Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
The California Browncoats and Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne Cobb on “Firefly” and “Serenity”, are auctioning off shirts worn by Adam Baldwin in the filming of the TV series and movie. There are 13 different shirts being auctioned, and proceeds from the sales of these screen-worn costumes will go to Adam’s charity of choice, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
This week, a shirt worn by Jayne Cobb near the end of the movie – On eBay.
Rare Appearance Alert! None other than Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O’Neill) will be a guest at next year’s GateCon. The actor has never been one to attend many conventions. And it has been less so since his retirement from the acting industry to spend time raising his daughter. I wonder how air fare to Vancouver is going to look by then….
GateWorld has an interview with David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) in which he talks about the joys of tormenting his sister (Kate Hewlett) in an upcoming episode. And how easy it is to tease Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett) about being blown up.
And Stargate Atlantis is a nominee for a People’s Choice Award in the first-ever Favorite Sci-Fi Show category.
Tonight’s Stargate Atlantis episode is Missing an episode that producer Joe Mallozzi is calling “Stargate’s Thelma and Louise” as Teyla gets to kick some butt. (While already impressive, it’s made even more so knowing that Rachel Luttrell was already pregnant with her son at the time.)
He also tells the story of how Jewel Staite (formerly of Firefly fame and now playing Jennifer Keller) demonstrated her fearlessness by going out on a rope bridge very high up from the ground. (Yet another reason why I can never be an actor.)
Over on the official SciFi blog, it’s been announced that writer/producer Carl Binder is going out on strike with the US writers as he’s a member of the guild. I’m assuming this means we’ll be waiting for Carl’s wonderful stories towards the end of next season? (The rest of the writing staff belong to the Canadian guild and are still working.)
This is shaping up to be an odd TV season. Things are good. (Many new attempts at genre shows.) Things are bad. (Writers’ strike.)
– After a strong start Bionic Woman is on life support.
– However, Chuck (okay…not technically sci-fi, but still geeky) is picking up steam; even while Heroes struggles.
– And why is Heroes struggling? Well, producer Tim Kring is admitting to making some mistakes with how this season’s story is unfolding. (I’m still enjoying it, but there are some valid points.)
– Lost fans have some happy and not-so-happy news as the season will start, but the writers’ strike will mean that it will abruptly stop.
Clearly, Joe Mallozzi is a benevolent god for we will be getting bloopers! Joe confirmed it in his blog. It is, of course, pending approval of the actors. Here’s hoping that they all agree to it.
Other Stargate goodies include new Q&A videos with David Hewlett and Amanda Tapping. As before, there are a few snippets from unaired episodes, so you are warned. These are fun. We must continue these!
When Whedon’s not busy out walking the picket line or blogging in support of the strike, he can be found promoting the latest Serenity graphic novel. Perhaps the upside of this strike will be that he’ll have more time for the new one he’s hoping to finish in 2008.
Adrian Paul and Temuera Morrison are helming the Sci-Fi original movie Drake. Paul will play Sir Francis Drake, with Morrison as his rival, the Spanish pirate Sandovate. The plot sounds like something more out of Sinbad than anything related to actual exploits on the Elizabethan seas, but at least it holds more promise than Mansquito.
Let us bow our heads at the (hopefully temporary) passing of the planned Heroes spin-off Origins.
Okay. The writers and the studios are having some “issues.” But did they have to kill a shiny new Heroes show? ::sigh::
In the meantime, E!’s Kristin has some interesting tidbits about upcoming happenings in this season of Heroes. Spoil at your own risk.
He has a seven-episode commitment from Fox for a brand-new show, Dollhouse. And, get this – Eliza Dushku stars. Of course, it is a sci-fi show on Fox, so start looking for the reports of its demise starting tomorrow.