NEWS

Howdy, Fellow Nerds!

Gonna give my essay-writing a rest today and just talk about some news in the world of nerd.

Fresh on the heels of reports that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan is going to oversee development of a new Superman movie, we get reports that self-proclaimed king of the world James Cameron is going to mentor new Spider-Man helmer Marc Webb. Webb wants to utilize the 3D filmmaking technology that Cameron used in his own hugely successful film Avatar, you may have heard of it. One can only assume this new rendition of Spider-Man will involve the web-slinger having pony tail sex with Carnage. Since this reboot of the franchise will focus on Spidey as a teenager in high school, I imagine we're going to see some sweet three-dimensional getting rejected by girls and popping zits. Can't wait.

After a couple years of postulating, it seems that the 2011 season of Doctor Who, the second to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the venerable sci-fi hero, will include an episode written by comic book and genre god Neil Gaiman. No word yet on what the episode will be about, but the title could be "The House of Nothing," which is about as vague as you can get. I'm sure it'll be one of the best stories so far. Gaiman is the man behind the Sandman series of graphic novels as well as the films Mirrormask and Oscar nominee Coraline. If you're real quiet you can hear a collective squeal from nerds everywhere.

Speaking of the good Doctor, this Tuesday sees the release of a couple new dvd releases from the classic series. From 1973 we have the box set entitled "The Dalek War" which features the six-part serials "Frontier in Space" and "Planet of the Daleks," which sees, my personal favorite, Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor embroiled in some alien politics and eventually having to fight his arch-nemeses, The Daleks. Extras in this set include full episode commentaries, multiple-part documentaries, and featurettes about the Third Doctor and Dalek comic books from the period. Keeping with the theme, the second release is a re-issue of "Remembrance of the Daleks," from the penultimate season in 1988 and features Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor. "Remembrance" was one of the first stories released on dvd in the early 2000s and was pretty light on extras. This redo gives us a second disc with a retrospect documentary and a feature on the different references made throughout the four parts. More Daleks than you know what to do with.

And finally today, E! News is reporting that "Death is coming" in the final season of LOST. Spoilers throughout, so read with caution, but it seems an inevitability that most of the remaining survivors will bite the dust before the finale. It's shaping up to be a great ending already so I only hope it's worth all the hours of anxiety I've been put through.

That's enough for today.

You're welcome.
-Kanderson