Source: Scifi.com
 SCI FI Wire has gotten a bunch of exclusive updates about SCI FI Channel’s new show Stargate Universe, including the news that executive producers Brad Wright and Robert Cooper are planning on delivering a first draft of the pilot script by the end of the year.
In other exclusive news:
–We’re told that work on the script started after a major creative meeting last month between SCI FI executives and representatives from the show’s producer, MGM, where the two companies discussed and agreed on the overall creative direction of the show.
–We learned this week that producers have already pitched some initial episode ideas and that preliminary concept art was Fed-Exed from MGM offices in Vancouver, Canada, to SCI FI’s development team in Los Angeles.
–MGM and SCI FI have already begun batting around casting ideas for Universe, although they haven’t shared information about what the roles will be or which actors are being considered. Yet.
What we know about Universe is that it’s executive-produced by Wright and Cooper, the co-creators of Universe’s predecessor series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
SCI FI Wire previously posted exclusive images of the show’s concept art.
Stargate Universe centers on a simple reconnaissance mission that turns into a never-ending quest as a new crew of Stargate explorers gates onto the Destiny, an Ancient ship that is unable to return to Earth. They will travel to the far reaches of the universe, encountering new races, enemies and adventures.
SCI FI Channel plans to begin production of the show in early 2009 and debut it next summer with a two-hour premiere. |
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Source: Dallas Observer
Consider this today’s unicorn chaser: Bruce Campbell! Because, like, Brisco County hisself will be at the Plano Convention Centre on Saturday as one of the many guests attending Star Wars Fans Days II. Sure, he’ll be signing your Evil Dead collectibles — no doubt, the highlight of his week. But he’ll be A’ing your Q’s at 2 p.m., three hours before he hosts a screening of Evil Dead — which means, right, it’ll be the most Ash-kicking screening of Evil Dead in local history. And if you’re desperate to hang with Autolycus the entire day, it’ll cost you a whole $79. That’s shopping S-Mart.
Darth Vader and Chewbacca (of course) will also be in attendance; it is, after all, a Star Wars shindig first and foremost. Then again, maybe you just wanna meet Kaylee. Or Col. Wilma Deering. Yes, please. The original Evil Dead trailer is after the jump … if you dare. –Robert Wilonsky
Source: Scifi.com
 Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead may eventually return in some way, shape or form, but the project’s been a total pain in the Ash for years, producer Rob Tapert told SCI FI Wire.
Tapert–who produced director Raimi’s seminal horror film and its sequels, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness–said that the possibilities include a musical, another sequel or a remake.
"There’s a guy [producer Don Carmody] who wants to make a musical out of it, a 3-D musical based on the one [Evil Dead: The Musical] that ran off-Broadway," Tapert said in an interview. "And I still think that that’s the one I’d like to see greatly. Sam promises he’s going to do Evil Dead IV, with Bruce Campbell starring in it [as Ash], at some point in time. I just hope Bruce is still alive."
As for the remake? "Sam and I have kicked that idea around, with Sam really being the person [pushing for it] over Bruce’s objections and kind of my going, ‘Why?’" Tapert said. "It was a movie that nobody saw theatrically, and it was meant to be a theatrical experience. If we could get some young filmmaker to go and say, ‘I can make this far better than Sam did,’ we should let him go and try. Sam is the one who keeps saying, ‘We should do that,’ and I’m the one too busy and somewhat too reluctant and lazy to really fully enable Sam to get it done." |
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