News Around the Net!
The great Dick Cavett has a phenomenal piece up at nytimes.com on all of the recent Tonight Show silliness. This is definitely worth a read.
Also worth your time: the moving words of tribute posted at AICN in remembrance of the great Roger Ebert.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE these Arrested Development posters!! May 26th just cannot come soon enough!
And speaking of things I love love love — this trailer for Man of Steel:
That is just spectacular, action-packed and emotionally rich. Kevin Costner’s delivery of the line “you are my son” just kills me. If the film delivers on half of the promise of this trailer, we are in for a hell of a ride this summer.
And here is the final full Star Trek Into Dark Knight (I mean, Into Darkness) trailer:
That’s a very solid trailer, showing us more than we saw before though still keeping most of the film’s major plot points under wraps. We still don’t know if Bennedict Cumberbatch is playing Khan or not, which frustrates me but I guess we’ll all know for sure pretty soon! I am also interested to see how they undo all the damage we see poor old Enterprise taking in this trailer. Are we already going to see a refit-Enterprise in this rebooted film series? (That actually gives me hope that the next Trek film will see fit to bring the design of the Enterprise back a little closer to the classic original or, even better, to the refit-Enterprise of the first six Trek movies, which to me still stands as one of the most gorgeous space-ship designs ever, far superior to the bulky monstrosity of the Enterprise in J.J. Abrams’ films. We’ll see…!)
I always get excited when an original sci-fi film (not an adaptation, not a sequel or prequel or re-imagining) is released, and Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium — his follow-up to the phenomenal District 9 — looks absolutely dynamite. Take a peek:
Here’s a terrific Q & A with Ronald D. Moore, a long-time Star Trek writer (he was a key creative force on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and the creator/show-runner of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. (Part two of the Q & A is here.) Mr. Moore has been absent from television for too long now, I hope the series he is working on for Sy-Fy comes together.
This is a great behind-the-scenes pic from Ridley Scott’s original Alien. And these are also great, showing off the gorgeous model-work used to bring the refit U.S.S. Enterprise (still the greatest of all the Enterprise designs) to life in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
So Marvel’s new S.H.I.E.L.D. show is actually going to be called Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Ok. Or, more accurately, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Um, OK, that’s a little wordy, no? Whatever, Joss Whedon is in, Agent Coulson is back, I am there.
I have written before about Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, the magnificent weekly (most of the time) web-show in which the talented, extremely funny Kevin Pollak interviews actors, comedians, writers, directors, etc., for TWO HOURS at a time. The show continues to be phenomenal, a must-watch, and the recent in-depth interview with Jon Favreau was particularly good.
Have a great weekend everyone! See you back here soon!