Graeme McMillan, Author at Gizmodo

Millar’s War Heroes Headed To Screen After All

We pondered about whether similarities to another comicbook-turning-movie would stop the inevitability of it, but no; Mark Millar’s War Heroes has been optioned for movie treatment by Sony because, sometimes, cinema just needs a superpowered version of Three Kings.The news came on Friday afternoon that Sony had optioned the movie, and plans for Mike De…

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Everything Old Is New Again On Smallville

Last night’s Smallville managed the impressive feat of simultaneously feel like an episode of the first few seasons of the show with their “meteor freak of the week” format while also demonstrating how far (some) characters have come in the last few years of the series. They also introduced the hunky new medic who’s may…

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Virgin Zombie Turns To Liquid… In Comic Form, Of Course

As anyone who’s seen enough crappy ’70s horror movies can tell you, it’s apparently very hard to kill a Virgin. How else to explain that fact that, less than a month after Virgin Comics closed their doors, the company is reopening after a buy-out from its own management? And, given that the only difference in…

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David Tennant Admits That Shakespeare Is Not As Good As Doctor Who

We’ve all suspected it for awhile, but kudos to David Tennant for finally coming out and admitting that, as good as the Bard may be, he still comes second to a good episode of Doctor Who. Talking to the admittedly-biased Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant (currently starring in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production of Hamlet)…

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Spielberg’s Chocky To Cutify My Childhood Again

I admit it, I’m completely torn on how to feel about the news that Steven Spielberg is looking to adapt John Wyndham’s Chocky into a big-screen extravaganza. On the one hand, the book — well, the TV versions of it, really — were a strangely important part of my childhood, and I’d love to share…

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Stephen Colbert Does Whatever A Spider Can

Now we know why Spider-Man was trying to be so funny in this week’s Time Out New York – he was rehearsing to share the stage with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report’s host and star of his own comic, Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen will be guest-starring in the next issue of Amazing Spider-Man,…

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Who Is Supposed To Fall For Knight Rider’s BullKITT?

We’ve already told you that the first episode of Knight Rider was hardly a shining example of science fiction – or even television – but it’s clear from the show’s promotion that NBC aren’t so concerned about the quality of the show. I mean, when you use “HOLY KITT” as your tagline, that’s pretty much…

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Eureka’s Creators Don’t Sweat Sponsorship Demands

Now that the first half of Eureka’s third season has come to a close, it’s time to look back at the sponsorship deal that put the show firmly on everyone’s radar… for maybe the wrong reasons. Degree For Men may not only save us from unseemly sweat stains, but also from an artificial second sun…

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Clone Wars Parties In Your House And Gets Your Kids Tattooed

Hey, what’re you doing this Saturday? If the answer isn’t “Hosting my very own Clone Wars House Party, in preparation for the October 3rd premiere of the television series on Cartoon Network,” then I’m afraid that we can’t be friends anymore. What’s that, you say? You didn’t know that people were hosting Clone Wars house…

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Don’t You Get It? The Spirit Is Supposed To Be Funny!

Yesterday, it was Gabriel Macht, today, it’s Samuel Jackson trying to convince us that Frank Miller’s The Spirit movie is really some kind of wacky comedy instead of Sin City 2. Talking to MTV, Jackson said that the movie is “sort of Wile E. Coyote with real people. We hit each other with big things…

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Spidey Swings Into New York’s Literati

Never ones to miss a chance for good publicity, Marvel Comics have removed their handlers from Spider-Man and allowed him to speak openly about his love affair with New York City for Time Out’s 40th anniversary celebration of the city that never sleeps. Don’t worry; that whole being fictional thing doesn’t slow him down at…

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Why Has Heroes Failed To Save NBC?

Apparently, the nation doesn’t want to see Mohinder Suresh’s best Seth Brundle impression. Or maybe it’s that they were turned off by the idea of yet another plot that revolved around attempting to change a future that we’ve already visited, just like the last two seasons. Either way, audience turnout for the much-hyped season premiere…

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New Chuck Not So New After All, Sadly

You don’t have to wait until next Monday to see the second season premiere of NBC’s spy-computer-brain comedy Chuck; it’s already online, so that your long, hard summer of Buy More drought can end earlier than expected. But how do they get out of last season’s cliffhanger, where Chuck was marked for death at Casey’s…

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Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

Is the SciFi Channel about to call it a day and finally admit that it’s giving up the sci fi label? That’s the rumor going about these here internets after a fairly revealing question in what seemed like a rote online survey from the channel. Is the home of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica and, um, Extreme…

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British Broadcasting Corporation To Officially Invade US

We’ve mentioned the rumors before, but it’s finally official: Jane Tranter, the woman responsible for bringing Doctor Who back to television screens (Not to mention Life On Mars, Jekyll and, okay, Spooks: Code 9), will be moving to Los Angeles in January 2009 to head up a new American office of the BBC dedicated to…

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Luke Skywalker Owns The Classic Releases Of This Week’s Comics

Do you happen to have a fetish for Luke Skywalker? Or perhaps your name is Mark Hamill? (Not that that means that you don’t have a fetish for Luke Skywalker, let’s be honest.) Then this is definitely your lucky week in terms of comics haul. For the rest of us, it’s all Savage Worlds, reissues…

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Farscape Comes To Comics With A Boom!

Wondering what to expect from Boom! Studio’s new series of Farscape comics? According to show creator and writer of the new comic series Rockne O’Bannon, fans should expect to find everything that they loved about the original TV show . . . and more.Talking to Boom! editor-in-chief Mark Waid about the series at Newsarama, O’Bannon…

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Doctor Who’s Davies Says No To George Lucas

He may have made the revived Doctor Who into Britain’s favorite television show, managed to put Cardiff on the science fiction map with Torchwood and struck a blow for unexpected MILFery with Sarah Jane Adventures, but that doesn’t mean that Russell T. Davies is up for any kind of television challenge. One gig that he…

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God Gets An Upgrade, Christians Not Impressed

If the regular Bible doesn’t do it for you, maybe you need Mecha Manga Bible Heroes, a new comic that retells Biblical epics almost entirely straight… but with the minor addition of drawing the characters as manga-inspired superheroes. The comic may be designed to make God hip for today’s kids, but not everyone’s a fan;…

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Hollywood’s New Player Declares War On Science

He may be the most buzzed about figure of the geek movement right now, but that doesn’t mean that Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar doesn’t have an unhealthy fear of science. Enough of one to call for a “jihad” on everyone behind the Large Hadron Collider, in fact. Well, he was getting to be…

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Millar’s War Heroes Headed To Screen After All

Everything Old Is New Again On Smallville

Virgin Zombie Turns To Liquid… In Comic Form, Of Course

David Tennant Admits That Shakespeare Is Not As Good As Doctor Who

Spielberg’s Chocky To Cutify My Childhood Again

Stephen Colbert Does Whatever A Spider Can

Who Is Supposed To Fall For Knight Rider’s BullKITT?

Eureka’s Creators Don’t Sweat Sponsorship Demands

Clone Wars Parties In Your House And Gets Your Kids Tattooed

Don’t You Get It? The Spirit Is Supposed To Be Funny!

Spidey Swings Into New York’s Literati

Why Has Heroes Failed To Save NBC?

New Chuck Not So New After All, Sadly

Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

British Broadcasting Corporation To Officially Invade US

Luke Skywalker Owns The Classic Releases Of This Week’s Comics

Farscape Comes To Comics With A Boom!

Doctor Who’s Davies Says No To George Lucas

God Gets An Upgrade, Christians Not Impressed

Hollywood’s New Player Declares War On Science

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees