Adventureblog Theater: Alice in Trancerland, Life on Mars US, King Solomon's Mine, and the Enterprise has a pretty relaxed definition of NSFW

Stop motion graffiti

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Alice trance

Or maybe this is.



US Life on Mars trailer

I was a huge fan of the British version of this show. It was an excellent homage to '70s cop shows and clearly defined for me why I can't get into Law and Order or CSI. This trailer for the US remake version makes it look goofier and lighter-hearted than I think it probably is. I can see the cool elements of the show in there, it's just that the announcer keeps orally winking at us like it's sort of a gag. Regardless, Colm Meaney is genius casting for Gene.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if BBC America ever got around to finally showing the second season of the British version? I kept the Season Pass on my TiVo forever, but finally gave up waiting.



Naughty V'ger!

The Enterprise crew watches porn. There's no nudity, but the sound makes it NSFW. It goes on a bit long (sort of like Star Trek: The Motion Picture), but it's hilarious.


Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Pon Farr Edition) from Darth Mojo on Vimeo.

The entire 1937 version of King Solomon's Mine

Actor chosen for US Life on Mars

Jason O'Mara has been chosen to play Sam in David E. Kelly's US remake of Britain's Life on Mars TV series.

He was tapped to play Philip Marlowe in a pilot for ABC, but all the articles I'm finding about that are from January and Marlowe doesn't appear on a list of ABC's shows for next season, so it looks like that must've fallen through. Not sure I wanted to watch a modern-day take on Marlowe anyway, even if I am craving good, private eye shows.

I know O'Mara from his role as Stuart Maxon, Anne Heche's publisher on Men in Trees. Seems like he wants to play a detective and I bet he'll be good at it.

Links du Jour: RIP Kurt Vonnegut, Mummy 3, and a Life on Mars sequel

Adventure

• Geek Monthly has a nice interview with Jerry Bruckheimer on Pirates of the Caribbean 3. Not a ton of new info, but there's a bit of explanation there about why the four pirate factions are coming together.
• Today is Tom Clancy's 60th birthday.
• Brendan Fraser has signed on for Mummy 3, but Rachel Weisz hasn't. Miles Millar and Alfred Gough (Smallville) are re-writing the script to explain Weisz's absence.
• Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are getting close to signing up for a movie version of Angels & Demons, the prequel to The DaVinci Code.

Mystery

• While we wait for the American version of the BBC's Life on Mars, a British sequel is already in the works. I didn't want to read the article too closely for fear of spoilers (the series finale of Life on Mars just aired this week), but the new show will be called Ashes to Ashes and will feature Philip Glenister's returning as DCI Gene Hunt to be paired with another 21st century detective -- a woman this time -- in 1981. The character of Gene Hunt is arguably the best thing about Life on Mars, so I'm way more excited about this than about the American remake of the first series. (Thanks to SF Signal for the link.)

Horror

• Principle photography has wrapped on the 30 Days of Night movie.

Science Fiction

• Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Lots of people are talking about it today, but the nicest eulogy I've seen so far has been by Warren Ellis on his email newsletter: "14 novels in 84 years. 30 when he published his first novel. Two years older than I am now when he did Cat's Cradle. 46 or thereabouts when he wrote Slaughterhouse-5. Still in his early 20s, working as a POW in an underground factory, when we firebombed Dresden, an act he later described as 'a work of art.' 1984, and Vonnegut attempts suicide with booze and pills, ruefully noting later that 'I botched it.' May 1944, and his mother Edith gets it right. Six months later Vonnegut is captured by the German army after days wandering alone in the countryside. 'Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — "God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."'"

Life on Mars remake pushed back

Variety reports that the American remake of Life on Mars has been pushed back. Apparently, David E. Kelly is having a hard time finding the perfect lead, so he's waiting until after pilot season and will target the show as a mid-season replacement.

I'm still nervous about an American remake, but I like that Kelly's taking his time with the casting in order to get it right. Bodes well for the attention he gives to the other aspects of the show.

Found via Geek Monthly.

Life on Mars also ending

Crap. First Justice, then the BBC's Life on Mars.

At least Life on Mars is ending for a good reason. The show's creators decided that two seasons was enough time to tell the story of the 21st century detective who was hit by a car and woke up in 1973. It's not enough time to satisfy my craving for '70s-style cop shows, but I appreciate their knowing when to quit.

I wonder if the American version will be as wise.

The second season of the British version started yesterday, but no word yet on when we'll get it on BBC America.