Giant Freakin Robot

Despite the fact that it is completely awesome, and a pretty faithful adaptation of the cult favorite comic books, Dredd tanked at the box office last summer. I have an unhealthy love for the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version, but even I won’t argue that it’s a good movie. Despite not clicking with theater audiences, Dredd set the world on fire when it was released on Blu-ray and DVD earlier this year.

Even though the film had a relatively small budget compared to most comic book movies—a mere $50 million—it still isn’t considered a financial success, and the prospects of a franchise have been doubtful. But amidst critical acclaim and this resurgence of interest, star Karl Urban says another film isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility, despite earlier claims.

Talking to Collider about Star Trek Into Darkness, Urban said that he’s been in touch with writer Alex Garland, and there has been talk of moving forward with another installment. Here’s what he had to say:

Interestingly enough, I did have breakfast with Alex Garland this morning. It’s not off the agenda. Clearly everyone has woken up to the fact that an audience has found this movie and loves it. It’s entirely possible, and if people want to see another installment then they should be vocal about that, because, it can happen. The power of fandom can resurrect projects. In fact, that’s what happened with Star Trek. They weren’t going to do a third season until fans did a letter writing campaign and they continued that series.

All the way back in March, the BBC aired the three-part zombie drama In the Flesh to a fair amount of acclaim. It’s got an intriguing premise, even if some people see it as just another thing about zombies. That’s fair, sure, but police procedurals and medical dramas have been pulling the same tricks on TV for many, many decades. Let there be brains!

Or maybe not, since these zombies are in varying stages of rehabilitation. The above teaser from BBC America gives only a hint as to what that rehab plot consists of, but we already know it takes place after The Rising, where thousands of people rose from the dead. One of them is Kieren Walker (Luke Newberry), a teenager who had recently committed suicide. Zombies are referred to as patients with “partially deceased syndrome” (PDS), and are medicated, reformed, and put back into the daily shuffle and shamble. As you might imagine, not everyone takes to having the walking sorta-dead in their lives on a regular basis. Didn’t get any of that from dinner with Mum and Dad up there, did you?

The good people at Legendary Pictures are making it really easy for fans to connect with their favorite movie productions. Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull seems to be encouraging Godzilla fans to take advantage of social media to become more enthusiastic about the new film. A few weeks ago, director Gareth Edwards uploaded a brief video to YouTube to commemorate the first shot of principal photography on the new Godzilla reboot. Since then, Edwards has been releasing a few behind-the-scenes images from the production’s Vancouver, Canada location.

The video above is no different; Gareth Edwards updates Godzilla fans on the film’s progress and reminds them that the new film will be released in theaters in exactly one year. The video also says that this was the first day of shooting with actress Elisabeth Olsen. The 24-year-old performer is part of a world-class cast mostly made up of popular indie and foreign film actors, including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston, and Sally Hawkins, with original Godzilla actor Akira Takarada putting in a special cameo appearance.

With the threat of global warming hovering above and around us, constant innovations are being made that may increase future generations’ enjoyment of this planet for another few seconds. Comparisons are often made between what Earth is like now, and what Earth was like before humans evolved and fucked everything up, but let’s take a second to consider how our human construction may fair in the harsh environments of other planets.

The following illustrations were created by talented researcher and artist Nickolay Lamm, with the help of astrobiologist Marilyn Vogel, a former employee of NASA’s Ames Research Center. Each picture envisions one of the United States’ most iconic images, the New York City skyline, as it were located on the other planets in the solar system. They each include a brief description of how each planet’s environment would render all of that construction useless for human beings. Check out some of them below.