Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Harrison Ford Officially Joins Ender's Game, Helen Mirren Wants to be Doctor Who, and More

News and Updates December 22nd:

Hollywood Reporter: Harrison Ford Officially Joins Ender's Game - The actor will appear opposite Abigain Breslin, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley in the sci-fi adaptation of Orson Scott Card's novel.

ScienceFiction.com: Helen Mirren Wants To Be The First Female Doctor In Doctor Who - She played a Mossad agent in ‘The Debt,’ a retired CIA operative in ‘Reds’ and even the Queen of England in ‘The Queen,’ but now Oscar award winner Helen Mirren has set her sights to play the next Doctor in the long running British television show ‘Doctor Who.’

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Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Full Mid-Season Schedule for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Shows

Hollywood Reporter: American Horror Story Finale: Burning Questions Answered

Sci Fi Mafia: True Blood Showrunner Gives a Tiny Peek into Season Five

TrekNews.com: JJ Abrams Says Star Trek Sequel Will be Shot in 2-D Then Converted to 3-D

Deadline Hollywood: Terra Nova Makes Moves to Prep for Second Season

ScienceFiction.com: Doctor Who: Worlds In Time’ MMO Game Now Open To Players

Hollywood Reporter: Stan Lee to Create Indian Comic Superhero 'Chakra - The Invincible'

io9.com: Why is the U.S. government trying to control the contents of scientific journals?

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Ridley Scott Reveals More About Prometheus, Terra Nova Producer Optimistic on Renewal, and More

News and Updates December 19th:

Filmophilia: Interview: Ridley Scott Talks Prometheus, Giger, Beginning of Man and Original Alien - An interview with legendary director Ridley Scott, who is now working on one of 2012′s most anticipated blockbusters, sci-fi thriller Prometheus.

Hollywood Reporter: Terra Nova' Executive Poducers 'Guardedly Optimistic' For Season 2, Tease Finale's 'New Mysteries' - Rene Echevarria and Brannon Braga discuss talks for a second season, whether they could move the series from Australia and the death of a beloved character.

Blastr.com: Steven Moffat says Yates Who movie would be 'a heathen thing to do' - Steven Moffat [says] . . . that David Yates' Who movie reboot is not gonna happen on his watch, calling the whole project "a heathen thing to do" and a "heresy."

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Hollywood Reporter: Star Wars-Inspired Religion Gaining Popularity in the Czech Republic

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Person of Interest Still Hanging On

Vulture: Did Lost End the ‘Golden Era’ of Television?

Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Craig In Talks To Star In Five More Installments of Bond Series 007

New York Times: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Wins Honors as Worst Christmas Movie Ever

Hollywood Reporter: Ender's Game Casts Canadian Teen Star Brendan Meyer

TrekNews.com: William Shatner’s One-Man Show Headed to Broadway

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: 8-Minute Dark Knight Rises Preview to Hit IMAX, Ben Kingsly May Join Ender's Game, and More

News and Updates December 9th:

Hollywood Reporter: Christopher Nolan Debuts 8-Minute Dark Knight Rises Preview - Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan showed off about eight minutes of footage from The Dark Knight Rises on Thursday night, a preview that will be seen later this month in select IMAX theatres before Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol. Also See What the Media Is Saying

Hollywood Reporter: Ben Kingsly in Talks to Join the Cast of Ender's Game - Ben Kingsley is in talks to join the cast of Ender’s Game, Odd Lot’s sci-fi film adaptation of the novel by Orson Scott Card.

Hollywood Reporter: Former James Cameron Employee Sues Claiming Avatar Was His Idea - Filmmaker James Cameron and his Lightstorm Entertainment were sued Thursday by a former employee who claims he spent two years developing a movie that became the basis for Avatar.

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Deadline Hollywood: Are These The Most Anticipated 2012 Films?

TrekNews.net: Edgar Ramirez & Jordi Molla Possibilities for Star Trek Sequel Villain

TrekWeb.com: John Billingsley Blames Enterprise Cancellation on Studio Greed

Deadline Hollywood: Dan Gilroy Signs On To Pen Stan Lee’s Chinese Superhero Pic The Annihilator

Blastr.com: Mark Strong wants Green Lantern 2 to chronicle Sinestro's fall

Hollywood Reporter: Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram in Talks to Make Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Sci Fi Mafia: Comedy Central is Developing Robots

Hollywood Reporter: Hot Sci-Fi Movie Project Rosa Lands at Fox

io9.com: H.P. Lovecraft’s leading scholar prepares his ultimate look at the master’s weird life

Hollywood Reporter: Redbox to Team With Verizon on Internet-Streaming Business

Geeks of Doom: Evil Dead Remake Gets An Official Release Date; Plot Details Surface

Hollywood Reporter: Grimm EPs Reveal 4 Things That Make a Fairy Tale Ripe for Adaptation

Reviews:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: The Dollhouse Epitaphs Comic is the Way That Joss Whedon Should Have Gone With This Story from the Start

Hollywood Reporter: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Cybermage: Book review: K55 Lögnernas Valv [English:K55 Vault of Lies] by Erika Oscarius

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Avengers vs. X-Men Will Be the Big Marvel Event Next Year (See the Livestream Event), Thor 2 Director Exits, and More

News and Updates December 7th:

Geeks of Doom: The Avengers Vs. The X-Men: It’s Happening - Pretty much every year, comic book publishers unleash a monthly event comic to boost excitement and sales in their comics. And this week Marvel Comics announced that event as The Avengers vs. The X-Men. Check Out The Livestream Event

Hollywood Reporter: Thor 2 Director Patty Jenkins Exits - The Monster helmer, who is leaving the project due to "creative differences," tells THR that she and Marvel parted "on very good terms."

NASA.gov: NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star - NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch Update: Are the Ratings Declines of Terra Nova and Once Upon A Time Deja Vu Back to FlashForward and V?

Hollywood Reporter: Final Destination 5 Poster Scares Up U.K. Ad Ban for Upsetting Children

TrekNews.com: William Shatner Added to Wizard World’s New Orleans Comic Con Also More Guests Announced for 2012 Las Vegas Star Trek Convention

Deadline Hollywood: Verizon Plans To Take On Netflix With Web Service

ScienceFiction.com: Looks Like Michael Bay Is Returning For A Fourth ‘Transformers’ Movie

Hollywood Reporter: Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Documentary Picked Up for Distribution

BleedingCool.com: Ridley Scott On “The Only Way To See A Film” And Why

Sci Fi Mafia: Zoe Kravitz and Sophie Okonedo to Join the Cast of Shyamalan’s After Earth

Deadline Hollywood: ABC Gives Pilot Green Light To Dan Fogelman’s Alien Family Comedy

Sci FI News Daily Digest: Syfy's X-Mas Episodes Air Tonight (See the Animated Eureka Sneak Peek), Del Tor Drops Out of Star Trek 2, but Kahn Will be the Villain, and More

The Christmas episodes of three of Syfy's Summer shows air tonight. The Holiday mini-marathon kicks off at 8 PM EST with Eureka, followed by Warehouse 13 at 9 PM and Haven at 10 PM. Here's a hilarious sneak peek at the Eureka inspired by well-known animated Christmas specials:



News and Updates for December 6th:

Blastr.com: Khan is IN (but Benicio Del Toro is OUT) as Star Trek 2's villain - Bad news is: Benicio Del Toro (The Wolfman) is out of the running as Star Trek's next villain. Good news is: Khan Noonien Singh will be the Big Baddie.

Vulture: A Starship Troopers Remake Is in the Works - Break out the bug spray! Sony Pictures Über-producer Neal Moritz has decided that the time has come to reboot Paul Verhoeven's 1997 fascist classic Starship Troopers.

Cancellation Watch from Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Tracking the weekly ratings and the cancellation prospects of the science fiction and fantasy shows currently airing on broadcast and cable networks.

BleedingCool.com: Andrew Stanton Has Already Started Prepping For John Carter 2 And 3

Deadline Hollywood: Sienna Miller Is Tippi Hedren, Toby Jones Is Hitchcock In BBC2 Drama About The Birds

Hollywood Reporter: Glee's Christmas Episode Guest Star: Chewbacca

io9.com: Nichelle Nichols reveals that the original Spock was a woman

Deadline Hollywood: Star Wars Camera Fetches Record $625K At Auction

AOL TV: Castiel Will Return to Supernatural

Hollywood Reporter: Larry King Shocks Guests With Cryogenics Revelation: 'I Wanna Be Frozen When I Die'

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest - Peter Weller Joins Star Trek 2 in Undetermined Role, Bill Willingham Talks Fables vs Once Upon A Time, and More

News and Updates December 5th:

Deadline Hollywood: Peter Weller Joins Star Trek 2 Cast - Peter Weller’s reps confirm he’s joining the cast of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek sequel, in what is a principal role but one they would not specify.

Comic Book Resources: Bill Willingham on his Fables comic vs ABC's Once Upon A Time TV Series - Both series explore the notion of popular fable, folklore and fairytale characters, native to a fantasy medieval setting, but still living today in modern day America. Let's discuss.

Geeks of Doom: Dark Horse Comics Going Same Day Digital - Dark Horse Comics announced that starting December 14, 2011 the company will be releasing every comic book on the same day digitally as the print version hits store shelves.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Could Supernatural be on its Way Out? It’s worth taking a look at CW mainstay Supernatural, which has struggled in the ratings this year, to consider if its time might be running out.

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BleedingCool.com: Bryan Q Miller To Launch Smallville Season Eleven As A Novel

Hollywood Reporter: Comic Book Legends Alan Moore and Frank Miller Feud Over Occupy Movement

Deadline Hollywood: Paranormal Activity 2 Helmer Kip Williams Will Write/Direct Adaptation of Horror Novel Those Across The River

Sci Fi Mafia: Buffy Season 9 Gets Collected, First Volume Hits Shelves in August

io9.com: Read the first drafts of the Star Trek opening monologue

Blastr.com: Why John Carter's director axed the words 'of Mars' from the title

Hollywood Reporter: Chris Columbus' Production Company Acquires Sci-Fi Novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Deadline Hollywood: X-Men: First Class Scribe Jane Goldman Scripting Tim Burton's Adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

BleedingCool.com: Tintin 2 To Go Into Production In The Summer? Jurassic Park 3D Re-Release On The Cards?

Hollywood Reporter: Robot Chicken Duo Seth Green and Matthew Senreich Launch Animation Studio

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Premiere Dates for Alcatraz and Touch, Any Doctor Who Movie Would Not Be a Reboot, and More

News and Updates December 2nd:

Hollywood Reporter: FOX Gives Premiere Dates for Alcatraz and Touch - Touch will have a preview on January 25th at 9 PM EST then continue in its scheduled Monday 9 PM timeslot beginning March 10th. Alcatraz will have a two-hour premiere January 16th at 8 PM EST then take up its scheduled Monday 9 PM timeslot the following week

BleedingCool.com: Any Doctor Who Movie Would Star The TV Doctor And Not Be A Reboot - Steven Moffat just tweeted: To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.

The Guardian: Can science fiction lead us away from economic collapse? - Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?

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Hollywood Reporter: 10 Hot Visual Effects Teams Reveal How They Made Movie Magic on Harry Potter, Captain America, Transformers

Deadline Hollywood: 70mm Imax Theaters Set For Dec. 16 Bow Of 6-Minute Prologue Of Dark Knight Rises

ScienceFiction.com: Paramount In Talks To Acquire Daughter Of Smoke And Bones

Blastr.com: Tom Cruise + Groundhog Day + aliens = All You Need Is Kill

Hollywood Reporter: Hailee Steinfeld Joins Cast of Summit's Ender's Game

Deadline Hollywood: Comic Book Author Sues Over Cowboys & Aliens Movie

Sci Fi Mafia: Interview with the Cast and Creator of Syfy’s Neverland

Hollywood Reporter: Teen Wolf Adds Michael Hogan and Two More to Cast for Season 2

Reviews:

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Looking Back, This Season Has Delivered a Mostly Mixed Bag of Genre Shows Thus Far

TrekNews.net: Trek Nation: A Star Trek Documentary Like No Other

ScienceFiction.com: Comic Book Review: Avengers Origins: Thor #1

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Harrison Ford May Join Ender's Game Movie, Rare Interviews Reveal a Different Direction for the Star Wars Prequels, and More

News and Updates December 1st:

NextMovie.com: Harrison Ford May Dust Off His Space Boots For Ender's Game - After nearly three decades, Harrison Ford may finally be returning to where he truly belongs… outer space.

The Official Star Wars Blog: Rare Empire Cast Interview Surfaces - Reveals a very different direction originally intended for the prequels.

ScienceFiction.com: Action Comics #1 Now The Most Expensive Comic After Selling For Over $2.1 Million - A few days ago, we reported that a copy of ‘Action Comics’ #1, was up for auction at ComicConnect.com. The comic, featuring the first appearance of Superman, has a 9.0 CGC rating making it the highest graded copy of this particular issue in existence.

Cancellation Watch from Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Tracking the weekly ratings and the cancellation prospects of the science fiction and fantasy shows currently airing on broadcast and cable networks.

Cybermage: New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books December 2011

Blastr.com: FOX exec attacks Prometheus leaks as 'heartbreakingly unfair'

EW.com: Game of Thrones scoop: DVD release date, details, photos

Deadline Hollywood: Cross Creek And Hammer Films Acquire Steampunk Novel Boneshaker For Feature Film

Geeks of Doom: Start the Countdown To Christmas With the ‘Cthulhu Christmas Calendar’ App

Hollywood Reporter: NBCUniversal Plans Harry Potter Attraction at Second Theme Park

EW.com: American Horror Story: Ryan Murphy talks The Black Dahlia and whether Violet is alive... or dead

Hollywood Reporter: Alice Eve in Talks for Big Role in New Star Trek Film

io9.com: Steve Martin has to explain to Fox News the difference between a solar system and a galaxy

Hollywood Reporter: Sony to Release Remake of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead

Blastr.com: Barrowman says Who's 50th without Capt. Jack would be a 'travesty'

Hollywood Reporter: Harlan Ellison Drops Lawsuit Claiming In Time Ripped Off His Story

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: New John Carter Poster, Man Finds Amazing Fantasy #15 in Attic, Bryan Singer to Direct Munsters Reboot, and More

News and Updates November 30th:

Disney has release a new poster (click to see it larger) for their upcoming John Carter film which stars Taylor Kitsch and adapts the famous science fiction and fantasy novel series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  The film will hit theaters March 9, 2012.  Stay tuned to the Sci Fi Scroll site for our 2012 science fiction and fantasy movie preview.

Hollywood Reporter: Man Finds Amazing Fantasy No. 15 (The First Appearance of Spider-Man) in His Attic - The issue, featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man, could be worth $10,000 to $12,000.

Deadline Hollywood: Bryan Singer To Direct And Produce NBC’s The Munsters Reboot - NBC’s The Munsters will be brought to you by The Bryans. X-Men and Superman Returns helmer Bryan Singer is finalizing a deal to direct and executive produce Bryan Fuller’s reboot of the 1960s comedy

Cancellation Watch from Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Tracking the weekly ratings and the cancellation prospects of the science fiction and fantasy shows currently airing on broadcast and cable networks.

io9.com: December in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Your Ultimate Survival Guide!

Hollywood Reporter: Director of Hot Sci-Fi Short Rosa Signs With Verve

TMZ.com: Chronicles of Riddick New Movie BACK ON After Cash Starts Flowing

Winter is Coming: Rumor: HBO to order two more seasons of Game of Thrones, film them back-to-back

ScienceFiction.com: Akira Casting Notice Reveals Plot Changes

Blastr.com: Ray Bradbury relents, allows Fahrenheit 451 to be released digitally

io9.com: One of the universe’s fiercest black holes is hiding inside this galaxy

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: New Avengers Poster, Syfy Orders Booster Gold Pilot, Anne McCaffrey Passes Away, and More

Disney just issued this poster to tease fans for the upcoming Avengers movie which opens May 2012:

News and Updates November 23rd:

Hollywood Reporter: Syfy Orders Script Based on DC Comics' Booster Gold - The project, which will be penned by Fringe's Andrew Kreisberg, hails from Greg Berlanti's production company.

Sci Fi Mafia: Renowned Author Anne McCaffrey Dies at Age 85 - Sci-Fi/Fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, who published almost 100 books, was the first woman to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, and the creator of the planet of Pern has died in her home after a massive stroke, at the age of 85.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: The Development Report: Netflix Opens a Can of Worms Plus a Look at Some Other Sci Fi TV Development Projects - Video/DVD service Netflix had already made the move toward developing original productions, but now they have also decided to get into the business of saving cancelled shows.

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Deadline Hollywood: Who’s Faking ‘Mirror Mirror’ Praise? Hmm…

Sci Fi Mafia: Rumor Has It! Gary Oldman Passing On AKIRA; Ken Wantanabe Offered His Role

Deadline Hollywood: The Walking Dead's Gale Anne Hurd Developing ‘Area 51′ Series

Blastr.com: Viggo Mortensen was asked to cameo in The Hobbit, but then ...

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: ABC's The River Gets Premiere Date, Michael Fassbender Talks Prometheus Role, and More

News and Updates November 21st:


Hollywood Reporter: ABC's The River Gets Its Mid-Season Premiere Date - from the creators of Paranormal Activity, will launch on Tuesday at 9 p.m. starting Feb. 7.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch: Grimm Stays Steady, Person of Interest Fading - It looks like NBC’s Grimm has leveled off after two straight weeks of declining ratings. That show pulled a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic this past Friday with 5.4 million total viewers.

Blastr.com: Michael Fassbender's Prometheus role: Less Alien, more Blade Runner - While promoting his latest film, Shame, Fassbender spoke with MTV about how he prepared for the highly anticipated Prometheus.

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Hollywood Reporter: Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Nabs Role of King Arthur in Arthur & Lancelot

Deadline Hollywood: Dwayne Johnson To Star In Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide

EW.com: The Walking Dead: Writer Robert Kirkman talks about tonight's episode and teases next week's 'shocking' finale

Deadline Hollywood: SyFy Developing Paranormal Procedural Comedy Spoof Ghost Ghirls Produced By Jack Black

Sci Fi Mafia: Akira: Ezra Miller Has Passed On the Role of Tetsuo; More Actors Line Up

Deadline Hollywood: HBO's True Blood Gets Two New Recurring Characters

Wired: The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)

Deadline Hollywood: American Horror Story Two-Hour Finale Will Be Trimmed To 90 Minutes

Deadline Hollywood: Steven Soderbergh Drops Out of Man From UNCLE Movie

Commentaries, Reviews, and Other Interesting Bits from the Web:

TrekNews.com: Could Today’s Television Climate Support a New Star Trek Series?

ScienceFiction.com: Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Sci Fi Tifles: American Television Considered Anime Strictly for Kids Early On

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Are Bryan Singer and Leonardo DiCaprio Rebooting The Six Million Dollar Man? Plus, the Search for Lost Doctor Who Episodes Continues, and More

News and Updates November 16th:

BleedingCool.com: Does Bryan Singer Have The Technology To Make DiCaprio His Six Billion Dollar Man? Bryan Singer is in the frame to direct the film for the Weinsteins and Universal, and he’s had meetings with Leonardo DiCaprio to take the lead role.

Deadline Hollywood: It’s Official: NBC Picks Up Bryan Fuller’s Reboot Of The Munsters To Pilot - Less than 2 weeks after receiving Bryan Fuller’s script for The Munsters, NBC has given a pilot order to the Pushing Daisies creator’s reboot of the 1960s comedy.

Wired: The Search for Lost Doctor Who Episodes Continues - Some calamities are so great that even a Time Lord can’t resolve them. Like the way the BBC thoughtlessly erased more than 200 episodes of Doctor Who to make room in the British broadcaster’s archives.

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TrekNews.com: Star Trek Sequel Begins Shooting on January 15th

Deadline Hollywood: NBC’s Grimm Gets Order For 2 Scripts

Geeks of Doom: Ron Perlman Confirmed For Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim

Hollywood Reporter: Woody Woodpecker Movie in Development at Universal, Illumination

Blastr.com: Director reveals details on the Black Widow film that didn't happen

Deadline Hollywood: Lionsgate Courts Slumdog Millionaire Writer Simon Beaufoy To Script The Hunger Games Sequel

Sci Fi Mafia: Warner Bros. Hires Robot Chicken Director to Helm Lego: The Movie

Hollywood Reporter: American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare Answers Burning Questions About Larry

Blog Posts and Commentaries:

Blue Yonder: Are Fairy Tales the New Vampires?

Geeks of Doom: How An Odd KISS Album Influenced The Matrix

Reviews:

Geeks of Doom: Comic Review: Captain Victory #1

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Geeks of Doom: Book Review: Grant Morrison’s Supergods

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Preview of Justice League Dark, Trek Nation to Debut on Science Channel, and More

News and Updates November 16th:

io9.com: An exclusive preview of Justice League Dark, starring John Constantine, Shade the Changing Man, and other magical lunatics! What happens when a mysterious fortune teller, a chain-smoking British mage, a fishnet-clad magician, a wiseacre ghost, and a fellow with the most deranged wardrobe on Earth pool their forces to save reality?

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Cancellation Watch Update: Terra Nova Drops Again, A Gifted Man Gets More Episodes - FOX’s high profile series Terra Nova took one more step toward extinction as its ratings decline continued this past Monday.

Sci Fi Mafia: Rod Roddenberry Produced Trek Nation to Premiere on Science This Month - Fans of the Star Trek franchise will have something else to celebrate as we head into the holiday season. Science will be premiering the two-hour special Trek Nation, which will explore Gene Roddenberry’s life and vision, and the impact of both on his family, on science fiction, on space travel, and more.

Cancellation Watch from Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: Tracking the weekly ratings and the cancellation prospects of the science fiction and fantasy shows currently airing on broadcast and cable networks.

Hollywood Reporter: Kristen Stewart Has an Offer to Star in Akira, Will She Accept?

ScienceFiction.com: Voltron: Defender Of The Universe Coming To Xbox Live Arcade And Playstation Network

ScienceFiction.com: BioShock Movie Dead in the Water?

Deadline Hollywood: Breaking Dawn Predicted To Debut As High As $125M

Sci Fi Mafia: Immortals Director Tarsem Singh Wants To Make a Live Action Samurai Jack Film

Deadline Hollywood: Fox’s J.J. Abrams-Produced Drama Series ‘Alcatraz’ Undergoes Showrunner Change

Hollywood Reporter: AMC Plans Walking Dead Marathon Sunday November 27th Leading Up to the Mid-Season Finale

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: First Look at Philip K. Dick’s Unpublished Work, Lost Writer to Adapt Stephen King's Under the Dome, Bryan Fuller Working on The Munsters and Hannibal, and More

News and Updates November 8th:

io9.com: A First Glimpse at Philip K. Dick’s Mesmerizing, Previously Unpublished Work - Philip K. Dick, author of Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is perhaps one of the most lauded science fiction writers of our time (And certainly one of the most adapted).

Hollywood Reporter: Lost Scribe Tapped for Showtime's Adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome - The well-known comic book writer (Y: The Last Man) has been tapped to adapt Stephen King's 2009 novel Under the Dome, which is in development at Showtime.

Deadline Hollywood: Bryan Fuller’s NBC Double: Daisies Creator Has Two Projects Eyeing Series Orders - Within the next month or so, Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller may have two series on NBC. He is behind two high-profile projects, The Munsters and Hannibal, both of them on a script-to-series track.

Sci Fi Trifles from Axiom's Edge: Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Publishers Weekly: Publishers Weekly Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2011

ComingSoon.com: José Padilha Talks About His Robocop Remake

ScienceFiction.com: Harlan Ellison Wins In Time Lawsuit

Deadline Hollywood: Hayley Atwell Joins Captain Nemo

Geeks of Doom: Banned Star Trek Nazi Episode Boldly Goes On TV For First Time In Germany

Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows Adds Alice Cooper To The Cast

Geeks of Doom: After being on the receiving of some mighty bad buzz last month all has been quiet on the production front of Tim Burton‘s big-screen adaptation of the classic Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Read

Casting News: Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter May Join Live Action Akira and More

Sci Fi Mafia: Rumor Has It! Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter Offered Roles in AKIRA
Hollywood Reporter: Saw IV Star Angus MacFayden Helps Shut Down Chuck
Deadline Hollywood: Greg Grunberg Inks Talent Deal With Warner Bros. TV, May Reunite With J.J. Abrams
EW.com: True Blood casting call: A biblical new role ... and a very old friend for Eric
EW.com: American Horror Story scoop: Zachary Quinto's lesbian friend is played by...

Casting News: World War Z, Game of Thrones and More

Deadline Hollywood: David Morse To Zombie Pic World War Z
EW.com: Game of Thrones casts wild beauty Ygritte
EW.com: Chuck casting news: Time to meet Sarah's mom!
Sci Fi Mafia: I, FRANKENSTEIN: Aaron Eckhart to Star as Adam Frankenstein

So now that they're casting Ender's Game, who should be hired?

Blastr.com: You know that Ender's Game movie we've been hoping would get made for like forever? Well, the project, directed by Wolverine director Gavin Hood, is finally building up a head of creative steam. Read

Casting News: Michelle Rodriguez in Resident Evil 5 and More

Deadline Hollywood: Michelle Rodriguez, Johann Urb Join Milla Jovovich In Resident Evil 5
Deadline Hollywood: Castings: Jessica Chastain Joins Tom Cruise In Apocalyptic Drama
Sci Fi Mafia: RIDDICK: Karl Urban to Return as Vaako for the Third Film
Hollywood Reporter: Game of Thrones' Emun Elliott, John Hurt to Star in Labyrinth Miniseries
Sci Fi Mafia: Once Upon a Time Casts a Vamp as an Evil Fairy Godmother with a Familiar Name

Casting News: A Change of Superman's Mom and More

Deadline Hollywood: Ayelet Zurer Replacing Julia Ormond As Superman’s Krypton Mom
Hollywood Reporter: Casey Affleck to Play Angel Gabriel in Legendary's Paradise Lost
Deadline Hollywood: Camilla Belle Pick For Eve In Paradise Lost
Sci Fi Mafia: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Will Blake Lively Be Elizabeth Bennet?
Blastr.com: RoboCop director: Don't believe those Fassbender casting rumors