Meredith Woerner, Author at Gizmodo

The Trouble With Hancock

Last-minute problems may be plaguing the drunken superhero comedy Hancock. This Saturday Will Smith was seen in full Hancock gear filming last-minute reshoots in Times Square. How is this possible for a movie set to release on July 2? Sadly, it’s not a good sign for our leather-clad hero. More details on the reshoot, set…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 13 '08

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Samuel L. Jackson graces the cover of Comic-Con Magazine as The Spirit’s Octopus. Good to see he’s sporting the signature gloves, we’ll have to let director Frank Miller do the explaining for the fur coat. Jackson, a self proclaimed comic fan, actually brought books for Frank Miller to sign while filming The Spirit according to…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 13 '08

Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring

Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams’ X-Files-esque show Fringe and Joss Whedon’s amnesiac-puppets-in-dystopia show Dollhouse for January 2009. And now Fox is taking more of an interest in Ron Moore’s new astronauts-in-virtual-reality-show Virtuality, based on the reports that Peter Berg (Hancock, Dune) may direct the pilot and produce the show. Click through for more details…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

The Tastiest Food Moments in Science Fiction

A juicy virtual steak convinces Cypher to betray Morpheus, Trinity and Neo in maybe the most famous non-bullet-y scene from The Matrix. When you start paying attention, you notice how important food is in science fiction, whether it’s dehydrated Pizza Hut, orgasm inducing desserts or fish biscuits. Even condiments get shout outs: in Dune the…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

Battlestar Galactica’s Prequel Has A Sinister Star

The Sci Fi Channel has found the one actor creepy enough to help relate the origin of the the Cylons, that cyborg race that nearly destroys humanity in Battlestar Galactica. Eric Stolz, whom you might remember as the pervy dad from The Butterfly Effect or as everyone’s favorite junkie from Pulp Fiction, will play patriarch…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

Frank Miller Not Directing Buck Rogers

Say goodbye to your hopes for a dark Sin City style Buck Rogers: Frank Miller is definitely not directing the Buck movie, says Flint Dille, the movie’s producer and author of a Buck Rogers graphic novel. This follows on the heels of statements from Nu Image/Millennium Films that “they are still mulling over director contenders.”…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

First Image of Dragonball’s Goku

The first image of Justin Chatwin as the live-action Dragonball’s Goku has put to rest the question that has been plaguing our minds since the announcement of this project: what about the hair? Surely there isn’t enough mousse in the universe to stylize Goku’s pointy locks from the anime series. But the new image shows…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

Scully Spills What She’s Missed About Mulder

Mulder and Scully are back solving creepy mysteries in this new X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer that just appeared online. And there are two new viral videos that appear to be brief therapy-like sessions of Mulder discussing his feelings about Scully, and vice versa. As for me, “I want to believe” that this time…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

See The Mad Science That Created Captain America

Last week we reported that an important part of Captain America’s get-up appeared on Tony Stark’s workbench in Iron Man. Now it seems as if the new The Incredible Hulk movie gives us our first look at the secrets of the military mad science that created the Captain in the first place. Minor spoilers, plus…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

The Most Bizarre Joker Picture Yet

Check out all the new Bat-toys in this new Dark Knight TV spot that came out last night. Not to mention new scenes of destruction and mayhem. But I still don’t know how they’ll be able to top the tumbler from Batman Begins. It’s also good to see that Nolan’s second Batman is chock full…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12 '08

io9 Talks To Marc Guggenheim About Life After Alien Invasions

When Marc Guggenheim isn’t finishing up the first draft for the Green Lantern superhero movie (its nearly finished), he’s writing Amazing Spider-Man, Young X-Men, the Wolverine video game, and producing the movie Resurrection (based on his comic book about the aftermath of an alien invasion.) Fortunately for us, Marc made some time to answer all…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Kong’s Big Comeback

Kong: King Of Skull Island, the movie based on Joe Devito’s comic book, is still in preproduction, but the detail of the one-sheet is worth a peek. It’s very old-school George Lucas, don’t you think? Maybe it’ll help to wipe the memory of the Peter Jackson film at last. Details, plus a gallery of comic…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Vendetta Director To Work On Alien Conspiracies

James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) is set bring his flair for darkness to the science fiction movie Revelation. It’s his first non-Wachowskis-produced project (he’s also directing their Ninja Assassin movie.) And it has everything: ritual murders, alien abductions and weird conspiracies. According to Variety, “The story centers on a female journalist who is assigned to…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Clone Wars Looks Great, Except For The Humans

Lucas Films has released the trailer for Star Wars: Clone Wars in all its shiny, CGI glory. Everything mechanical and alien is quite sharp. The B1 battle droids look just as CGI crisp as they always have, but this time they actually blend with the surroundings. And the computer animation agrees with orange Jedi Padawan…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Clark May Be Talking To Himself A Lot On Smallville

Looks like cast members of Smallville are starting to jump ship after the exit of Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum). Allison Mack, who plays sassy Chloe Sullivan, is hinting she may be leaving the show as well. Combined with the fact that Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk’s) has only signed on to do a few episodes next…

Television Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Finally, A Video Game Movie For Smart People

Dystopian-future video game Bioshock will soon be a movie from Universal Studios, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean). Finally, a video game movie that has a chance at holding the audience’s attention. According to Variety, this is the biggest video game-to-movie-deal since the abortive Halo film. At least we’ll get to see the…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

A Buck Rogers Movie, Sin City Style

The original science fiction swashbuckler, Buck Rogers, is coming back to the big screen — and writer/director Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit) may be involved. How will the pulpy Buck mesh with Miller’s trademark candy-coated noir style? Click through to find out. Even if Miller does direct Buck Rogers, the film may not turn…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 9 '08

Like Iron Man, But More Metallic This Time

Halcyon, the king of the rushed-out copycat movies, has released the trailer for their long-awaited film about a superhero in power armor… Metal Man. (Not to be confused with Iron Man…but yeah.) They’ve also brought us Amphibious (Cloverfield), Replicator (Single White Female with robots) and Battle Space. The plot of MM sounds a bit different…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 8 '08

Igor Strikes Out On His Own As A Mad Scientist

Every mad scientist’s favorite whipping boy is taking a stand. It’s the 51st annual science fair, in a land where the population is made up of both evil and mad scientists. But the people that do all the work with no reward are the “Igors.” The main character Igor (voiced by John Cusack) thinks it’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 8 '08

First Look At Christopher Eccleston In G.I. Joe

The greatest Doctor Who star of them all, Christopher Eccleston, is playing a villain in the new G.I. Joe movie, and the first image of him without his mask has been released. There are also new pictures of Heavy Duty, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who will always be revered as Mr. Eko from Lost. Known…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 8 '08

Meredith Woerner

The Trouble With Hancock

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring

The Tastiest Food Moments in Science Fiction

Battlestar Galactica’s Prequel Has A Sinister Star

Frank Miller Not Directing Buck Rogers

First Image of Dragonball’s Goku

Scully Spills What She’s Missed About Mulder

See The Mad Science That Created Captain America

The Most Bizarre Joker Picture Yet

io9 Talks To Marc Guggenheim About Life After Alien Invasions

Kong’s Big Comeback

Vendetta Director To Work On Alien Conspiracies

Clone Wars Looks Great, Except For The Humans

Clark May Be Talking To Himself A Lot On Smallville

Finally, A Video Game Movie For Smart People

A Buck Rogers Movie, Sin City Style

Like Iron Man, But More Metallic This Time

Igor Strikes Out On His Own As A Mad Scientist

First Look At Christopher Eccleston In G.I. Joe

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

Tether and Arbitrum Freeze Assets as Crypto Faces Crisis of Purpose

‘The Legend of Korra’ Didn’t Ruin the Legacy of ‘Avatar’—It Enhanced It

Yet Another ’30 Under 30′ Nominee Could Be Headed to Prison

Utah Startup Claims Its Lab-Grown Sperm Can Produce Embryos, in Potential Fertility Breakthrough

The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop

Noah Hawley Hopes ‘Alien: Earth’ Runs for ‘a Very Long Time’

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