Well, it was a busy week for me, though most of the creative juices were used at the Sabres site I run. They had a rough week, what can I say? Still, I got OGT out, and it’s one of my all time favorites, River City Ransom. Check it out if you haven’t yet. On to the links!
Martin Campbell (who helmed Casino Royale and The Green Lantern) is in early talks to direct The Fall Guy. The Fall Guy, for those of you who don’t know, centered around Lee Majors as a stuntman who took bounty hunter jobs to try and make ends meet. It’s pure 80’s cheese, right up there with the A-Team and Knight Rider. It will be tough to cast the Colt Seavers role, though. It can’t be somebody that actually looks like they could be down on their luck, but still tough enough to be a stuntman/bounty hunter. Can Daniel Craig lose the accent?
Another of my favorite old shows might get the movie treatment – Kung Fu. Bill Paxton may direct (he’s got some movies under his belt already). It would be interesting to see how they go with it. When I saw the show originally, I didn’t know about the whole ‘Bruce Lee came up with the idea and it was stolen from him basically’ thing, but Kwai Chang Caine became a favorite character of mine. I even loved Kung Fu – The Legend Continues. I’m curious to see if they keep the half Chinese/half American aspect, as I think that could still give an interesting slant to the story – a man who at the time would be rejected both in China and in the Americas for being different.
My friend Anneke as Carmen Sandiego. May have to scroll down a bit.
Even our favorite, long running TV shows had bad seasons. IO9 lists some of the worst in sci-fi and fantasy. TNG Season 2: Joe Piscopo. Enough said. Though as commenters pointed out, that season gave us The Measure of a Man and the first appearance of the Borg, so it’s not all bad.
Finally, Barnes and Noble is indeed firing back at the Kindle Fire, with a new Nook Tablet. Engadget got a hold of some slides from a presentation that give some details, and it sounds solid. Dual-core 1.2ghz, twice the RAM and on-board storage as the Fire, thought it is still more than the Fire at $249. They will drop the original Nook Color to $199 (I think it should go lower, make Amazon sweat).
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