Welcome again dear readers!

It’s been a busy week, with a fair whack of stuff to talk about, so for once let’s get to it with no waffling on from me…

First off, a reminder that Supanova’s on this weekend! With all manner of events, vendors, special guests and geekery, there’s barely an excuse to not be there! Well, not being in Sydney is one, but that’s about the only one.

There’s been more talk about the live action Star Wars show and one of the writers has been revealed. A fan has created some very cute plush lightsabers and bad news has emerged that The Phantom Menace may be the only 3D re-release we get. In short – if this one doesn’t do well we won’t see the rest. Nice strategy Lucas – make us watch the rubbish ones first to get to the good ones. *shakes fist* He’s also given more details on the Star Wars comedy show that Seth Green is working on.

Shia LaBeouf won’t return for a fourth Transformers film (and he thinks Michael Bay won’t either) and there’s more pictures from Dark of the Moon – anyone else find it odd that virtually none of the promotion has featured Rosie Huntingon-Whitely? I don’t recall anything seeing anything where she’s said a word…

In an age of overly pampered celebrities who will get driven from door to door, it’s refreshing to find someone famous who’s down to earth. In this case, it’s Game of Thrones star Sean Bean, who has proven his level of awesome beyond any doubt. Following an argument over a woman in a London pub Bean was stabbed in the arm with a piece of glass while outside having a smoke. You or I would have gone to the hospital, followed by the police. Bean simply went back inside, patched himself up with the bar’s first aid kit and bought another drink. Top stuff sir, top stuff!



“You call that a mortal wound. Sean Bean say’s it’s getting in the way of his next drink.”

We thought this was the final Deathly Hallows poster, but there was soon another one. There’s also the first promo poster for The Avengers and a beautiful vintage style Captain America poster for the cast and crew, with Cap punching Hitler. Master Yoda has been voted the Best Screen Puppet in a UK poll, ahead of Kermit the Frog and Sooty, there’s the UK trailer for vampire picture Stake Land and here’s something for the Game of Thrones fans – Tyrion slapping Joffery 651 times to the sound of Led Zeppelin. I shudder to think of the effort that went into that, but I applaud it!

James Cameron and Sam Worthington are set to reunite on a new sci fi film, both Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie are working on TV series (Separately mind you – Gaiman’s adapting his novel American Gods and Rushdie’s is called The Next People.) and Sir Terry Pratchett has begun the paperwork to end his own life. For those who came in late, Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in December 2007 and has been raising funds to help with research into the disease since then.

There’s been confusing news coming from the Doctor Who office – 14 new episodes with Matt Smith playing the Doctor have been announced but when they’ll air is still up in the air. There’s talk of budget crisis and chaos caused by new producers, but that’s rumor at the moment. We live in hope, and not just because the 50th anniversary is coming up soon. Producer Steven Moffat has kept out of it, tweeting: “Dr Who: misquotes and misunderstandings. But I'm not being bounced into announcing the cool stuff before we're ready. Hush, and patience.”




As much as I’d hate it, I’d still watch it. Is that a bad thing?

Engagement ring ads are now being geek themed, there’s an extended trailer for The Clone Wars season 4 and another Muppets parody trailer, which is not in Swedish – we promise. We also have word that the Scissor Sisters are working on music for a Fraggle Rock movie – could this be a Jim Henson renaissance? We here certainly hope so!

Several major film companies and even Marvel Studios won’t be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, citing possible negative buzz. Here’s hoping they work something out for the future, otherwise we won’t have as much to report from there!

There’s already plans for villains on possible Green Lantern sequels, Mark Hamill has said he’ll continue to voice the Joker, unlike previous announcements that Batman: Arkham City would be the final time and it sure sounds like George Lucas admitted to Simon Pegg that the Star Wars prequels weren’t that crash hot. I wonder what made him say that?



Scratch that, I just answered my own question.

In Hobbit news, both Bard the Bowman and Smaug the Magnificent have been cast, a Spanish town has painted itself blue to promote the Smurfs movie, there’s a red-band trailer for Attack the Block and what looks like the final Stargate Prop sale is happening this weekend. I’m sad it’s in Canada, but that’s good for my bank balance!

A young child has channeled the Eleventh Doctor by reciting his speech from The Pandorica Opens, there’s a new Cowboys and Aliens trailer and it’s director Jon Favreau is busy
working on Iron Man 3 while Marvel rejected opening Iron Man 2 with Tony Stark and Pepper Potts waking up next to each other.

The Wolverine has a new director, Steven Spielberg is thinking about more Jurassic Park and there’s a whole bunch of new pictures from Torchwood: Miracle Day. There’s two new TV spots for Conan the Barbarian – one’s 30 seconds , the next’s a minute. I’m cautious, but based on star Jason Momoa’s performance in Game of Thrones, I’m feeling more optimistic by the minute.



“Say I’m wearing a skirt one more time. I dare you, I double dare you…”

JK Rowling has finally put something on the mysterious website she registered a couple of years ago and you know you’ve truly made a mark in popular culture when Sesame Street makes fun of you, in this case it’s Spider Man: Turn off the Dark’s turn. I will forever think of Bono as a large orange monster now…

There will be a post credits scene in Green Lantern and in an act of evil as yet unparalleled, some scum stole a little girl's TARDIS from her front yard. May the guilty be found and exterminated with all speed.

Word has it a third Ghostbusters film is scheduled for 2013 while someone unexpected has been seen on the set of The Dark Knight Rises… Spoilers! The lawsuit over the proposed reboot of The Crowhas been settled while geek icons Wil Wheaton, Felecia Day and Stan Lee will all return to Eureka.



For Dr Venkman, this was just an average day at the office.

Sean Astin will voice Raphael in the new TMNT film, there’s the first poster and some John Carter for John Carter (Of Mars has been dropped from the title) and it tells us nothing about the film, a clip from Futurama’s season opener and some low res pictures of Captain America’s USO costume.

A Chinese man has somewhat freaked out his office by turning up dressed as Iron Man and Russell Crowe is in talks to play Jor-El (Superman’s Kryptonian father) in Man of Steel. With Kevin Costner playing Pa Kent, that’d mean both his parents were Robin Hoods and yes, neither can speak with an English accent…

Quote of the Week:
Vala Mal Doran: So…no IOA? No Reynolds’ men? No television program about dancing with supposed celebrities?
Daniel Jackson: Actually, that part was real.
Vala: (quietly) How very disturbing.
Stargate SG-1: Dominion

Remember, the Shadow knows…