SCI FI Wire

Chris Evans offered the role of Captain America

Scott Edelman — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500

Looks like the Captain America search is finally over. (Oh, please let it be over—the suspense is killing us!)

Chris Evans, who already portrayed one Marvel superhero on the big screen—the Human Torch in two Fantastic Four movies—has been offered the role of The First Avenger, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Repo reality: Tomorrow's 5 incredible artificial organs

Scott Edelman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:15:00 -0500

The organ-harvesting heart-hunters of Repo Men aren't a reality ... yet. But that might only be because today's artificial organs aren't advanced enough to bother repossessing.

We might not be safe for long, however, since better replacement parts are coming—if we can afford them.

Farscape's 11 today: Watch 2 thrilling pre-debut trailers

Scott Edelman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:45:00 -0500

I fell in love with Farscape on Syfy, but the show didn't launch there, remember? Those lucky enough to live in a land down under got the jump on U.S. viewers, because John Crichton first went through the wormhole when the series debuted on Australia's Nine Network March 19, 1999.

Science fiction book returned to library. 45 years late.

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:02 -0500

Don't feel bad if you've got some Blockbuster videos sitting around from last month: Your lateness doesn't compare with the person who checked out a paperback of the sci-fi book Quatermass and the Pit from a U.K. library and only returned it now. Forty-five years later.

Neil Patrick Harris: Dr. Horrible 2 will be a movie

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:35:39 -0500

That long-awaited sequel to Joss Whedon's Emmy-winning Web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog may end up in movie theaters rather than a computer screen; watch below.

Future looks bleak as FlashForward's ratings tank

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:33:52 -0500

They should have seen it coming: Thursday's two-hour return of ABC's sci-fi drama FlashForward had the show's lowest ratings yet, partly because of competition from basketball playoffs on CBS.

Star Wars live-action TV show due sooner than later!

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:10:01 -0500

Forget that Star Wars kid show George Lucas is reportedly developing: Real fans want to know when that long-rumored live-action Star Wars TV series will arrive in our galaxy.

The answer may be: sooner than you think.

Caprica's Esai Morales looks into the Adamas' future

Matt Romano — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:44:46 -0500

In this second part of our exclusive interview with Esai Morales, star of Syfy's Caprica, the actor answers your questions, including how he plays a guy whose future is already known.

Greg Brady vs. Mega Piranha, Kaylee vs. Mothman on Syfy!

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:34:53 -0500

Who says we don't have fun? Upcoming Syfy original Saturday movies will feature Brady Bunch's Greg, Barry Williams, and singer Tiffany fighting a giant piranha and Firefly's own Kaylee, Jewel Staite, tackling the Mothman.

The official announcement is below. More reasons to stay home on Saturday night!

NASA's strange history of sci-fi mission posters

Scott Edelman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:15:00 -0500

We knew the folks at NASA had brains and courage, but who knew they had a sense of humor, too? Turns out the National Aeronautics and Space Administration celebrates every mission that gets sent out into space with its own poster, and some of them are amazing!

Time to worry? Wrinkle in Time to become a movie

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:16:04 -0500

Sci-fi fans of a certain age probably recall Madeleine L'Engle's classic time-travel young-adult novel A Wrinkle in Time, and today comes news that it's being adapted (again) for the screen.

Death to keep coming for you in Final Destination 5

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:48:41 -0500

Think last year's 3-D The Final Destination was the final installment in the death franchise? Think again: ComingSoon.net reports that Warner Brothers is mulling a fifth chapter in the hit horror series.

You won't believe how gory and violent Repo Men is

Ian Spelling — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:35:15 -0500

The sci-fi action movie Repo Men earns its R rating in a major way: It's up there among the most graphic R-rated films to come along in a while, with dozens of characters shot, sliced, zapped and otherwise maimed or mutilated, with main characters Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) inflicting much of the damage. Director Miguel Sapochnik doesn't flinch from the violence, and at times it's even balletic in nature.

Monster Squad remake: '80s cheesefest or fanboy delight?

Patrick Lee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:00 -0500

With a remake of Fright Night and a new Ghostbusters movie on the way, it's no surprise that Paramount wants to remake another '80s cult classic: the 1987 horror adventure The Monster Squad, with original producer Rob Cohen in line to direct.

Repo Men heralds a bold new talent. And a crappy film.

Michael Marano — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0500

If you took just about any one scene in director Miguel Sapochnik's debut feature Repo Men—about guys who collect artificial organs out of the bodies of those who have defaulted on payment for those organs—and watched it by itself, you'd think it was part of what has to be a great movie. Or at least a pretty good one. The composition, the editing, the staging of these individual scenes show the hand of someone who is a truly gifted director.

That's the individual scenes.