Forgive me, folks, for failing to write up last week's Nerdy News, so here we go for what happened this week.
FOX Announces That Fringe Will Be Moved to Fridays
Normally, I wouldn't find a change of day and time for a show to be anything remotely newsworthy. But let's take a look at the facts here. Fact:
Fringe is a science fiction show on FOX with critical acclaim that's currently on Thursday nights. Fact: Starting on January 28th, it will be on Fridays. Fact:
Firefly was a science fiction show on FOX with critical acclaim that aired on Fridays and was quickly canceled. Fact:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a science fiction show that aired on FOX that was moved to Fridays in its second season and was quickly canceled.
Opinion: Oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrapohcapOHCRAP!
FOX might as well have put out a press release that said we're thinking about canceling another awesome show because we're a bunch of morons.
Cryptic Studios and CBS Will Let The Fans Design The Next Enterprise
I realize I'm probably the only person you know who plays
Star Trek Online, and hell, I don't even play it as much anymore. But I think this next bit is pretty cool. The game's developer, Cryptic Studios, along with
Star Trek license holder CBS Studios and Intel have announced a contest that asks for fans to design the next starship
Enterprise. I'm assuming it will be the
Enterprise-F, since, according to the game's timeline, the
Enterprise-E had a significantly longer life span than some of the other ships in its line. The grand prize is kind of lame, though - an Alienware laptop, the collector's edition of
Star Trek Online along with a lifetime membership, the new
Enterprise will appear in
STO and you'll get a replica of your design. Personally, I'd rather have the replica and royalties for the use of my design. Oh well. The contest starts on December 9th. Check
here for details.
Darren Aronofsky To Direct The Wolverine
That's right. The guy who directed head trips and arftsy flicks like
Requiem for a Dream, Pi,
The Fountain, and
The Wrestler, is directing the sequel to the abysmal
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aronofsky has worked with big screen Wolvie Hugh Jackman on
The Fountain and it would seem that it was Jackman himself that got him the job. One of the things Aronofsky has done already is to change the title from something that probably would have been awful, like
X-Men Kinda Origins: Wolverine Goes To Hollywood, to the simple title,
The Wolverine. Supposedly, Aronofsky is looking to really separate his film from the Gavin Hood-directed nightmare that gave us magic adamantium memory-erasing bullets and the horribly realized Wade Wilson/Deadpool. He's called it a "stand alone" film, that "isn't connected" to its predecessor. Frankly, I don't see how that's possible since you still have Hugh Jackman playing Logan (though I actually still think he's great in the role). But combine this with the fact that they're rebooting Wade Wilson's origins for
Deadpool, which should film soon if Ryan Reynolds' schedule ever frees up, and the craziness that seems to be involved with
X-Men: First Class, and it's pretty obvious that FOX doesn't give a rat's ass about maintaining continuity in its X-Men film universe.
Oh, and for your amusement here's an image from a mid-90's
Star Trek/X-Men crossover comic. I actually own a copy of it.
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| Yeah, that's Spock owning Wolverine with a Vulcan Nerve Pinch. |
Win.
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