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Watchmen Screenplay Adaptor Sets Sights On Another Comic

David Hayter isn’t letting the Watchmen feedback get him down. He’s ready to translate another graphic novel to the big screen, and this time he’s got zombies. Comic Deadworld is going to be made into a movie, with Hayter’s help. Benedict Carver, Pandemonium’s Bill Mechanic and Hayter are all teaming up to bring Deadworld to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?

Has science finally caught up to the suspected discovery of a planet outside of our own galaxy from five years ago? Gravitational microlensing may explain the mysteries behind a 2004 sighting of something unusual in our neighbor galaxy of Andromeda. In 2004, a group of scientists at the Isaac Newton Telescope, on the Spanish island…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Robert Rodriguez’ Shorts Raises The Bar For Kids Movies

The latest trailer for Shorts feels like a mash up of Robert Rodriguez‘s Spy Kids and Eerie Indiana, which is pretty perfect. We need more kiddie flicks where the characters are dealt with like clever people… but you know, smaller. Shorts takes place in a private town where a little kid stumbles across a rainbow…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Richard Hatch: BSG Should Be More Like Star Trek

Richard Hatch – the only man to have survived two cylon genocides – has been talking about what he’d like to see from the proposed Battlestar Galactica movie… as well as what he thinks of this summer’s other movies. Talking to Moviehole, Hatch suggests that whoever ends up making the BSG movie reboot should take…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Monster MCC AV50 Home Theater Controller, Or Star Trek Were Gene Roddenberry Blind

There’s something vaguely reminiscent of vintage sci fi in this new remote from Monster, but there’s not nearly enough of that something to make the design palatable in any way. The Monster MCC AV50 Home Theater Controller, $50 next month, is a “tabletop universal remote control” that has a “Web-based setup.” We have no real…

Television Mark Wilson

Incredibly Cool Dead Snow Pics And A 9 Poster, Plus Who’s Back On Dollhouse And Lost

Megan Fox talks Transformers! Duncan Jones talks Moon! Plus amazing new pics from Dead Snow, 9 and Scott Pilgrim. A crazy Lost rumor gets debunked! Plus [Rec] 2, Dollhouse, Virtuality, Stargate, True Blood and Sanctuary. Spoilers are eating your brain! Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Entertainment Tonight features an interview with Megan Fox, where she…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Keep Your Alien Sex Tentacle Out Of The Girls’ Locker Room! [NSFW]

Nerdy teen Wesley gets injected with an alien formula. Now he has a tentacle on his forehead that drives Earthwomen wild with lust. Too bad he strays into the girls’ locker room, where the entire cheerleading squad jumps him. NSFW! Dr. Alien is an unholy fusion of Zapped!, Porkys and My Stepmother Is An Alien.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Monster SuperThin HDMI Cables Really Are SuperThin

Monster’s SuperThin HDMI cables aren’t just marketing noise, they’re real, and thinner than the anacondas most people have jacked into their TVs. RedMere’s tech lets them skimp on heavy-gauge copper, so they’re just 3.5mm around. https://gizmodo.com/monster-developing-ultra-thin-hdmi-cable-5173699 Being Monsters, you know they’re gonna cost a ton. Four feet of “high speed” SuperThin cable has a suggested…

Television Matt Buchanan

The Earliest Drawings Of The Starship Enterprise In An Iowa Shipyard

Veteran Star Trek concept designer John Eaves posted his earliest drawings of the shipyard where the U.S.S. Enterprise gets built in J.J. Abrams’ reboot. He shows the real-life Naval shipyards that influenced him, and the evolution of his design. [Eavesdropping]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Virtuality Is More Like An Indie Movie Than A Space-Opera

We chatted with Michael Taylor about the two-hour Virtuality movie that he brought to life with Ronald D. Moore. We cleared up rumors about the plight of this series, and ventured into virtual world of the cutest crew member. So you mentioned that you got involved with Virtuality to do something to for the genre…

Television Meredith Woerner

Todd McFarlane Wants DiCaprio to Star in “Spawn” Reboot

Can casting Leonardo DiCaprio in an updated version of Spawn make fans forget the sucky 1997 movie? Creator Todd McFarlane believes it can. McFarlane tells MTV News that he’d like to cast DiCaprio in his remake-that’s-not-a-remake. Not that DiCaprio would play the undead antihero. “The main character isn’t Spawn, per se, it’s the guy chasing…

Movies Gary Susman

The Startling Loveliness Of Planetary Collisions

See, ABC’s forthcoming Impact miniseries, in which a meteor shower sends the moon careening toward the earth, isn’t all junk science. A new planetarium show demonstrates that such celestial collisions can be common, devastating — and strangely beautiful. https://gizmodo.com/natasha-henstridge-loves-you-back-5286188 Cosmic Collisions, a new show at the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural…

io9 Gary Susman

Mercury To Blame For Solar System’s Collapse, Mars-Earth Collision

When our solar system’s orbits all break down and planets are crashing into each other, we’ll know exactly who’s to blame: a tiny ball of rock called Mercury. Chaotic factors in Mercury’s orbit could destabilize the whole solar system. French astronomers at the Observatoire de Paris have run 2,501 mathematical models of our solar system’s…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Final Crisis Is Frustrating, Flawed And Arguably Worth It All

It’s a bold book about the end of the world, full of big ideas, epic events and beautiful art, and starring some of pop culture’s biggest icons. So why does the hardcover collection of DC’s Final Crisis disappoint? Taken as individual issues during their initial release, Final Crisis felt weirdly insubstantial, as if they needed…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Concept Artist Ponders The Reimagining Of UFO, BSG Style

Gerry Anderson‘s UFO remake is moving forward and already the “how will it look” speculations are running wild. Battlestar Galactica concept artist Eric Chu took a pass at darkening up this reboot — check out what he dreamed up. CinemaSpy speculated with production illustrator Eric Chu (known for his work on the BSG reboot) as…

Movies Meredith Woerner

See Robots, Megan Fox at Play in New “Transformers 2” Clips

Wheelie gets into a sticky situation with Megan Fox, and humans and robots battle, in new clips from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It’s our first look at how those crazy-cakes robo-action scenes from the trailer will look in context. Both clips run just over a minute and are dubbed in German, but then, who…

Movies Gary Susman

4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction

Some of our favorite science fiction authors appear to have left SF behind, after creating stories that live with us forever. We asked Nicola Griffith, Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell why they left the genre. I was talking to some friends online about the writers we miss the most from…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists Develop A Method Of Detecting Life On Other Planets

A new discovery by scientists that allows us to map the transmission spectrums of inhabited planets means Earth’s denizens need no longer fear sneak attacks my life forms on neighboring worlds. Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias utilized the William Herschel Telescope on Le Palma and the Nordic Optical Telescope during a recent…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Natasha Henstridge Loves You Back

Natasha Henstridge, promoting her upcoming sci-fi mini-series Impact, chatted with us about her fanbase, cloning, her upcoming collaboration with Stan Lee, and aging gracefully out of the space-hottie pigeonhole. https://gizmodo.com/only-natasha-henstridge-can-stop-gravity-warping-moonqu-384858 https://gizmodo.com/abc-looking-for-huge-summer-impact-5163780 To some, Henstridge will always be the half-alien/half-human/all-hottie Sil, but her debut in Species was 14 years ago. Now 34, she’s done a lot…

Television Gary Susman

Meet The New io9 Interns

This summer we’ve got a whole new crop of interns. Soon they will be getting their brain implants and churning out ideas that will make the future better – or maybe just weirder. About herself Sarah Williams says: At an early age I grokked how much cooler the X-men were then Barbie dolls. Screw The…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watchmen Screenplay Adaptor Sets Sights On Another Comic

Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?

Robert Rodriguez’ Shorts Raises The Bar For Kids Movies

Richard Hatch: BSG Should Be More Like Star Trek

Monster MCC AV50 Home Theater Controller, Or Star Trek Were Gene Roddenberry Blind

Incredibly Cool Dead Snow Pics And A 9 Poster, Plus Who’s Back On Dollhouse And Lost

Keep Your Alien Sex Tentacle Out Of The Girls’ Locker Room! [NSFW]

Monster SuperThin HDMI Cables Really Are SuperThin

The Earliest Drawings Of The Starship Enterprise In An Iowa Shipyard

Virtuality Is More Like An Indie Movie Than A Space-Opera

Todd McFarlane Wants DiCaprio to Star in “Spawn” Reboot

The Startling Loveliness Of Planetary Collisions

Mercury To Blame For Solar System’s Collapse, Mars-Earth Collision

Final Crisis Is Frustrating, Flawed And Arguably Worth It All

Concept Artist Ponders The Reimagining Of UFO, BSG Style

See Robots, Megan Fox at Play in New “Transformers 2” Clips

4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction

Scientists Develop A Method Of Detecting Life On Other Planets

Natasha Henstridge Loves You Back

Meet The New io9 Interns

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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