{"id":2652,"date":"2007-08-04T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2007-08-04T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T06:11:00","slug":"2652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2652","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">A few from the Sci Fi Wire:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=3&#038;id=42990\"><i>Dark<\/i> Is Now <i>The Seeker<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising<\/i> is the new name of the movie from Fox Walden based on the second of Susan Cooper&#8217;s five fantasy books. The studio made the change on July 27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=3&#038;id=42933\"><i>Extinction<\/i> is the Last <i>Evil<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Paul W.S. Anderson, the producer and screenwriter of <i>Resident Evil: Extinction<\/i>, 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, lately, it seems like every time somebody manages to squeeze out a couple of cash-driven sequels it&#8217;s because <i>that&#8217;s what they always intended to do<\/i>. Like it&#8217;s some grand artistic vision finally reaching its natural culmination. Like <i>Weekend at Bernies<\/i> was always intended as a trilogy, but sadly, the third film was never made<sup>*<\/sup>&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=1&#038;id=42932\"><i>Cavemen<\/i> Veers From TV Ads<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The creators of the upcoming ABC sitcom <i>Cavemen<\/i> said that the idea may have started with the popular Geico TV commercials, but that the show will take things in a different direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well it would pretty much <i>have<\/i> to, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=3&#038;id=42834\"><i>Beowulf<\/i> Enhanced With Nudity<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had our theory,&#8221; Gaiman (<i>Sandman, Stardust<\/i>) said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 27. &#8220;Our theory was that, at any point when the poem tells you what happened, it&#8217;s telling you the truth. But at any point when anybody in the poem goes offstage and then comes back on and says, &#8216;While I was in the other room, this is what happened,&#8217; they could be lying.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nothing to add to that. I just like it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">* I had to double check. Thankfully, no, it looks like it never was.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s five fantasy books. The studio made the change on July 27. Yeah, because that name rolls right off the tongue. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2652\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}