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more about #interview Sylocat: Whoa... you interviewed Peter S. Beagle? I wish I'd been following this site in March. (not to brag but I actually know him... he's an old friend of... more » twophrasebark: "Okay, it's gratuitous, but how can I resist having a grizzly bear fight a Terminator?" GRIZZLY BEAR: Grrrrr! TERMINATOR: [fires machine guns] Griz... more » Bill-Lee: Khaaan! Should come back but only if portrayed by the custom Mego action figure from Robot Chicken. more » Chryse87: Trainators? Snow mobile-nators? Terminators vs. Grizzly bears? Looks like Cox took the monumental absurdity of 'Terminator Salvation' and ran with it.... more » PlaidNinja: Khan should come back as a Borg ship piloted by Admiral Janeway, who detected the temporal anomaly while shagging her Holo-Irish guy, who happens to a... more » John Hazard: I haven't read Trek novels since I was a kid, but I did read Cox's first 2 Khan books, and they're so much fun. He weaved in historical events from th... more » putch: NO KAHN! can't we just pretend that while nero was cruising around the alpha quadrant in his mining ship jacked up on borg 'roids that he destroyed t... more » ManchuCandidate: Khan Khan everywhere a khan Obsessing bout the villain making no sense Do this, don't do that, don't re boot the Khan more » Motoki: Alright, who do I have to fuck to get a Sarah Connor Chronicles comic book? more » LittleDragon: Bah. The terminator would crush the bear, a squirrel on the other hand is a whole different story. more » Rasselas: Sequel: Terminator vs. Polar Bear. I'll take my royalties in new twenties. more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Terminator Vs most woodland animals sounds too awesome to be true!!! Oh hang on...its just a bear. Terminator 1...Grizzly 0. more » Bootknife-Jackson: shit yeah, Zardoz FTW! more » Annalee Newitz: I love these designs. They really should do a D&D themed shirt. more » veeerules: "Gay Skeletor" has to be the most eye-catching part of a headline I have ever read. Now I'm trying to figure out the logo possibilities after the band... more » msAnthrope: I got less of an apartheid takeaway from District 9, even though it's shot in South Africa, than I did a "weapons dealers are the scum of the earth" m... more » riotnrrd: Nice interview, Charlie. When Blomkamp spoke at my work recently he mentioned that, outside of South Africa, people thought as you did that "The alie... more » FrankenPC: I think the final design was absolute perfection. Some of those other pics I see are too hominid in facial features (like around the eyes). It's har... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): 'Disgusting'.....Well Neil you failed. And all the better for it. Ive never had more love and absolute heartbreak for such a CGI creature. My wife wat... more » Ronnoc: "Neill actually encouraged us to make the aliens gross and unpleasant. He was very keen that the aliens should look revolting when they were eating" H... more » -
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The Best Of io9's '09 Interviews: Our Favorite Strange Encounters
This year io9 got to quiz some of the galaxy's most interesting people. We found out what Maurice Sendak didn't like about his Wild Things movie, talked TSCC philosophy with Josh Friedman, and quizzed Zack Snyder about the Watchmen changes. More » -
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Terminator Vs. Grizzly Bear: Who Wins? And Can Khan Come Back?
The latest Terminator novel features Terminator-vs-grizzly-bear battles, train robbery, Terminator snowmobiles, a Terminator train, and dogsled chases. We asked writer Greg Cox about who'd win a Terminator/bear fight, novelizing Final Crisis and whether Khan should be in the next Trek. More » -
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Robots, Streetwear, and Gay Skeletor: An Interview with Mishka NYC
Under Brooklyn's elevated JMZ subway sits a curious clothing label. On one hand, their apparel often appears in rap videos. On the other, they've released a t-shirt featuring He-Man in S&M gear. Welcome to the wonderfully warped world of Mishka.
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Neill Blomkamp Wanted District 9's Aliens To Be As Disgusting As Possible
Just like E.T., the aliens in District 9 wanted to phone home... but maybe they weren't quite as cute. Weta's David Meng tells us he aimed to make the creatures disgusting, and they weren't originally going to be CG.
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Why The Road's Baby Scene Was Cut, And Why Its First Trailer Sucked
One important cannibal scene in the post apocalyptic film The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's book, was cut. Here's why, along with how director John Hillcoat feels about his movie being compared to, and marketed as, "disaster porn." More » -
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13 Video Featurettes Lay Out The Characters And Designs Of Avatar
Still confused about Zoe Saldana's blue-skinned Avatar creature? All is answered in these short videos that gives each character and actor some additional screen time to reveal more footage, behind-the-scenes secrets... and a crop of spoilers. More » -
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10 Things We Learned From James Cameron's 60 Minutes Appearance
James Cameron sat down with 60 Minutes last night to drop some Avatar knowledge on us all, and now we know why the Na'vi have tails, whether they have nipples, what the score sounds like and what "popcorn chic" means. More » -
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The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
The Crow relaunch is taking off, and may be months away from a greenlight. We caught up with the movie's producer and found out exactly where the film is in the casting process, and asked the all-important makeup questions.
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Need a Book Recommendation? Turn to the Comics
Each Sunday, library-themed comic Unshelved recommends a different book, describing it in comic form. We talked to the creators about choosing reading material, using comics to promote books, and getting fan mail from the authors. More » -
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What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie
Translating a book into film is hard, especially when it's Cormac McCarthy's simply-worded but powerful novel The Road. Director John Hillcoat told us what McCarthy refused to let him leave out of the movie version. More » -
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Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's celebrated science fiction and geeky pop culture, and his latest book Manhood For Amateurs is a love letter to fandom. So when we managed to ask him a few questions, we were excited to geek out about genres.
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Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into A Friendly Gitmo
We spoke with the new Number Six, and let him take us inside the Gitmo Disneyland that is AMC's Prisoner remake. And he explains how he and Ian McKellen pretty much improved a large chunk of the remake's script.
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American Vampire's Snyder Introduces Our Secret Toothy Cousins
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about American Vampire, next year's Vertigo series about the newest breed of bloodsuckers. We talked to the series creator Scott Snyder about what to expect — and how Stephen King got involved.
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Why Richard Kelly Is Obsessed With Water, And Won't See the Darko Sequel
The Box director Richard Kelly has played with water imagery in all his scifi films, including Donnie Darko. We caught up with him and asked why all his characters are perpetually wet, and his thoughts on the Donnie Darko sequel. More » -
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John Cusack's Hot Tub Movie: Sex, Drugs And Time Travel, With No Script
Hot Tub Time Machine has a killer cast, including John Cusack, Chevy Chase, and Rob Corddry, and a weird premise about traveling back to your R-rated party-boy heyday. The one thing it didn't have, according to Cusack? A script.
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Can You Really Consent To Be A Doll? We Asked Maurissa Tancharoen
Last Friday's Dollhouse erased all our doubts about Joss Whedon's mind-blanking saga, and filled us with excitement about the story possibilites to come. So we asked writer Maurissa Tancharoen about the episode, and here's what she said.
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Olmos Talks BSG's Unanswered Questions, And What You Won't See In "The Plan"
If you buy enough copies of Battlestar Galactica: "The Plan," coming out tomorrow, Edward James Olmos is determined to make more BSG direct-to-DVD epics. We asked Olmos what those films would be about, and he explained what happened to Starbuck.
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Napoleon Dynamite Was Originally a UFO Movie
Napoleon Dynamite, paranormal investigator? The husband-wife team behind the strange slice-of-life comedy reveal that the original idea for Napoleon Dynamite involved a very different plot, with crop circles, an alien conspiracy, and Napoleon fleeing from government agents.
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Karl Schroeder Talks About Futurism vs. Science Fiction
Science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, author of The Sunless Countries (reviewed here), is earning his masters degree in "strategic foresight," or futurism, at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He told us about how futurism is influencing his work.
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#wildthings
Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3
We caught up with Wild Things producer Tom Hanks on the carpet last night for the big premiere, to chat about wild rumpusing — and learned that there's more than one new plaything appearing in the third Toy Story movie.
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