Saw this a while ago but forgot to post. Remember Alien War in the basement of the Trocadero in London in the 90's? Amazing live action Aliens themed ride, I never really appreciated it in all it's glory - I was more into The Crow and The X-files - but from what I remember it was amazing. Well it's coming back, now called Alien Wars it opened at its original home at the Arches Glasgow back in 2008, it's now in Liverpool at Wirral's spaceport and will run until March 2010.
Don't start booking a coach just yet though, this version, looks like it is still headed by original creators John Gorman and Gary Gillies, but is unrelated to the 20th Century Fox and according to Wikkipidia this new version is modified.
Not sure I'm excited any more. I thought the whole point was to live Cameron's visionary nightmare with Hicks and the team around a failing salvage mission. According to The Alien War Story site there is a documentary on the original exhibition, but this was last updated in 2007 and I can't find anything else about it..
Remember when Watchmen was first banded about as a film project, they all said it couldn't be done. Remember Alan Moore publicly washing his hands of the project, cursing it's existence, saying how he'd written it with it never being filmed in mind?
Well it was all going sooooo well, apart from no giant squid at the end, but it looks as if the Watchmen curse has started. Fox wins ruling in the Watchmen case. Read the Variety article here. Hopefully we'll still get to see the final cut but Fox seem to have won distribution rights off Warner Bros. Nothing is ever easy. Happy Chrimble one and all dogs...
Anyone who's ever played Rockstar Games' hugely successful 3rd person-shooter Max Payne might not be suprised to learn that 20th Century Fox are about to release the live action film adaption starring Mark Wahlberg. I personally loved the game, but the thought of yet another Hollywood/video game franchise frankly fills me with dread, although, I thoroughly enjoyed Christophe Gans' excellent Silent Hill. Anyway, Fox have released a trailer and er... it actually looks quite good. Fingers crossed.
