Comic con 2011

Is Rise of the Planet of the Apes anti-science?

You could easily interpret the new Planet of the Apes movie as being an anti-science diatribe — since it’s about foolish humans meddling with biology, causing a new race of super-intelligent apes to emerge. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, humans create a cure for Alzheimer’s disease that makes apes smarter — thus…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 2

Is everything bad that happens on Torchwood Captain Jack’s fault? We asked John Barrowman!

Is Captain Jack Harkness the secret villain of Torchwood? The formerly immortal time hustler certainly seems to have a nearly limitless dark past. But actor John Barrowman insists that Captain Jack always aims to do the right thing. We caught up with John Barrowman, and he told us why Captain Jack can still hold his…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 1

Matt Smith explains why Doctor Who’s darkest hour is yet to come

Doctor Who shook up its entire universe by revealing the truth about River Song — and then left us hanging all summer. How will River Song shape the Doctor’s future? We asked Matt Smith. We were lucky enough to have five minutes with the Doctor Who star, who told us what to expect from this…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 28

Wil Wheaton says the technobabble on Eureka is better than Star Trek’s

Nerd icon Wil Wheaton has returned to sci-fi television as Eureka’s slimy Dr. Isaac Parrish. We spoke with him at Comic-Con about just what makes good (and bad) technobabble, the secret to playing a scientist, and what’s ahead on Eureka! What’s it like stepping back into the world of technobabble? The technobabble is terrific because…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 27

The Walking Dead is totally on the run for zombie-plagued season two

We talked to the cast and crew of The Walking Dead, and they told us what to expect for season two, why we won’t be seeing any celebrity zombies, and why Frank Darabont doesn’t want the show to become Lost. Spoilers ahead… At last weekend’s Comic-Con panel, executive producer Frank Darabont promised that the season…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 25

Dorothy of Oz footage promises a sugary sweet return to Frank Baum’s world

Dark reimaginings of The Wizard of Oz are all the rage, but what we saw of the upcoming computer-animated Dorothy of Oz suggests there’s still some kiddie magic left to share. Also, Patrick Stewart voices a tree with multiple personalities. Dorothy of Oz is a computer-animated adaptation of the 1989 book of the same name,…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jul 24

Knights of Badassdom footage shows off Peter Dinklage’s drugged up, double sword wielding LARPer

Last night’s Knights of Badassdom panel didn’t just unveil the movie’s trailer; we also got to see a clip showcasing Peter Dinklage’s fake sword-fighting prowess. We also learned just who all the characters are in this faux-medieval adventure comedy. https://gizmodo.com/in-the-first-knights-of-badassdom-trailer-larpers-open-5824161 The clip the panel showed is called “Training Time”, and it features Peter Dinklage’s Hung…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 24

See the first ever cast photos for Snow White and the Huntsman!

Snow White and the Huntsman is still days away from shooting, but the Comic-Con panel revealed these photos of stars Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, and Sam Claflin, plus they confirmed which badass Brits* are playing the movie’s dwarfs. As you can see in the photo up top, Charlize Theron plays the dagger-wielding queen.…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jul 24

In the first Knights of Badassdom trailer, LARPers open the gates of hell

Here’s the trailer for Knights of Badassdom, the comedy adventure movie in which Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau, True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, and Community’s Danny Pudi enter the world of live-action role-playing… and then she-demons from hell show up. We’ll have a lot more details from the cast — which also includes Mad Men’s…

Trailers Alasdair Wilkins Jul 23

Eureka will go animated for their next Christmas special

Yesterday’s Eureka panel promised an animated Christmas special, a big mission into deep space, sinister forces plotting against the town, and a love triangle between Fargo, Felicia Day, and a hugely dickish Wil Wheaton. The most intriguing revelation of the Eureka panel was that the show is making an animated Christmas episode. The basic premise…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 23

In new Immortals footage, the gods are young, pissed off, and ultra-violent

Tarsem Singh’s Immortals just screened a bunch of new footage, including an absolutely epic extended fight scene between gods and monsters. Disemboweling and decapitation have never looked so visually striking. Read on for our spoiler-y description of the footage! The panel first showed a trailer for the movie, some of which we had seen before.…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jul 23

We saw the first hour of Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova!

Steven Spielberg announced a fourth Jurassic Park movie yesterday — but he already has a huge dinosaur epic in the works. Terra Nova is a hugely ambitious time-traveling dinosaur TV show — and we’ve seen the first episode! Actually, we saw the first hour, and the pilot is two hours long. So what’s the verdict…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 23

Marvel is bringing Hulk, sexy super-spies, and Luke Cage to your TV screens!

In Marvel’s live-action TV projects, Hulk returns to his beginnings, super-spy Mockingbird and Cloak & Dagger get their own shows, and A.K.A. Jessica Jones introduces Luke Cage and Miss Marvel. Plus the animated return of J.K. Simmons’s J. Jonah Jameson! Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb confirmed that four projects are currently in development: Hulk and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 23

Warehouse 13 is going to get trapped inside a genre-bending, wizard-obsessed video game!

Yesterday’s Warehouse 13 panel at Comic-Con revealed what the new guy means for the show, the details of the latest Eureka crossover, whether Mark Shepard will ever return, and (yes!) confirmation of a spin-off following HG Wells in the days of Warehouse 12! Regarding the addition of Aaron Ashmore as Steve Jinks, executive producer Jack…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins and Katharine Trendacosta Jul 23

The Locke & Key pilot teases the brilliant horror series that might have been

We were at the special Comic-Con screening of Locke & Key, an attempted TV adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s acclaimed horror fantasy comic. We can officially add this to the list of brilliant pilots that never got series. The episode is a condensed adaptation of the book’s opening arc, “Welcome to Lovecraft.” Written…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 22

Faith No More singer Mike Patton dishes on The Darkness 2 (and his adventure in a haunted hotel)

You may know musical bon vivant Mike Patton from such acts as Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, and Peeping Tom, but the singer also does quite the share of voice acting. For example, Patton has lent his formidable growl to the zombies in Left 4 Dead and the infected in I Am Legend. At…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 22

New footage from NBC’s Awake has us pumped for the latest reality-bending cop show

We just watched a condensed, thirty-minute version of the pilot for NBC’s Awake, in which Harry Potter’s Jason Isaacs plays a cop jumping between two parallel universes after a horrific car crash…which killed a different family member in each reality. Isaacs was on hand with producer Howard Gordon and show creator Kyle Killen – whose…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 22

Surprise “Sizzle Reel” for the Deleted Scenes from Star Wars Original Trilogy

Everybody who went to the Star Wars Fan Movie Awards last night got a special surprise: a short “sizzle reel” showcasing the deleted scenes from the original trilogy that’ll be on this fall’s Blu-ray release. And here it is! Including: an intimate moment with Admiral Akbar, Luke gazing at the sky on Tattooine, some stormtrooper…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 22

Get ready for Gattaca director’s new dystopian thriller, starring Justin Timberlake as a time thief

Director Andrew Niccol rocked our worlds with The Truman Show and Gattaca, and now he’s back with the dystopian thriller In Time, due out in late October. We just saw footage from the film, which is a thinking person’s mega-thriller. Spoilers ahead… Niccol brought the first footage we’ve seen from In Time, and it looked…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 21

First footage from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus made our space helmets explode!

Ridley Scott is coming back to science fiction after a quarter century, and we’ve just seen our first glimpse of his new film Prometheus. The good news is, it’s intense, sweaty, scary and beautiful — and intended to scare your pants off. Spoilers ahead… Here in Comic-Con’s Hall H, we saw a special featurette about…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 21

Comic con 2011

Is Rise of the Planet of the Apes anti-science?

Is everything bad that happens on Torchwood Captain Jack’s fault? We asked John Barrowman!

Matt Smith explains why Doctor Who’s darkest hour is yet to come

Wil Wheaton says the technobabble on Eureka is better than Star Trek’s

The Walking Dead is totally on the run for zombie-plagued season two

Dorothy of Oz footage promises a sugary sweet return to Frank Baum’s world

Knights of Badassdom footage shows off Peter Dinklage’s drugged up, double sword wielding LARPer

See the first ever cast photos for Snow White and the Huntsman!

In the first Knights of Badassdom trailer, LARPers open the gates of hell

Eureka will go animated for their next Christmas special

In new Immortals footage, the gods are young, pissed off, and ultra-violent

We saw the first hour of Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova!

Marvel is bringing Hulk, sexy super-spies, and Luke Cage to your TV screens!

Warehouse 13 is going to get trapped inside a genre-bending, wizard-obsessed video game!

The Locke & Key pilot teases the brilliant horror series that might have been

Faith No More singer Mike Patton dishes on The Darkness 2 (and his adventure in a haunted hotel)

New footage from NBC’s Awake has us pumped for the latest reality-bending cop show

Surprise “Sizzle Reel” for the Deleted Scenes from Star Wars Original Trilogy

Get ready for Gattaca director’s new dystopian thriller, starring Justin Timberlake as a time thief

First footage from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus made our space helmets explode!

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