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Klaatu Comes To Madison Avenue

The delay-plagued The Day The Earth Stood Still remake gained a shot of credibility with the casting of Jon Hamm, fresh from his Golden Globe nod for Mad Men. The movie, also starring Keanu Reeves (playing the alien Klaatu) and Jennifer Connelly, started principal photography Dec. 12. [Reuters] A new Jericho pic, plus bad signs…

Television Charliejane Dec 21

The Real KITT

Life imitates Knight Rider. Australian police are testing a new super-car that can recognize 5000 license plates in a day, respond to voice commands and calculate whether other cars are speeding. Best of all, the ESCV can fire a small dart with a GPS locator into other vehicles, so the cops can locate them later…

io9 Charliejane Dec 20

Teen Girl’s Giant Robot Smashes Metropolis

Seventeen-year-old Tabitha Brennan drives a truck which transforms into a giant girl robot, crushing the mobsters who stand between her and crime boss-hood. That’s just one splash page from this week’s Birds of Prey #113, the first issue from Sean McKeever (Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane). See the full image, and get some spoilers, below the…

Books & Comics Charliejane Dec 20

Michael Jackson, Sci-Fi Fanatic

Michael Jackson spent three hours in a Las Vegas book store and came out with boxes of science fiction and other books. His face covered with band-aids, plus sunglasses and a hat and scarf, he looked every bit the visiting alien. Which raises the question: what kind of science fiction does Jackson like? Chris Nakashima-Brown…

io9 Charliejane Dec 20

Time Traveler Erases His Own 20-Year Marriage

Dan meets a fellow time-traveler who erased his own marriage in last night’s final (?) episode of Journeyman. This clip showcases everything that was great about the doomed show: its emotional depth, its cleverness and its willingness to reinvent classic scifi plots with its bare hands. Despite cancellation, Journeyman upped the ante this week with…

io9 Charliejane Dec 20

Black Hole Shoots Pink Jet Of Death

A supermassive black hole is blasting a powerful jet, smashing a nearby galaxy in the system known as 3C321, NASA says. The jet’s unprecedented “galactic violence” could wreak destruction on any planets in its path, and could create a burst of new stars. Image by AP/NASA.

io9 Charliejane Dec 20

Two Shocking Deaths In Lost Season Four

This is the all-Lost edition of morning spoilers. We’ve got official details about season four, which starts Jan. 31, plus some leaks and some wild, irresponsible speculation, after the jump. First of all, ABC issued the official press release describing season four: With only 48 original episodes left until the final episode airs in 2010,…

Television Charliejane Dec 20

The Deaf Hacker Pilot From Venus Talks To io9

Julia Howe plays Aeriana, the deaf hacker and pilot on Venus Rises, the new Mars/Venus class war series that’s appearing on IllusionTV and on the Web. When she’s not looking awesome in a hoodie and cyber-hand-rig, she’s also the show’s production manager. She talked to io9 about learning to say “flux capacitor” in sign language.…

io9 Charliejane Dec 19

SF Authors Tag-Team On Blog

A science fiction group blog at SFNovelists.com includes stars like Charles Stross, Tanya Huff, Kate Elliott, Sean Williams, Tobias Buckell, Karen Miller and Karin Lowachee. [OrbitBooks]

Books & Comics Charliejane Dec 19

Burying Greenhouse Gases In A Metal Tomb

You can tell this coal plant is eco-friendly, because it has cool-looking curved surfaces and clean transparent lines. The $1.8 billion FutureGen project just chose Mattoon, IL for its new clean coal plant, which turns coal into gas and separates out the harmful CO2. The plant will bury the CO2 underground, and planners swear it…

io9 Charliejane Dec 19

The Tenth Doctor Could Return In 2010

David Tennant took a break from groping Kylie long enough to deny rumors he’s quitting the lead role in Doctor Who after 2009. He’s already taking most of 2009 off, doing just three Who TV specials so he can play Hamlet. But he could still return in 2010, he says. [icWales]

io9 Charliejane Dec 19

Mars, Up Close And Glowing

Mars came its closest to Earth in years last night. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image using a series of exposures over 36 hours, when Mars was just 55 million miles away. If this image gets you all fired up, you can discuss Mars with Ray Bradbury and (maybe) Arthur C. Clarke at a…

io9 Charliejane Dec 19

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

A giant mutant could once again terrorize Korea in the Host 2, due in 2009. Korean comics superstar Kang Full is writing the script, which takes place a few years before the original film. The original Host (Gwoemul) featured “a carp crossed with a T-Rex,” according to design firm The Orphanage. Image from the Orphanage.…

Movies Charliejane Dec 19

Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

Wake up and smell the spoilers. We’ve got forbidden knowledge about Speed Racer, Jericho, Lost and Star Trek, below the fold. Christina Ricci’s character kung-fu fights and drives fast cars just like the boys in Speed Racer, but her lipstick always matches her car’s chrome finish. [Sci Fi Wire] When rescuers show up on the…

Television Charliejane Dec 19

Is There Life On Saturn’s Moon?

Do these water jets come from an underground ocean orbiting Saturn? If so, it could nurture the only extraterrestrial life-forms in our solar system. But one scientist says that water is too pure to come from a buried ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. The water has none of the sodium which it would…

io9 Charliejane Dec 18

Worst Doctor Who Spoof Ever

Doctor Who star David Tennant played himself (and the Doctor) in the final episode of Extras, and dredged up every painful stereotype about the show. It’s all there: the crappy costume, the technobabble, the dumb science lesson (sodium chloride=salt) and the dying alien’s mouth goo. It’s not nearly as good a Who spoof as the…

io9 Charliejane Dec 18

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

The new science fiction movie from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle) features this insanely cute alien dog. It turns out the toy that Chow’s character finds in a dumpster for his son isn’t just alien tech, but an alien creature. It also confirms our original suspicion about Chow’s CJ7. (More cute doggy pics after…

Movies Charliejane Dec 18

Get Your Friends Hooked On The Legion

Does the Legion of Super Heroes confuse your loved ones? This gang of super-powered teenagers in the 30th century has an admittedly complicated backstory, including a dozen home planets and a billion soap-operatic entanglements. Luckily, the perfect holiday gift is also the best Legion teaching tool. Eye For An Eye, out this week, collects the…

io9 Charliejane Dec 18

Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar

The largest piece of gunpowder art in history detonated last year in Fujian province, China. Cai Guoqiang, a New York-based artist, designed the “controlled explosion” to leave burn marks in the shape of a 59-foot-by-30-foot banyan tree. Check out the results. Image by AP Photo/EyePress.

io9 Charliejane Dec 18

The Star Trek Script They Tried To Kill

You can soon see the story that was too hot for Star Trek: The Next Generation. David Gerrold’s AIDS allegory “Blood And Fire” will be an upcoming episode of Star Trek: The New Voyages. Gerrold, writer of “The Trouble With Tribbles” and author of The Man Who Folded Himself, is directing his own script. Still…

io9 Charliejane Dec 18

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Klaatu Comes To Madison Avenue

The Real KITT

Teen Girl’s Giant Robot Smashes Metropolis

Michael Jackson, Sci-Fi Fanatic

Time Traveler Erases His Own 20-Year Marriage

Black Hole Shoots Pink Jet Of Death

Two Shocking Deaths In Lost Season Four

The Deaf Hacker Pilot From Venus Talks To io9

SF Authors Tag-Team On Blog

Burying Greenhouse Gases In A Metal Tomb

The Tenth Doctor Could Return In 2010

Mars, Up Close And Glowing

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

Is There Life On Saturn’s Moon?

Worst Doctor Who Spoof Ever

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

Get Your Friends Hooked On The Legion

Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar

The Star Trek Script They Tried To Kill

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