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In the News: LFL’s Richard Kerris, Zazzle, 3-D, Canada Spectacular, Blame Society Productions, Portman ponders politics, and Grand Moff Artkin

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Ready for Dollhouse details?

Production details for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse have emerged. Witness:

The drama, stars Dushku as Echo, a member of a group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. A group of people, known as “Actives” (or “Dolls”), have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas and hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies and occasional good deeds. When not imprinted, the Actives live, childlike and unremembering, in a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal, and under constant threat from a determined federal agent on one end and an insane rogue Active on the other. The story hinges around a greater and more subtle threat: Echo, a female Active, begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

SpoilerTV also has the casting notices.

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Gary Gygax, dead at 69

Who has played an RPG (Role-Playing Game) in their life? If you’re one of the geek-minded subculture of gamers, then the answer is most of you. Today, the co-creator of the grandfather of all role-playing games, Gary Gygax, died at his home in Lake Geneva, WI, the origin site of GenCon. The article I saw it at is here, as reported by SlashDot.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Gygax. Your contribution to entertainment and leisure time has provided countless hours, days, even months of fun, learning, and opportunities to grow in many lives, for many years.

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The wisdom of crowds: The Matrix better than ANH?

Over at Rankopedia’s list of the best sci-fi movies, it’s The Empire Strikes Back in the top spot at the moment, with The Matrix and Serenity in second and third. (io9 was clearly a motivator earlier this afternoon when they pointed out The Matrix was #1; it’s dropped a spot since.) Other placers: A New Hope is #4, Return of the Jedi at #11 and Revenge of the Sith at #22. As far as lists go it’s kinda wacky, but that’s the internet for you. It’s not set in stone: anyone can register and shake things up a bit, so by the time you read this entry, who knows?

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David Hewlett takes over the geeks

Before you non-Stargate fans start mocking, you might want to take another look at what David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) is up to these days. I think he’s trying to become Joss Whedon, or something, and take over the geeks.

In a long-delayed update to his site, David confirms the following geek-inspired projects in the works:

  • Starcrossed – A comedy series pilot for SciFi that pokes fun at making sci-fi series
  • Design of the Dead – A new film that crosses zombies and home design shows (I know a few CJers who would like this one)
  • Heir of the Dog – A sequel to A Dog’s Breakfast. We’ll see how many more Vancouver-area sci-fi actors he can talk into appearing, this time.

Speaking of A Dog’s Breakfast, there are finally a few international release dates for that one. So check his latest blog to see if your country is there, yet.

For the Gate geeks, he reports that he’s quite happy with how Season 5 looks, so far. Although the battle of the multi-colored scripts rages on. (I forsee a scene in Starcrossed!)

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Another mystery book: ‘Untitled K. Miller 1’

Again found on Amazon: Untitled K. Miller 1. Same price range as the Traviss book… Same temporary title format… Looks like we might we have a series? And given the timing of the release dates, I’m beginning to lean towards the theory that these are indeed Clone Wars tie-ins.

K. Miller is confirmed (sort of) to be Karen Miller, an Australian fantasy author who has also written Stargate SG-1 novels. And now I can’t help but wonder if there’s a third Karen in the mix…