For you, my friends. For you.

[lithera]

Neil Gaiman announced this morning on The Today Show that Neil Jordan will write and direct the live-action adaptation of The Graveyard Book. Neil Jordan should be a familiar name to all of you. He directed Interview with The Vampire and The Crying Game.

Daniel Craig has signed on as the pirate Red Rackham in “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn”. If you're keeping track out there that has him joining joining Jamie Bell as the boy reporter Tintin, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thomson and Thompson. It has also been announced that in addition to Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish have come aboard as writers. It's a geekapalooza over there.

Legend of the Seeker has been renewed for a second season. Anyone watching this thing? I hear echoes from time to time about how 'they've ruined everything because it isn't like the books' but I haven't watched anything. I know a lot of people who like those Goodkind books but, personally, it being nothing like the books would be a reason to watch.

ABC has just greenlit a pilot for a remake of V. The main character will be a female Homeland Security agent. Wheeee? You cannot capture the cheesy awesome again. I really don't think so and I have a hard time seeing ABC going the route of a Galactica re-imagining.

Looks like the Red Dwarf Easter special is happening and it will be in two parts. There is an article up on the BBC but even the premise of this special can be considered spoiler territory.

There is a retelling of Samson and Delilah set in the future beginning to be worked on. Wheee?

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[elsewhere7.livejournal.com]

2nd season for Legend of the Seeker? YES! :)

And it'as not exactly like the books. That's a good thing.

I saw someone else on another board complaining that the viewers didn't get to see Richard kick an 8-year-old girl in the face like in the books.

The first couple of episodes are a little rough, but the actors grow into their characters after that, and it's cheesy fun.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

"There is a retelling of Samson and Delilah set in the future beginning to be worked on. Wheee?"

Oh please please PLEASE let it be a 1950's style view of the future where Delilah uses "Space Scissors" to cut Samson's "Cosmic Hair."

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll watch an episode and see.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I don't think that'll happen. Just a guess.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

You can't tell me that you wouldn't watch a show that was Bible stories in that kind of setting. Just the sheer, "Who is the market for this show?" factor would keep people tuning in. There's a fine line there, but if it were played completely straight, it could be incredibly surreal and so pointless that it would let people achieve enlightenment.

Man, why don't I have my own movie studio?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Noooo. I probably wouldn't watch. I would be sad it wasn't being MST3Ked.

[elsewhere7.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's no great forward stride in TV show-making. Just a bit of popcorn-eating fun.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

You'd be missing out then on David taking out Goliath only by using a tiny atomic powered ray gun!

I actually do wish there were a market for stuff like this. Yeah it would probably be horrid but there's a certain sincerity and unselfconsciousness to the movies that get MST3ked that is rare in modern productions.

[gamethyme.livejournal.com]

Tintin is also being produced by Stephen Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Peter Jackson is set to direct the second one.

The writers of this one include at least one of the writers for Shaun of the Dead.

It's a geekfest, but it's also filled with family love.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yep. I wasn't saying it as a bad thing in the least. I have no love for Tintin but aparently a lot of people do.

[sepulchrave.livejournal.com]

I had a really crazy dream last night, and you were in it and so was a kid that was meant to be your brother, I think his name was James and he had sandy brown shoulder lenght hair and was probably around 17.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Weird.

I had some crazy weird dreams last night too. Seems to have been a night for it.

Legend of the Boobies

[bmessina.livejournal.com]

I've been watching it when I get REALLY bored at work.

It's SO obvious that they know what their real draw is. The female lead. I have no idea what her name is, but she's certainly easy on the eyes. She formerly only had the one outfit I called "Oh no, how will I fight with so much cleavage exposed?" They gave her a new one last week, which I saw coming from 3 or 4 episodes previous in which they had a dominatrix episode. Full body skintight leather, of course.

Otherwise, the male lead guy looks weird, especially with his shirt off and I keep waiting for the wizard to kick someone off a train.

Oh, and the stories are pretty generic fantasy themes.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is, I will not be back for a 2nd season.

[moriarty6.livejournal.com]

I watched the first episode or two of Seeker (and I've read the books) and was bored with it. I didn't care that it wasn't like the books because the first one is great but the rest are a total snore, but the show seemed pretty generic. Maybe it grew into itself, but I didn't stick around to see. :/

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I got to the second book and was just wondering why he was repeating himself already...

[moriarty6.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I kept thinking, "most writers take two or three books before their imagination totally leaves the room".