Upcoming sf movies

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Here's some news about future sf movies:

  • Star Wars Episode III (still untitled) has a release date: Thursday, May 19, 2005 (except in Japan). This isn't a surprising date, since all the other SW movies have been released in May, with three-year gaps between installments of each trilogy, but since I wasn't aware of that pattern, it's news to me.
  • The writers for X-Men II have been hired to write the second draft of the Ender's Game screenplay. IMDB thinks the movie will be released in 2006, but it's way too early for that date to be accurate. It's gonna be directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of all sorts of stuff, including Das Boot, Enemy Mine, In the Line of Fire, The Perfect Storm, and the upcoming Troy movie.
  • The Sci Fi Channel is developing a four-hour Ringworld miniseries. Meanwhile, Puppeteers have been spotted in Indiana.
  • Speaking of the Sci Fi Channel (and X-Men), the Earthsea miniseries (scheduled to air this coming December) has added some people to the cast: Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men movies) will be playing Ged, Danny Glover will be Ogion, and Kristin Kreuk (Lana from Smallville) will play Tenar.

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  1. Dan

    No! No no no no, Le Guin must be wishing she could do some really dramatic rolling in a grave right now. A couple of times I’ve heard her say that a major peeve of hers with people who want to adapt the Earthsea books is when they want to make Ged and the rest of the Archipelagans white.

    There’s this whole… *thing* in the books about how the Kargish people (e.g. Tenar) look disturbingly pale to the more inward islanders; if anything, Kristin Kreuk would make a better Gontian, and Shawn Ashmore a Karg.

    That, and I just can’t see the Lanabot from Smallville having the edge to play Tenar’s quiet cruelty from _Tombs of Atuan_ without falling off into melodrama.

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  2. Lucy

    re: the Star Wars release: I hadn’t twigged to the 3-year cycle, either. I just sort of figured Lucas was waiting to be good and clear of Jackson’s LoTR trilogy 🙂

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