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development purgatory

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
9,509 views, 53 comments

spaceship lengths

The Biggest Starship Of All Time, Revealed!

How does your favorite starship measure up against all others in science fiction? You need wonder no longer, thanks to Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions, a site that obsessively measures the lengths of every spaceship ever and puts them all together in a handy chart. It turns out the Death Star from Star Wars is bigger than Rama from Rendezvous with Rama, and Macross Super Dimensional Fortress One from Macross is like twice as big as the U.S.S. Enterprise. Russell consults original blueprints and special-effects creators to obtain exact lengths. [Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions]

12:40 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
7,182 views, 55 comments

Latest by Russells: Thanks for the post. We did notice the spike! (Sorry for anyone who couldn't get on while we were being innundated) and Thank you to eveyone who posted a comment. After so many years it is nice to know that people more »

black hole

David Fincher Catches Mutant STD From Charles Burns

Director David Fincher is going to direct Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole, based on a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, which is a creepy quartet in itself. If you haven't picked it up by now, Burns' black-ink heavy story deals with a group of teenagers who catch a bizarre STD called The Bug, which causes extreme physical mutations. Eventually the kids become outcasts, creating their own small societies at the fringes of cities and towns. This sounds intriguing, although hopefully the end result will fare a bit better than Beowulf, which Avary and Gaiman also collaborated on the script for. We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing. [Hollywood Reporter]

11:00 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Kevin Kelly
923 views, 17 comments

Latest by rogerniner: I spit milk out my nose when reading this, and I wasn't even drinking any! The tone of "Zodiac" makes me believe that the muted creepiness of "Black Hole" could not be in better hands. And the fact that Gaiman more »