The Plot Hole – Episode 78
In addition to reviews of Killing Them Softly and Rise of the Guardians, this week on The Plot Hole we chat the best and worst posters of the year including debuts for Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness.
In addition to reviews of Killing Them Softly and Rise of the Guardians, this week on The Plot Hole we chat the best and worst posters of the year including debuts for Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness.
The annual New York Comic Con begins this weekend, and the world of
television will have its fair share of representation at the four day
event. The schedule includes panels featuring cast and crew, as well as
footage and news from a slew of TV shows. The NYCC officially kicked
off today, but Friday will mark the beginning of it’s television
coverage with ABC’s new fairytale inspired series, Once Upon a Time.
One of the highlights from the event will be another screening of the Locke and Key
pilot that Fox passed on back in May, and which still has not been
picked up by any other network. Fox will also be featuring a series
that did make it through pilot season with Terra Nova, whose panel will include showrunner and Star Trek alum, Brannon Bragga. The Walking Dead
will be premiering it’s second season this Sunday, but the day before
numerous members of the cast, as well as comic creator Robert Kirkman,
will be in NYC for a Q&A at the fan convention.
Surprise! J.J. Abrams has been hired by Paramount (his go-to studio) to tackle yet another mystery project scheming in the back of Abrams’ head. Deadline also reports that screenwriter Billy Ray (Breach, State of Play) has been brought on to pen the script.
Both gents are currently keeping very busy in the Hollywood landscape. Abrams is producing a mountain of projects while turning his sights on his next directorial gig: the sequel to Star Trek. Ray has long finished penning the big screen adaptation of The Hunger Games for Lionsgate, a job he could likely repeat for subsequent sequels, depending on how well received the first film is.
According to Deadline, former Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore has set up a new pilot at ABC, a western TV Series titled Hangtown. With no official confirmation or denial from ABC as of yet, information surrounding the show remains speculative, but Deadline offered this as a description for the concept, should it go to series:
“Described as a Western with a procedural overlay, Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun to rapidly expand with the coming of the railroad. It centers around three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his instinct, a young Doctor from the East Coast who is interested in using the new field of forensics to solve crimes, and a young woman writer who is trying to sell dime novels to the publishing houses in New York about crime in the Wild West. Every week the instincts of the Marshal, the science of the doctor, and the young woman’s drive to tell a rousing good yarn to her editors, combine to solve crimes in a wide-open, lawless town.”
Zoe Saldana, star of action hits like Avatar and Star Trek, headlines Colombiana, an action thriller out this Friday. What’s controversial about that, you ask? Well, the film is about a young Colombian woman out for revenge. And Saldana, as most of you probably know, is not Colombian.
Actor Walter Koenig suggested that the television show Babylon 5 may return to television. Koenig told fans at a Las Vegas Star Trek convention that Producer J
Michael Straczynski is working on reviving the show.
Koenig reports “He told me he is in negotiations to re-acquire the rights to Babylon 5 and
it looks pretty good.” Koenig added: “Now what that portends I am not
entirely sure. It could be a new series or it could be a feature film,
but he (Straczynski) was quite animated about it. He seemed very excited
and Warner Brothers is dealing with him in good faith. So you might see
another Babylon 5 in the not too distant future.”
There
are so many popular movies with dedicated fan bases; IDW Publishing is
the publishing company to turn to when making them into comics. The
company managed to establish a large client list despite their lower
level of notoriety (especially when compared to the popular DC and
Marvel companies) after the release of their very first title. IDW
Publishing has their own original series but also a slew of licensed
titles including Star Trek and G.I. Joe. This is a look at the history of the company and what they produce.
Welcome to the world of LUCID,
the action-packed pop-fantasy that draws inspiration from the spy
genre, Arthurian legend and 21st-century folklore! Dark forces are
conspiring to prevent humankind from reaching its true potential.
Thankfully, as newly appointed “Protector of the Realm,” Agent Matthew
Dee uses his skills as a covert spy and Combat Mage to ensure America’s
freedom from the grip of evil. Written by “True Blood” actor Michael
McMillian and illustrated by newcomer Anna Wieszczyk, LUCID is
Archaia’s first title published in association with Zachary Quinto
(“Heroes,” “Star Trek”) and his company, Before the Door. Collects the
four-issue LUCID miniseries and includes a Foreword written by
Alan Ball (creator of “True Blood”), cover gallery, sketchbook and a
guide to the sigils in the book.
Death and Comic Books: On the 21st of this month, Wired.com ran a story about a
man’s spare bedroom of comics being worth roughly $2 million dollars. That
article talks about his humble life as a collector and about his death in a
fire. The reason the story is such big news, is that the fire never made it to
the comics and the family that once questioned his hobby is sitting on a gold
mine. This article really made me sad. Here’s this man’s life
summed up as a Star Trek and comic collector that is killed in a fire of the
house he just paid off by selling a comic. His family clearly didn’t understand
him since they mocked his hobby and yes I’m reading into that a bit. If your
family said you were wasting your time and money with comics to the press you
would feel mocked as well.
Cryptic Studios has a lot on their plate right now; they’re running Star Trek Online, in development on a new Neverwinter game, and their Superhero MMORPG Champions Online is about switch from a monthly subscription to a free-to-play model. We were able to get a few minutes with Executive Producer Shannon “Poz” Posniewski about Champions.
