SciFi Cool has posted the first trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassu, along with a brief synopsis of the story. This is the first new film in a while from Terry Gillium, and it looks really good. There is also an international trailer available, which looks fairly similar. In Worldcon-related news, Suvudu has posted that George R. R. Martin was interviewed and the results podcast. If you missed last weeks Eisner Awards Winners, you will find the list at that link. Tomorrow are the Hugo Awards at Worldcon, which will (technology willing) be covered Live by Cheryl Morgan, in conjunction with SF Awards Watch and the folks that seem to have the best Con coverage I have found so far, Con Reporter. They also are running a Live Celebrity Tweets compilation continuously, with input from people like Lou Anders, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaimon, John Scalzi, and many others (yes, that was in alphabetical order; good of you to notice).
Word is someone is going to take Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon and turn it into a movie. Even better, the person planning on doing this is James McTeigue; his last SF project was a film called V for Vendetta, so Altered Carbon may get the quality treatment it deserves. BTW, if you are having problems logging into Twitter, it suffered a DoS Attack (Denial of Service) earlier today. It seems to be back up now, but is a bit slow to respond.
If you got here by way of Google, this probably isn’t what you were thinking it was, but you might enjoy it anyways. Bookslut put together an in-depth review of Philip K. Dick’s life, with some information I had not previously seen. Likewise Skulls In The Stars just posted a review of the works of Henry Kuttner; it is really good to see classic SF authors still appreciated in modern times. For some of them, this is the future they were writing about. THR reports that the original voice cast has signed up to return for the new season of Futurama. Click the City (don’t ask me which city, I didn’t look) has an interesting article about the GI Joe Costumes, looking at science fiction vs. science fact in the armament.
io9 once more, with their Comic-Con Top 10. All very good entries, and I am more ready than ever for V and Stargate Universe, Avatar and Tron, and of course 9, district and otherwise. And they had the new SGU trailer as well.
Duncan Jones will be interviewed on Sci-Friday on NPR tomorrow, talking about his movie Moon. They will also be looking into an inexpensive microscope made out of a cell phone and some inexpensive parts; if you want to build your own, you can find details here.
It looks like Warner and DC are gearing up to do a Flash live action movie. So far, only the writers and producers have been identified; see the Hollywood Reporter story for details on this and other comics-film news. The special effects modeling in Moon looked excellent, with reason: it was done by the effects guru who did Alien, as well as some Doctor Who and Red Dwarf.