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Joss Whedon found time to make a Shakespeare movie?

Charlie Jane Anders — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:53:38 PDT

Nathan Fillion just tweeted a link to MuchAdotheMovie.com, which announces the conclusion of principal photography on Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, an adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Is this a prank? A short film? Or did Whedon really find time to film another movie in the midst of working on The Avengers? The cast list includes Whedon stalwarts like Amy Acker, Fran Krantz, Tom Lenk and Sean Maher, plus Fillion himself. Is this going to be a trippy, surreal and possibly other-worldly take on Much Ado? The single image certainly gives us hope. [via Whedonesque] More »

The best moment from Nathan Fillion's superhero-themed episode of Castle

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:09:21 PDT

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Last night Castle (Nathan Fillion) had to track down a real life vigilante, based on his vast knowledge of classic Marvel comic book heroes' motives, codes and canon. Basically, Castle was profiling a superhero — let the geek-out begin! More »

College professor threatened with criminal charges for Firefly quote

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:35:38 PDT

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Is this for real? University of Wisconsin-Stout theater professor James Miller put a poster on his office door, showing the likeness of Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, and one of Mal's many fine quotes from Joss Whedon's Firefly. And this poster, with its reference killing, caused such a stir, the campus police were called in to tear it down. And Miller was warned that any further such posters would be deemed "disorderly conduct" and there might be criminal charges. (He responded with a poster about fascism, which was also torn down, earning him another reprimand.) More »

A Marvel Comics superhero will appear with Nathan Fillion on Castle

Cyriaque Lamar — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:00:00 PDT

Here's an curious byproduct of Disney's acquisition of Marvel. We knew that Marvel was publishing a Castle comic book, but on the next season of ABC's mystery comedy, novelist Rick Castle (Fillion) will encounter a Marvel superhero. But who is it? More »

What science fiction movie made Nathan Fillion cry?

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:58:07 PDT

We asked our big damn hero, Nathan Fillion, if there's a single science fiction film that actually made his chiseled mug burst into tears. Find out what he told us below! More »

Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: "It looks a little like a spaceship. I'm kind of into spaceships."

Charlie Jane Anders — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:55:00 PDT

If you've been feeling deprived of the sight of Nathan Fillion aboard a space buggy, then here's an awesome picture of Captain Tightpants showing off the prototype of a new three-wheeled electric car. More »

The coolest superhero movie of the year could already be in theaters today

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:00:00 PDT

Captain America, Green Lantern, Thor and X-Men: First Class may well be terrific movies. But a strong contender for "most memorable superhero movie of the year" is already out, and it stars the most unlikely superhero of all: Rainn Wilson. More »

Shut Up, Crime! Inside Secrets of Rainn Wilson's Outrageous Superhero Movie

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:40:00 PDT

How did Rainn Wilson become our DIY savior? Why is a movie as horrendously messed up and insane as Super even allowed to exist, in a rational universe? Who thought a psychotic superhero film would be a good idea? More »

Concept art and sheet music from Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible gives amazing insights into your favorite supervillain

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:00:00 PDT

Check out this concept art from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: That's the first sketch of Bad Horse, the mastermind of the Evil League of Evil. Costume designer Shawna Trpcic originally read the script and thought Bad Horse was a person. More »

Ellen Page demonstrates the worst way to unveil your superhero identity

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:00:00 PDT

The incredible wrongness in James Gunn's superhero comedy Super doesn't just come from Rainn Wilson or Nathan Fillion — Wilson's sidekick, Ellen Page, gets seriously sick as well. Just check out our exclusive clip featuring Page trying on her costume. More »

Man dumps girlfriend because she hates Firefly, writes song about it

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:30:00 PST

We've discussed the ultimate relationship deal breaker scenario before. But this musician wrote an entire song about how he dumped his girlfriend for disliking Firefly. True or false, we feel your pain — even if we don't fully support it. More »

First Taste of Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern: Emerald Knights trailer

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:30:00 PST

Hear Nathan Fillion command the cosmos with his Green Lantern ring in the first ever trailer for the animated movie Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. More »

Help Nathan Fillion buy Firefly

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:31:41 PST

A couple days ago Nathan Fillion made this statement: "If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it own my own, and distribute it on the Internet." And with those words, the movement was started. Already the internet is rallying a crowd-funded movement to get Fillion his ship back. More »

Firefly returns to cable — in HD

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:40:02 PST

Miss the world's greatest space Western the first time it aired? Don't worry — you're getting a second chance to watch the entire series, on television! Tell your friends. More »

The Coolest and Wrongest Spoilers of 2010!

Alasdair Wilkins — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:40:02 PST

For every real piece of news, there's a hundred crazy rumors and unconfirmed reports. This year provided tons of vital hints at future entertainment...as well as a lot of wonderfully ridiculous rumors. Here's the coolest and wrongest spoilers of 2010. More »

The night Nathan Fillion was abducted by aliens

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:55:55 PST

Last night Castle cracked an alien abduction case in "Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind." An astrophysicist dies of explosive decompression - so naturally aliens did it. We love it when Castle gets spliced with a little X-Files. More »

This week's Venture Bros. gave us the lousiest supervillain auditions ever!

Cyriaque Lamar — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:15:54 PDT

Sunday's episode of Venture Bros., "Bright Lights, Dean City," followed Dean to NYC, where he interns at Impossible Industries. Unfortunately, Dr. Impossible has recently turned evil, so Dean must oversee supervillain try-outs. Get ready for Ladyhawke and Lyndon Bee Johnson! More »

The Venture Brothers take a fantastic voyage into their dad's prostate

Cyriaque Lamar — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:15:00 PDT

The first episode of Season 4.5 of The Venture Bros., "The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider," probed the dark secrets (literally) lodged inside Doc Venture. Also, the Monarch wants to diddle a mechanical butterfly. Damn we missed this show. More »

Nathan Fillion explains the secret of creating an epic hero

Charlie Jane Anders — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:00:36 PDT

Nathan Fillion has given rise to some of our greatest heroes, from Firefly's Mal Reynolds to The Holy Avenger in Super. We asked him what's the secret of creating a truly epic hero, and here's what he said. More »

Joss Whedon says Captain America and Iron Man won't be pals in his "Avengers"

Meredith Woerner — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:40:00 PDT

Now that Joss Whedon is officially directing The Avengers, he's willing to talk more about his ideas. He told us the Civil War rift between Captain America and Iron Man might show up. And he killed that Nathan Fillion/Ant-Man rumor. More »

Did Joss Whedon just name Nathan Fillion as the Avengers' Ant-Man?

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:12:44 PDT

We didn't get into the Joss Whedon panel at Comic Con just now, but reports are coming out that Whedon confirmed that Captain Hammer himself, Nathan Fillion, will be playing Ant-Man in his Avengers movie. And he also said he's still developing his Wastelanders webseries project with Warren Ellis. More details when we get them! [Mega Comic News] More »

Super is the ultrafunny, ultraviolent superhero comedy we've been waiting for

Alasdair Wilkins — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:30:12 PDT

Super is an ultra-violent superhero comedy by Slither's James Gunn that stars Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, and Nathan Fillion. They say it's "an effed up, low-rent Watchmen," and what we saw lived up to all that incredible promise. More »

Joss Whedon and the boys of Firefly, together again. Let the reunion rumors fly!

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PDT

Yesterday Nathan Fillion tweeted this very interesting picture of Joss Whedon, Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk and himself. But what were they meeting for — to talk about reuniting for a new project? Or is Fillion just being a big tease? More »

What was it really like to be a writer on Firefly?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:30:00 PDT

Jose Molina wrote two of the best episodes of Joss Whedon's Firefly, "Ariel" and "Trash." Now he's written a new original story, in the book Firefly: Still Flying. He talked to us about Jayne's betrayal, and returning to the 'verse. More »

Nathan Fillion To Play Ant-Man? We're Not Getting Our Hopes Up

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:00:00 PDT

While we really want to believe the rumors that Nathan Fillion will be playing Ant-Man in the Edgar Wright film, we're not 100% convinced. But weigh the evidence yourself: Is Captain Hammer finally getting his big-screen superhero debut? More »

Your First Look At Firefly's Original Ship Designs

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:30:00 PDT

Joss Whedon's Firefly was an inspiration in so many ways, but one of them was its innovative approach to depicting spaceships and space travel. Here are some exclusive concept art images from a new book that celebrates Firefly's enduring inspiration. More »

Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Firefly

Marc Bernardin — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:30:00 PDT

You think you know it all, given that you've pored over the 13 episodes (and feature extension) of Joss Whedon's scifi oater, but you'd be wrong. Here are two handfuls of new mysteries, solved! [Television Without Pity] More »

Behind the scenes of Eureka's Geek Casting Spree

Marc Bernardin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:00:00 PDT

Eureka co-executive producer Amy Berg reveals some details on how James Callis and Wil Wheaton came to join the cast, what she looks for in a guest star, and which Firefly alum is her "white whale." More »

Nathan Fillion Has Way Too Much Fun With Minority Report's Shiny Dystopian User Interface

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PDT

The gestural interface that looked so shiny in Minority Report has turned up everywhere since then, and now it's cheap enough that it's in the FBI's war room, on Castle. Allowing Nathan Fillion to have too much fun bursting windows. More »

Rainn Wilson's Super Gets A Bona Fide Superhero: Nathan Fillion!

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:16:07 PST

Slither director James Gunn has just added some massive geek-cred to his superhero film, Super. Nathan "Captain Hammer" Fillion, Bubbles from The Wire and many more beloved genre actors have joined Kevin Bacon and Rainn Wilson's dark comedy. More »

Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction

Alasdair Wilkins — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

Science-fiction fans sometimes focus too much on the negative, in a world where remakes run rampant and Sarah Connor Chronicles dies so that Til Death might live. But here are six things I'm thankful for in science fiction right now. More »

Dr. Horrible 2 Has Songs, A Title, And Nathan Fillion

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:20:00 PST

Good news Horrible fans, the much anticipated sequel is still chugging along, and here's an update from the original cast member Nathan Fillion — or as you know him, Captain Hammer. More »

Guess That Firefly Reference With Nathan Fillion

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:27:31 PDT

Last night Nathan Fillion twitter asked us all if we spotted the Firefly reference in the new episode of Castle. We think we got it: Two by two... More »

Captain Mal And Violence Make Wonder Woman Triumphant

Alasdair Wilkins — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:30:16 PST

The latest DC animated movie is something I never thought I'd see in any format – the definitive Wonder Woman story. It's also got some seriously bloody violence and a deliciously raunchy sense of humor. More »

Actors Who Get Fandom

Nivair H. Gabriel — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:00:00 PST

The best part of falling for a show is discovering that the actors in it are just as shamelessly fannish as you are. Lo and behold, there are a lot more actor geeks than you think! More »

Exclusive: Nathan Fillion Explains Captain Hammer's Superpowers

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Click to viewIf you watched Joss Whedon's web series Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, you know all about the sorta dicky good guy Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion). He's got rubber gloves, a t-shirt with a hammer on it, and nebulous powers of . . . something. I mean, we know he's supervillain protagonist Dr. Horrible's nemesis. But we never really see him do much in the way of, say, shooting fireballs or flying. That's why we cornered Fillion at Comic-Con and asked him what Captain Horrible's superpowers actually are. Here's what he said. More »

Wonder Woman Casts A Long Shadow

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:43:00 PDT

I haven't been terribly excited about the Wonder Woman direct-to-DVD movie, not least because all the art I've seen from it has looked bland and unexciting. But this early version of the Wonder Woman poster, which director Lauren Montgomery posted on her blog, totally works for me. It looks classic and sleek in a way the finished version, with all the weird colors, doesn't. The Wonder Woman DVD movie stars Keri Russell (Waitress) and Nathan Fillion (everything good). Click through to see the full image of the early poster version. More »

It's Already Too Late To Brace Yourself For Dr. Horrible

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:38:57 PDT

Joss Whedon's cyber-musical, Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, could arrive as soon as July, before San Diego Comic-Con (July 24th) according to Underwire's quick word with Felicia Day. As we reported, Dr. Horrible is a three-part web series where an ill-adjusted villain tries to win the girl, and acceptance into the League of Evil. Neil Patrick Harris has been cast for the lead singing role of Dr. Horrible, Felicia Day is the lovely lass of the laundromat, and Nathan Fillion plays his nemesis Captain Hammer. "We got this amazing crew," Whedon told SciFi Wire. "Everybody just sort of said, 'We'll just jump on,' and in six days we shot this 36-minute, three-part oddity, which I think is the most fun I've had in about seven years." [Wired Underwireand SciFi Wire] More »

When Will Joss Whedon's Villanous Cyber-Musical Strike Next?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:00:07 PDT

Joss Whedon's dance movie may never get to first position, but he's got something much, much better on the way: A serialized online musical, starring Nathan Fillion from Firefly as a musical superhero. Captain Tightpants sings! Click through for details. More »

My Husband's Alien Sperm Are Controlling Everybody's Brains

Annalee Newitz — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:39:36 PST

There's a good reason why the sleeper hit Slither wormed its way into so many B-movie lovers' hearts when it came out a couple of years ago. Not only is the movie incredibly gross, but it's also a pretty good satire of small-town life and shitty marriages. In this clip, you'll see why. You see, our hero Starla's is stuck in a dead-end marriage with Grant. Then Grant gets infected with space sperm on a hunting trip. Pretty soon, the space sperm have infected everybody's brains, and they're all nagging Starla just the way Grant did. I can't recommend this weird flick enough (it even has Nathan Fillion, who played Captain Mal on Firefly). More »