On the Prometheus Blue-Ray extras, there is an overt reference to Peter Weyland discussing the use of biological replicants vs. mechanical androids with Dr. Eldon Tyrell, who you might know as the founder of the Tyrell Corporation in director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. I honestly have no idea why Scott would decide to merge his [...]
Artist Tim Anderson shows us what Star Wars would have looked like if Sergio Leone had made the science fiction trilogy in Italy instead of George Lucas. I gotta say, I would watch the shit out of Star Wars re-imagined as a spaghetti western. [via buzzfeed]
Man, I’m totally kicking myself for missing out on RIPT Apparel‘s The Neverending Story and Game Of Thrones mash-up T-shirt. The site sells $10 tees that are only available once for 24 hours. After that, you probably have to beg, steal, and cheat your way to a shirt. [via geeksofdoom]
It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Harrison Ford playing the role of scruffy nerf herder Han Solo, but thanks to Brow Beat we can contemplate what Star Wars would have been like had Kurt Russell — every bit the rogue that Ford is — been cast as Han Solo and had William Katt (The [...]
SyFy Channel sometimes gets a bad rap for not really sticking to its namesake when it comes to programming. However, they announced two new shows that should find appeal among the sci-fi crowd. 1. M. Night Shyamalan, who hasn’t made a decent movie since the first 2/3rds of The Village, will be teaming up with Buffy the [...]
This one dropped at Comic Con and I acknowledge that few people have stuck with the show. However, if you’re a fan of science fiction you should definitely make the effort to catch up. Fringe has managed to do what so few shows have and that’s embrace it’s weirdness and dive into the rabbit hole. [...]
Director Bryan Singer, who’s once promising career seems to be in limbo since the unfairly-maligned Superman Returns, has debuted the trailer for “H+”. It’s a new science fiction web series about a new brain implant called Hplus Nano Teoranta that allows humans to interface with the Internet neurologically. Of course, it is soon corrupted by a virus, [...]
