A few from the Sci Fi Wire:
- Dark Is Now The Seeker:
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is the new name of the movie from Fox Walden based on the second of Susan Cooper’s five fantasy books. The studio made the change on July 27.
Yeah, because that name rolls right off the tongue. Maybe this will appease the angry fans of the books who say the movie has taken way too many liberties.
- Extinction is the Last Evil:
Paul W.S. Anderson, the producer and screenwriter of Resident Evil: Extinction, told SCI FI Wire that his original intention was to create a trilogy based on the popular Capcom video games and that the upcoming sequel may be the last.
You know, lately, it seems like every time somebody manages to squeeze out a couple of cash-driven sequels it’s because that’s what they always intended to do. Like it’s some grand artistic vision finally reaching its natural culmination. Like Weekend at Bernies was always intended as a trilogy, but sadly, the third film was never made*…
- Cavemen Veers From TV Ads:
The creators of the upcoming ABC sitcom Cavemen said that the idea may have started with the popular Geico TV commercials, but that the show will take things in a different direction.
Well it would pretty much have to, wouldn’t it?
- Beowulf Enhanced With Nudity:
“We had our theory,” Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust) said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 27. “Our theory was that, at any point when the poem tells you what happened, it’s telling you the truth. But at any point when anybody in the poem goes offstage and then comes back on and says, ‘While I was in the other room, this is what happened,’ they could be lying.”
I’ve got nothing to add to that. I just like it.
* I had to double check. Thankfully, no, it looks like it never was.
“Trilogy!” Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?
It’s rare that a sequel is better than the original; I think it’s unheard of for a third film to be better. For instance, you could argue that The Godfather Part II is better than The Godfather, but I don’t think you could make much of an argument at all for The Godfather Part III.
The only possible exception to this, I think, is when the original wasn’t any good.
So, y’know, in that case, maybe this new Resident Evil movie will be really good!
Exception. The Leprechaun movies just keep getting better and better.
And damn it, “The Seeker” is what I was going to call the original novel I’ve been planning for 5 years and will probably never get around to writing. Now I need a new title, and “Baba O’Riley” just doesn’t have that same zip..
Intentionally, though? When I first saw the description for Leprechaun 4 (Is it 4? The space one, not the “‘hood” one.), I fell over laughing in the video store.
If it’s any consolation, this “The Seeker” probably won’t last in anyone’s memory very long. The movie really has upset a lot of fans of the original books, and a change in title this late in the game is rarely a good sign.