas, poor GrimJack movie...we never knew ye.)
...and I'll believe there's an American McGee's "Alice" movie when I'm watching it with a bunch of people dressed in steampunk garb, whilst sipping Martini's at the Cinema & Drafthouse..

The ST:NG spin-off/rumor that i'd like to see...
borg assimilates a new culture each week - the episode starts off happy and hopeful for the targeted culture -- but after some last minute failures by the hero of that culture - the uncreative, hive-mind, of cybo-protagonists wins out in the end a la a sitcom in a trek-bizzarro universe. The last shot of each episode could be some poor hapless, last cultural remnant hanging off a rapidly exiting cube...
Think of the dynamic interplay between borg characters, the potential for romance, conflict, ambitions realized and unrequited....

@danwaterhouse: Wheaton, yes: Wesley, no.

Damn, Natalie Portman naked AND singing a ballad?!?!

Can it get any better? I mean.... seriously?

Peter David, the best Trek writer who never got to write an episode of Trek, did get to write a fairly good "Mirror Universe Invades" storyline in the old post-Search For Spock DC comic.

Chekov didn't do so good in that one, either.

@BloggyMcBlogBlog:
Yeah, me too.
Of course, I could just be making that up to make myself happy about Raimi's mostly like non-involvement in any future sequels.

@Garrison Dean: Oh man, does Dalek Sec even count? Real Daleks would thumb their noses at Sec's disgusting hybrid blood.

And Peter Davison was indeed in Time Crash. And that was entertaining. :D

I wish Tarantino WOULD direct a Star Wars prequel! There would have been more campy violence, better music, and ... um, still Sam Jackson and his awesomeness. Heh.

@Miranda Kali: OMG I forgot there was a Grimjack movie in development. Let's steal a universe-hopper and cross over to the alternate universe where that got made. I must have the DVD!

@tangledweb16: That rumor happened too!!! It was just later on and she didn't age well.

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I'm still holding out some hope that Paul McGann (still the canonical 8th Doctor, even though the 1996 TV movie sucked) will make some sort of guest appearance in Doctor Who *sometime*.

@Nivair: Yeah Tarantino should direct a prequel, because those movies really needed more talking.

@Charlie Jane Anders:
Yup, J. Michael Straczynski was supposedly writing it. Then all the legal b.s. happened with First.
Speaking of which...shouldn't there be new GrimJacks out? Ent he s'posed to be twins now, or sumptin? o.O

OMG! This is a great post! I forgot about some of these rumors.

Thank God we keep our debunked rumors locked away in a closet where not even io9 can find them. =P

@Miranda Kali: I don't know if they're doing any more new comics. They're slowly reissuing all the old ones as trades. And they did a prequel miniseries a few years ago. But not sure if anything else is coming.

@tr1ck: I was CRUSHED when that Mysterio rumor turned out to be a fake. I've been waiting for more Bruce for years ... whatever happened to "My Name Is Bruce"? No distributor, direct to DVD, what? [imdb.com]

@zerofritz: Did we overlook the fact that Wesley already "got with" Ashley Judd in STNG episode "The Game"? I remember thinking when I saw a rerun recently that Wesley never had it so good...

I want to chime in that my "hatred" of Bail Organa has been greatly exaggerated. We had our disagreements, sure, but he was an able legislator, a fine father, and an incredible squash player. If I had it to do over again, I'd probably still blow up his planet, but I'd call him first. There are a lot of things I didn't get to say to him.

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@zerofritz: See TNG's 'The Game'

The worst was when Lucas brought his film friends like Spielberg and Ron Howard to the ranch to watch the film and they started saying things about how great it was, and how the first shot would blow away all that came before it.

I guess those weren't rumors, just lies. Dirty dirty lies.

Those Star Wars prequel rumors sound a whole lot better than what we ended up with.

Tom Baker as The Master would totally kick ass.
He was certainly the meanest of the doctors, and my personal favorite.

I recall hearing about an old article that appeared between the release of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi which theorizes where the third installment will go based on stuff Lucas had said up to that point. It was way off. But in some ways, way better.

The only thing I can remember now is that Darth Vader wasn't actually Luke's father, but a clone (which is how both Darth and Obi-Wan could be right about the whole "betrayed and murdered" bit). But then, it turned out that Boba Fett was actually Anakin who had survived his supposed rumor and needed the Mandalorian armor to survive much like Vader and his gear. The "proof" for this was something about R2D2 trying to get Luke's attention on Bespin while they spied Mr. Fett and some comment about the droids having been the only people who have seen the whole story.

I haven't been able to find this thing with Google searches, however.

@dshramek: Boy that really spits in the face of all I know about the Star Wars Canon, but I gotta say.. I love it.

Nearly all speculation I read on message boards about the season 3 finale of DOCTOR WHO was better than the finished product.

@Chrysla: @cooltidbits.net: Oh crap. I have to turn in my geek card.

I totally remember the whole "Obi-Wan is a clone" thing; the fact that his name sounded a lot like "OB-1", which sounds like some kind of alphanumerical identifier that a nameless clone might have, was supposed to somehow prove the theory.

OMG David Bowie would be so awesome on Doctor Who! Maybe we could get him together with Captain Jack (the fun, flirty Who version, not the annoying, prune-faced Torchwood version).

And any of the movies featured in these rumors would have been greatly improved by Bruce Campbell. (And when the hell is Burn Notice coming back?)

I wish the Ice Warriors would come back...

@inconstant_reader: I second that Campbell promo...(and the desire for the next season of Brun Notice). I heard there was supposed to be a zombie movie where Bruce Campbell was supposed to play himself, and he is recruited by some kids to help because they know of him from the Evil Dead movies (ala Roddy McDowell's character in 'Fright Night')...guess it never got off the ground.

I'm not a huge Spidey fan, so I am not sure, but wasn't Mysterio's face always hidden by a smoke filled mask?

@Darcy: I'd like that. It would be nice to see Eight in something that wasn't that craptacular movie. What I'd REALLY want to see is a flashback of him dying in the Time War and regenerating into Christopher Eccleston...I feel cheated that we never got Nine's regeneration. (I feel cheated that we never got more of Nine, period...)

*shudder* multiple Britneys...

The variation on the Obi-wan != Obi-Wan rumour which I heard had him and Anakin taking each others names. Thus Alec Guinness's Ben Kenobi who hadn't _impersonated_ Obi-Wan in years was to be revealed as a penitent and redeemed Anakin (Christensen) whom the real Kenobi (Vader) had turned to the dark side to save.

On the Ecclestone Who, I got all excited when I heard that the finale would involve reality TV show Big Brother. Since we hadn't seen a regeneration there was plenty of discussion of this new Who's authenticity and canonicity anyway. I was thinking that perhaps a similar bait and switch might have taken place and that Nine only thought he was The Doctor. Something akin to The Matrix or the Red Dwarf classic episode Back To Reality. Doubtless that was a factor in why I was quite so underwhelmed by Bad Rose's literal Deus ex machina.

(monster_delivers_msg was still bitter about that, but he pretended not to be)

I think this whole site is just one big rumor....