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Keira Knightley, Bounty Hunter!

Keira Knightley is set to star in Domino, scripted by Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko.

The summary, from Hollywood Reporter:

The real-life story centers on Domino Harvey, the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, who starred in the original version of “The Manchurian Candidate.” Domino Harvey ditched a career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. The project has long been gestating at Scott Free, but it heated up when Scott took to Kelly’s script, which incorporates flashbacks, flash-forwards, and characters from “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

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Ew, Jedi Nookie!

Only on TFN, folks…

This is creeping me out. Imagine Mark Hamill, and that McRandle chick naked and floating arund the room, like if in space. Perish the thought!

I am discretely avoiding linking to our archive of archaic Luke/Mara fanfic. I’m sure there’s floaty sex in there somewhere, but I value my sanity too much to actually look.

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Movie News

Mixed reviews are rolling in for The Village.

Kerry Conran, who helms Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, will be directing A Princess of Mars.

Zach Braff is blogging for Garden State; the movie, costarring Natalie Portman, is doing very well with critics.

Fametracker snarks on franchise film stars in the latest Galaxy of Fame.

A Cinescape poll has Joss Whedon as the leading choice to helm the next X-Men movie. Whedonesque discusses the possibility.

And of course, the big movie news of the week… Pierce Brosnan steps down as James Bond.

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It’s Absolutely Amazing

The science fiction magazine Amazing Stories initially debuted in 1926 or so and was for decades a source of science fiction and fantasy short stories. It faded away in the ’90s, but has been revived by the good folk over at Paizo Publishing.

Amazing‘s “first issue of the 21st century” (as the cover proclaims) showed up at San Diego Comic-Con a week or so ago. Now edited by Dave Gross, former editor of Star Wars Insider, it adds media coverage, including book/movie/computer game reviews, to the standard mix of short stories, columns, and letters to the editor. It also bumps the format up to 8″x11″ from the digest size that has been standard for SF&F short story publications.

The first issue features Spider-Man on the cover and fiction by Timothy Zahn, Bruce Sterling, and Gene Wolfe, among others, inside. The URL to Paizo’s Amazing Stories page is http://www.paizo.com/amazing.