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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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: Netflix to Produce Original Horror Series, Scientists Closing in on the God Particle, and More

News and Updates December 13th:

Hollywood Reporter: Netflix Prepping Eli Roth-Directed Horror Series - The company is nearing a 13-episode order for Hemlock Grove, a thriller based on Brian McGreevy’s upcoming horror novel by the same name.

MSNBC.com: Long-sought 'God Particle' cornered, scientists say - Physicists are closer than ever to hunting down the elusive Higgs boson particle, the missing piece of the governing theory of the universe's tiniest building blocks.

io9.com: The Best Unproduced Science Fiction Screenplays of 2011, According to Hollywood Insiders - Find out what movie scripts Hollywood is bouncing up and down about — but not actually ponying up money to produce — right now.

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.

Deadline Hollywood: The Amazing Spider-Man And The Dark Knight Rises Release New Movie Posters

Blastr.com: George Takei urges Star Wars and Trek fans to unite against Twilight

Radio Times: Two long-lost episodes of Doctor Who uncovered

Geeks of Doom: Justice League Doom will be next DC direct-to-DVD animated feature

Deadline Hollywood: Legendary Pictures Postpones January Start Of Alex Proyas-Directed Paradise Lost

Vulture: George Lucas Is Still Puzzling Over Indiana Jones 5

io9.com: BBC Challenging Studio Ghibli with its own Borrowers Adaptation

Deadline Hollywood: Universal Makes Deal On Luc Besson-Angelina Jolie Sci-Fi Film

BleedingCool.com: The Biggest Comic Convention In America… Is In South America?

Hollywood Reporter: IFC Acquires The Moth Diairies, Starring Lily Cole and Sarah Bolger, Based on Mary Harron's Vampire Novel

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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.

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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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Blastr.com: 9 really weird real-life diseases named after sci-fi characters

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Listverse.com: Top 15 Episodes of The X-Files

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: Christian Bale Hangs Up His Batman Cape, Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead Mid-Season Finale, and More

News and Updates November 28th:

Hollywood Reporter: The Dark Knight Rises Marks the End of Christian Bale's Batman Era - In a new interview, the actor recalls hanging up his cape for "the last time," calling it the end of "that Batman era."

Hollywood Reporter: The Walking Dead Dissection: Robert Kirkman Talks Death and What's Ahead - The comic book creator discusses Sunday's midseason finale and teases next year's "explosive" second half of the season.

io9.com: The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism - All life on Earth is related, which means we all must share a single common evolutionary ancestor.

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.

Deadline Hollywood: R.I.P. Filmmaker Ken Russell

Blastr.com: Terry Gilliam trashes Transformers: 'What's the point?'

Sci Fi Mafia: Game of Thrones Season One DVD and Blu-ray Details Revealed

Deadline Hollywood: Analyst Warns: Pay TV Will Fade As Young Viewers Look For Cheaper Alternatives

TrekWeb.com: Marina Sirtis on Recasting the Next Generation Cast, Fans Wish for More TNG Movies, Her Favorite Episode and TNG on Blu-Ray

Deadline Hollywood: YouTube Pacts To Rent 100s Of Disney Films Including Pixar & DreamWorks

Hollywood Reporter: Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones Ventures Into Social Gaming With Zynga's Adventure World

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: New Darkseid Design, A Doctor Who Movie is in the Works, A Secret Star Wars Project, and More

News and Updates November 15th:

ScienceFiction.com: Unveiled: Jim Lee’s New 52 Darkseid Design - When DC Comics relaunched its comic line at the end of this past summer, their entire line of heroes and villains were given revamped looks courtesy of the art of Jim Lee.

io9.com: What secret Star Wars project is Lucasfilm working on? Has the latest Lucasfilm online activity just revealed a big Star Wars project on the rise?

Variety: Harry Potter Director David Yates to direct bigscreen Doctor Who - Harry Potter director David Yates is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series Doctor Who into a bigscreen franchise.


Deadline Hollywood: Tim Burton Circles Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children - In a match that seems ideal, Tim Burton is in early talks to come aboard Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment acquired last spring.

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Hollywood Reporter: Hunger Games Trailer Sparks Strong Reaction From Fans of the Book Series

TrekNews.com: William Shatner Talks About His New Album Seeking Major Tom

Blastr.com: Best-selling author says Fringe 'ripped off' his shapeshifter story

Deadline Hollywood: NBC Greenlights Futuristic Drama Pilot Beautiful People

Wired: 6 Guys in a Capsule: 520 Days on a Simulated Mars Mission

Blastr.com: Abandoned Alan Moore comic would have destroyed the DC Universe

Deadline Hollywood: Channing Tatum For Man From U.N.C.L.E.?

Sci Fi News Daily Digest: Clash of the Titans 3 in the Works, George Clooney Compares New Movie to 2001 A Space Odyssey, Skyfall Name of New Bond Movie, and More

News and Updates November 3rd:

Hollywood Reporter: Warner Bros. is Already Planning for Clash of the Titans 3 - The studio, which is in post-production with Legendary Pictures on Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titans, is developing the next installment of the tales inspired by the Greek myths, even though Wrath doesn’t open until March 30, 2012.

ScienceFiction.com: George Clooney Compares New Movie Gravity To 2001: Space Odyssey - It’s been awhile since George Clooney donned a space suit, but he’s put one back on to star in the new Alfonso Cuarón movie Gravity.

Deadline Hollywood: Skyfall Confirmed As Title Of New Bond Movie and Will Bring Back Daniel Craig - Shooting on the latest James Bond movie starts Monday, Daniel Craig revealed at this morning’s press conference for Skyfall, the 23rd 007 movie.

Wired.com: Stephen King's Rules for Time Travel - If you’re going to travel back in time, author Stephen King says, preparation is everything. The further back you go, the more you have to think about.

SciFiIdeas.com: A Guide to Science Fiction Subgenres - The world of science fiction literally epic and incredibly complex. The genre can be divided into dozens of subgenres, each with their own unique themes and attributes. Any one science fiction story can cross the boundaries of several of these subgenres, or even break off into its own cult category.

io9.com: NASA says we’ve been looking for Martian life in all the wrong places - Don't worry—if we do find evidence of Martians, it will still be on Mars, we'll probably just have to dig a little deeper to find it.

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.

Deadline Hollywood: Andy Serkis Closes Big Planet Of The Apes Deal

Blastr.com: Jonathan Frakes calls Enterprise finale 'an unpleasant memory'

EW.com: American Horror Story: Ryan Murphy talks Tate's backstory and previews next week's 'pivotal' episode

Hollywood Reporter: Entertainment One Seizes Post-Apocalyptic Thriller The Day

ScienceFiction.com: Real Life Superhero Phoenix Jones Fired From Day Job

Hollywood Reporter: Captain America Overtakes Pirates of the Caribbean for No. 1 on DVD Charts

Blastr.com: Ron Howard says not to hold your breath for that Dark Tower movie

Hollywood Reporter: Ashley Greene Horror Movie The Apparition Gets a Release Date

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Sci Fi News Daily Digest: 2011 World Fantasy Award Winners, Be a Star Trek Red Shirt, Anne Rice Disses Sparkly Vampires,and More

News and Updates November 2nd:

2011 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees Among the winners from this year's awards are Nnedi Okorafor for Best Novel Who Fears Death and Peter S. Beagle for Life Achievement.

StarTrek.com: Be A Redshirt in a Star Trek Comic - Come on, admit it, you've always wanted to be a Redshirt for a day. Well, now you've got your chance.

io9.com: Anne Rice picks a fight with Stephenie Meyer: "Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle" - Vampire Fight! Seems that everyone's favorite author of the original fey vampires is throwing stones at this generation's foppish vampire gang.

Axiom's Edge Sci Fi: How Do this Season’s New Genre Shows Stack Up According to the Critics? - The last of this season’s genre shows, Grimm, debuted this past Friday, so we thought we would take a look at how all of these shows stack up so far according to the Metacritic website.

Blastr.com: Karen Gillan wants Doctor Who's Amy Pond to die ... permanently! In sci-fi, death is merely a temporary inconvenience, where characters reappear after some kind of resurrection/alternate-reality version/time-travel event. Not every actor cares for that.

io9.com: China moves closer to having the world’s only space station - When China was denied membership in the multinational partnership that operates the International Space Station, the country decided to build a manned space station of its own.

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Blastr.com: Splat! David Cronenberg squashes those Fly sequel rumors flat

Sci Fi Mafia: Win Farscape The Complete Series Blu-ray Edition from SciFi Mafia and A+E Networks Home Entertainment

ScienceFiction.com: Is The Smallville Cast Returning For Metropolis?

BleedingCool.com: Steve Ditko’s Birthday Original Art Gallery

ScienceFiction.com: Shane Black Speaks On Iron Man 3 And Possible Doc Savage Film Adaption

Hollywood Reporter: Harry Potter Creative Team to Receive ADG's Cinematic Imagery Award

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Scientists are working on a "tractor beam" that could recover astronauts floating in space

io9.com: It's the interstellar version of a man overboard — an astronaut, thrown from his spacecraft, drifting helplessly into space. Until recently, safety measures to account for such a situation have been somewhat limited. Read

Could an electromagnetic pulse send us back to the Dark Ages?

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Neil Armstrong: Abandoning space is embarrassing and unacceptable

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NASA has unveiled the rocket that will take us to Mars

io9.com: Say hello to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) — it's about to become the largest, most powerful space rocket we've ever built. Read

Has Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy science finally come true?

Blastr.com: Sci-fi has predicted reality before (think Star Trek's communicators and The Prisoner's ubiquitious surveillance). But now there's a science fiction concept that we never thought we'd see in real life: psychohistory. Read

We’re one step closer to putting an astronaut on Mars

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Fox Orders 13-Episode Sequel To Carl Sagan's Cosmos Docu-Series With Seth MacFarlane Producing For 2013 Launch

Deadline Hollywood: After recently signing on to reboot one classic TV show, Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones, Seth MacFarlane is taking on another iconic TV series, Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Read