{"id":1949,"date":"2004-04-08T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/04\/08\/1949.html"},"modified":"2004-04-08T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T05:00:09","slug":"upcoming-sf-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/04\/08\/upcoming-sf-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming sf movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here's some news about future sf movies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Star Wars<\/cite> Episode III (still untitled) has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/episode-iii\/bts\/production\/news20040405.html\">release date<\/a>: Thursday, May 19, 2005 (except in Japan).  This isn't a surprising date, since all the other <cite>SW<\/cite> 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.<\/li>\n<li>The writers for <cite>X-Men II<\/cite> have been hired to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frescopictures.com\/movies\/ender\/endersgame_update.html\">write the second draft of the <cite>Ender's Game<\/cite> screenplay<\/a>.  IMDB thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0400403\/\">the movie<\/a> 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 <cite>Das Boot,<\/cite> <cite>Enemy Mine,<\/cite> <cite>In the Line of Fire,<\/cite> <cite>The Perfect Storm,<\/cite> and the upcoming <cite>Troy<\/cite> movie.<\/li>\n<li>The Sci Fi Channel is developing a four-hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270355&obj_id=41212\"><cite>Ringworld<\/cite> miniseries<\/a>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryniven.org\/puppeteer\/puppeteers_in_indiana.htm\">Puppeteers have been spotted in Indiana<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the Sci Fi Channel (and <cite>X-Men<\/cite>), the <cite>Earthsea<\/cite> miniseries (scheduled to air this coming December) has added some people to the cast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0039162\/\">Shawn Ashmore<\/a> (Bobby Drake\/Iceman in the <cite>X-Men<\/cite> movies) will be playing Ged, Danny Glover will be Ogion, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0471036\/\">Kristin Kreuk<\/a> (Lana from <cite>Smallville<\/cite>) will play Tenar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some news about future sf movies: Star Wars Episode III (still untitled) has a release date: Thursday, May 19,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}