After the Internet ran wild with reports that AMC’s The Walking Dead had already been picked up for a 13-episode second season. Executive Producer Frank Darabont told Ain’t It Cool News that the suits have made not such decision yet.
See Internet that’s why you can’t have anything nice! Some asshole with a twitter account fabricates “news” and before you know it puppies are getting thrown into a river by a teen girl in a former Soviet Bloc republic.
The Walking Dead, based on the truly awesome comic by Robert Kirkman premieres October 31st at 10pm on AMC.
At this point, I don’t think there is anyone who isn’t on board for this. I’m thrilled beyond belief with the casting and visual style that Frank Darabont brought to this project. I may have been skeptical initially about Andrew Lincoln’s casting as Rick Grimes; but this trailer has me absolutely sold … he is Rick Grimes.
When I have non-nerd friends asking me about the comic, asking if they can borrow some of my trades you can be assured that AMC will have a smash hit on their hands. The Walking Dead premieres Sunday, October 31st at 10:00pm.
Warren The Ape is the first show on MTV that I’ve watched since Sandblast. I find great joy in watching the trials and travails in the life of the sexually-addicted, alcohol-fueled, helmet-wearing simian.
In a recent episode, we find that Warren D. Montague has starred in a gritty war drama “Bad Po Fo”, which is perhaps the greatest Grindhouse-esque trailer I’ve seen it quite some time.
Quite frankly I couldn’t be more excited about AMC adapting The Walking Dead comic book into a live action series. Two years ago, at Baltimore Comic Con I patiently waited in line to meet the creator, Robert Kirkman and have him sign a couple of my favorite issues along with the first trade paperback. When it was my turn, I thanked Kirkman for writing just a phenomenal comic and more importantly getting me back into comics.
The story which Kirkman has given for us over 70 odd issues deals much more with the horrors that man can do, than the looming threat of the zombies themselves. The zombie apocalypse has merely the beginning for the story’s protagonist Rick Grimes. Which, is a perfect way to underscore this first production still of actor Andrew Lincoln as policeman Rick Grimes.
Now, after a thorough examination I went back to The Walking Dead Vol. 1 thinking that I’ve seen this picture before.
After combing through I found what I was looking for, when Rick ran out of gas in his cruiser. Now I’ve made a composite image out of three separate panels of the scene captured above, but from a reverse angle.
From the looks of it, Frank Darabont appears to be exceedingly faithful to the source material. I’m sure that AMC’s production blog will be unveiling juicy bits as the show moves along. Unfortunately we’re going to have to wait until October until The Walking Dead premieres.
Last summer at San Diego Comic Con, Big Bang Pow! unveiled their line of the action figures from the hit series LOST. The prototypes were very impressive and excited a good number of LOSTies (myself included). Finally, after the lackluster McFarlane line, we would be getting a properly designed and articulated collectible line.
A couple of days ago, Big Bang Pow! announced that for several of their licenses: Venture Bros., Flash Gordon, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, and LOST would be getting the Mego treatment. Remember those cloth action figures with the big plastic heads from the 70’s? Well that’s what were getting instead of the fantastic prototypes we saw last summer. This was all but confirmed by e-retailer Entertainment Earth indicated via their twitter feed that the prototypes we saw last summer at SDCC are simply that. This Mego line is IT, and I’ve posted some official pictures.
I wouldn’t be so bothered by this other than the fact that the sculpts on these LOST Megos are frightening. So scary looking that I’d be afraid that little Mego Ben would come to life while I’m sleeping and try to steal my breath like that Troll from Cat’s Eye.
One of my favorite all-time comedians happen to be the late Bill Hicks. He was a dark comic, whose work was highly controversial and acerbic. Since his death in 1994, his material has been released and re-released. I encourage you to pick up a copy of Arizona Bay or Relentless …
If you are familiar with Hicks’ work, there were several recurring topics: his seething hatred of Republicans, his seemingly endless conspiracy theories, and his general disdain of Jay Leno.
What I find extremely funny is that in the early 90’s, Bill Hicks knew that Leno was an unfunny hack, who was pissing on legacy that Johnny Carson built on The Tonight Show.
I was late to embrace it, but Big Bang Theory is a fun show. My wife and I were finally able to catch up this past week after a combination of throttling our Netflix queue, DVR, and … other online viewing outlets that aren’t necessarily sanctioned.
This past week’s episode featured a dream sequence with the ever beautiful Katee Sackhoff all soaped up in bubble bath dream sequence. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth the two minutes. Big Bang Theory does a solid job of incorporating nerdy references to all things sci-fi, and so far this season there’s been quite a few BSG references.
So far ABC’s remake of V has been moderately enjoyable. There are aspects of he show that are compelling, like last night’s reveal of the 5th Column and the crisis of faith that Father Jack is facing in light of the Visitors. The ratings for the show took another dip last night, which is surely shaking the confidence of ABC suits.
I initially tuned in for the hottie tag team that is Morena Baccarin and Elizabeth Mitchell. In last night’s episode, “A Brand New Day“, we learned that female Visitors shop at Victoria’s Secret and that Laura Vandervoort looks phenomenal in her underwear. For the time being, V will remain on my DVR list.
As a kid my hands down favorite show on the Discovery Channel was Movie Magic. This was way before DVDs and the Internet, and it was pretty much the only way I learned about how visual effects on TV and film were accomplished. Granted there were some of the genre magazines in the mid 1990’s, but when I had no sustainable income, basic cable was the way for me to go.
Movie Magic ran for five seasons between 1994-1997 and featured a lot of heavy hitters in the realm of VFX/SFX: James Cameron, Stan Winston, Rick Baker, and Dennis Muren. I found of my favorite episodes from the series on YouTube and embedded it below. As a kid who loved building Star Trek models, there was nothing cooler than seeing how the professionals built, lit, and filmed their large scale models.
I ate this stuff up, and would gladly buy this entire series if it ever came to existence on DVD. I will still watch the episode where they built Yoshi for the Super Mario Brothers Movie. I’ll even be enthralled when they film the plane crash sequence in The Net. But for every one or two shitty mid 90’s movies, we got glimpses into the awesomeness that was The Rocketeer, The Abyss, and Jurassic Park.
It was only recently that I caught onto CBS’ Big Bang Theory, and through the magic of Netflix I finished Season 1 this past weekend.
One of the episodes touched on the concept of Summer Glau’s character on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. Why did Skynet make a hot teenage cybernetic teenage girl?
Regardless of Skynet’s intentions, I do enjoy me some Summer Glau.
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