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Battlestar’s Designer Lovingly Creates A Ship, Only To Wreck It
Check out this incredibly detailed sketch of the Scylla, the civilian transport ship that the Battlestar Pegasus left for dead in Battlestar Galactica: Razor. Designer Richard Livingston actually thought through which parts of the ship would be for communications, as opposed to the bridge, hatches and engine sections. Livingston gave some of his original concept … Continued
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Lego Batmobile, A Muscle Car For Gotham’s Mean Streets
Lego Batman may have a square head, but he’ll be motoring along in a sleek set of wheels. Some newly released screens and concept images from the video game show a whole host of bitching vehicles. Including Robin’s Bat-bike and Catwoman’s Cat-bike, plus a Bat-copter and a Joker-copter. Scarecrow even has a straw-colored plane. Check … Continued
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Did David Foster Wallace’s death make an Infinite Jest movie more likely? It turns out Foster Wallace was working on the script for a movie adaptation as recently as last year, along with Sam Jones, who made the Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart. Filmsite Chud is speculating that all of the … Continued
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The U.S. Military Is Already Looking One War Ahead
What’s the future of warfare? Factions within the U.S. military are battling over this very question. Some military leaders believe that after Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. will avoid ever getting embroiled in another “assymetrical” ground wars against an enemy that uses “irregular” methods. They believe the United States’ next war will be against an … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning Spoilers
Captain Kirk’s Deepest Trauma — Revealed!
This morning’s spoilers include a major revelation about Captain Kirk’s past, from the J.J. Abrams Star Trek film, and it’ll make you see him in a whole new light. Plus new hints about a fan-favorite robot turning up in Transformers 2, and some new characters you’ll meet in Lost. One of the craziest Doctor Who … Continued
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David Foster Wallace, R.I.P.
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was the best science fiction novel I read in the 1990s, and remains one of the best novels I’ve ever read in the genre. The story of a future dystopia where entertainment has finally become so addictive as to be lethal, Infinite Jest was brilliant and morbid, with a bizarre … Continued
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It Could Be Worse — The Bionic Woman Could Be Your Therapist
After Jaime Somers quit fighting international naughtiness as the Bionic Woman, she got her PhD and became a therapist to other secret agents, according to the last ever Bionic TV movie Bionic Ever After. (Which, as you might guess, sees the Six Million Dollar Man marrying the Bionic Woman.) And yeesh, she’s a really really … Continued
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Vote For The Greatest Non-Human President Of The U.S.A.!
Click to viewWith every passing election year, the statistical likelihood increases that we’ll elect a U.S. president who’s really a robot, or an alien. Or maybe a charismatic plant, grown in some kind of tank. How will you recognize a non-human candidate for president when one comes along? And more importantly, which non-human would be … Continued
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How Much Ass Will Nic Cage Kick?
Questions are still swirling around how much Nicholas Cage’s sudden attack of squeamishness will tone down the violence in the movie version of Mark “Wanted” Millar’s superhero splatterthon Kick-Ass. But at least we know one thing now: he’ll have a killer porn-stache. TheBadAndTheUgly posted some pics of Cage looking appropriately sleazy, and Millar posted a … Continued
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Mashups: The Future Of Music?
Chances are you’ve heard some mashups by now. They started as an underground phenomenon, but over the past half-dozen years, they’ve popped up on MTV and Spike. The practice of lifting tracks from very different music sources to create a seamless, danceable and bizarre collision could actually be the future of pop music, freed at … Continued
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McGregor Will Be The Goat Clooney Stares At
The star-studded psychic war movie Men Who Stare At Goats may have added a few more studs. Ewan (Moulin Rouge) McGregor is in talks to play a desperate report who discovers that George Clooney’s Army veteran has psychic powers, thanks to a secret government program. The two of them travel across Iraq in the movie … Continued
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Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!
Everybody’s spoilering for the weekend here. To keep you going for the next couple days, we’ve got a hint about a swinging Iron Man 2 villain, plus some telltale video of the Transformer you didn’t believe could possibly exist. In action! Plus, find out which zombie movie borrows romance tips from Woody Allen. And which … Continued
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Beware Germany’s New Ruler, The Dino-Bot!
This fire-breathing dino-bot menaced the crowds at a robot art show in Cologne this past weekend, and Johl from Flickr was there. He captured the prehistoric flame-throwery fury of the prehistoric robot amazingly well. Also at the show: a robot baby, a robot rock band, and a post-apocalyptic car-bot whose fuel source was on fire! … Continued
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The Superhero Movie Flood Hasn’t Even Started Yet
In a couple of years, it’s going to feel like you’re swimming in superhero films, many of them remakes of remakes, or retellings of classics. Fox Movies has announced a handful of Marvel Comics properties it would like to develop — including a couple of X-Men films and another Daredevil film that pretends Ben Affleck … Continued
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Smallville Taking A Super-Breather?
Production on the baby-Superman show Smallville will be taking a bit of a break after the tenth episode. There will be a long-ish break between the fall and spring blocks of episodes, during which Reaper will take over Smallville’s slot. Partly, this lets the show run all of its spring episodes in a row, without … Continued
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“Karl Lagerfeld Is Not Actually A Ninja”: The Future Of Magazines
Print magazines are becoming more luxurious on their way to obsolescence, says former Condé Nast editorial director James Truman. Speaking at the “Quickie” performance evening in San Francisco, Truman talked about why he left Condé Nast and what he’s learned about the future of print publishing. Hint: It has to do with horses, star-gazing and … Continued
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Piccolo’s Scary Pants! Cobra Commander’s Face! Lost Producer Speaks! Doctor Who’s Comeback!
There’s more tantalizing info about which robots will be in Transformers 2, and what they’ll look like. And someone who worked on Dragonball released a new image of Lord Piccolo — but only from the back. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has some more clues about what Cobra Commander will look like in G.I. Joe. There are more … Continued
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Forget Post-Apocalyptic, Today’s Weirdest Stories Are All About Pre-Apocalypses
Click to viewSo CERN switched on the Large Hadron Collider, and the end of the world has begun. But there may still be time to panic – and some hot new pre-apocalyptic spectacles are happy to help. It turns out post-apocalyptic movies and shows are passé, and what we really want is to see people … Continued