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 Posted: 10-Sep-2007 18:19 Post subject: Spidey's Maguire Dons Robotech |
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Spidey's Maguire Dons Robotech
Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in a film based on the classic SF anime Robotech, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Warner Brothers Pictures picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF franchise a la Paramount's hit Transformers.
Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions. Craig Zahler has been tapped to write the screenplay.
Robotech was a cartoon series during the 1980s from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source, known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
Who Season Five Confirmed
The BBC confirmed that its hit Doctor Who series will return for a fifth season in the spring of 2010, meaning that the show will take a kind of break in 2009.
The network also announced that this year's Who Christmas special, airing on BBC One in December, will feature star David Tennant and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue.
The 13-episode fourth season of the show went into production last month and will air in the United Kingdom in spring 2008, with a special episode for Christmas 2008. Catherine Tate is set to return for the complete run of the season, reprising her role as Donna from the 2006 Christmas special.
Freema Agyeman, who played the Doctor's companion, Martha Jones, in season three, will return to the fourth season midway through; Agyeman, meanwhile, will join the cast of the Who spinoff series Torchwood.
In 2009, Doctor Who will air only three special episodes starring Tennant, written by head writer Russell T. Davies.
The third season of Doctor Who ended its run in the United Kingdom earlier this year. It can be seen in the United States on SCI FI Channel, Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Iron Man Teaser Due Next Week
Iron Man director Jon Favreau posted on his official MySpace.com blog that the official teaser trailer will appear on Sept. 10.
The trailer, which will incorporate elements from the footage previewed at last month's Comic-Con International in San Diego, will debut across the Viacom Network's highest-rated programs, Favreau said. (Paramount, which is releasing the movie, is part of Viacom.)
The first appearance will be immediately before The Hills on MTV. Favreau lists other appearances on his blog.
A hi-res version of the trailer will then appear on Apple.com/trailers on Sept. 11.
Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, opens May 2, 2008.
SF Is New To Journeyman's Falls
Kevin Falls, executive producer of NBC's upcoming time-travel series Journeyman, told SCI FI Wire that science fiction is something new to him after years of writing and producing such shows as The West Wing, Shark and Sports Night.
"As far as me getting into this genre, it's liberating in some ways to do something so different, and the toughest thing I've done, too," Falls said during a Sept. 6 conference call. "I thought trying to dramatize farm subsidies and saving Social Security on West Wing was hard. Doing time travel is difficult."
Journeyman stars Kevin McKidd (HBO's Rome) as Dan Vasser, a San Francisco newspaper reporter who finds himself inexplicably thrown back into different time periods within his own lifetime. He can't control when or where he goes, but he seems to have a mission to change the future by affecting the lives of strangers in the past.
"It's a Rubik's Cube, and the challenge is to tell these stories, which are a lot of fun, but it's Whack-a-Mole," Falls said. "You push something down over here and you screw something up over there. And we really want to make these episodes clear for the audience, so people aren't just scratching their heads, going 'I'm totally lost.' And I think we've done it so far." Journeyman premieres Sept. 24 and will air Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) —Ian Spelling
McKidd Confirms Thor Rumors
Kevin McKidd, star of NBC's upcoming time-travel series Journeyman, confirmed for SCI FI Wire—sort of—rampant rumors that he may play the title character in a big-screen version of the Marvel comic book Thor.
Speaking in a conference call on Sept. 6, McKidd (HBO's Rome) called the reports "semi-true." "I didn't know about it either until I heard the rumors and I called my agent," McKidd said. "And he went, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been talking to them about it.' But the last I heard from my agent, they're talking that they want to go for somebody much younger, a 19- or 20-year-old, for that role. So they're reconceptualizing it as we speak."
Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) is set to direct Thor for Marvel Studios, and he reportedly wants McKidd, whose credits include The Last Legion, for the lead role of the God of Thunder.
Even if a younger actor were to play Thor, McKidd hastened to add, he might still appear in the project. "I think there's the other main male character in that movie that I'm in consideration for," the Scottish actor said. "But, certainly by no means it's not in the bag or anything and, to be honest, until I read a script I don't really know. I haven't really had a look at a script. This is all still just information that's coming in. So, you know, it could be fun, but it just depends on what's on the page. I think it all starts and finishes with the quality of the script."
Journeyman premieres Sept. 24 and will air Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) —Ian Spelling
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