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I caught this on the awesomer.com, its a trailer for a sci-fi show that is looking to be picked up called Slingers. It reminds me of Cowboy Beebop except with thieves instead of bounty hunters. It looks pretty awesome and they want to shoot a pilot in 2010. [vimeo.com]

Second, I caught this trailer for a sci-fi samurai move from Ireland. Yup, that's not a mistake. The description for the movie is as follows "Follows a scorned geisha who creates a magical cup made of tears that causes any man who drinks from it to fall into a permanent sleep. One night the cup is stolen, setting off a chain of events that threatens civil war amongst the clans. Taro, a gifted samurai, sets out to find the cup and one who can break the spell."
The trailer though is a more of just visuals as it follows a more "something stolen, civil war ensues...etc" type of vibe. Its pretty interesting in the end because it steps out of feudal Japan and becomes some guy stabbing a spaceship.
[www.firstshowing.net]

@Log1c: I'd watch Slingers if it was made.

The Cup of Tears also looks pretty cool. It takes that weird turn at the end. It's like they arbitrarily changed the whole setting at the 1:47 mark. Clubs, hyper-modern cities, missiles, go-go dancing geishas, and VTOL jets? (Bonus: filmed in Slovenia. So an Irish sci-fi samurai

EDIT: While looking for a wallpaper size image of the top pic at the link for CoT, io9 popped up because Meredith covered it on 10/27! I even promoted comments on the thread! Way for my memory to fail tonight...

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