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Tidbits for Your Thursday

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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  • David Tennant, who I am assured by impeccable sources is the seventh most dickety individual in show business, is now rumored to be in the running for the role of Bruce Banner in The Avengers and whatever Hulk reboot ends up in the mix. This is a rumor dropped without the slightest corroborating evidence by the LA Times, without even a “so the janitor at the studio told me…” I had a rant all ready to go about how certain bankrupt scions of once proud dying industries are earning their fate, but then it’s not like they suggested Robert Pattinson might be in the running to be the next Bond, so I’ll let it slide. And he does have experience playing a doctor with rage issues. (source: Cinema Blend) (Note, also, as reported yesterday, that Mark Ruffalo has received an offer to play Bruce Banner, though he has apparently not yet accepted quite yet).

  • We’ve gotten the reason for why Piranha 3D got booted from Comic-Con, and Prisco nailed it on the first try: boobs. Basically the footage they wanted to show had wet white t-shirts, and when officials told director Alexandre Aja that he’d have to trim it to PG-13, he said that they’d have to take his breasts from his cold dead hands. He booked a theater a block away from Comic-Con to show the uncut footage there instead. (source: Blastr)

  • See that source link in the last sentence? SciFi Wire, which is owned by the SyFy network, has decided to rebrand the news feed. This is apropos of a conversation a few days ago in which some of us noted that it was odd that they rebranded from SciFi Channel to SyFy, but did not rebrand from SciFi Wire to SyFy Wire. This conversation also involved looking up domain records and noting that “syfywire.com” was unregistered, which would make for a hilarious couple of days until the cease and desist letter arrived. Apparently SyFy monitors Facebook conversations so they’ve rebranded to Blastr. Because they will not be happy until every brand they own contains a typo. (source Blastr)

  • And finally, here’s a video of legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury snarking it up about Mel Gibson, who owns the movie rights to Fahrenheit 451:

    (hat tip: Dustin)









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    Comments

    So who are 1 through 6?

    Posted by: John W at July 15, 2010 10:10 AM

    • ...never mind...

    Posted by: John W at July 15, 2010 10:11 AM

    rumored to be in the running for the role of Bruce Banner

    Don't put that in my head, I like it too much.

    Posted by: Jay at July 15, 2010 10:18 AM

    "•David Tennant, who I am assured by impeccable sources is the seventh most dickety individual in show business . . ."

    Please provide details.

    Posted by: BWeaves at July 15, 2010 10:20 AM

    It's hard to tell he's in there because there's just that giant fake picture of Stellan's kid with his puny head and lack of charisma, but yeah, David got a write up yesterday.

    Posted by: Jay at July 15, 2010 10:22 AM

    David Tennant as the hulk...well, on the one hand, he has the sexiest angry face out there and him workng with Joss Whedon would probably explde my nerdy panties so hard they'd be finding bits of lace in Australia. On the other hand...yeah, I don't actually care about any potential downsides. I just want a geeksplosion in my pants.

    Posted by: esme at July 15, 2010 10:33 AM

    Mel Gibson's version of Fahrenheit 451 will be exactly like the book. The Firemen will rush to a house and burn every book that they find. The hound will be played by Gibson and he will hunt down those people who are not conforming to the ways of polite society.

    Oh, yeah. The books are Jews.

    Posted by: admin at July 15, 2010 10:40 AM

    mfff brff mrfff

    [omigawd, omigawd, this tastes like shit!]

    Posted by: The Human Gibson - Segment Two at July 15, 2010 10:43 AM

    Blech. After seeing how mainstream America made Nathan Fillion all old and puffy and lame, I'd really like to keep the lovely David Tennant as our little secret. No hulk. Bad.

    Posted by: Sbrown at July 15, 2010 10:43 AM

    That's right, Gibson, you just got pwned by an 89 year old gentleman in a wheelchair.

    The pen is mightier than your sword! And by sword I mean 'needle'.

    Posted by: I'm not going to claim to be Bradbury in anyway because I respect him too much at July 15, 2010 10:45 AM

    he said that they’d have to take his breasts from his cold dead hands

    Sniff... I love that man...

    Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 15, 2010 10:25 PM

    Wait...what? Like people at Comic-Con won't see 1500 pairs of boobs flopping about barely contained by skimpy costumes? Bitch, please.

    Posted by: figgy at July 16, 2010 12:05 AM

    Ray is still alive? He is one of my three most favorite authors, Heinlein being number two and Asimov being three. I own all of Asimov's Foundation novels, well, with the exception of one. I love all of their work, these three are the holy grail of Science Fiction, and MEL BLOODY NUISANCE GIBSON IS GONNA EFFING REDO FARENHIEGHT 451? OVER MY DEAD AND DECOMPOSING BODY HE IS!!!!!!!!

    that being said, I'm sure that if had been Gibson in charge of Heinlein's Starship Troopers when it was made, he'd have done a better job then the director who did. I liked the book version of ST better, the movie added one thing that I do not like; EXTRA EFFING PARTS THAT WEREN"T NEEDED AND LEFT OUT IMPORTANT THINGS!!!!!!

    Oh and by the way, did I mention I'm 22? I'm very well read.

    Heinlein's "Job: A comedy of Justice" deserves a movie. It's funny, and awesome. same as Asimov's Foundation series, they could and should be a tv series or movie, or movies, done better then the asshats who thought they could do Sword of Truth as a series....bad idea right there....well it was filmed in New Zealand so I'll give them credit for that.

    Lets see....

    Oh right, David Tennant as Bruce Hulk? No. NO. NO! He's british, not a flipping action star, He is Doctor Who, and he's too.....evervesant to even take on the role of the flipping scientist.

    So. that being said.

    Posted by: LordNinja at July 16, 2010 1:22 AM