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Whatever Happened To Hyperion, Vurt, Count Zero and Logan's Run?

Welcome back to Development Purgatory, where we check on the status of movies that were announced with great fanfare — but never arrived. This time, we wonder why we're not sucking on futuristic drug feathers while watching a movie of Jeff Noon's Vurt. We also check on the movies of William Gibson's Count Zero, Dan Simmons' Hyperion, plus the long-promised Forever War miniseries. More »

3:30 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Meredith Woerner
5,910 views, 34 comments

Latest by John: Hyperion, yeah, I'm afraid that'd be pretty tough as a cinematic full length feature. That's just vanity talking from Simmons. more »

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Whatever Happened To These 7 Awesome Movie Projects?

Remember when we were promised a remake of Fahrenheit 451, or a new Barbarella starring Rose McGowan? What happened to those movies? I want to see a futuristic Guy Montag (please cast Christian Bale.) The movies we get most excited about often seem to fall into the black hole of "in development." We've collected a list of some of more interesting announced scifi movies and provided you with the best updates available for each. More »

1:17 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Meredith Woerner
11,612 views, 53 comments

Latest by N/A: @postnocomments: True, sort of, the matrix did ruin it somewhat for Neuromancer just because Wachau bros didn't actually list all more »