The Lass O’Gowrie will be holding several performances of a brand new adaptation of Russell T. Davies’ Doctor Who episode Midnight. That’s right as a part of their inaugural Midwinter Lassfest running from January 2nd – 29th of 2012, they will be performing an episode of Doctor Who Live in the Salmon Room above the Pub.
This small theater will serve as the claustrophobic setting for the play. The theater will only seat 20, to add to the cramped feeling of the story. Since this is an unofficial adaptation, it will feature neither the Doctor or Donna, and is a not for profit production. Russell T. Davies has given his approval to adapt the script.
For more info go to www.thelass.co.uk and www.lassfest.co.uk.
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Here is a behind the scenes production trailer for Season 2 of Game of Thrones. I know I can’t wait for it to start back up.
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New rumors have surfaced today about the fabled Doctor Who Theatrical Movie. David Yates, the director that brought us the last 4 Harry Potter movies told Variety that he is about to start work developing a Doctor Who movie with Jane Tranter. Tranter is the head of L.A. based BBC Worldwide Productions, she was also the Controller of Drama Commissioning when the Doctor Who TV series was revived in 2005.
David Yates:
“We’re looking at writers now. We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right,” he said. “It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.”
Yates made it clear this his movie would not be related to the current TV series, but would be a completely new take on Doctor Who.
David Yates:
“Russell T. Davies and then Steven Moffat have done their own transformations, which were fantastic, but we have to put that aside and start from scratch,” “We want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we are looking at American writers too,”
Before directing the final 4 Harry Potter movies Yates worked with Tranter on several BBC
TV series, including “The Way We Live Now” and “State Of Play”.
This all sounds good, but every few months we are treated to some rumor about a Doctor Who movie about to start development/production, and admittedly this is the most possible sounding of all those rumors. Twitter and the interwebs exploded with news of this new Doctor Who Movie, even BBC news reported the Variety article. With no official announcement from BBC or BBC Worldwide, nothing at all has been confirmed. Then reports started coming in from those in the know that I would certainly trust in this instance.
Tom Spilsbury (Editor of Doctor Who Magazine):
To put this in some context, no Doctor Who movie is in production. It’s just some discussions at the moment.
Doctor Who Magazine:
To those hearing Doctor Who movie rumours, it’s just the same rumours which have been going round for years. Nothing’s currently happening!
Edward Russell (Brand Manager for Doctor Who):
Off Twitter for a few hours and the Doctor Who world explodes. There’s always talk of a movie. Perhaps? Maybe one day. But not right now!
BBC America:
A Doctor Who feature film remains in development w/ BBC Worldwide Productions in LA. As of yet no script, cast or production crew in place.
So as far as anyone in the know is concerned nothing is happening at the moment, now Yates himself said that they were going to take 2 or 3 years to get going. Maybe he is in some sort of discussions to helm the project, but nothing has been confirmed at this point. Even if it was, which as far as I’m concerned could be great news if Doctor Who is given the proper treatment, it would still be several years before anything came of it.
I am all for a Doctor Who theatrical movie, and I think it should be in its own universe separate from the TV series, much like the 2 Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies in the sixties. It needs to stay distinctly British, no Americanizing it, don’t make the Doctor human or half-human, and definitely no Johnny Depp! Show it the respect it deserves.
If a Doctor Who Movie ever goes into production the BIG questions are:
- Who will play the Doctor?
- What will the Movie Logo look like?
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Another fun review of Fringe, well they have done it again with a new story line on time and time lines. This time they are going to mess with Peters mind it would appear. But, I look forward to it and hope you enjoy the review.
Description – The Fringe team must find the pattern between tragic time loop anomalies. As the investigation unfolds, Raymond, an electrical engineer, and his wife Kate, a professor of theoretical physics, enter the picture.
Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham
Anna was born in Melbourne in 1978 and moved to Sydney, but she spent her teen years on the Gold Coast. Since graduating from NIDA Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001, Anna has performed on stage with the Bell Shakespeare Company. Her debut was being the lead female in the theatre production of The Credeaux Canvas.
Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop
Joshua’s mother is Fiona Jackson, a casting director. She took him to his first casting call hoping to discourage him from wanting to become an actor. He has a younger sister named Aisleagh. He also has two half brothers named Corey and Lyman from his dad’s second marriage. Joshua’s grandparents were opera singers in Dublin, Ireland.
Joshua has dual-citizenship (Canada/US). He spent the first eight years of his life living in California. When he was eleven, he decided that he wanted to be an actor. Joshua
John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop
As Artistic Director of the ‘Stage Company of S.A.’ for ten years, John Noble was involved in South Australia’s cultural explosion in the 1970′s and 80′s. He performed with all of the States major arts companies. He also directed on London’s West End (David Williamson’s Sons of Cain), and acted in an award winning production at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland (Rob George’s Errol Flynn’s Great Big Adventure Book For Boys). He was a cultural guest in Texas as part of S.A’s sesquicentennial sister-state celebrations in 1985, and in 1986 represented Australia at the New Zealand Playwrights Conference in Christchurch.
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David Foster, a writer, producer, and the head of production company 1947 Entertainment, is planning a new series designed to take Star Trek back to its roots. Foster says that the new show will include all the traditional Trek tropes – Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi – but will feature a much younger cast.
“The series concept is fully developed, subject to change of course,” Foster told Trek Web, “with a solid 5-7 year series plan, pilot script and a conceptualized finale that intends to define Star Trek for generations.”
Foster’s Star Trek series is still in the pitching stage. It’s still too early to say if it will go beyond his proposal, but I for one want a regular Star Trek series back on my TV.
You can read the original interview at Trek Web.
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Originally Reported on Cinema Blend.
Thanks to The Fellowship of the Geeks for bringing this to my attention.
Stan Lee Media Inc. is suing for 100% of the proceeds from Conan the Barbarian. Stan Lee Media Inc. purchased the rights to the Conan series in 2000. They went bankrupt in 2002 and the rights were sold to Paradox Entertainment, but according to the lawsuit, the sale was not legal, as they didn’t have permission of the stockholders. The lawsuit also says that the company was betrayed by their lawyer.
What gets me is that Stan Lee Media Inc, waited until the premier day of the movie to file suit, even though director Marcus Nispel signed on to the project in 2009. So why wait 2 years while the movie is in production before you file? Why not file a Cease and Desist and have production of the movie stopped before Lionsgate dropped $90 million and 2 years on production and promotion? Why, because Stan Lee Media Inc. wants all the profit for no effort. They want to walk in at the last moment and grab what little cash Conan is making, with no investment.
I think, if you don’t file suit within a reasonable time, say a month or two, of a product being publicly announced that infringes on your Intellectual Property/Patents (I’m looking at you tech companies), then you’ve waived your rights. I’m tired of reading articles about tech companies, movie studios, and publishing houses waiting until a product hits the market after a few years in development, before filling a lawsuit. These big companies buy up all the Intellectual Properties/Patents that they really have no intention of using and then wait for someone else to do something with them and then step in at the last minute to make a money grab. I have no problem with a company protecting their properties, but they don’t have to wait until someone else has dropped a lot of money/time into it before putting a stop to it.
What do you think?
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From www.voltron.com:
As announced by WEP VP Bob Koplar at the Voltron San Diego Comic Con Panel, Relativity Media (The Fighter, Immortals) have optioned the feature film rights to the classic animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe. The production will be led by producers Charles Roven and Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment (The Dark Knight, Man of Steel) and producer Jason Netter (Wanted). While no release date has been given at this time, screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Conan the Barbian, Sahara) are penning the screenplay.
“For nearly three decades, Voltron has captured the minds of a nostalgically loyal and rabid fan base and has long been considered a hotly-pursued project. We are beyond excited World Events Productions and Atlas Entertainment have placed their trust and faith in Relativity to bring this coveted property to the big screen, and usher in a new generation of devoted fans,” Relativity Media president of worldwide production Tucker Tooley said in announcing the project.
I went into Red Faction: Origins not expecting much, I mean it had the history of all those really bad Video Game based movies behind it (I’m looking at you Super Mario Brothers). Plus it was a SyFy Channel original movie, which are traditionally horrifically bad movies. So Red Faction had 2 strikes against it right out of the gate. That being said I enjoyed Red Faction: Origins, it was a good solid SciFi action movie. It was full of some really good one liners, mixing the appropriate amount of humor and seriousness. The acting was good, and the storyline was much better than any SyFy Original movie I’ve seen in the last several years. The sets and the special effects were also of higher production values than SyFy usually manages.
I’m not sure how much of the higher production values are due to the fact that this was a joint venture between SyFy and THQ (who develop the Red Faction video games). I have never played the Red Faction video games so I am not sure how accurate Red Faction: Origins is to the games, but I have a feeling the good special effects are due to SyFy being able to pull the panoramic scenes of Mars and shots of space ships from the video games. I also don’t know how much of the good scripting and story line are attributable to SyFy or if THQ and the game developers handled most of that. The only thing I know for sure is that if SyFy could manage to make all of their Original movies as good as Red Faction: Origins they would get a much higher viewership and would probably sell a lot more DVDs.
I would give Red Faction Origins a solid 3.5 out of 5, that may not sound like a very high review, but keep in mind that I rate most Syfy Original Movies a 1 or 1.5.
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