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We've mixed in scurrilous rumors and dodgy leaks with the bona fide spoilers this morning, but it should be pretty easy to figure out which is which. At the questionable end of the scale is a new X-Files 2 report which someone tried to remove from IMDB. At the more iron-clad end of things is a new Speed Racer video, some new Incredible Hulk photos, and probably the last ever Iron Man spoiler. And then somewhere in the middle, there are new spoilers and speculation for the rest of Doctor Who season four, and a DC Comics leak. Spoilers away!
Speed Racer:
Here's a featurette that IGN Movies posted, showcasing Matthew Fox's Racer X character from Speed Racer, including a few snippets of footage we haven't seen before. It looks as demented as everything else I've seen from the film. [IGN Movies]
X-Files 2:
There's a rumor whooshing around the web that Mulder and Scully are still a couple in X-Files 2... but Scully "has someone on the side." After searching all over, I tracked the rumor to the movie's IMDB FAQs, which cited co-writer Frank Spotnitz as a source. (The item has since been removed, but here's the Google cache.) [IMDB]
Iron Man:
Iron Man comes out today, which means this may be the absolute final chance to obsess about whether Samuel L. Jackson has a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. Now MovieHole is claiming there definitely is a moment of Jackson as pirate-eyed spymaster Nick Fury after the credits of the theatrical release (but not the version screened for critics). Says MovieHole:
At the end of the credits, Stark comes home and finds Nick Fury in his living room -staring towards the window. He then turns to tell Stark he's the not the only superhero in the world. Stark asks who he is, and Fury turns and says he's "Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D, and I'm here to talk to you about The Avengers Initiative".[MovieHole]
Incredible Hulk:
Here are some new Incredible Hulk stills that came out on the heels of that new trailer. I have to admit, the more I see of the CGI in this movie, the more it feels like it belongs in a 1990s haunted house movie. [MovieHole again]
Doctor Who:
One viewer has an absolutely airtight theory about what's going to happen on this Saturday's Doctor Who:
I think that the gas isn't actually gas, but really it is a teleporter device where 1 particle of gas teleports 50 sontarans. Then they will shoot the humans and afterwards, get out a shotgun. Then they will shoot the humans heads off, take their heads and put them on their feet. Then they will go ice-skating and fall in love with the doctor. They get married and have a child; hence 'the doctors daughter'You can't deny the logic is flawless. [Axm1992]
Also, some guy who knows someone says that David Tennant's Doctor will make a cameo appearance in the second season of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. [TenMartha4Ever]
And Alex Kingston (ER)'s character in the upcoming Steven Moffat super-library two-parter "Silence In The Library"/"Forest Of The Dead" is named Professor River Song and may have her own sonic screwdriver. And "Turn Left," this season's Doctor-lite episode, may take place in an alternate universe where military rule is in force and everyone has a strange insect-like creature on his/her back. (Is this the alternate universe where Rose lives, or another one?) In the final two-parter, Dalek creator Davros may do a "Borg Queen" style entrance. And there will be tons of different Daleks, including some fitted with claws. [Death Ray, via Keith]
In this Saturday's episode (really) the Doctor shepherds Donna into the TARDIS for safety, but then the Sontarans teleport the TARDIS aboard their ship. With the world's sky turning poisonous, the nations of the world unite to launch a nuclear strike against the Sontarans, in spite of the Doctor's warnings that it'll do no good. After the adventure is over, Martha's ready to go home to her fiance, but she's physically restrained from doing so. And here's some dialogue from the episode, plus a new clip:
Donna: God, the air's disgusting.
Doctor: Its not so bad for me - go on, get inside the TARDIS —
(holds out key)
Oh. Never given you a key. Keep that, go on. That's yours. Quite a big moment really.
Donna: Yeah, maybe we can get sentimental after the world's finished choking to death. [Planet Gallifrey]
DC Universe 0:
The 50-cent DC Universe 0 comic which goes on sale today (possibly by the time you read this) ends with Barry Allen, the fast-running superhero known as The Flash, coming back from the dead. Which means almost everyone who's ever died in DC Comics is now alive again. Good for Marvel Comics leaving Spider-Man's Uncle Ben dead — except for that alternate universe version a couple years ago, but that hardly counts. I think. [Superhero Times]
Comments
i suddenly cant wait to see Speed Racer; it truly looks like it is made for and/or by crazy people. i want science fiction to be fun, g*ddammit!
@DSTRYA: Yes.
there is something...lysergic...about this film that keeps triggering flashbacks.
I'll be there.
Does Speed Racer look like an overdone pos or what?!! Next.
When I first heard about Speed Racer, I thought it was finally the straw that broke Hollywood's back, but the more I see clips, the more I want to go see the movie.
Companion takes refuge in the TARDIS, which is then teleported aboard the enemy ship? "Christmas Invasion," anyone?
Also, what is a "Borg Queen style entrance"? And no dirty cyber-vag jokes, please! (Except that one.)
Speed Racer just leaves me cold. Maybe I haven't done enough drugs.
Incredible Hulk though, I'm really getting excited about.
@SeeingI:
You ever see Star Trek: First Contact?
@Belabras: Once, in the theater. That was enough.
@SeeingI:
I'm pretty sure that's the "Borg Queen style entrance" they are alluding to.
I'd never have thought I'd get excited about something like Speed Racer. But, damnit, I have! Even Matthew Fox looks cool in it, and that's no easy feat!
I've never seen anything Speed Racer-related, I don't even remember anything about it from when I was a kid (don't even know if we had it here). Should be interesting!
I really wonder what Davros is going to look like... I really like what they've done with the Sontarans (and also the Cybermen); vastly improved designs. I assume Davros'll be coolified too.
That gas theory, I started reading it and thought I was going to read a real theory. Bit confused there for a second!
Wow, I just want a copy of the remix playing over that Speed Racer montage.
@JoeyTheHobo: It sounds more or less like an instrumental version of the track from the music video. Vastly improved due to the lack of Black Eyed Peas-sounding song and latino rap, though!
I really hope Scully has someone on the side, it'll mix things up a little-jealous Mulder is something I've been dying to see!
Also the Incredible Hulk is starting to look very appealing.Tim Roth can do no wrong in my eyes, although he has been in a lot of shit.
@Belabras: But what IS it? Was she lowered in on hydraulics? Unfold out of some nasty biomechanical whatsit? Hoisted aloft by chorus boys?
Barry Allen. Anyone under the age of 25 will not care.
But I could be wrong, besides I hope he leads the black lanterns.
I want to lead the Plaid Lanterns.
Imagine that oath.
I have to admit I can't see how Speed Racer will fail for me. Racer X is bad ass! The movie will either hit the right, over the top nerve or will be sooo cheesy, it will hit Team America levels of awesomeness.
This is a movie that must be seen in Imax for the full stimulus overload.
Thursday and nothing, absolutely nothing about Lost? Is the world coming to an end?!
@SeeingI:
In short:
disembodied head with writhing spine lowered from above.
This connects with torso being assembled below.
Finally, arms and legs are attached.
Villain then walks free of aperatus.
@darundal: Yes, the world is coming to an end. But only in a flash-forward.
@Belabras: Oh yes, I remember now. Aaaah that would indeed be a neat way of introducing Davros...
I actually have a pair of human head slippers that I use on halloween when I pass out the tiny bottles of Jagermeister to the neighborhood kids.
I wonder who Scully has on the side?
Skinner?
Cigarette-smoking-man?
Gordon Freeman?
@I&I: I'll choose the 'what' option?
I'm excited for it. People who watch Speed Racer and expect some sort of profound movie to be based on it, aren't watching the same Speed Racer.
It's delightfully different than those other too-serious cartoon adaptations.
@Spideyrex: Unfortunately, the closest IMAX is doing a one-weekend only showing. It happens to be on a weekend where I have to juggle, two graduations, mothers day, a birthday, and my wife's fraternity's alumni day, so I don't think I'll get to trip my senses to overload that way. Unfortunately.
@thorshammer: Either you meant to say your wife was in a sorority, or things have changed a LOT since I was in college.
@Smeagol92055: I'd guess Skinner. But he's not in this movie, is he?
Loud bright spinny things give me migraines, so I'll be skipping "Speed Racer". If they'd written out the stoopid younger brother, I might have gone. The chimp was okay, but that brother needed to die. Maybe on video where I can adjust the loud bright part.
Spoiler alert!
Can confirm Sam Jackson's cameo in Iron Man. Just be prepared to wait out the incredibly long credits.
Speed Racer looks like a migraine just waiting to happen. My eyes hurt just watching that clip. But that's me. I'm sure it'll be ever so popular with the kiddies. I appreciate the fact they gave it a cartoony feel.
@Smeagol92055:
I hope it's Frohike, he was always
crushing on Scully.
@Smeagol92055: @Evil Tortie's Mom: @Rincewind: None of the above.I bet it's some doctor and I hope Mulder is crazy jealous.Although I'd love it to be Skinner.
And Frohike, well he was just too, Smeagol-ish...
Sorry Smeagol...no offence.
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