The WB and UPN to merge, create new network. Veronica Mars and Smallville are expected to survive any resulting shakedown. Hopefully someone can find the courage to finally put Charmed down and give VMars the Sunday slot. I’d totally watch it against Desperate Housewives.
Impressive. Most impressive.
A life-size Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite made out of Legos. 10,000 of them, to be exact.
Futurama lives, maybe?
According to voice actor Billy West, or at any rate someone posting as Billy West on billywest.com (scroll to the bottom,) four Futurama DVD movies have been greenlighted. Recording starts this summer.
Two men enter…
“You’re about to get your ass kicked by a Star Wars nerd!” Line up nerds vs. drunken punks in a profanity-laden clip from Star Wait.
Drink up!
Skywalker Ranch wines are available now. Get ’em before the TFN readers snatch it all up.
George to Harrison: Simmer down!
George Lucas responds to Harrison Ford’s Indy 4 comments. (Which everyone is calling an ‘ultimatium’. Sorry, but “If it doesn’t happen in the next two years we should all forget it” is not an ultimatium. Unless he was holding a weapon at the time.) According to MTV, Lucas says:
“We just keep working on it,” shrugged series writer/producer George Lucas. “You know, we just write and write and write and write and write. But we are getting closer, and hopefully this year we will have a start date and we will have a script that we all love and hopefully it will come out next year.” Lucas added that Jeff Nathanson (“Catch Me if You Can”) is the newest addition to a pile of screenwriters bigger than the Cairo swordsman’s weapon of choice.
So, you know, definitely maybe.
Movie News: Everything comics
With hot stuff Eric Bana dropped out of any possible Hulk sequels, and Marvel desperate to cash in, rumor mill says David Duchovny may step in to play Bruce Banner. Mulder? What have you wrought?
Meanwhile, in a more sucessful corner of the Marvel movieverse, Bryce Dallas Howard may play Peter Parker’s next love interest, Gwen Stacy, putting giant continuty loops in the heads of anyone who reads Spiderman comics. Word is that Howard will dye.
And of course, Superman is over budget. This better be the most super movie ever.
And because it’s just not a superhero post without the X-Men, here’s some musings on Professor X and Magneto from John at the Movie Blog.
I have a bad feeling about this
I tried to think of a non-snarky way to blog Revenge of the Sith Valentines and I think I broke my brain.
Fanboys make good
Harrison Ford wants Indy 4 soon
He says:
It’s looking very good to do another one. I haven’t felt this positive about it happening in a long time… but if it doesn’t happen in the next two years we should all forget it.
The full article is a short bit from Contact Music. (via TFN)