The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: The Ultimate Otaku Film
WEDNESDAY
How to survive a Kaiju attack? Here’s a useful guide! And a briefcase full of Kaiju organs! Yay!
Sherlock is going to the SDCC for the first time ever! Sadly no Benedict Cumberbatch or Martin Freeman since they are way bussy. But we get Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue (the creator-producer team), and we are promised “surprises”.
On more SDCC news, we’ll get Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World with footage and (possibly) cast members on July 20th! We also get The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on July 19th with the Sony panel that will also talk about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and the Robocop remake.
Also, some lucky bastards at the SDCC will get a Vikings comic if they attend their panel on July 19th! The story is “set before the events of Season 1 and sees Ragnar and Rollo alongside their father in battle, along with the brothers’ first encounter with Lagertha.”
Talking about comics, we’ll get a Prometheus one! Courtesy of Dark Horse, which will also add Prometheus‘ characters and concepts to their Alien comic-book franchise. More annoucement will be made at SDCC, probably.
Here’s some news that may calm somewhat those who were worried about The Crow remake: James O’Barr, creator of The Crow, is going to be the consultant, and here’s what he has to say:
It is important for Crow fans to understand that Relativity, Javier, Luke and the entire team are working on a new adaptation of the book itself. I believe that this movie will stand alongside Brandon and his film as a valid work of art, and I look forward to collaborating on the project.
Neill Blomkamp may love Star Trek, but he doesn’t want to direct the new movie if J.J. Abrams can’t though. And he was totally valid reasons!
Dude, I used to be a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan. Like, big time… But no, I probably wouldn’t do that. I don’t know if me getting involved with a franchise is the best thing for me. When studios smell franchises, they smell money. And they’ll try to do what they can to the franchise to make it make the most money it can make, and a lot of those interesting ideas kind of fall by the side of the road. So… Do I like Star Trek on its own without the politics of making it? Yes, absolutely. But do I think that you could make it in the way that I would want to make it? Probably not, which makes me not want to make it.
Wow, Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi drama Gravity will open the 70th Venice Film Festival! It’s been 13 years since a sci-fi movie opens the festival and it’s the first film in 3D to do so!
On totally unrelated news, yay, a new Sailor Moon musical! It will be called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: La Reconquista, will be an all-female trope and will be about the battles between Sailor Senshi and the Dark Kingdom that seeks the Silver Crystal!
