As presently constructed, Jason Reitman's Oscar nomianted Up in the Air couldn't be less of a sci-fi movie if it tried. But in an early cut of the film, apparently Reitman had other ideas. What follows is a deleted scene from Up in the Air in which George Clooney dons a space suit and wanders through an airport. It finishes with him escaping the bonds of gravity and space walking up a skyscraper.

Does it fit with the rest of the film? Nope. Is it cool? Oh yes Watch: more...

Disney is planning big things to celebrate the release of Tron: Legacy, and we're not just talking dead-end scavenger hunts. For starters, they're redoing the Disney parks Tron style.

They're transforming their monorails into Tron monorails. How will that look? Like this:

The transformed trains will be visible on the Epcot monorail line as early as this month. And if you look close, you’ll notice that the design of the futuristic motorcycle-like vehicles from the upcoming film Tron: Legacy also includes walls of trailing colored light.

I'm far from an expert on the subject but it seems to me that outside of Warcraft, none of these Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing games ever actually work. It's a simply question of audience. They require a large group of interested players sticking with it over a long period of time and while your Star Trek Onlines of the world might have a brief period of popularity, they never seem to have any staying power and the people playing them invariably seem to drift back to Warcraft.

But it's safe to say that if you're going to try and launch an MMO that you'd better launch one with the biggest, existing fanbase possible. Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings. Making MMOs out of these make sense and yet, even those have struggled to find enough players. So what the frak are the people at a company called Bigpoint doing making a MMO out of Battlestar Galactica? I have no idea.

Don't get me wrong, I love BSG and so did a lot of other people. But BSG's fanbase is less then 10% the size of Trek's or even Lord of the Rings, and that's being generous. Turning it into an MMO seems doomed to failure, but it's happening anyway. As long as they're doing it, sign me up for my own Raptor.
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Repo Men looks like science fiction in the mold of 2009’s Surrogates, in which Bruce Willis attempted social commentary while killing robots in a near future. In Repo Men, Jude Law attempts social commentary while harvesting organs in a near future. Surrogates was fun, but forgettable. Hopefully Repo is at least the same.

The movie’s new trailer is, at least, fun. Below is a director’s cut trailer, and it’s hard-R restricted which means plenty of blood n’ guts. Check it out along with seven clips taken from the flick after the jump.

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It's unclear when Disney will make the new Tron: Legacy trailer available online officially, but it has shown up as a bootleg version. The sounds is pretty terrible but if you're absolutely desperate to watch it right now, then here's your best option. I've included a couple of different embeds after the jump, just in case one of them vanishes. more...

Hollywood's in love with 3D and while something like Precious probably isn't worth going through the trouble to distribute glasses, science fiction in particular is in tinsletown's targeting reticule. If it's sci-fi, odds are it's going to be in 3D and rather than beat you down by reporting it every time any movie is announced to be headed for the format, we've decided to sum it up in one, weekly digest. Here's this week's batch of future 3D movies:

Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal are still hard at work on their new sequel to Predator, currently titled Predators. It won't be released in theaters until July 7th, but if you're in Austin two weeks from now, you can see it then.

Robert Rodriguez is bringing Predators to Austin's SXSW Film Festival, where he'll debut a First Look at the film on March 12th. Where? When? How? Here's the official announcement: more...

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) reflects upon his father Kevin’s (Jeff Bridges) mysterious disappearance outside of the abandoned arcade, FLYNN’S.