Meredith Woerner, Author at Gizmodo

A Robot Spartacus, Crucified In A Bleak Future

A grim warning to all robots looms over a pile of dirt and rubble on the set of The Surrogates, now filming in Hopedale, Massachusetts. In The Surrogates, based on a graphic novel, every human has a robot copy so they never have to leave the home. Willis plays a cop that has to go…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7 '08

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

A time capsule turns out to have eerily accurate predictions of future catastophes, in Knowing, which opens next March. It’s up to grade school teacher Ted Myles (Nicolas Cage) to convince the nation of our next huge tragedy. Judging from this teaser trailer, the scariest thing in Knowing is a bunch of circling numbers. Let’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7 '08

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Sigourney Weaver says she’s still considering suiting up for another Alien movie. She even hints that original director Ridley Scott might come back: “I would definitely do another if I had a director like Ridley Scott and we had a good idea…Ridley is enthusiastic about it.” I’m all for more gooey alien action, as long…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7 '08

Whatever Happened To Hyperion, Vurt, Count Zero and Logan’s Run?

Welcome back to Development Purgatory, where we check on the status of movies that were announced with great fanfare – but never arrived. This time, we wonder why we’re not sucking on futuristic drug feathers while watching a movie of Jeff Noon’s Vurt. We also check on the movies of William Gibson’s Count Zero, Dan…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

AT-AT’s Are Impossible To Parallel-Park

You can vote for your favorite Star Wars fan film over at Atom. The brilliant 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge finalists include a Padme Juno parody, parking instructions for an AT-AT walker, and everyone’s favorite grocery store day shift manager, Chad Vader. [Atom]

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

21 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go See Disaster Movie

Click to view The cast of Disaster Movie lines up and gives us 21 reasons why the movie’s opening night should be deserted. There isn’t a single gag or parody in this tragic comedy that could possibly justify its existence. Click through for the full poster.

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

Gort Gets His Vengeance In The Day The Earth Stood Still Trailer

The new remake of the 1951 classic The Day The Earth Stood Still looks much darker and a lot more armageddon-esque with expansive CGI chaos scenes and military chase sequences. It looks like Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) is a little late with the phrase “Gort, Klaatu barada nikto,” as stadiums crumble and destruction ensues, most…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

Don’t Take Psych Ward’s Zombie Meds On An Empty Stomach

Psych meds have the worst possible side effects, turning the already-crazy people inside a mental hospital into flesh-craving monsters, in the cleverly named movie… Insanitarium. Despite its awesome premise, this horror flick is saddled with an all-star cast of “that one guy from that TV show,” including the title character Jesse Metcalf (Desperate Housewives) and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

Action Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

More signs that the end of days is nigh: the bendy-bullet, killing-machine movie Wanted is rumored to become a full-fledged trilogy. And boozy has-been superhero Hancock may get yet another chance to sully the screen with some terrible plot devices. Click through to find out who’s back, and who’s still dead, in the next pointless…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '08

SAG Strike: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Disaster For Scifi?

With all the fussing and fretting over the possible Screen Actors Guild strike, it’s surprising that it’s so far gone nowhere, and doesn’t seem to be harming our beloved scifi movies at all. Was it the fact that people were tired of talking about a strike or did the public just not care what the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

You Can’t Hide From The Mafia In The Past

Warner Brothers has bought the rights to time-jumping organized crime comic Hiding In Time. In the future, the Witness Protection Program hides its precious narcs and rats in the past, where the hoods can never find them. But when a group of assassins gets its hands on the locations and dates of these highly prized…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

The Game’s Trickery Meets Disturbia’s Setting In Seminar

Got a sassy teen? Now you can punish their heathen ways by hiring an evil consulting firm to mess with their reality their life and their sanity. CBS Films have purchased Richard D’Ovidio’s spec screenplay The Seminar based on the ideas that you can pay someone else to mess up your kids mentally. With a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Hand To Mutant Bone Blade Fighting In Mutant Chronicles Trailer

Ron Perlman wages a war against an army of mutants that crawl out from under the Earth’s crust. With the help of Major Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane), a team of humanity’s last hopes descends to the depth of the Earth to destroy this savage race. Click through to watch Perlman give his best Obi-Wan know-it-all…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Faceless Droids Stalk The Wealthy

Faceless droids have been popping up all over the UK. They’ve been chauffeured into Elton John’s White Ball, spotted at the Harrod’s sale and are enjoying a tennis match at Wimbledon. The latest addition to the scifi robot and alien advertising craze has begun to spill over into real life, thanks to the wonders of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Will Bruce Wayne Visit Smallville?

The B-team of the Justice League is all set to appear again in the new season of Smallville. Kelly Souders, a producer and writer for WB’s superhero series confirmed the return of the Green Arrow, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman in the next season. So if this truly is an origins story and since…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Predator Rides Skinless Alien Horse To Battle

Apparently after AVP: Requiem the predators started impregnating horses with alien babies for ferocious battle steeds, judging from this new collectible statue. Awesome — that’s way better than the alien-dog spawn from Alien 3. You can’t ride an alien-dog! Click through for closeups on the muscled alien horse head, plus details for how you can…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Big Red Saves Babies And Kitties In New Hellboy Clips

Some new clips from Hellboy II: The Golden Army showcase the softer side of everyone’s favorite demon hero and a few of Guillermo del Toro’s latest creepy crawlies. Including one gigantic squid monster and a creepy bag-lady demon. The monsters in this Hellboy totally trump the original. More Hellboy clips over at IGN. The creature…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 2 '08

Hancock Is A Filthy Dirty Cheater

Hancock uses all the tricks in Sony Pictures’ bag to get people to believe it’s not terrible. But all of it’s slick rick Hollywood actions will not let it prosper. I am well aware that almost every big studio “opens” its major movies the night before in hopes of lumping in the midnight and late…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 1 '08

Stargate Atlantis Season 5: New Aliens And Cameos

We gave you a first look at the Stargate Atlantis season premiere, but what about the rest of the year? Stargate Atlantis producer Joseph Mallozzi and Robert Picardo, who plays the thrillingly uniformed Richard Woolsey sat down and spilled about the new season. Lock and load for spoilers ahead. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-stargate-atlantis-season-5-396999 https://gizmodo.com/bald-people-rule-the-scifi-world-5020411 New Not-So-Friendly Alien Races:…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 1 '08

Phaeton Crew Coming Together In Virtuality

Resident scifi hottie Clea DuVall has joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore’s new show Virtuality, about a crew in deep space who get hooked on virtual reality. DuVall will play the starship Phaeton’s co-pilot and engineer. Also actor Jose Pablo Cantillo and Erik Jensen have been added to the crew. Cantillo…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 1 '08

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A Robot Spartacus, Crucified In A Bleak Future

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Whatever Happened To Hyperion, Vurt, Count Zero and Logan’s Run?

AT-AT’s Are Impossible To Parallel-Park

21 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go See Disaster Movie

Gort Gets His Vengeance In The Day The Earth Stood Still Trailer

Don’t Take Psych Ward’s Zombie Meds On An Empty Stomach

Action Movie Sequels Nobody Asked For

SAG Strike: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Disaster For Scifi?

You Can’t Hide From The Mafia In The Past

The Game’s Trickery Meets Disturbia’s Setting In Seminar

Hand To Mutant Bone Blade Fighting In Mutant Chronicles Trailer

Faceless Droids Stalk The Wealthy

Will Bruce Wayne Visit Smallville?

Predator Rides Skinless Alien Horse To Battle

Big Red Saves Babies And Kitties In New Hellboy Clips

Hancock Is A Filthy Dirty Cheater

Stargate Atlantis Season 5: New Aliens And Cameos

Phaeton Crew Coming Together In Virtuality

Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You’re One of the Baddies

Hopeful Thought of the Day: Robots Can’t Do Human Conflict

‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ Almost Led to an Insomniac Venom Game

‘Gen V’ Won’t Return for a Third Semester

The ‘Anti-Grammarly’ Helps People Hide Their Participation in the AI Slop Era

Should We Finally Ditch Artificial Sweeteners for Good?

Brendan Fraser’s Return to ‘The Mummy’ Is Arriving Earlier Than Expected

Hyundai’s New IONIQ V Looks Kind of Like a Cybertruck for Normal People

Astrobotic’s Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test

‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Wants You to Chill

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real