Thanks to the good folks at the Gallifreyan Embassy, we now know about these deleted scenes that really should have been in their respective episodes anyways. I suppose they are surfacing now because of the release this Tuesday of the latest season of the Doctor on DVD.
A German TV show based on the most off the wall character Stanislaw Lem ever wrote about? Yes, there is, and it is called Ijon Tichy, Raumpilot, or Ijon Tichy, Spacepilot in English. The animation on the home page says it all, but here is a trailer to go with that image. You can also watch the 15 minute long episodes online, either on the home page or over on YouTube.
The film will be out in March of 2011, I want to see this one so bad I can taste it: SuckerPunch!
Next Wednesday, November 10th, the JICC, or Japanese Information and Culture Center, will be presenting King of Thorn on the big screen. The Medusa virus is sweeping the earth, turning everyone to stone. 160 carefully selected people are put in cold sleep to be awoken in a hundred years, so the human race will survive. But when they wake up, a lot more than a hundred years have passed, if evolution is any judge. The presentation is free although it does require a reservation, which is only fair for what will certainly be the first (and may just be the only) time this Anime feature film will play in a movie theater in North America (even if the screen is technically on Japanese soil, being in the Embassy).
John Carpenter has signed up to take the helm transforming Darkchylde from the graphic novel to the big screen. The premise of the comic book series is a good-hearted young southern belle has monsters inside her nightmares, and sometimes they transform her body to walk the earth for their own purposes. Done right, this one could be interesting.
This weeks winner is the Dreamworks film Megamind 3D. Staring Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, and Tina Fey, this looks to be the second animation of the year where you will be rooting for the bad guy (yes, I am referring to Despicable Me). This one looks like a lot of fun. Also out this weekend the Bollywood Time Travel comedy, Action Replayy.