If you have a spare $30000 dollars lying around, why not splash-out on Marty McFly’s Hoverboard from Back to the Future II.
The eBay auction claims its an original prop from the movies, and is made out of genuine, eh, wood.
For $30000 I’d want it to actually hover!
One of my favourite book series, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy has been announced, in the Hollywood Reporter, as finally getting a movie green-light.
It will be produced by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne who’s last sci-fi project was the family orientated ‘The Last Mimzy’.
The Movie’s have long been in development, due perhaps to their political theme and the huge scope of the stories, which covers centuries in time. Asimov admitted that the original inspiration for the stories was the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‘.
Shaye said “Our idea to renew the worldwide audience’s appetite for the story,” [but] “This is not a script you can knock out in six months,”.
Buzztown will be following its development.
Even if you don’t know who Vargas was, you’ll certainly recognise the style of his paintings. The Classic pin-up girl look of the 1930s and 40s.
This Vargas-esque portrait of actress Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, painted by James Jean, makes a brief appearance in the trailer and the piece will apparently play a role in introducing Sally Jupiter in the film.
When I first read Watchmen a few years ago, I was blown away at how far it pushed what was possible in a graphic novel.
To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine’s 2005 list of “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.”
So you can imagine, along with everyone else that has read the book, I’m rather excited and scared.
Watching videos like the one here, showing some behind the scenes footage though, put my mind at ease. The amount of detail that director Zack Snyder is putting into the film is incredible and he seems to be sticking very closely to the book.
