Plane Dead (2007)

'Plane Dead' (a.k.a. Flight of the Living Dead) looks even dumber than the Samuel L. Jackson film, 'Snakes on a Plane' (although for arguments sake, "Snakes" was pretty enjoyable).

I'm sure I'll probably end up watching it!

Star Wars - The TV Series!

Star Wars creator George Lucas has said he has started work on a live-action TV series based on his sci-fi saga.

Fans, however, should not expect Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader or any other established characters to appear.

"It's about minor characters," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's completely different. But it's a good idea, and it's going to be a lot of fun to do."

LucasFilm is also working on an animated TV series, expanded from its earlier Clone Wars shorts.


The half-hour cartoon series takes place between the events depicted in the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith films.

The live-action TV series will take place in the Star Wars universe but will not feature the Skywalker family, as had previously been suggested.

Lucas, who joked the series would analyse "the life of robots", said the US TV networks were "having a hard time" comprehending his vision.

"They're saying, 'This doesn't fit into our little square boxes.' And I say, 'Well, yeah, but it's Star Wars."

The saga began in 1977 with the original Star Wars, which went on to spawn two sequels, three prequels and a number of other projects.

Last year producer Rick McCallum said the proposed TV spin-off could run to at least 100 episodes.

*pinched from BBC Entertainment News 17/10/2007

Hopefully it'll be as good, if not better than the awesome re-imagined Battlestar Gallactica series (in regards to budget and special effects).

The Star Wars TV series is due to start in 2009. More information can be found here.

Thundercats (2010)

'Thundercats' is a long way off (planned 2010 release) but thanks to a report on the Variety website earlier in the week the reason why is a bit clearer.

I originally thought this was going to be a live action representation of the classic (and awesome) children's 80's cartoon series, mixed together with CGI effects but it was revealed that the entire film will be made in CGI. It will take quite some time to produce!


This however may be no bad thing in my book. We hopefully will be able to have some very believable looking characters/environments and I've heard the art director, Jerry O'Flaherty from the stunning video game 'Gears of War' (GoW) is on board to direct this film. Hopefully it will adopt a similar dark and gritty look which made GoW look so amazing.


I'm really excited about this project. I think a lot of praise has to be given to the recent Transformers film, if that had flopped this film (and a few other future projects) would have never been given the go ahead.

Simon Pegg, the new Scotty!

Simon Pegg has signed up to play Scotty (originally played by the late James Doohan) in the new 'Star Trek' movie directed by J.J Abrams, due for release in 2008.

Pegg & Abrams have already worked together in the 2006 movie, Mission Impossible III.


I wonder what Pegg's dodgy Scottish accent will sound like.

Untitled J.J. Abrams Project

There's a lot of theories going around the various movie forums about the new 'untitled' project from Lost creator J.J Abrams.

From the look of the trailer (see below) it's fairly obvious to say this will be a giant monster movie. A lot of people are asking what kind of giant monster will it be? Is this a new Godzilla film? If not, why isn't it a new Godzilla film?

(The last question was mine, I'm a bit of a Godzilla fan at heart!)

The trailer looks really interesting. The film is released stateside on the 18th of January, 2008.

Battlestar Galactica : Razor

Can't wait to see this!

I'm a big fan of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series and this two hour feature called Razor, about the journey of the Pegasus crew will more than keep me happy whilst I wait for season four to come out.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009)

Production on the fourth installment in the Terminator film series will begin next year ahead of a 2009 release.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will be the first in a proposed trilogy of films reinventing the cyborg saga.

Derek Anderson, of production company Halycon, has told industry newspaper Variety the film will be "set in the future" during "a full-scale war".

The Terminator brand is currently being revived on US television with the Sarah Connor Chronicles series.

Lena Headey stars in the title role, previously played by Linda Hamilton in the first two Terminator films directed by James Cameron.

Former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, now governor of California, last played the series' robotic protagonist in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

According to Variety, however, it is unclear whether he will appear in the new film.

"We've left it open for him to maybe do a cameo," said producer Moritz Borman. "The final decision will be based on his desire and availability."

Warner Brothers have acquired North American distribution rights to the fourth Terminator film, which it plans to release in summer 2009.

"The intention is to present a fresh new world and have this be the first of a trilogy," said Borman.

*Pinched from BBC Entertainment News 10/10/2007

p.s; The image at the top was something I quickly put together using some old Terminator picture, not official!

Curb Your Enthusiasm : The Lefty Call

Find below links to the latest Curb Your Enthusiasm episode (split into 3 parts).

The Lefty Call : Part 1
The Lefty Call : Part 2
The Lefty Call : Part 3

Larry gets in to all sorts of trouble just by visiting the toilet! Its as incredibly funny and crazy as ever.

For other new episodes from season 6 check out this YouTube link.

By the way, if any of my friends read this blog and would like to get me something for Christmas a series of 'Curb' would go down a treat (nudge nudge, wink wink)! I don't actually have any episodes on DVD although I've seen the first two series through 'on demand' and a few random episodes off the internet.

£10 a series, that's pretty ("...pretty pretty pretty") cheap!

Uncle Muscle Hour

Here's another Tim & Eric clip (called 'I don't want to go to school!') featuring the character Uncle Muscle. If you don't "get it", they're taking a stab at the rubbish public access television available on cable in the US.

For many other 'Uncle Muscle Hour' clips check out the wonderful YouTube.

I'll have to make this my last post on the subject as I could easily turn this site into a Tim & Eric shrine!

P.S; Don't whatever you do type "uncle muscle" into google image search... very scary!

Sweeney Todd (2007)

Ah bugger!

No one told me the next Tim Burton movie, 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' was going to be a musical.

Find below the trailer featuring Johnny Depp with a wonderfully dodgy Dick Van Dyke (as the chimney sweep cleaner from 'Mary Poppins') cockney singing voice!

By the way, the release date in the US is this Christmas but doesn't appear in the UK until early 2008.

Wallace & Gromit - Trouble At’ Mill

Hooray! Another Wallace & Gromit animation is in production (for TV) as reported on the BBC Entertainment site.

Its called 'Trouble At’ Mill' and will be shown on BBC1 sometime at the end of next year

Can't wait to see it!

Spider-Man : The Musical

Bono & The Edge (of U2 fame) are currently working on a musical version of Spider-Man for the stage. It's news to me but apparently this has been on the cards since April.

I like the idea of this and its also a step closer to my plan of turning the Lethal Weapon movies into a musical/opera.

It could really work!