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#161

Male porn star Zak Smith has started a D&D group with fellow nerdy porn stars like Mandy Morbid, Satine Phoenix, Kimberly Kane and more, he discusses the campaign as it progresses Now, you may come for the porn stars (cough), but you will stay for Smith’s wonderful commentary and downright brilliant examination of dungeon-mastering – seriously, check out his examination of ways to run RPG vampires, and I’m sure you’ll be hooked. It’s fantastic.

Eventually, Smith and his party will be featured on a show titled I Hit It With My Axe, which will run on The Escapist. this will be a different campaign from the one he chronicles on the site, and will include guest players like famed adult actresses Sasha Grey and Justine Joli. I assume none of the girls get naked, and frankly, I don’t care. I want to see porn stars play D&D for real. Seriously, Best Site Ever. Go check it out. (Via Attention Deficit Disorderly)

http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/?zx=f332b5691b3bfbda

#162

Let me be the first to say, “I put on my hat and robe.”

Seriously, I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything as I read that.

#163

I put on my robe and wizard hat</technical kind of correction, the best kind of correction>

#164

You can’t have my award!! d:

#165

I pull out my wand! IYKWIM:smiley:

Roll me a 20 baby!

#166

Magic Missile!! Magic Missile! :smiley:

#167

From the Cool But Seriously, W.T.F. Files…

The Student Mascot Committee at the University of Mississippi is Hosting Vote for New Mascot

Admiral Ackbar Ole Miss’s new school mascot? The students at Ole Miss are close to voting for Admiral Ackbar to be the school mascot going forward. There is a huge student movement taking place to push Ackbar into the starring role at the school, and it may soon become a reality. With the school trying to update their image for the 21st century, the University of Mississippi gave the student mascot committee at the school the chance to come up with a new mascot for Ole Miss. They decided to take it to a campus vote, and suddenly the most supported new mascot has become Admiral Ackbar from the Star Wars books and films.

The choice may only seem odd to people who aren’t students at Ole Miss because apparently there is a huge groundswell to make the Supreme Commander of the Rebel Alliance fleet their chosen mascot. There are a couple of questions that come to mind with the support that Ackbar is receiving from students, beginning with the obvious one of whether George Lucas would actually allow this to take place. Even if the students all vote to put in Ackbar as the new mascot, they are still going to need to get the approval of George Lucas if they want to really make him a focal point of the sporting teams. The second question if of course whether the alums will boycott this student decision.

When the school put the idea of the mascot change in the hands of the students, they must not have assumed that it would be something as far out there as this choice. The biggest catalyst to changing mascots was that they wanted to move away from the current mascot of Colonel Reb, and the school had very good intentions. Now it’s hard not to wonder if they will keep supporting the students’ decision here if the final vote and then the mascot choice that the committee puts forward is still Admiral Ackbar. If nothing else, it’s an extremely interesting choice by Ole Miss, and when we are talking about what will represent the students, why not just let them make the final choice?

#168

It’s a trap?!

#169

They insist not - http://www.notatrap.org/

#170

#171

Two-by-Two, Tarp of Blue. :eek:

#172

I smell a lawsuit…:frowning:

#173

Though their recently deceased TV series Dollhouse was not the ratings hit it perhaps should have been, definitely when you consider the heights it ultimately reached in creative terms, the signs are good for an imminent upcoming collaboration between geek god Joss Whedon and his buttock-whupper muse Eliza Dushku.

Dushku was stopped last night on the red carpet for the Discovery Channel’s Life, and before she got to discussing her plans with Joss, she had to answer the inevitable going-nowhere question on Ghostbusters 3:

I don’t know anything, I don’t have a script – it’s still a rumor thing right now. But I would be excited to do it!

Then, though, she spilled on the Whedon hook-up:

I would say that we would [be working on something new very soon]! I think we’re going to work on a kickass feature together that we’ve been thinking about for a few years.

A few years? Could this be Whedon’s long-discussed horror movie, Goners?

I’d certainly be pleased if it was. There’s been so many hints dropped about that movie over the years, with very little solid information actually yielded, that I’ve been curious enough for long enough that I just want the beans to spill already.

Here’s a few of those hints, in Joss quotes on loan from the Wikipedia page of the proposed picture:

It is a fantasy thriller, it is pretty dark and it’s all me. So people will pretty much know what that means if they look at my body of work. But it’s a new universe set in the present day with a new concept for me and a new bunch of characters. It’s been a long time since I got to do that, so that’s really fun.

It’s the story of a young woman’s journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics.

More in the Buffy-mode of discovering strength than in the sense of, “I’ve had strength for so long that I’m losing my sense of people who don’t.

Colour me intrigued. A bright and vibrant shade of intrigued too.

Of course, there’s every chance to Whedon and Dushku are planning something completely different, a new story that we’ve not even had teased for us yet. Despite my less than overflowing confidence in Cabin in the Woods, I’m still a huge and passionate fan of Whedon, so whatever film he’s wanting to make, I’m wanting to see.

#174

Will Sigourney Weaver reprise her role as Dr. Grace Augustine in an Avatar sequel? The question might sound stupid to anyone who has seen the movie, but remember what happens when you assume…

Sigourney Weaver appeared on the TV show “Le Grand Journal.” The actress is in Paris this week to honor Harrison Ford during the Cesar Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars). During her interview, Weaver was asked if she would be part of Avatar 2 and she made it clear that she has already talked about it with James Cameron, who is planning to include her in the sequel.

But how is that possible?

Anyone who has seen Avatar knows that Dr. Grace Augustine died from a fatal gun wound, and the attempt to transfer Grace from her dying human body into her unconscious avatar body with unsuccessful. So how can Weaver possibly be in the sequel? Remember, after Grace died, Mo’at declared that “she is with Eywa now”. Weaver explained on the talk show that her character still exists “in the tree”, and while she can’t promise anything, James Cameron has some ideas on how to keep “the family together.”

Location scouts for Batman 3 have been seen in the financial district in Chicago. Rumors state that the film is sceduled to begin shooting in the tailend of 2010!:smiley:

Christopher Nolan is contracted to work up a script for the next Superman film, it is not an origin story though, thank god…

#175

This so incredibly bad I was stunned anybody would actually pick it up for distribution. It makes SciFi’s movies look like masterpieces…

//youtu.be/YnNvBucoNSY&

I thought it was one of those ‘fake’ trailers for awhile, but it is real… REAL BAD!!!:smiley:

#176

Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, who together produced the animated film 9, are teaming up again to produce what could be a far more outrageous project: they’ll shepherd an adaption of the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Screen Daily reports the deal, but doesn’t have much additional detail. Grahame-Smith will adapt the screenplay from his own novel. Interesting choice, as when an author adapts his own work for the screen there’s always a chance that he won’t be able to get any distance from the material. That can make paring down the text a problematic enterprise. Then again, who better to get inside the material than the creator?

Will either Burton or Bekmambetov direct? Unlikely; expect to hear news on a hire in the coming months.

Here’s the Publisher’s Weekly blurb recapping the book:

Seth Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author’s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace.

A promo trailer for the novel just hit earlier this week, and is pretty entertaining. Don’t expect it looks anything like what we can expect to see from the Burton/Bekmambetov combo, but it does have sharp teeth and some 19th-century bullet time, for what it’s worth.

(Meanwhile, in reporting this story DHD mentions that David O. Russell is still circling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as a possible project. That news first bubbled up in December and sounds just as weird now as it did then. Not that I’m upset about it; merely a bit confused. Now can we see a cut of Nailed, already?)

//youtu.be/X58RPS665V0&

#177

Samuel Bayer is not interested in directing a sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, and hinted that he is developing an adaptation of a graphic novel.

There’s a comic– I’m sure my agent would kill me for this, because I’m sure I’m not supposed to talk about it or whatever, but I don’t really care, is that– no, my assistant is shaking her head. No. No? No? I was going to mention a project. Shut up? Okay. I’m doing what people tell me. Yeah, I’ll bury myself with this one. There’s some very, very cool stuff out there. I’m really into graphic novels and really into the superhero genre, and I really think there’s some interesting stuff going on, and I think that’s what I’m leaning towards.

Shock was able to uncover the identity of the comic book property: Garth Ennis‘ The Boys.

Here is what Bayer said:

There’s one comic book I really dig that I want to go after that’s bad-ass. I’d like to get it, it’s called The Boys. It’s about a group of mercenaries and they’re job is to kick the shit out of superheroes who get out of line. It doesn’t get any better than that. In the world of The Boys, superheroes are scumbags. My youngest brother is a comic book historian and he introduced me to a lot of graphic novels like “The Dark Knight.” There are some great books I don’t think people have tapped into yet.

Originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment, The Boys is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. Here is an official description from the first graphic novel:

“This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone’s got to make sure the “supes” don’t get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother’s Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them, sometimes, need to be taken out of the picture. That’s when you call in The Boys!

The comic is now available in five graphic novels, with the sixth volume due out in May 2010 (find them on Amazon).

Columbia Pictures have an option on the comic, and producer Neal H. Moritz (Fast and the Furious) was developing it into a feature. Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay, the screenwriters of Aeon Flux, The Tuxedo and Crazy/Beautiful, started working on a script in August 2008. We haven’t heard anything about the project since.

For those of you who don’t know, Bayer got his start directing music videos when Nirvana, according to legend, hired him to direct Smells Like Teen Spirit because his test reel was the worst one that the band had seen. As you know, the resulting video is considered a landmark music video which has consistently rated as one of the most influential music videos ever made. Bayer went on to helm some of the seminal alternative music videos of the 1990’s. His music video filmography includes Blind Melon’s “No Rain”, Candlebox’s “You”, The Cranberries’ “Zombie”, Hole “Doll Parts”, The Offspring “Gotta Get Away”, Metallica’s “Until It Sleeps”, and Sheryl Crow’s “My Favorite Mistake”. Over the last decade he’s done videos for Blink182, Marilyn Manson, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Papa Roach, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance. Bayer also directed most of the videos for Green Day’s American Idiot album. Bayer won Director of the Year at the MTV Awards in 2005 and 2007, and several of his commercials have won the Clio (which is basically the Academy Awards for advertisements).

His first feature film, a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, will hit theaters on April 30th 2010.

#178

Would you please start including links or sources of your news? It sucks to hunt the source myself when people call BS on what I relay from you. ^^

[02:45:35] EVE player > double-you tee effff?

Thanks.

#179

In June of 2009, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-star Shia LaBeouf told reporters that Steven Spielberg had “cracked” the story for Indiana Jones 5 and he thinks “they’re gearing that up.” But as far as I can tell, no screenwriter has been hired to turn that idea into a script. Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford reiterated the first part of Shia’s previous statement, telling the BBC this week that “Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and we’re seeing what comes of it.” Ford went on to explain the process:

“The process works like this… We come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it. Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line it’s ready and we do it.”

Right now it sounds like they are only at step one. If a fifth Indiana Jones movie ever happens, it’s very likely we won’t see it for some time.

#180

HBO greenlights nine episodes of “Game of Thrones”
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/03/hbo-greenlights-game-of-thrones-series-signs-precious-director-lee-daniels-to-develop-a-new-show/

Stephen Lang (Badass Colonel Quaritch from AVATAR) may be a Villian in the upcoming Conan movie.
http://http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/03/stephen-lang-offered-conan-villain-role/