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Yo!! Gene!!
As the only other scifi fan in this newsgroup, thought you'd be
interested in this. Scifi movies in the next year or two: "Rockfish (2010) This CGI film is set to have Vin Diesel voice the main character in this odd tale of a man on an alien planet who sets out in pursuit of a giant fish that is disrupting the planet's mining operations. Sounds a bit like someone was cross-reading Dune and Moby Dick. Blur Studios originally produced this as a short CGI feature. Here's the short - it was one of the original Flash animations ever produced. Very cool. I might even go to a theatre to see this one. http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/rockfish/ " "Lensman (2011) J. Michael Straczynski revived a fair amount of interest in Ron Howard's proposed adaptation of the E.E. 'Doc' Smith SF novels when his involvement as writer was announced early last year. The Lensman series takes place over several million years of conflict between the good Arisians and bad Eddorians, and the eponymous lens is the McGuffin that lends telepathic powers to whoever possesses it. None of this sounds at all cheap." If Straczynski is involved in this, there's a lot of potential for some really cool CGI (he's working with Lionsgate CGI shop now on another project and owns a piece of it) and this fits his type of writing style - he often said he owed a lot of B5's success to Doc Smith. "The Water Warriors (2011) Rather taking its thematic cue from a gag in Douglas Adams' The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Silver Fox Films brings us this story of an alien invasion fleet who land on Earth only to find that they have made a massive error in scale, and are barely big enough to be seen by humans. They go on to assume that frogs and such are the dominant species on the planet. This CGI-animated film will be voiced by Patrick Stewart, Stephen Fry and Miriam Margolyes, amongst others." I heard via my friend Ross Ruediger that this is a go and Pixar is set to join Silver Fox as a partner in the production cycle. This could be fun. |
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