<![CDATA[io9: Early Edition]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Early Edition]]> http://io9.com/tag/early edition http://io9.com/tag/early edition <![CDATA[ Early Edition Gets Disasterous Makeover In Tomorrow News ]]> Journalistic integrity is preparing to take another knock with the announcement that Korean movie producer Mirovision is planning to adapt 1980s comic Tomorrow News into a movie. With a plot that includes strange radio transmissions and advance warning of upcoming disasters, it's like Heroes meets White Noise - or perhaps just a big-budget downbeat version of mid-90s TV show Early Edition.

The movie version of Tomorrow News is being described as "an action thriller... with strange radio broadcasts which report tomorrow's news beforehand and the catastrophic accidents which follow." We've seen this kind of thing before, of course; the Early Edition and White Noise comparisons are especially apt. But that doesn't mean that we're not expecting good things from this movie - Director Son Tae-woong's 2001 horror movie Anatomy Class won over audiences, and Mirovision is looking to make Tomorrow News into a big deal for the company, courtesy of working with Japanese and European investors to secure enough funding to do it properly.

Of course, if you're the type who'd rather watch movies without subtitles, don't worry; if the movie is a success, you can expect an inferior Hollywood remake within a couple of years. Probably starring some of the cast of Gossip Girl or something.

Mirovision sells 'Lover' remake rights [Variety]

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:40:00 PDT Graeme McMillan http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059519&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Read All About It In Weird Future Newspapers ]]> This alien-looking newspaper from the movie Ultraviolet recently turned up on a movie props site. I love the weird font that screams "Vampire Epidemic!!!" with the three exclamation marks. It's good to know that even in a dark dystopian future where plague victims drink your blood, sober responsible journalism will reign supreme. Here's a roundup of the strangest scifi newspapers.

minority-report-epaper1.jpgIn Minority Report, newspapers constantly update themselves, thanks to miracle e-paper. While you look at the cover of this e-paper version of USA Today, the headline changes from "Molecular nano-technology?" to "Precrime Hunts its Own!"minority-report-epaper2.jpgMinority Report takes place in 2054, but we could have the technology to make this type of paper happen as soon as 2015, a Washington Post reporter predicts. And here's a prototype.

One of the earliest interactive newspapers turns up in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where it's called the mediatron:

Bud took a seat and skimmed a mediatron from the coffee table; it looked exactly like a dirty, wrinkled, blank sheet of paper. "'Annals of Self-Protection,'" he said, loud enough for everyone else in the place to hear him. The logo of his favorite meedfeed coalesced on the page. Mediaglyphics, mostly the cool animated ones, arranged themselves in a grid. Bud scanned through them until he found the one that denoted a comparison of a bunch of different stuff, and snapped at it with his fingernail. New mediaglyphics appeared, surrounding larger pictures in which Annals staff tested several models of skull guns against live and dead targets.
Minority Report isn't the only future vision to include USA Today, thanks to that paper's awesome powers of time-spanning product placement. Here's 2015's version of the paper, according to Back To The Future 2. Not much difference, except for spacey futuristic fonts:OUFJN-BTTFpaper1.jpgThe short-lived TV show Early Edition features a regular newspaper that time-travels. Gary Hobson mysteriously receives tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Tribune today, and tries to avert the terrible things he reads about there. Here he is trying to save a weathergirl (really!) from getting the forecast wrong:

The second-to-last episode of Journeyman featured our time-traveling newspaper reporter landing in 1984, where he drops a digital camera. When Dan returns to the present, everything has changed because someone reverse-engineered his digital camera. Everybody's using fancy nano-tech and smart electronic paper. It sucks that we don't get a really good look at the newspaper Dan works for in this alternate 2007 before he changes the timeline back.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:30:23 PST charliejane http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346223&view=rss&microfeed=true