Again, The End?

Hey you! Yes, you. You can download a trailer for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. It's in FLV, but is better quality than the version on YouTube - and doesn't have the placeholder bits of Buffy that the YouTube trailer did. This is the finished article and it's really very interesting indeed. Not to mention ahead of schedule: expect the show to start in January. 8 months from now. Better news, however, is that the show appears to have more than the initially understood 7 episode order because I've been sent some quotes from Whedon in which he mentions Tim Minear writing and directing not only the 7th but also 8th episode. If 8 instead is our lot or not, I have no idea, but I'm placing my chips on 13. Let's see a year or so from now how right or wrong I am.

I know that film ick officially finished up months ago, but recently I've been trying to get writing again. I'm currently negotiating for somewhere to publish my stuff... and negotiations, while convivial, promising and encouraging are also rather slow. But I think I'm about to start up very soon. Cross your fingers for me - it's a good platform, somewhere I'd be proud to contribute, and it will give me access to a lot more info, people, bits and pieces than I have managed alone.

Not to mention paying, just a tiny bit, meanign I can afford to make time to do the job. Which is nice.

Movie Minesweeper - The Private And Confidential Edition

I'm listening to Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder as I begin today. Nice. Makes a nice change from Horse It Into Ya Cynthia, which was the last thing I listened to. Sheesh.

- Phantasm V is moving forwad, it seems. Bubba Nosferatu? Not so much.

- Some rumours are making Indiana Jones IV sound rather too like The Mummy III for most people's comfort. I'm not buying it.

- The Man of Steel's producers think Superman will be going before the cameras ahead of Harvey Milk. If this means The Mayor of Castor Street never gets made, I'm not going to be happy.

- Rupert Friend has been cast as Prince Albert.

- Aidan Quinn and his director sister Marian are to premiere their new film 32A at the Glaway Fleadh next weekend.

- A Lucky Luciano biopic is on the cards. Yawn.

- Claudia Karvan has taken the female lead role in Daybreakers.

- Fox have pulled the remaining episodes of Drive from the schedules. Again. All the better to bury it, dance on the grave and laught at Tim Minear while he sits sobbing. Villains.

- Pixar's Jeff Pidgeon has been lurking down at the Kwik-E-Mart.

- ABC are holding the rights to screen piles of movies they just don't want to screen - but they've already paid. Why are movies such a turn off on American Network TV, I wonder?

This update included a couple of links that I'd overlooked in the last few Minesweepers. Now we're back to straight.
And I'm not listening to any music at all.

Drive Scripts, Loaded With Spoilers

Tim Minear is currently giving away, for free, the scripts to the first four episodes of Drive. Quite amazingly, these scripts contain scenes not yet seen on TV - due to some very big changes made in editing that lead to extremely drastic rejigging. As a result, there are major spoilers within.

For me, here in the UK, every single line is spoiler material. I'm still eagerly anticipating the series, just the good Firefly fan I am.

[EDIT: Drive is no more. Here's Warren Ellis on the show's sudden, untimely cancellation:

DRIVE got cancelled, it seems. I'm told they were in post-production on ep 6 when the hammer came down. Poor bloody Tim. He didn't even get his 13 eps for a DVD this time. I've only seen the first ep, and I read the pilot script a while back. I thought it was a solid start. Goddamn shame.

I dare say ITV4 will air the handful of completed episodes in some graveyard slot or another]