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 Dateline:
22 November 2000: Happy Hallowe'en! Most Recently Updated
Section: Farcscape
Memorabilia
This Weekend!
Fresh
from his recent surprise appearance at Fanderson's Century
21 convention in October, Shane Rimmer (Scott Tracy from
Thunderbirds) will be appearing at the Birmingham
NEC Memorabilia alongside other cult film, television and
football stars such as Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Jack
Douglas, Ingrid Pitt and Nobby Styles in what is being advertised
as "The Biggest Ever Star Signing Event".
The NEC Memorabilia event is one of Europe's largest collectors
fairs for SF, film, television, pop and comics with over
300 dealers tables on each of the two days. Doors open at
9.00am on Saturday, 25 November for early entry ticket holders
and at 11am for everyone else.
The event is open from 10.00am on Sunday, 26 November and
closes at 5.00pm on both days.
Regular tickets are £6.00 per day for adults and £4.00 per
day for children. Saturday early entry tickets are £10.00.
Attendees can pay on the door or book their tickets in advance
by calling the NEC box office on 0121 767 4555.
SciFi
UK begins Farscape screenings
SciáFi
(UK) will be the first channel to show Farscape seasons
one and two back-to-back, in the correct order and in its
unedited glory. The run began on Sunday 12th November at
8pm.
Farscape Datafile: Go
Psychic Lawsuit!
SF
newsletter Ansible reports that Uri Geller is suing
Nintendo for "hundreds of millions of dollars"
over the Pokemon monster 'Yun Geller', who wields a spoon,
"uses psychic mind-waves to give his victims bad headaches.
"Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokemon character
... Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature
image of a bent spoon," claims Geller, who is currently
one of several well known names in the UK to be appearing
in Woolworths Christmas adverts on commercial networks.
 World
Fantasy Award Winner Announced
Thraxas
by Martin Scott, published by Orbit in the UK, has been
announced winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
of 1999 at the World Fantasy Convention in Texas.
More...
Silverberg comes to Bookface
Robert
Silverberg has agreed to bring Up the Line, an out-of-print
classic back to life via the read-only booksite, Bookface.com.
More...
StrangeHaven
Optioned for TV
Los Angeles production company David Lancaster
Productions has optioned Gary Spencer Millidge's critically
acclaimed and award-winning comic book series StrangeHaven
for a potential TV series and motion picture. More...
Alien Legion
Gets Big Screen Treatment
Hollywood Rporter has revealed that Dimension Films
has hired J.D. Zeik to write a screenplay based on Carl
Potts' Alien Legion comic book series. More...
Culture Vultures
In the tradition of successful resource-management sims, now comes
a compelling and critically acclaimed, addictive game, inhabited
by a burgeoning colony of colourful Viking tribes - Cultures.
Jump to Cultures Datafile: Go
Andromeda
Angers Fans
Online site Crow'sNest reports that Andromeda
doesn't just have Hercules actor Sorbo in the lead role.
This new SF TV series is causing a wave on controversy as
it becomes clear just what Trek creator Gene Rodenberry
really contributed to it.
External Link: Go
Warhammer Online!
Climax has joined
forces with Microsoft to develop the back-end technology
required to deliver Warhammer Online, the Internet-playable
version of the massively-popular Warhammer series of table-top
games which was announced earlier this year.
Link: VZSciFi Games News
Rising
Stars optioned
Variety has reported a deal worth upward of $1 million
in which MGM has optioned J. Michael Straczynski's bestselling
comic book Rising Stars for a possible feature.
Link: VZSciFi Film News
Stainless Steel Rat finally go?
Hollywood Reporter has revelead that Fox and Jan
De Bont have completed a deal to forge the cult SF novel
series Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat into
a feature.
Link: VZSciFi Film News
Lord of the Rings: UK will
see it first
Peter Jackson's Lord
of the Rings will be released in Britain before America,
as a tribute to its English author, JRR Tolkien. The project,
currently being filmed in New Zealand has an international
cast including Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Christopher
Lee and Ian Holm.
Source: The Guardian
See also: VZSciFi 2001 Film Schedule
Star Wars roleplay
for PC on way
LucasArts Entertainment
Company LLC and BioWare Corp. have announced a partnership
to create the first Star Wars role playing game for
PC and next generation video game systems. Expected to release
in 2002, the game will be set in a time period prior to
the Star Wars films.
VZSciFi Link: Games News
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