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I’m sure that everyone is pining for my words of wisdom.

Just let me have my delusions.

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Pretty sure he’s kicking ass.

I always enjoy watching Sean Bean in a movie or on TV, even if he does get killed a lot. I also enjoy watching terrorists or assorted bad guys get gacked in inventive or kinetic ways. Can you imagine my joy at discovering Sean Bean in a movie that looks like Taken but with terrorists instead of human smugglers?

Behold, Cleanskin. Weird name, but I’m willing to ignore that if you offer up Sean Bean beating the holy hell out of baddies.

Yeah, pretty jacked.

However, given that movies with awesome premises and great casts can still suck, I will not succumb to the kool-aid.

Yet.

Bask in the awesome.

I fondly remember Space: 1999 as one of those shows I watched in syndication along with Star Trek TOS and the Starlost in order to glut my sci fi hunger back in my younger days. To my young mind, Space: 1999 seemed the most cerebral of those shows. Having watched the pilot again recently, I have to say that if it were updated with modern SFX (and fashions, yeesh!) I’d likely watch it. I’d still think the premise was stupid (how fast is that moon moving?) but I’d watch it.

And so that’s just what is happening. Soon we shall be getting Space: 2099. Here’s hoping they do fix the SFX, fashion and basic premise (the moon can move, yes, but let’s have some kind of warp or something getting it from system to system – something only slightly more plausible than an FTL orbiting body, granted, but give me something). Let’s also hope they get a quality cast, delivering quality performances based on quality scripts.

I’m expecting way too much, aren’t I?

I couldn’t resist the pun. Yes, I likely should be punished.

I have enjoyed the Bournes movies, though I enjoyed the original more than the later two. Paul Greengrass’ shakey-cam was confusing while Doug Liman’s carefully controlled shakey-cam was visceral. I could still follow the fighting in the Bourne Identity. I also think it was a superior movie. Not that the Supremacy and Ultimatum were bad, I just found the first movie better.

And now the Legacy.

Well, I’ve liked Jeremy Renner in the Hurt Locker and the Town, and he certainly delivered in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, so that’s a plus. Tony Gilroy wrote all three, but I haven’t seen any of the movies he’s directed, so who knows if he’s a good director.

There’s little to no chance I’ll catch this in the theatre, but it’s pretty much a certainty that I’ll catch it on DVD.

Have you seen the trailer?

The word is that we can get a look at the Wolverine, the new Wolverine movie supposedly set in Japan, come 26 July 2013. That’s a long damn wait. However, if they deliver a better move than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it’ll be worth the wait.

The sad thing is for such a tepid piece of film mediocrity, XOW (just made that acronym up and I love it already) made $373 million USD worldwide on a budget of $85 million. What does that say about audiences in general. If that includes the sales  on DVDs, I guess I somewhat put my cut in, so I guess this is “pot calling the kettle” and all that. Mea culpa. But I dig Wolverine. I wasn’t back there in the beginning, but I was hooked with Frank Miller’s Wolverine mini-series.

And if this new movie set in Japan takes its cues from that story, we might be looking at something pretty darn cool.

My main question is: when the fuck do I get my Planetary movie?

I just wanted to mention that Wikipedia is on a donation drive. Wikipedia is something I use regularly to get some general information or a general idea on a topic. Its summaries of film noir and hardboiled novels have provided endless inspiration for my Sword Noir games. Further, it’s generally my first stop for research before I start getting deeper into a topic. Its accuracy compared to – for example – the Encyclopedia Britannica is favourable. It is, for me, both a valuable tool and a source of entertainment.

So I made a donation.

If you use Wikipedia as much as I do, you might want to consider doing the same.

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Cross-posted from Sword’s Edge Publishing:

A duellist in a dying city facing a weapon of fiery death, not to mention temptation.

Two fur trappers hunted by a spirit of hate that feeds on the very fear it engenders.

An arrogant apprentice to a vain wizard finds himself in a race to unlock secrets hidden for centuries.

MacBeth, beloved King of the Scots, faces his last day and learns his name will damned.

A cunning sorcerer has decided he will not be a victim, he would rather be a victor.

These are the wizards and warriors that populate Gifts of the Elder Gods. Join them in their adventures, touched by magic and the supernatural, with wits and weapons of mysticism or steel to overcome the snares of diabolical enemies.

Gifts of the Elder Gods is the new short fiction collection from Sword’s Edge Publishing. You can find it at RPG Now and Drive Thru RPG. It is available in PDF, ePub, and mobi formats, with print-on-demand coming soon.

Word on the street is that we can expect a Doctor Strange movie in the near future (as in 2012/13). That’s from Marvel itself. No other information—no director, star, budget, or actual schedule—but apparently it’s coming.

Excuse me while I sit here with minimal excitement. After I get the details, maybe I’ll get excited. Right now, too much can go wrong and Hollywood has shat upon source material too often for me to get hopes up. Still, this movie is likely from Marvel, so perhaps there is reason for optimism?

Nah. I’ll keep my expectations low and be excited if they are exceeded.

It seems that the Byran Singer directed re-make of John Boorman’s Excalibur won’t move forward. The project has been dropped as another King Arthur project, also named Excalibur, was ready to move forward before Singer could get to work on his, so his got dropped.

The other Excalibur? Directed by Guy Ritchie. Okay, that’s kind of neat. And written my WARREN holy-mother-fuckin’-cool ELLIS. I’m trippin’ balls on this.

And while I would very interested in seeing Singer re-make Boorman, I’m more interested in seeing him re-make Larson.

See, apparently dropping Excalibur means that the next project on Singer’s menu is a “re-imagining” of Battlestar Galactica. Not a remake of the recent series, but a remake of the original from 1978. Very cool. I’m assuming this is going in a totally different direction than the Ronald Moore production. It better.

Unless Singer wants to re-do the finale, because I’d be all for that.