Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

We know that James Cameron tried to get his hooks into a Spider-Man movie in the early 1990s. But he also gave the X-Men a brief whirl with a studio pitch written by his then-wife (and future Hurt Locker director) Kathryn Bigelow. In a talk at Columbia University last Saturday, pioneering X-Men scribe Chris Claremont…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

Sure, we saw a version this weekend that was filmed with a maraca, but here’s the real deal. Watch as the Doctor gets his Back To The Future: Part III moment. Actually, it looks a twinge more Westworld, what with the angry cyborg gunslinger. Also, Amy learns firearm safety. Here’s the official BBC synopsis for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 26

Dumpy, Deafy, and 40 other dwarves who didn’t make the cut for Disney’s Snow White

When Disney began drafting dwarf names for 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, they first compiled this short list of potential dwarven candidates. Doc was added to the roster later, and as you can see below, some of these names would’ve made Disney’s first theatrical animated release an unmitigated train wreck. If I were…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

This giant wasp may use these horrific jaws for sex

Behold a creature whose bedroom play may be straight out of the most mind-warping Brueghel painting. Meet a male Megalara garuda, which belongs to both a newly identified species and genus of Indonesian digger wasp. A specimen of this wasp had been languishing in Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde since the 1930s, until a recent expedition…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

This four-legged Chinese chicken = the real face-hugger from Alien

Goodness, this is difficult to look at. Last week, a shopper in the Chinese city of Changsha bought this frozen chicken from the supermarket, only to discover that the skinless fowl possessed four delightfully mutated legs. According to a university professor consulted by the website China Buzz, the chicken is otherwise edible — until it…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

A light-projected ghost tiger runs rampant through Paris

In case there weren’t enough spectral big cats barreling through the world’s metropolises, French design firm created Le3 this absolutely sublime projection of a tiger loose in the avenues. Woe to be ailurophobic in the City of Lights! [Via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

If there’s no Will Smith song in Men in Black 3, I will kill myself

And I’ve already devised the mechanism of my demise. I will first draw a bubble bath and sidle in completely naked. Via remote sensor, the rising water levels will activate a television across the room, which will begin playing the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Will invites Bel Biv Devoe to secretly film…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 23

We Wish You a Turtle Christmas, and other proof that Michael Bay’s not the first to crap on the Ninja Turtles

The internet hasn’t reacted all that keenly to producer Michael Bay’s shitstorm-unleashing revelation that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be space aliens in his upcoming film. https://gizmodo.com/wait-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-might-n-5894310 In fact, Bay’s wholesale revision of the Ninja Turtles’ origins has invoked the ire of Michelangelo voice actor Robbie Rist (who claimed that Bay is “sodomizing” the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

In author Joshua Hale Fialkov’s rad horror comic I, Vampire, bloodsuckers both good and bad regularly run afoul of the DC Universe’s superheroes. For example, the series’ heroic vampire Andrew Bennett recently had a run-in with Batman, and the upcoming story arc — “Rise of the Vampires” — guest-stars the magic users of Justice League…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

For the 2012 Maker Faire, five high-school students from the Bay Area have embarked upon an awesomely ambitious project: to construct a homemade flight simulator depicting the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica. After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign, the team produced this video showing off their progress: The basic idea is to mount…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

After entertaining happy families for decades, the Enchanted Forest amusement park of Ellicott City, Maryland was forced to shutter its premises in 1989. In the ensuing 23 years, the gumdrop cottages and fantasy castles began rotting away, giving the park the veneer of some weird post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Welcome to the happiest place at the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Unused storyboards show what the American Akira could’ve looked like

The live-action Akira has stagnated for the time being, but here’s a snapshot at what it could’ve looked like when the project was attached to Blinky™ director Ruairi Robinson a few years back. These sketches by concept artist Sylvain Despretz (Gladiator, Alien Resurrection) don’t offer a cohesive vision for the film, but that certainly appears…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

Well, it appears we’ve finally discovered the final fate of those meddling kids. After spending decades thwarting wizened theme park owners wearing rubber suits for the express purpose of insurance fraud, the Scooby Gang retired to the Bay Area. And someone — presumably that spendthrift killjoy Fred — is now selling their venerable van for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Watch the first trailer for David Cronenberg’s new urban hellhole flick Cosmopolis

Hey David Cronenberg, is that a giant rat creature in your trailer or are you just happy to see us? Because we’re sure as hell glad to see the first trailer for Cosmopolis, Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel. In this film, Robert Pattinson tries to get a haircut while a semi-futuristic Manhattan (and…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

Is Darth Vader’s armor proof that he’s secretly Jewish?

Here’s a strange little tidbit that makes that midi-chlorian twaddle from The Phantom Menace all the more hilarious. In The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, three lines of lettering appear on the front chest plate of Darth Vader’s armor. The text isn’t completely readable in the films, but fans who have seen…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

Holy hell is this real-life robotic barber terrifying

As a fundraiser for charity, a fellow from the robotics firm Intelligent Automation Inc. decided to get his haircut by the company’s Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle, a tri-limbed machine that was conveniently armed with whirring hair clippers. Yes, the salon masters of the future will be herky-jerky metal hydras, and all barber poles will be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

10 Times Batman Acted Like An Absolute Lunatic

Given the fact that Batman is a vigilante who traipses around dressed as a flying guano factory, it’s a damn miracle he’s as straitlaced as he is. In fact, it’s a testament to his even keel that the citizens of Gotham are happy that he’s constantly running on their tenement roofs and blasting masonry to…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

These stereographic monsters twitch wildly to fright and delight

Seattle-based illustrator Dain Fagerholm focuses on weird beasts and their magic gems, but the artist has added an even wackier, extra dynamic twist to his designs. Fagerholm has converted his fearsome beings into stereographic GIFs — two static images are combined to create the illusion of motion and depth, not unlike a Magic Eye. Behold…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

There are few things cuter than a baby gray whale swimming by to say hello

Here’s your daily moment of cetacean bliss. In the gray whale breeding grounds of Mexico’s San Ignacio Lagoon, humans are not permitted to approach gray whales, but these 50-foot-long oceanic beasts will go out of their way to observe humans. Explains One World Ocean, “Whale watching here is highly regulated […] rather than closely approaching…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

In 2005, for the sixtieth anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, the BBC interviewed author Kurt Vonnegut about his experience as a P.O.W. and Dresden survivor. As you may know, Vonnegut would use the bombing as a setting for his 1969 unstuck-from-time classic Slaughterhouse-Five, which had a hell of a time getting off the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

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James Cameron’s X-Men movie could’ve starred Bob Hoskins as Wolverine

The Doctor Who Season 7 trailer is here!

Dumpy, Deafy, and 40 other dwarves who didn’t make the cut for Disney’s Snow White

This giant wasp may use these horrific jaws for sex

This four-legged Chinese chicken = the real face-hugger from Alien

A light-projected ghost tiger runs rampant through Paris

If there’s no Will Smith song in Men in Black 3, I will kill myself

We Wish You a Turtle Christmas, and other proof that Michael Bay’s not the first to crap on the Ninja Turtles

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

Unused storyboards show what the American Akira could’ve looked like

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

Watch the first trailer for David Cronenberg’s new urban hellhole flick Cosmopolis

Is Darth Vader’s armor proof that he’s secretly Jewish?

Holy hell is this real-life robotic barber terrifying

10 Times Batman Acted Like An Absolute Lunatic

These stereographic monsters twitch wildly to fright and delight

There are few things cuter than a baby gray whale swimming by to say hello

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

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