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Many an expedition has gone out into the Great Unknown seeking Adventure. And who knows? They may even have found it. More »
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Syfy's latest stab at updating the Peter Pan story, Neverland, reminded us how much this whole tale needs to be retired. Or rebooted beyond recognition. Here are our outrageous suggestions for making a truly modern Peter Pan — they're just so crazy they might work! More »
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Michael Bay keeps denying that he's really going to do a fourth Transformers movie. Which shows that he hasn't completely lost his mind. Michael Bay is an artist, who needs to branch out and try something new, before he loses all his cred. Michael Bay should spread his groovy wings, man. More »
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Science fiction tales don't stand or fall on story alone. They also need strange details and subplots to give you a sense that the world you've entered is truly alien. What would 2001 be without the bizarre advertisements in the background? And would Snow Crash really be as great of a novel if it weren't for canny details like the computerized guns that require software updates? More »
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You've seen the world end with fire, earthquakes, and WTF in movies like 2012 and The Core. But to find out about truly horrific, plausible scenarios you need to ask a scientist. We talked to Cal Tech's Joe Kirschvink, a geobiologist who studies the ancient history of life — and mass death. He gave us a nightmare scenario where one evolutionary shift in ocean microbes leaves humans unable to breathe. More »
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Should Hurricane Irene's impending deluge flood New York City subways, we may see a swarm of rats take to the streets in numbers not seen since the heyday of Hamelin. More »
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So this weekend's freshly oiled Conan The Barbarian film failed to pillage moviegoers' wallets and Jason Momoa's gently undulating pectorals didn't hypnotize critics. This shouldn't have entirely come as a surprise, seeing as how the Conan moving-picture franchise has been in dire straits for decades now. More »
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I recently began working on an erotic novel based on the XXX-ploits of Gambit a.k.a. Remy LaBeau a.k.a. the X-Men's resident Cajun casanova. Unfortunately, certain narrative deadfalls endemic to superhero storytelling prevented me from getting past the opening chapters of my book, Gumbosexuelle: The Case of The Quivering Quarterstaff. More »
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J.J. Abrams finally broke his long silence on the controversial ending of his most successful TV show, Lost. In an interview with the Guardian, he said that he hasn't heard anybody come up with their own ideas for how Lost should have ended. More »
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If there's one thing we learned this past week at Comic-Con, it's that Hollywood is obsessed with fairy tales. They're magical, they've got instant recognition... and they're public domain. But Hollywood keeps hitting on the same five stories. More »
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This morning, the io9 offices received a mysterious box that smelled faintly of owl spoor. When we opened it, we were shocked to receive a leaked chapter of J.K. Rowling's reboot of the Harry Potter series that was specifically tailored to American audiences. More »
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DC Comics may never build a movie universe to rival Marvel's. We may never even get our Justice League movie to match Marvel's Avengers. But there's one thing DC can do better than anyone: supervillain team-ups. More »
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Some of you may choose to tipple this holiday weekend. Rather than playing your patented "drink whenever Hudson speaks in Aliens" game for the umpteenth time, why not give one of the following science fiction themed drinking games a whirl? More »
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We need a sexy new genre to replace all the tired old hybrids. Vampire love stories? That hot, sticky vein is tapped out. Zombies+literature? Long since decapitated. Whatever-punk? As Dirty Harry might say, we're not feeling lucky. More »
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During yesterday's discussion of inexplicably frightening logos and TV intros, this bizarre 1990 commercial for Time-Life's Mysteries of the Unknown book series was mentioned. Immediately intoxicated by its stupidity, I've watched it a dozen times over the last 24 hours. More »
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With the news the Watchmen screenwriter will adapt Dragonriders of Pern, it's time to face facts. Hollywood has picked up the wrong Anne McCaffrey novel to adapt. Instead, someone should tackle Restoree, her 1967 take on Golden Age heroines. More »
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You may have heard that the Chinese government has recently put a moratorium on films and television shows featuring time travel. How come? They're dismayed by the many historical inaccuracies perpetuated by popular time-travel dramas. More »
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Forget all the hoopla about true love and chivalry. The movie Gone with the Wind is about the end of the world and what comes after. More »
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Red Riding Hood, a film about a werewolf, comes out today. Werewolves live as humans, only turning into wolves on the night of the full moon. They're strong, vicious, and they can only be killed by silver. But why silver? More »
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These days, two major scifi moneymakers are zombies and aliens. In books, TV shows, and movies, zombies are clawing at people's faces and aliens are perpetually jumping out of the shadows. Both types of movies have found popularity before, and now they're big again. But why? More »
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ABC has greenlit a historical cop show starring Edgar Allan Poe, world-famous poet and pioneer of science fiction and horror, as the world's first detective. It will be set during the 1840s in Boston. Here's what the show must include. More »
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How can Syfy possibly top the awesomeness of Sharktopus? Should they even try? Maybe the answer is to abandon the water, and head onto land, with the unstoppable half-bear, half-spider: BEARANTULA! No, really. Hear us out. More »
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MGM's financial troubles are keeping at least three long-awaited follow-ups in development hell: Darren Aranofsky's RoboCop, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and Sam Mendes' James Bond movie. There's only one solution: combine them into one blockbuster movie. Here's how! More »
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The Expendables is big loud action movie in which Naugahyde-hewn war gods turn junta lackeys into goulash for the better half of 103 minutes. It's screamingly ordinary, but the mass nostalgia it hawks is a genre cinema paradigm. More »
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Everybody's looking for the next Smallville. Both Warner Bros (DC) and ABC (Marvel) are aiming to create the next sensation based on existing comics properties. But given how bad most comics-to-TV adaptations have been, how do you copy Smallville's success? More »
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The Tribecca Film Festival is currently holding a 60 second movie pitch contest, and we just found the winner. It's titled Gesundheit. Make this film, Hollywood. [via Asylum] More »
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With The Avengers coming in 2012, the idea of a team-up movie featuring big-name superheroes will finally take root. But there's still never been a superhero buddy movie. Here are 10 pairings we'd love to see on the big screen. More »
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Read the synopsis for what is possibly the most brilliant idea ever pitched in the history of mermaid movies. What happened after the Titanic sunk? The passengers were saved by mermaids - and Jack Dawson was elected mermaid King, naturally. More »
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Read this hilariously accurate depiction of what Jaws would be like if it was made today. Starring Sam Worthington as Chief Brody (who has an ultra-dark NYPD past), Michael Cera as Matt Hooper, and Samuel L. Jackson as Quint. [CHUD] More »
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Though the series V has amazing potential, it's going downhill fast. But the show could be saved! If the producers turned it into a paranoid, conservative thriller about aliens controlling the government with socialized medicine. More »
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In the Lost episode "Recon," we received the most tantalizing flash-sideways yet - the two sassiest castaways, Miles and Sawyer, are partners in the LAPD. What would their spin-off series look like? Let us imagine...Ghost Voice and Prime Rib. More »
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If there's one trend that we hope both The Losers and Kick-Ass will jumpstart, it's one where British comic creators get their due in Hollywood. Particularly because that could lead to these 2000AD movies we've always longed for... More »
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With Disney refurbishing Tron, The Black Hole, and Flight of the Navigator, it's obvious the Mouse House is mining its past for modern greenbacks. What Disney properties deserve an update? And no, we don't mean Hall of Presidents: The Movie. More »
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With Smallville headed to its 10th season, it's time to ask the question that we've been wondering since day one: Why haven't producers tried to make lightning strike a second time, with the most obvious other candidate - Wonder Woman? More »
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We just learned that Kathryn Bigelow passed on the chance to direct the 2012 Spider-Man reboot. What the would The Hurt Locker director's take on Peter Parker have looked like? We're picturing tense bomb-defusing scenes. And surfer slang, brah! More »
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With Marvel rejiggering its Avengers lines after Siege, readers have been introduced to a number of same ol', same ol' new recruits. If we had our druthers, how would we arrange the Avengers roster? More »
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How easy is it to write a Best Picture-worthy scifi flick? As easy as slapping tried and true tropes together to create a shambling drunken Frankenstein of a movie! Gird your loins for the most critically acclaimed scifi movie EVER! More »
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Hollywood's latest retro craze is board games, what with Ridley Scott directing an alternate dimension Monopoly movie and Peter Berg helming a Battleship flick about aliens. But what if other directors made game movies? What if Joss Whedon directed POGs? More »
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Spielberg is ready to redeem the struggling genre of science fiction on television. His third genre TV show, Nine Lives, might be airing on NBC, and we think Spielberg could be the TV savior we've been hoping for. More »
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Now that hedge-fund Pacificor has spent $29.5 million for the Terminator movie rights, a new chapter in the war against Skynet seems assured. We're betting it'll be a reboot — and here's how it could be a decent movie. More »
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