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Christopher Judge, who plays the perennially popular Teal'c on Stargate, will be coming to Australia as part of a whirlwind tour. Large than life in person, a practical joker, and mortally afraid of polar bears, he'll be signing autographs and chatting with fans in Sydney on the 22nd and Melbourne on the 23rd of April.
He will be joined by Gary Graham, who played that ever-so-superior Vulcan ambassador Soval from Star Trek : Enterprise, and also Matt Sikes from classic flick, Alien Nation.
Dreamworks has just announced that they've bought the rights to the anime classic, Ghost in The Shell. Steven Spielberg hopes to make the film as a live action, 3D extravaganza.
Yattah!
Whilst some pundits are already putting the kybosh on the venture due to some similarities to the original Matrix, aficionados will tell you to not to fret. Ghost is in fact a quite different, with the machines reaching consciousness and getting up to no good, rather than the humans. The style alone puts them on different planets, and to be fair, The Matrix was in fact a stylistic derivative of the anime world inhabited by Ghost in the Shell. So shut up.
Co-recreator of Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D Moore, has been given the greenlight for a two hour backdoor pilot by Fox, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Called 'Virtuality,' it is set in on the Phaeton, Earth's first spaceship, on a 10 year journey to a distant star system. To keep the 12 crew-members from going completely bonkers during their decade in space, a virtual reality system is installed (think primitive Holodeck - as you would). Unforch, a bug gets into the system. Hilarity ensues, and the line between reality and fantasy gets smudged out.
IMDb has just released this little snippet from our favourite Torchwood star, John Barrowman, who plays the erstwhile Captain Jack on the Dr Who spinoff.
Says IMDb:
"British actor John Barrowman is a big fan of using Botox injections to preserve his good looks - but urges other thespians not to have too many of the treatments. The 41-year-old Torchwood star admits he regularly receives the wrinkle-smoothing treatment as he is determined to slow down the ageing process. The injections - which freeze facial muscles - have been blamed for giving devotees a rigid, expressionless look. But Barrowman insists actors can still opt for Botox, but only in limited doses. He says, "I have Botox. The key is not to do the forehead. Men need forehead lines and doing the forehead makes you look like Nicole Kidman. Just do it around the eyes. I can still smile and look expressive. If something makes you feel good then you should do it." "
Rumours about a third Stargate show have finally been solidified into an official announcement. The new project is to be called Stargate:Universe and yes, it does centre on the use of the 'ninth chevron'.
For those who aren't hard core RDA fans or 'Gaters', the original Stargate was 'dialled' to any other stargate in our galaxy by using seven chevrons that created an address corresponding with another stargate, just like a phone number. In Stargate:Atlantis, an eighth chevron was discovered, meaning that the 'area code' could now include another galaxy, the Pegasus galaxy. That's where Atlantis was discovered, and a show was born.
Charlton Heston, star of such Sci Fi classics as The Omega Man and Planet of the Apes, died on Saturday night, Los Angeles time. He was 84. No cause of death has been released, although he had announced he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease in 2002.
Heston made his first film in 1941 and his last in 2003. In one of the great Hollywood careers, he starred in over 120 films, including Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Touch of Evil.
He was never a stranger to Sci Fi, performing in a string of late sixties and early seventies classics that helped redefine the genre.
Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau Coming Down Under For Iron Man Premiere
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Thursday, April 3
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Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr and director Jon Favreau have confirmed that they will appear at the film's Sydney premiere!
The premiere will be held at Sydney's Greater Union George St Cinemas on April the 14th, with red carpet action kicking off from around 5.15pm.
With trailers and buzz building excitement for the film, Iron Man looks to be the surprise superhero smash of the year, fighting well above it's weight against monster franchises Batman (The Dark Knight) and Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
Attention Heroes fans, both old and new! SCI FI is abuzz as the signed and framed and emininently wantable and haveable Heroes poster sits on its altar, quietly radiating coolness and a strange powerful pulsing sound a la the Ark of the Covenant.
Unfortunately for those of us unable to bend the laws of time and space-u, we cannot teleport back to this week if we don't enter the competition before midnight on April 6. So give yourself a chance to hold, touch, own and display a substantial piece of pop culture history by clicking WIN on the navbar above and following the prompts. It's as easy as 22/7!
The US SCI FI Channel has announced that work will commence on Caprica, a two-hour Battlestar Galactica prequel.
It will be set 50 years before the Second Cylon War.
Says SCI FI US : "Caprica follows two rival families - -the Greystones and the Adamas -- as they grow, compete and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies. Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe to toe."
Oh no!
One of the greatest Sci Fi authors ever, Sir Arthur C.Clarke, has died at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. Film fans will know him as the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but avid readers will tell you that he's been writing Science Fiction stories and novels since 1948.
Famously, he is credited as having predicted the satellite, although he is more correctly acknowledged for his concept of using geosynchronous satellites for communication.
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