A large batch of Discworld news has just surfaced online. Sir Terry Pratchett is not only working on a new book, but has made some more movie deals. Snuff, currently estimated to be released this October, will be a new Discworld novel featuring Commander Vimes as the protagonist. It sounds like an early draft has [...]
ComingSoon.net is reporting that the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jr. will be called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and will feature Stephen Fry as Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft Holmes. Downey returns as the title character, as does Jude Law for Dr. Watson. Professor Moriarty will be the primary villain. [...]
In one fell swoop, Warner Brothers announced several big news items about the third Batman film to be written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The upcoming film will be called The Dark Knight Rises, and will feature Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (Catwoman’s alter ego) and Tom Hardy as Bane. Christian Bale will return as [...]
The film adaptation of T. A. Barron’s The Lost Years of Merlin, which has been in “Development Hell” for a few years now has jumped ship from Paramount and moved to Warner Brothers, who is fast becoming a major power in the fantasy film and video game industry. Big news! The Merlin movie project has [...]
The trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now online. Loosely based on Tim Powers’ novel One Stranger Tides, the film continues the story of Jack Sparrow and Barbossa…sans Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly. Oh, and Blackbeard (played by Ian McShane) will be in it as well. Interestingly, On Stranger Tides was [...]
The Wertzone is reporting that Brandon Sanderson will soon be revisiting his Mistborn series. Sanderson has lately been working on a Mistborn novella as a side project, which is currently 60,000 words and may end up being longer by the time it is finished. Tor will be publishing it in 2011. If that isn’t enough [...]
Warner Brothers has launched the official website for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 soundtrack, complete with 30-second samples of each track. Preorders will start on November 2nd. They have also posted wallpapers for the movie on their Muggle Hub site.
Peter Jackson has finally released the full cast of The Hobbit, and the information is making its rounds around the internet. Martin Freeman, Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dr. John Watson in the BBC’s Sherlock, will play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins. Also, Richard Armitage (Guy of Gisborne in [...]
Warner Brothers has posted the first full theatrical trailer for the first Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film online. It includes brief glimpses of Dobby, Xenophilius Lovegood, the Malfoys’ manor and the Seven Potters scene. You can view the trailer on YouTube or below. The Leaky Cauldron has already rounded up links to various [...]
Brandon Sanderson has completed the final chapter of Towers of Midnight, the penultimate installment of the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He updated his Twitter profile a few times with news about it. This is still the first draft, so there’s still work to be done before the publisher takes over. Towers of [...]
