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Damon Lindelof’s fake movie for the BP oil spill is Armageddon 2. It should be Lost 2.

Damon Lindelof recently wrote a blockbuster movie treatment for the Deepwater Horizon leak. His take? “We’re gonna reverse-ARMAGEDDON this shit and call it a sequel.” But wait! J.J. Abrams did Armageddon. Here’s our idea of what Lindelof’s script should resemble. Esquire asked Lindelof to transform BP’s environmental clusterfuck into a gee-whiz popcorn thriller. Lindelof punched…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 15

Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Raimi are heading to Oz

The Spider-Man director and the Iron Man star are teaming up for Disney’s Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. In the no-longer-the-Spider-Man-man fallout, Raimi has been swinging from project to potential project, from The Shadow to a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake. But according to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, last…

Movies Marc Bernardin Jun 15

Guillermo del Toro’s next movie project will be announced at Comic Con

Guillermo del Toro took to his website to address the Van Helsing movie rumors. According to GDT, “everything is still in talks.” But he will be announcing his Earth-shattering plans, exclusively at SDCC. Fingers crossed for Frankenstein! [Deltorofilms]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 15

Professional cartographer creates the best map of Lost’s island yet

We’ve seen a lot of maps of Lost’s mysterious lush-but-deadly island — but none as beautiful as this creation by Jonah Adkins, a professional cartographer/analyst for a DOD contractor, who’s been working on Lost maps for four years. [GeographyOfLost]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 15

When comic book heroes go nuts, the readers win

In this week’s comics haul, the sanity of two big-league comic protagonists — Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead and Billy Butcher of The Boys — hits a breaking point. When our lead characters go bonkers, we’re all the richer for it. Let’s start with Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s superhero hit squad saga, The…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jun 15

“House of Discarded Dreams” is a biologist’s hallucination

With The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia has written a satisfyingly complicated coming-of-age novel where “adulthood” isn’t about leaving fantasy behind. In this beautiful, surreal story, a young biologist discovers that dreams are as meaningful as empirical research. Vimbai is an undergraduate biology major in New Jersey, struggling to separate from her immigrant parents…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jun 15

Scott Pilgrim’s video game is a thing a beauty

And we thought we were excited for the Scott Pilgrim movie. Get a load of the latest video game trailer and game-play clips for the Scott Pilgrim game. Watch these and get misty-eyed for the video arcades of yesteryear. Beside the fact that the trailer feels like Scott Pilgrim, the motion comic, it looks like…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 15

Tracy Morgan’s Astronaut Jones: A missed opportunity

Given the awe-inspiring failure of MacGruber, it’s unlikely we’ll see another SNL-based movie any time soon. Which is a shame, because Tracy Morgan’s scifi-serial-blaxploitation mashup is a idea just waiting to make someone money. Just listening to that retro-bossa nova theme song conjures images of a Mad Men-esque ’60s romp through the stars, following a…

Movies Marc Bernardin Jun 15

Stare into the face of the nastiest Predator of them all: Mr. Black

Right now, you’re staring at the armor and helmet that is shrouding the world’s biggest Predator alien. Constructed for Robert Rodriguez’s new Predator film, this alien, known as Mr. Black, is all sorts of ugly. Check out our behind-the-mask gallery. Beware there are a few spoilers in the pictures, alien design-wise. Predators will hit theaters…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 15

International Planet of the Apes comic covers prove that we all hate talking chimps

Charlton Heston’s ape overlords may have spoken English, but telling those damn dirty apes to get their stinking paws off of you can be said in any tongue. Here are Planet of the Apes comic covers from around the globe. I’m particularly a fan of the Eastern bloc style Hungarian cover and the Argentinian covers,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jun 15

An electrician 350 miles above the Earth

The Hubble Space Telescope needs repair work just like every other large piece of equipment. But servicing an orbital telescope 350 miles above the Earth is no simple task. Here’s a closeup look at how it’s done. We’ll look at the 2002 repairs to the scope, known as Servicing Mission 3B. This was a mission…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jun 15

A first look at Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel

We knew that Jackman was playing a washed-up fighter who trains a promising droid to compete in the World Robot Boxing League — but we didn’t quite realize he’d be standing there, Mickey-style, in an automaton’s corner. You know, actors face lots of challenges in conveying a fictional reality. Sometimes the script isn’t up to…

Movies Marc Bernardin Jun 15

Watch Predator Pups in action! Plus Starfleet Captains join Warehouse 13 and No Ordinary Family!

Watch a Predators TV spot and an Inception featurette! Glimpse Thor’s Sif and Doctor Who’s Pandorica! Which Starfleet captains will join Warehouse 13 and No Ordinary Family? Plus Cowboys And Aliens, Transformers, Undercovers, Eureka, True Blood, Buffy, Alien and Supernatural! Predators: A new TV spot gives you a bracing new look at the Predator pups…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 15

Skiff, the Giantest, Skinniest Ereader, Is Dead

Skiff looked like an ideal, if gigantic, dedicated ereader—especially as a newspaper facsimile. Dan liked it in January. News Corp. has purchased the software platform from Hearst—but not the hardware. So consider it dead, for now. [MediaMemo]

Books & Comics Matt Buchanan Jun 14

Resident Evil trailer shows Umbrella Corp’s next horrific experiment

Die hard Resident Evil fans all want to know what happened in Alaska. Did Alice ever make it? What about Claire? The latest Resident Evil: Afterlife trailer answers these questions — and reveals a few new Umbrella Corp horrors. Thanks to Attack of The Show, we can see all the new little horrors Resident Evil…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 14

New concept art includes huge Doctor Who finale spoilers!

Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who storyline is racing towards its shocking conclusion — but has new concept art already given away a crucial part of the puzzle? Lavishly illustrated spoilers below! Fans found a couple of pieces of concept art on artist Peter McKinstry’s website, involving the Pandorica, the mysterious box that gets opened in the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 14

The problem isn’t a lack of scientists, it’s a lack of jobs

For would-be scientists pursuing postgraduate degrees, the lack of jobs within academia is disheartening. This reality stands in stark contrast to the narrative that America’s perpetually falling behind in the science game. This excellent essay at Miller-McCune dissects this misconception.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Conscience off, dick on: True Blood’s back, bitches

True Blood has returned to us! Pick up right where it left off last year, and find out what happened to Vampire Bill, how Jason’s penis is doing, and who is dream sexing! NSFW screengrabs. Welcome back True Blood, it’s been way too long since I’ve watched a werepuppy and a stick-in-the-mud vampire wag their…

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 14

Mysterious sounds whose origins have never been explained

In 1977, researchers at Ohio State picked up this narrow-band radio signal emanating from somewhere beyond the constellation Sagittarius. It was exactly the kind of signal you’d expect from an extraterrestrial intelligence. What was it? The sound became known as the “wow signal” because the astronomer who first saw it in a readout circled the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 14

Robert Rodriguez offered the directing duties for the Deadpool movie

Fox’s Deadpool motion picture is Robert Rodriguez’s if he wants it. Although the Predators producer hasn’t committed to the project one way or the other, we think his gonzo brand of action-comedy fits Wade Wilson’s sensibilities rather nicely. [Slashfilm].

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Damon Lindelof’s fake movie for the BP oil spill is Armageddon 2. It should be Lost 2.

Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Raimi are heading to Oz

Guillermo del Toro’s next movie project will be announced at Comic Con

Professional cartographer creates the best map of Lost’s island yet

When comic book heroes go nuts, the readers win

“House of Discarded Dreams” is a biologist’s hallucination

Scott Pilgrim’s video game is a thing a beauty

Tracy Morgan’s Astronaut Jones: A missed opportunity

Stare into the face of the nastiest Predator of them all: Mr. Black

International Planet of the Apes comic covers prove that we all hate talking chimps

An electrician 350 miles above the Earth

A first look at Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel

Watch Predator Pups in action! Plus Starfleet Captains join Warehouse 13 and No Ordinary Family!

Skiff, the Giantest, Skinniest Ereader, Is Dead

Resident Evil trailer shows Umbrella Corp’s next horrific experiment

New concept art includes huge Doctor Who finale spoilers!

The problem isn’t a lack of scientists, it’s a lack of jobs

Conscience off, dick on: True Blood’s back, bitches

Mysterious sounds whose origins have never been explained

Robert Rodriguez offered the directing duties for the Deadpool movie

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