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Metal Too Heavy For Paramount?
A remake of Heavy Metal, the raunchy animated movie about sexy robots and mostly nekkid amazons, has run into trouble. Paramount was developing the animated film, consisting of segments directed by David Fincher (Fight Club) and Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), with erotic and violent storylines by Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night) and Joe Haldeman (The Forever War). But Paramount has dropped the project and Fincher and Eastman (current publisher of the Metal comic) are shopping it to other studios. Fincher, meanwhile, is still signed up to direct a movie of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, according to IMDB. [Entertainment Weekly]
Mutant Chronicles
Hand To Mutant Bone Blade Fighting In Mutant Chronicles Trailer
Ron Perlman wages a war against an army of mutants that crawl out from under the Earth's crust. With the help of Major Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane), a team of humanity's last hopes descends to the depth of the Earth to destroy this savage race. Click through to watch Perlman give his best Obi-Wan know-it-all impersonation in the new Mutant Chronicles Trailer. More »
Mutant Chronicles
Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane and John Malkovich and cast posse up apocalypse-style, ready to fight bone-blade mutants in the new Mutant Chronicles flick. This apocalyptic movie has a cracker-jack scifi cast. Click through for a closer look, plus the latest "we're militant and dirty" movie poster.
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Mutant Chronicles: Where Ron Perlman Is Mankind's Holy Savior
Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane and John Malkovich and cast posse up apocalypse-style, ready to fight bone-blade mutants in the new Mutant Chronicles flick. This apocalyptic movie has a cracker-jack scifi cast. Click through for a closer look, plus the latest "we're militant and dirty" movie poster.
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posthumans
Posthumans, Rise Up And Destroy Hollywood!
Why is Hollywood trying to poison everybody against posthumans? Whenever you see someone going beyond standard-issue humanity in movies or TV, it's portrayed as monstrous and evil. Whether it's cyborgs, mutants or humans hacking their bodies, Hollywood exercises its anti-posthuman agenda. Meanwhile, novels have been celebrating the customizers and reinventers for years now. What can we do to derail Hollywood's insidious campaign against our posthuman brothers and sisters? The first step is understanding where it comes from. More »
mutant
Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era
It's comforting to know that during the height of Reagan's Cold War in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was making movies that were just as cheesy as the ones you could see in the United States. When you see this clip of the scary, growling radioactive giant turtle from Мутанты (which means Mutant), you'll be forced to concede that the Soviet Union would not ever have lost the cheesy flick arms race. Especially if the cheesy movie war had been fought with giant monster movies. Alas, I don't speak Russian so I can't understand the dialog. But that didn't get in the way of my appreciation at all. I had a genuine moment of cross-cultural understanding. [English Russia] (Thanks, DieR!)
x-men
Marvel Comics plans to publish a much less depressing version of the X-Men, if news reports coming from this weekend's WizardWorld: Los Angeles are anything to go by. Following the culmination of literally decades of angst, death and depression culminating in the accidental shooting of Professor Xavier and its aftermath, July will see the start of a new era for the characters. Writers Warren Ellis and Matt Fraction are joining the writing team, the team is moving to San Francisco, and... well, there some sex, apparently.
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X-Men To Move West, Have Sex
Marvel Comics plans to publish a much less depressing version of the X-Men, if news reports coming from this weekend's WizardWorld: Los Angeles are anything to go by. Following the culmination of literally decades of angst, death and depression culminating in the accidental shooting of Professor Xavier and its aftermath, July will see the start of a new era for the characters. Writers Warren Ellis and Matt Fraction are joining the writing team, the team is moving to San Francisco, and... well, there some sex, apparently.
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turtle power rangers
Most Awesome Teamup in the World, If You Are 12
The year: 1998. The show: Power Rangers in Space. The backroom dealing: Power Rangers owner Saban tries to get their failing live-action version of the Ninja Turtles Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation some publicity by having the Turtles - including female turtle Venus De Milo - guest-star in their flagship Saturday morning show. What's that, you say? You didn't know that two of Saturday morning television's greatest teams had teamed up to save the universe? Gaze upon the beauty under the jump. More »
costumes
How Would Wolverine Get Naked?
Annalee is visiting with the costumed fans roaming the halls of WonderCon, asking them one crucial question: How they would strip out of their costumes if they had to get naked really, really fast? You know, for various reasons, like if they were on fire, wanted to flash someone, or were starring on an episode of Torchwood. First up, Wolverine and his extremely long claws. More »
3:20 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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Wolverine Gets Spicy With Ragin' Cajun
Just when you thought you'd heard all the spoilers from the new Wolverine movie, now we find out that Gambit will be joining the cast as well. Taylor Kitsch (yeah, we don't know him either) will be playing the charged-up, card-slinging, cajun-mouthed mutant, and he looks a bit like a young Sawyer from Lost. At this point, they might be able to feature just about every mutant in the X-Men comics in this flick, especially since they can hire nonames for cheap. Any chance we'll get to see Alpha Flight? We're just sayin'. [Empire Online]
Just when you thought you'd heard all the spoilers from the new Wolverine movie, now we find out that Gambit will be joining the cast as well. Taylor Kitsch (yeah, we don't know him either) will be playing the charged-up, card-slinging, cajun-mouthed mutant, and he looks a bit like a young Sawyer from Lost. At this point, they might be able to feature just about every mutant in the X-Men comics in this flick, especially since they can hire nonames for cheap. Any chance we'll get to see Alpha Flight? We're just sayin'. [Empire Online]
wolverine
Are Wolverine's Extra-Long Claws Overcompensating?
Wolverine looks much the same as always, judging from the first official pic from the Wolverine movie... except that the killer mutant's claws are way longer. Those things look 18 inches long, or more. Could the X-Men spinoff movie be overcompensating for something? Also, star Hugh Jackman dropped some more hints about the film. More »
environmental apocalypse
Pollution is Mutating Your Sperm at an Alarming Rate
People living in areas with airborne toxins and pollution are likely to develop 60 percent more mutations in their sperm than people living in areas with relatively clean air. Sperm mutations could lead to infertility for the man, or might make his children suffer any number of birth defects. Will this quickly lead to a world where more than half the population is some kind of mutant? Possibly, though a recent study suggests an easy solution if you want to protect your precious reproductive fluids. More »
Director: Smurfs Rock Harder Than Astro Boy
The CGI movie of Astro Boy has run into trouble: director Colin Brady has abandoned the project, in favor of The Smurfs movie. In his place, Imagi Studios has hired David Bowers (Flushed Away). Imagi's previous project was last year's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. are still hoping to distribute Astro Boy in 2009. Astro Boy concept art from FirstShowing. [UGO Movie Blog]
The CGI movie of Astro Boy has run into trouble: director Colin Brady has abandoned the project, in favor of The Smurfs movie. In his place, Imagi Studios has hired David Bowers (Flushed Away). Imagi's previous project was last year's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. are still hoping to distribute Astro Boy in 2009. Astro Boy concept art from FirstShowing. [UGO Movie Blog]
jumper
A Mysterious Sign Snags Our Attention in "Jumper"
Jumper won't be in theaters for three weeks, but you can do the viral marketing dance and comb through its website for clues about the movie. In fact, if you hit the "jump" button and take yourself to Tokyo, you might spot a reference to a certain scifi blog in the background, right next to a strutting Samuel L. Jackson. More »
american gladiators
Posthuman Mutants Penalized for Evolving on "American Gladiators"
American Gladiators returned to the airwaves this season, bringing us one step closer to reality television featuring amped up posthumans beating the ever-loving crap out of normal folks with real weapons. While the Gladiators are using padded Nerf-esque weapons now, we can only hope that later they'll be given bladed weapons and clubs to attract more viewers. Yesterday NBC announced that they've been testing all of the gladiators for steroid usage. Why are they persecuting these innocent pharmaceutical cyborgs, who are only trying to evolve? More »
found footage
Axe-Wielding Mutant Monster Loves Nudists
Yeah, you've all heard about how bad movies like Battlefield Earth and Blonde Ambition are, but this one makes both of those look like Citizen Kane. The Monster of Camp Sunshine was one of the nudist exploitation films that came out in the 1960s, and it features bad acting, an incoherent plot, mutant monster, mad (or dumb) scientists, and a lot of naked flesh. Check out our NSFW clip, and a rundown of everything you need to know about this awe-inspiring flick. More »
mutant queens
The Monster Queens Of England
In the title story of Michael Swanwick's demented new collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow, a monstrous genetically engineered Queen Gloriana rules a dark future England. She's the size of a truck and has 36 brains, connected by thick ganglia in a "hypercube configuration." In other words, she's a huge organic computer with no sex life. And she's just the latest in a long line of monster queens of England. Click through for the bizarre details. More »
the host 2
We just told you about how Host 2, the sequel to last year's awesome giant-pollution-monster movie from Korea, would have multiple cool monsters. Well, here's one of 'em, from the first Host. Top this, Cloverfield weenies! If your monster were this cool, I bet you wouldn't be afraid to show it before the flick comes out.
Could the Cloverfield Monster Ever Top This?
We just told you about how Host 2, the sequel to last year's awesome giant-pollution-monster movie from Korea, would have multiple cool monsters. Well, here's one of 'em, from the first Host. Top this, Cloverfield weenies! If your monster were this cool, I bet you wouldn't be afraid to show it before the flick comes out.