Graeme McMillan

Nevada’s Alien Mythology Gets Recreated

If you’ve ever wished that someone could mix the viral fear of Quarantine and the alien conspiracy of The X-Files, then upcoming video game adaptation movie Area 51 may float your boat – and for the rest of us, the promise of comic book writer Grant Morrison getting a big budget movie of his own…

Ledger’s Joker To Get Best Supporting Oscar Nod?

Warner Bros has confirmed that they are going to be campaigning for Heath Ledger to be nominated for, and to win, a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Dark Knight – becoming on the seventh actor to be nominated for an Oscar after their death – but some are…

Clone Wars Saves Itself By Channeling… George Lucas?!?

This week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars offered thrills and spills, derring-do rescues and damsels in distress, and a breathy bad-guy ditching the flawed giant evil death machine and flying off into deep space at the end of the episode. It all seemed very familiar indeed, like this old movie about Darth something…

What Other Classics Need To Be Given The Odyssey Treatment?

News of a possible Brad Pitt sci-fi version of The Odyssey got us thinking. No, not about how quickly we could leave the planet in case said movie ever actually came out, but about what other classic literature could be turned into science fiction vanity projects for some of our favorite actors. Join us as…

Transformers Make Everything More Than Meets The Eye

You may have already seen the awesome prototype for an upcoming Mickey Mouse Transformer figure (above) and the equally awesome Star Wars Transformers – but did you know about the Marvel Comics Transformers? We have images of all of them, and also a simple question: What is it about Transformers that they can make anything…

If you’re anywhere near the Santa Barbara, CA area, stop reading this website right now and start thinking about how you can get yourself to local comic store Metro Entertainment by noon to meet Matt Fraction. The Invincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-Men writer – and io9 favorite – is going to be signing books…

Will Celluloid Continue To Be The Man Of Steel’s Other Kryptonite?

It was the moment where a million fanboys cheered – I know, that I was one of them – but does Superman The Movie director Richard Donner publicly stating that the Superman movie franchise should be handed over to Action Comics writer (and former assistant to Donner) Geoff Johns actually mean that anything will change…

Lexington, KY, Doesn’t Like High Schoolers Who Like Zombies

George Rogers Clark High School student William Poole is just like any other 18-year-old high-schooler: Full of angst, at odds with his grandparents and facing a second-degree felony charge of “terrorist threatening” because of a short story he wrote for english class that saw his school attacked by zombies. We wish we were joking, but…

Heroes’ Fugitives Get Their Own Tommy Lee Jones

If the second half of this year’s season of Heroes is subtitled Fugitives, then it only stands to reason that there has to be someone that they’re all fugitiving from – Now their hunter has been revealed… and, with typical Heroes subtlety, he’s called The Hunter. But who is he hunting, and is he going…

Darth Vader Kicks Batman’s Ass – In Video Games, At Least

While The Dark Knight may have proven that Batman reigns supreme at the box office, his video game counterpart has discovered that there’s an even more powerful – and more dark – sales force out there. Sales of the Lego Batman videogame may have been impressive (half a million sold last month alone), but it…

Love Comes To SciFi’s Eureka, Finally

After losing his love to Nathan Stark – who showed his gratitude by promptly dying on his wedding day – and losing his job, Eureka’s Sheriff Carter was due a break. It looks like he’s going to get one, too; the series is about to add a new love interest for Colin Ferguson’s lead character,…

Screw Caprica, This Is The BSG Backstory We Want

Not content with giving us the first Battlestar Galactica spin-off with an all-new cast of characters, the comic book versions of SciFi Channel’s hit depressathon continue to give us what the SciFi Channel can’t: worthwhile spin-offs to the show. While we wait to see whether Caprica will be as much dull soap opera as origin…

First Reports on Watchmen from Portland Screening

The place to be last night was Portland, Oregon, where the first “secret” preview for the movie adaptation of Watchmen took place at the Regal Lloyd Center 10 Theater for a packed audience full of fans who’d read the leaked announcement of the secret screening online. Lines for the screening snaked through the theater hours…

Kenneth Branagh Says Yea To Thor?

British theater website What’s On Stage appears to have confirmed the rumors that Kenneth Branagh is to direct Marvel Studios’ 2010 movie Thor, courtesy of a news story that announces that the actor and director has dropped out of directing Jude Law in Hamlet due to his commitments to the Marvel project. [What’s On Stage,…

Is JJ Abrams The New Joss Whedon?

With the year getting ready to draw to a close, one thing has become clear to anyone who’s been paying attention: Despite television rating freefalls and a movie industry dependent on franchises for success, one man has managed to sail the choppy waters of genre entertainment with almost no mis-steps and still find success. Isn’t…

Art’s Worst Enemy Is Our New Best Friend

Christian Slater can go back to making cameo appearances in Star Trek VI for all we care. Our favorite Own Worst Enemy isn’t NBC’s latest spy drama, but the recent solo exhibition of Australian artist Meggs that mixes comic book and sci-fi images to create something pulpy, unsettling and altogether awesome. We’ve got some art…

Blizzard’s Starcraft To Hit Comics Next Year

DC Comics’ relationship with World of Warcraft creators Blizzard appears to be growing, if one of the giveaways from this weekend’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational is anything to judge by – Part of the substantial goodie bag was a preview of a comic based on their Starcraft sci-fi game, courtesy of Annihilation: Conquest’s Keith Giffen and…

Why Frank Miller’s Spirit Can Only Fail

I’ve noticed a trend: We do a post about the upcoming movie version of The Spirit, and commenters complain that we’re too negative about it. Is it a ploy to bury Frank Miller’s directing career, you ask? Why are we hating so much on a movie that we’ve not seen, and judging it on solely…

Sneak A Look At What The Joker Did Next

We’ve already told you about DC’s Joker graphic novel by 100 Bullets writer Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, a book that Azzarello calls “brutal… the most violent thing I’ve ever written.” With two weeks to go until its release, the first four pages have been released online to give fans of The Dark Knight a…

Summer Starts In January For Next Year’s Movies

If you can’t wait until next summer to get your first tastes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and McG’s Terminator: Salvation, then indie comic publisher IDW has some good news for you – you don’t have to. Starting in January, both big 2009 movies begin special “prequel” series designed to reward hardcore fans by letting…