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Will Smith Admits Time Travel In 'Mib 3' Was Tricky
23 May 2012 10:32 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'We would sit around for hours trying to figure out what happens if you go back into the past,' actor tells MTV News.
By Josh Wigler
Will Smith at the premiere of "Men in Black 3"
Photo: MTV News
New York — For "Men in Black," aliens aren't out-of-this-world enough on their own anymore. Time travel needs to be brought into the equation as well. The third installment in the star-studded sci-fi series adds that fourth dimension-bending element as Agent J (Will Smith) travels back in time to work alongside a young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save the future. It's as complicated as it sounds, not just for the fans, but for the actors and filmmakers themselves.
"You cannot put your head around time travel," Smith told MTV News on the "Men in Black 3" red carpet in New York on Wednesday. "We would sit around for hours and »
Nebula Awards Winners; ’39 Clues’ ‘Starcatchers’ to film; ‘Blade Runner’ sequel going forward
21 May 2012 1:50 PM, PDT | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
The 2011 Nebula Awards were handed out this past weekend, with Jo Walton’s Among Others taking home the top prize for Best Science Fiction Novel released last year. Meanwhile the Neil Gaiman penned Doctor Who episode The Doctor’s Wife won the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, out shining Hollywood films as Hugo and Midnight in Paris. The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman took home the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.
Real Steel and Night in the Museum director Shawn Levy will helm The 39 Clues, an adaptation of the popular Scholastic book series. The series revolves around the Cahills, a powerful family who count Napoleon and Houdini among their relatives. The movie is framed as an epic family adventure about two ordinary kids whose discovery that they are part of the world’s most powerful family sets them off on a globe-trotting treasure hunt. »
- spaced-odyssey
2011 Nebula Awards Winners
19 May 2012 9:44 PM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
The 2011 Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America for excellence in the field, were presented last night in a ceremony at the Nebula Awards Weekend, held in Arlington, Virginia. Walter Jon Williams was Toastmaster, and Astronaut Michael Fincke was the keynote speaker. Connie Willis was honored with the 2011 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for her lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.
Novel
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade) The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit Us; Orbit UK) Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace) Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey) Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
Novella
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11) “With Unclean Hands”, Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 11/11) “The Ice Owl”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&Sf 11-12/11) ‘‘Kiss Me Twice’’, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11) “The Man Who Ended History: A »
- Glenn Hauman
MGM to Adapt Ray Bradbury’s From The Dust Returned
14 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Now this is an unnatural family situation – a grandmother who is mummified, parents that are “loving vampires,” an immobile teen sister who possess the ambulatory, and an uncle that is a winged vampire and a “human kite.” This is the supernatural family of a young adopted boy named Timothy in Ray Bradbury’s 2002 short story collection, From the Dust Returned.
Deadline reports that MGM Studios has obtained the screen rights to this collection of Bradbury stories under the team of Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan, the duo behind developing another one of Bradbury’s short story collections, The Illustrated Man, with Warner Bros. Pictures. The Illustrated Man had Zack Snyder (Suckerpunch, 300) attached to direct at one point with a script written by Alex Tse, but due to scheduling issues, Snyder had to withdraw from the project.
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Ray Bradbury, America’s most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime »
- Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
MGM Making Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's From The Dust Returned
11 May 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Ray Bradbury is no stranger to having his literary works adapted to the big screen. Films like Something Wicked This Way Comes, It Came From Outer Space, A Sound of Thunder, and Farenheit 451 are all based on his writings, and now MGM has put another of his projects on the fast track toward production. Deadline reports that the studio has acquired screen rights to From The Dust Returned, a series of short stories about a young boy named Timothy who is adopted by a family of ghosts.
Seems like a pretty common sense adaptation in today's marketplace, especially considering all of the similar projects out there from Beetlejuice to the upcoming Hotel Transylvania. Timothy tells the short stories to his grandmother (who happens to be a mummy) at a family reunion that happens every year on Halloween.
Mom and dad are loving vampires; teen sister Cecy is immobilized and bed-ridden, »
- benp
Stephen King's 'The Reach' & Ray Bradbury's 'From The Dust Returned' Headed To The Big Screen
11 May 2012 8:39 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Adapting books into films is big business for studios, and this week two of the authors who are considered the cream of the genre crop will be seeing their written work turned into full features on the silver screen.
First, author Stephen King –- who is certainly no stranger to seeing his books turned into films –- is set to have his story “The Reach” turned into a feature by British financer Park Entertainment, who will be producing alongside DownEast Village Productions. With the story that King once said he would "most like to be remembered for after his death," the banners are shopping the rights around on the market at Marche du Film in Cannes. With an excepted budget reportedly in the $12 million-$14 million range, the story's title is in reference to a 1.5-mile stretch of water between Goat Island and the coastline of King’s precious home state of Maine. »
- Benjamin Wright
MGM To Adapt Ray Bradbury’s Short Story Collection ‘From The Dust Returned’
11 May 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
A few of Ray Bradbury’s works are committed to film, among them Something Wicked This Way Comes and the dystopian Fahrenheit 451. Now his short story collection From The Dust Returned will be adapted for the big screen.
Deadline reported that MGM optioned the rights to the supernatural fantasy book, which follows a mortal boy named Timothy adopted by a family of ghosts and monsters. Bradbury originally introduced the family in the 1940s with the story The Homecoming (which was turned into a graphic novel in 2006) and spun their adventures off into several more writings. From The Dust Returned was published in 2002 and contains a series of vignettes that reveal the ghouls, werewolves, vampires and other weird beings that make up Timothy’s clan.
The concept sounds like the classic TV show The Munsters, but considering that it’s Brabury it will most likely deliver something less campy. With »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
MGM Plans to Adapt Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned
11 May 2012 6:04 AM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
MGM has plans to develop Ray Bradbury's fantasy anthology From the Dust Returned, Deadline reports. The book, published in 2001, is officially described as follows:
Fifty-five years in the making, "From the Dust Returned" grew out of a short story, "Homecoming," which appeared in the October 1946 issue of Mademoiselle magazine. Bradbury has published just five other stories about the Elliots, an outlandish, greathearted and loving-spirited Halloween creature clan and their "abnormal" (i.e., his face is reflected in the mirror!) adopted son Timothy. Over the years, Bradbury readers have clamored for more Elliott tales.
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Ray Bradbury headed back to the big screen with From The Dust Returned
11 May 2012 2:04 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Ray Bradbury is one of those quietly genius writers who is consistently able craft a connective tissue between the possibilities of science fiction/the supernatural world and very human characters without seemingly breaking a sweat. Adapted numerous times over the years, with a long-gestating version of Fahrenheit 451 breaking Frank Darabont's heart every day he doesn't get to make it, Bradbury might be on track to return to cinemas with MGM's recent acquisition of his 2002 short story »
- Alejandro Stepenberg
MGM Adapting Bradbury's "Dust Returned"
11 May 2012 12:56 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
MGM has picked up the screen rights to Ray Bradbury's 2002 short story collection "From The Dust Returned" reports Deadline.
The stories focus on a mortal boy adopted into a family of benevolent ghouls. Each story reveals the eccentric characters that comprise his family.
Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing, the pair had previously been linked to an adaptation of Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man" at Warner Bros. Pictures. »
- Garth Franklin
MGM From The Dust Returns
10 May 2012 5:01 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
With Tim Burton's Dark Shadows out in cinemas today, it seems appropriate that we'd be talking about another weird family with somewhat gothy leanings. MGM has just picked up the rights to Ray Bradbury's From The Dust Returned. Nothing to do with that studio's near collapse and subsequent rebirth, it's instead about a human boy adopted by kindly monsters.Bradbury's novel was first published in 2002, but its origins are much older, since it's a reworking of a handful of short stories that date back to 1946. The book collects the stories and adds new material and a framing narrative, in much the same way as Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (itself in development as a movie at Paramount). But in whatever form, the stories revolve around normal boy Timothy, and his relationship with The Elliots: vampire Uncle Einar, who has big wings but can't fly; mummified Great Grandmere who has »
Bradbury's From the Dust Returned Lands at MGM
10 May 2012 4:35 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
MGM has snapped up screen rights to adapt Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned. Not a lot of details on this one yet, but it has the potential to be one heck of a unique genre experience.
According to Deadline, Bradbury optioned the rights to producers Denise Di Novi (Ed Wood) and Alison Greenspan (Catwoman). The book's narrative is a vignette approach, revolving around a young boy and the supernatural beings in his family: mummified mother, a daughter who lives vicariously through the creatures she visits in her dreams and a gargoyle-esque uncle. Imagine something of a monstrous family reunion and that's part of the gist here.
No word on a director yet, but I have a feeling this is going to attract some major talent. I'd love to see someone like Sam Raimi take a crack at the material, but that might be a case of wishful thinking. »
- Masked Slasher
MGM Acquires Ray Bradbury Novel ‘From The Dust Returned;’ About An Orphan Who’s Adopted By Monsters
10 May 2012 3:57 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: MGM has acquired the screen rights to From The Dust Returned, a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories that focuses on a mortal boy named Timothy who is adopted into a family of benevolent ghouls. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing. The book is set up with a series of vignettes, told to Timothy by his mummified grandmother, on the eve of a family reunion that takes place each Halloween. The stories reveal the eccentric ghouls that comprise his family. Mom and dad are loving vampires; teen sister Cecy is immobilized and bed-ridden, but she can teleport into the bodies of other mortals so that she can experience human emotions, Uncle Einar is a green-winged vampire who serves as a human kite for Timothy. To Timothy, who was dropped on their doorstep, it’s family. The book was published in 2002 and the short story The Homecoming was turned into a 2006 graphic novel. »
- MIKE FLEMING
MGM Plans to Adapt Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned
10 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
MGM has plans to develop Ray Bradbury's fantasy anthology From the Dust Returned , Deadline reports. The book, published in 2001, is officially described as follows: Fifty-five years in the making, "From the Dust Returned" grew out of a short story, "Homecoming," which appeared in the October 1946 issue of Mademoiselle magazine. Bradbury has published just five other stories about the Elliots, an outlandish, greathearted and loving-spirited Halloween creature clan and their "abnormal" (i.e., his face is reflected in the mirror!) adopted son Timothy. Over the years, Bradbury readers have clamored for more Elliott tales. A lifelong labor of love, "From the Dust Returned" is a novel (in much the way "The Martian Chronicles" is a »
[Now Streaming] Your ‘Five-Year Engagement,’ ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ Alternatives
26 April 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Five-Year Engagement, The Raven and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Jason Segel co-stars with Emily Blunt in a comedy he penned with Nicholas Stoller that follows the bumpy journey of one couple from the proposal to the wedding day. Chris Pratt & Alison Brie co-star.
Longing for some R-rated rom-coms:
Then She Found Me (2007) Helen Hunt stars as a woman whose husband (Matthew Broderick) walks out when she decides to adopt. Then she discovers the identity of her biological mother (Bette Midler) and meets the man of her dreams (Colin Firth, major upgrade.) But things get tricky when she discovers she’s pregnant with her husband’s baby.
Frankie and Johnny (1991) Scarface co-stars Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer re-team for this »
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'Mad Men' Confidential! Details about 'Ben Hargrove's' collection of sci-fi short stories, 'Still Life With Lazer Rifle'
17 April 2012 11:40 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This past Sunday, Mad Men fans learned that affable account man Ken Cosgrove had written and sold more than 20 sci-fi short stories under the nom de plume of “Ben Hargrove.” We heard about two of them: “The Punishment of X-4,” about a robot laborer who inexplicably collapses a bridge linking two planets by removing a single bolt; and “The Woman Who Laid an Egg and Then Gave It Away,” no further description necessary. We couldn’t help but wonder about Ken’s other short stories, so we made them up went back in time and broke into his home as »
- Jeff Jensen
Terry's Journal 4/4/12: Nerdist News & Dogs of Mars
4 April 2012 11:37 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
by Terry Keefe
I wanted to give a big Thanks! to Nerdist News for the mention of my comic Supernovas today. Nerdist made a big splash at WonderCon when co-founder Chris Hardwick (formerly of MTV and G4) made the announcement of the new shows that would be premiering this week on their YouTube Channel, including shows by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News and Geoff Boucher of Hero Complex at the L.A. Times. Wednesdays are Comic Book Day at Nerdist and today they launched the debut episode of their Comic Book Club show, featuring guests Judah Friedlander and Joe Kelly. Subscribe to their daily newsletter here. Many thanks to editors/contributors Dan Casey and Luke Y. Thompson.
I recently cut together a trailer for Supernovas. We're starting to get some genuine Hollywood interest in the property, possibly as a television series, so I figured I'd give them something »
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Junot Díaz on ‘John Carter’ Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs
9 March 2012 6:45 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
The Library of America The coming edition of “A Princess of Mars.”
The new movie “John Carter” is getting mixed reviews from critics, but the film’s source material, the novel “A Princess of Mars,” has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of science-fiction fantasy. The author of the 1917 book, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was also the creator of Tarzan, and first wrote about John Carter, a civil war veteran who travels to Mars (aka Barsoom), in the pages of »
- Junot Diaz
The happy demise of 'Terra Nova': Why big movie-style budgets don't work on television
6 March 2012 10:50 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Terra Nova was usually described as an ambitious TV series. But it wasn’t, really. The main narrative combined a C-grade time travel story that would make Ray Bradbury chortle dismissively, a D-grade gritty reboot of Lost in Space that couldn’t even find space for a funny robot, and a Z-grade conspiracy plotline written specifically for people who thought FlashForward could’ve used more conspiracy plotlines. However, Terra Nova cost an insane amount of money, so I guess you could say that it was “ambitious,” in the sense that it’s ambitious to try to build an elevator to »
- Darren Franich
Fan Trailer For John Carter Gets Director's Approval; Promotes The Film Better Than Official Version
26 February 2012 11:04 AM, PST | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
First of all, let me just say something. If you didn't know already, I'm huge fan of the Barsoom novels and its creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. These stories basically changed modern science fiction and there is no two ways around it. Without them, we wouldn't have Star Wars, the character of Superman, the highest grossing film ever called Avatar, and many, many other films, books and characters. Burroughs also created another widely known character, Tarzan, and did you actually know that John Carter was created before Tarzan? Burroughs' writing influenced some of the biggest authors like Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. When it comes to John Carter, this a character created a 100 years ago, and there has been A Lot of attempts to bring the first novel, A Princess of Mars to the big screen. No one managed to do that. Until now. It's no secret that Disney's marketing »
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