GeekiN #124
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
We have a wide variety of topics to discuss this week. So get started by reading this post for a full list of discussions.
Discussion
Television
- Doctor Who series 6 to be split in half (Spring/Autumn)
- Kurtzman and Orci developing Locke and Key adaptation
- Rob Thomas developing “Temps” for NBC
- The Walking Dead premieres Sunday, October 31 at 10pm
- Timothy Dalton gets important Chuck role
- Discovery Kids re-branding as a Hasbro-content filled channel will launch 10/10/10 as The Hub
Movies
- Valve looking into producing a Half Life live action film independently
- Sylvester McCoy is in talks for Radagast the Brown in The Hobbit
- Joe Carnahan, David Yates, and James McTeigue being considered to direct Fantastic Four reboot
- Bruce Willis in talks to play The Thing, Stephan Moyer in talks for Doctor Doom
- Jeremy Renner joins Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible 4 (though it might not be called that)
- John Cusack cast as Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue’s The Raven
- Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reif to script Karate Kid sequel
- Whedon confirms Black Widow as only female Avenger, but not only female character
Video Games
- Microsoft Kinect begins closed beta. Despite having an NDA, massive amounts of details leaked out
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Video Game release on XBox Live Arcade
Other
- Blockbuster prepares for bankruptcy
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Before listening I wanted to throw out a quick opinion. I had my buddy buy the “Scott Pilgrim” game for XBox Live. We did 4 player Co-Op and had a BLAST! Fun game. It does get brutally hard at certain points, but the powers and fighting mechanics are great.
Reminded me of an old NES Double Dragon game or like Golden Axe style.
Ahh I had that turtles game with the 2d cutouts. Not remembered it in year and can only just about picture it but was totally awesome.
As far as bonds go License to Kill is my favorite because it showed that if the time called for it Bond could be a serious character, thats why Tim Dalton is one of my 3 favorite bonds next only to Sean and Pierce, Roger Moore said in an interview several years back that he didn’t like guns and I also believe he said he was scared of them, and Dan Craig is not James Bond. I wish they could bring Pierce back for another run, from the angle that they are taking the series now. Goldeneye was amazing, Tommorrow never Dies was pretty good, the others were…not as bad as Batman Forever and Batman and Robin in a Sequels comparison but it was getting close..
Hey Scott, I don’t remember you guys talking about Up in The Air but I am with you that it was one of my favorite movies last year. I was also an extra in the movie as most of it was filmed in St. Louis where I live. If anyone watches it I am at the counter of the luggage check in just behind George Clooney at the very end of the movie.
So, Sylvester Stallone was talking to paparazzi and apparently the story goes that Jean Claude Van Damme was set to be in the movie, but his character would have been defeated in battle with Jet Li and JCVD had issue with that and pulled out. According to this news story, Stallone said Van Damme called him later regretting the decision and they are going to have him in the sequel.
About the Avengers movie – It’s not necessarily a S.H.I.E.L.D agent. Maybe he was hinting at a female villain.