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Neuromancer, Who, Mars

Word is that the director of Splice, Vincenzo Natali, has been signed up to direct Neuromancer. I have been waiting for decades to see this movie, and played the hell out of the game in the 80s and early 90s (which I still own in cherry condition). The book was the first of Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, with Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive rounding out the set. This William Gibson book was also the first to ever win all three major Sci-Fi awards; the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Campbell. Pretty impressive considering it was his first novel, with only short stories before that. Now if only someone would do Snowcrash in movie format, we could have the greatest cyberpunk movie marathon ever; Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and Snowcrash!

Possibly one of the best Doctor Who reviews I have read lately comes from the LA Times, in the Doctor Who midterm checkup story. It is nice to see that some folks (meaning Robert Lloyd in this case) are paying attention and can express themselves in a way that helps others understand where we are in the series.

This simple and sad video caught my attention over at SF Signal, so I wanted to share it here.

MARS! from Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham on Vimeo.

Torchwood Season 4, Tardis cake

Earlier this week it was confirmed that Torchwood Season 4 is a go, and it will include John Barrowman and Eve Myles to head the cast, with Russell T Davies heading up the creative team. New episodes will be airing on Starz in the US starting in the summer of 2011, appropriate since this is a joint venture with that channel. While it is totally unrelated, I find it amusing that Wil Wheaton received a Tardis birthday cake this week.

Bleach Live

Yes, Bleach is now Live on Crunchyroll! That is the first 9 episodes of the current season in Japan, including the one that just aired at 2:30AM today in Tokyo. This is no pirate deal, but a real legal streaming contract between Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo making the program available to paid Premium Members beginning today. If you are not a premium member, but have signed up for a free membership, it becomes available to you next Tuesday, the 15th; that is still a lot sooner than when the DVD comes out. To put that last bit into perspective, the Season 5 DVD box set that hit the shelves today ends with episode 109; the episode that aired this morning in Tokyo was episode 274.

Something to Do: Movies

Sadly, it is another one-movie weekend, and this weekend the film is the remake of The Karate Kid, so it is not even an original story. But it could be OK; Jackie Chan is doing the grizzled old master bit, and Jaden Smith (son of MIB Will Smith, the child who we last saw doing a great job in the 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still) is doing the clueless kid. The original movie bored me to tears, but this one has a touch of promise to it because of the actors and the potential to increased edginess. And since Jackie is still making more Asian than American movies (see yesterday’s post) the style should be a lot more authentic this time.