Warner Bros. In Talks To Make ‘THE DARK TOWER’ Movie, Bardem Still Involved.
Warner Bros. is looking to get into The Dark Tower game. That book series by that Stephen King guy, which has been pronounced as a multi-movie, multi-TV season extravaganza. It’s going to be such an amazing disaster, and dammit I want to see this monstrosity birthed to life.
SPACE-WUNDER: Galaxy Groups And Integrated Flux Nebula In This Pic.
Just look at this picture. Zillions upon gazillions of burning machines of creation. You’re gazing into the M81 group of galaxies. What’s exactly going on here?
Hit the jump to find out.
Marketing Group Turns Homeless People Into WANDERING WI-FI HOTSPOTS AT SXSW
Well, what can go wrong with this? I can’t imagine anyone be upset at the exploitation of the struggling and downtrodden for their own gain. At SXSW this year, a marketing group has turned homeless locals into wandering wi-fi hotspots. I can’t believe people are mad.
Ryan Gosling As Walt Disney in ‘WALT’? To Dream
[Via | By Pascal Witaszek]
I’d see it. That in mind, I should also mention I’d see anything starring Gosling at this point.
Comic Book Single-Issue Sales JUMP 22% In February. Everybody Drink!
Comic books! Don’t put em down, they ain’t dead yet. Or, at least that’s what I extrapolate from the news that single-issue sales rose 22% this past February.
‘HUNGER GAMES’ Producer Talks SEQUELS, Respecting The Author
There’s an excitement in my loins for the Hunger Games flick, and almost 33% of it is due to reasons other than Jennifer Lawrence running around in a skin-tight track suit kicking ass. Oh god, that track suit. Unless you’re a dullard-dunce you know that after Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins churned out two sequels. What is going on with them?
DARPA Director Leaves PENTAGON For GOOGLE. Skynet Confirmed
If the Metal Gear Solid series taught me anything, it was that long-winded existential masturbation sessions can get old. It was news to me. If the series taught me two things, it was that DARPA is a bunch of future-killing robo-bastards. Now that DARPA director Regina Dugan is stepping down to take a job at Google the obvious is confirmed: Google is Skynet.
Quantic Dream Drops ‘KARA’. Robo-Fetish Motion Capture Wonder.
I may be a bit late with this, but whatevs! What can you do. You may know Quantic Dream as the developers who brought the world’s most interesting shaving simulator to life in the form of Heavy Rain. (I be trollin’, I know) At this year’s GDC they dropped their new motion capture technology in the form of the short called Kara. Jokes aside, it’s fucking amazing.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Monday Morning Commute: Bakula’s Packin’
Hello there, `fraidies and gentle-hams. My name is Rendar Frankenstein, and once upon a time I was one of the captains of the fine vessel known as Omega-Level. With Caffeine Powered, I helped steer this nerd-craft through the Interweb Ocean, fending off the ever-present threat of vibe-pirates and soul-trolls. In those early days, I’d write reviews and drink casks and even occasionally lend my word-vomit to the back of comic books.
But these days, I’ve taken to the dark underbelly of SPACESHIP OL. I like it here, where I can chat with the suspected mutineers about their murderous visions and incorrigible bloodlusts. And no, I wasn’t demoted to chomping on fish-heads and tossing the shit-barrels overboard by the powers-that-be, I volunteered for this spot. It fits me just fine.
Because the fact of the matter is that I’m Rendar Frankenstein — the hack writer extraordinaire who wears a heart on his sleeve that bleeds so profusely you’d swear he’s menstruating.
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This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, a weekly show-and-tell session that promotes the cross-pollination of all things in the pop-nerd sphere. To get things started, I’m going to show you the various ways I’ll be staving off workweek ennui. Your job is to then hit up the comments section and share what you’ll be watching/reading/eating/playing/drinking/doing to exorcise the forty-hour-a-week demons.
Let’s do this.
