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[I Am Ωmega]

And there's Asylum's adaptation I Am Ωmega.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvW9G7ex3xA

[The Last Man on Earth]

I'm only aware of two adaptions (I am Legend and The Omega Man). Are there others? Is it really the most adapted sci-fi book?

There's also The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price. It's cheap and has an Italian neo-realist feel - not surprising since it was shot in Rome by Italians - but it is closest to the book - Matheson was involved with an early screenplay draft - and while the ending isn't the same, it's still better than the others.

https://archive.org/details/TheLastManOnEarth_72

[First]

First Episode VII footage.

So Alan Moore has finally "built Jerusalem".

Ha! The first draft isn't really "finished", more a basis to start the real work. Most writing is rewriting, so they say. With a million words in the draft, I'm not holding my breath.

Watchmen was a 'first draft', apparently.

[Old Man Clint]

The chance of Old Man Clint is a big fat zero, but even if a mythical sequel were to ever arise, I'd hope they wouldn't repeat another of the 95 film's mistakes: having clones that look nothing like their original - and vice versa.

Brand new 2K remaster of Withnail & I in a luxurious Blu-ray box set from Arrow films? I'll have some o' that......

£50?!!?!!? 

I love Arrow to bits, but what are they thinking?!

In fairness to Arrow; it's a limited edition of two films -How to Get Ahead in Advertising is included- remastered from original film elements, a ton of licensed historical and newly commissioned extras, and a 200 page hardback book*. It would cost a lot for Arrow to produce this -in the same way the complete Zenith likely wasn't cheap for Rebellion- and sell in a limited quantity that will return profit. The price seems about right considering the effort. I'm sure a vanilla version is to follow of just Withnail & I.


http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/withnail-and-i-limited-edition/



*and this: "Available in 4 x 250 Numbered and Personalised copies (choose your favourite of four artworks as well as a name to be featured on the back and one of fifteen favourite quotes for a truly unique and personal edition!)"

...thanks...I saw your answer pop up on my phone and so I pulled my jeep over and walked over to the beach to read it. As I read your words It dawned on me that the series might not continue and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L29_lWrQIr4

I thought it would be more...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4PGiJl2dQ

What's the worst that could happen? Starve? Divorce? attic collapse?

Surely that's the deal-breaker?

I guess this is a side effect of the increased demand for digital products and the reduction of the print. Doesn't matter if people buy these instead, people will still buy the digital copies of the original GN with all the stories in.

I would imagine physical sales collected editions still exceed digital sales by quite a bit.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/04/judge-dredd-goes-partwork/

New Star Wars Rebels short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9waYcrE8k

Looks like they're calling-in that payment on the original Ulysses 31 lightsaber/gun rip-off homage:

"different areas of the building would be linked by a series of bridges and walkways helping to 'increase exchanges, communications and interactions, creating a 'vertical city' housing thousands" - sounds similar to the way that the old Crescents in Hulme were promoted when they were being built.  Those worked well...

Streets in the Sky is an old idea.

[Tharg's Mighty Organ]

Tharg's Mighty Organ got a good mention in the Grauniad today via the flux of an interview with author David 'Cloud Atlas' Mitchell:


Actually isn't it strange, he observes, that our culture describes itself as addicted to instant gratification? "If you were writing one of those books where every chapter is named after a different song from a different decade ... then this decade would be "Skip to the Good Part". [A 2011 pop hit by He Is We.] We're supposedly in this "Skip to the Good Part" age!" And yet, he points out, people read very long novels (whether by him or, say, George RR Martin), and they watch TV shows such as True Detective, Mad Men ("where four episodes later you say, 'Ah, that made sense'") or even Sherlock: "Despite all the hurly-burly – the fast cutting and so on – it also trusts the audience enough to do slow reveal." Slow reveal, it turns out, is one of Mitchell's favourite things. They do it, too, in serial comics, and we discuss the British comic 2000 AD, home of Judge Dredd and other deathless characters. "Mega‑City One is so huge, so dense, so consistent!" Mitchell enthuses. "That taught me a lot of things about storytelling."

Dredd should finally take the mantle of 'Chief Judge' and then disband the Justice Department and restore Democracy.

There's been no indication that Dredd has lost any of his original contempt for Democracy as a way of running things - Day of Chaos prog#1743 - nor does it seem he's on some sliding scale to old-age liberalism; if anything the 70+ year old has proven in his tenure on the streets it's that he's doesn't wig-out quite the way Rico and Fargo did when the black dog-vulture paid a visit. It seems to be that he believes the Law works best when applied to everyone, equally, and without discrimination - be he mutie..alien...cyborg or human...the Law cannot turn a blind eye - and that the real failings of the Law are down to the flaws of the people who administer it.





There's a growing sense after Origins - and set-up earlier in Necropolis - that Dredd is not so haunted by Rico/Fargo's bloodline ghost as much as he once was but he understands more why they - as people - failed as Judges. Dredd is his own man and whatever Fargo's words are leading towards might be something that's not quite Democracy - or at least maybe democracy with a small 'd'. I don't think any 'ending' would be completely resolute - even if he pops his tight boots.

Actually, the referenced sequence is probably the greatest final scene (too good to be classed a 'credits scene') of any recent SF film - talk about a crowd pleaser.

Aye; it puts the WARNER/DC edict of 'No jokes; this is important' work into perpsective.