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Star Wars TV Series

The Geek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:35:41 +0000

It appears that the rumored Star Wars live action TV series is actually going to happen. Apparently Lucas and friends are currently casting for the series. Lucas will film a years worth of episodes before putting it on the market, much the same way he did with Clone Wars. The show will not involve Jedi or Darth Vader but will include Stormtroopers. It is set to take place between the events of Episode III and Episode IV and will follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire.

Stay tuned!

Harry Potter HBP Trailer #2

The Geek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:14:44 +0000

The latest trailer for the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is fantastic and really shows how dark this movie is going to be. The book was quite different from any of it’s predecessors so it’s good to see they carried it through to the movie. Check out the HD version of the trailer here.

New Star Trek Trailer

The Geek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:08:27 +0000

The Star Trek reboot looks much better than I was expecting. As a Trekkie I was worried the movie would not live up to series long history. After watching the trailer I am confidant in saying that the new movie looks as good or better than any of the past Trek films. Take a look for yourself here.

Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch

The Geek — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:06:29 +0000

/film has a great story on the heavan that is Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas’ utopia. Read the article after the jump.

HP HBP Posters

The Geek — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:00:26 +0000

Check out the latest Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie posters. Click on the image to see the full size version.

Bonobo Sex

The Geek — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:55:02 +0000

I read a very interesting artical yesterday in the New York Times. Titled “What Do Women Want?” it tells the story of Meredith Chivers, a Psychology Professor at Queen’s University, where she studies sexual behavior. In a recent study she found that when shown a variety of sexually explicit videos (heterosexual sex, male and female homosexual sex, a man masturbating, a woman masturbating, a chiseled man walking naked on a beach, a well-toned woman doing calisthenics in the nude and bonobos having sex) women found the clips of bonobos having sex to be the most arousing. Yep, that’s a head scratcher! Read more here.

Harry and Ginney

The Geek — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:43:57 +0000

New picture from the movie showing Ginney and Harry snogging. Can it live up to the courtship in the book?

Asimov’s Foundation Series Coming to Big Screen

The Geek — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:13:54 +0000

In a bitter sweet piece of news, Columbia Pictures announced that it had won the rights to adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. That’s the sweet part! The bitter part is that Roland Emmerich of 10,000 B.C. and The Day After Tomorrow will be helming the films…arrrgh. This adaptation is way to important to put into Emmerich’s hands. It remains to be seen whether his next films; 2012 and Fantastic Voyage, will be the total crapfest that his previous films were. I will admit that I did enjoy ID4. More after the jump to /Film.

Potter Movie Crazy Talk

The Geek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:34:37 +0000

With the economy slowing down people have started talking about some crazy shit. For example, some are worried the economy will claim the Harry Potter movies. This is pure nonsense. The economy will mostly effect the weak. The businesses and services that really can only survive in fat times. Harry Potter is a very strong franchise which can and will weather the slower economy. Even if I were down to my last penny I would do whatever it took to see these movies. More after the jump including some great new HP HBP pictures. More…

Bourne 4 Update

The Geek — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:44:46 +0000

Have I ever mentioned that I could watch Bourne movies everyday for the rest of my life and enjoy every minute of them? No? That should help explain why I am so excited about his news. Pilfered straight from IGN:

Jason Bourne could be on the run again as soon as next summer.

In an interview with Collider, producer Frank Marshall says that Bourne 4 could go before cameras by the end of summer 2009. A summer 2010 release is a possibility, but Marshall advised the site that they are not going to rush the screenplay, which is being penned by George Nolfi.

Marshall did say that Universal and the filmmakers are extremely close to nailing the story and have settled on the premise.