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March 21, 2014
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… Jungle Book, Brick Mansions (Trailer), James Bond’s COME & DIVE, Poster
• Mo-Cap Man Andy Serkis is to star & direct THE JUNGLE BOOK for WB… Figured they’d get a Monkey to do a Man’s job.
• Trailer for Paul Walker in BRICK MANSIONS directed by Luc Besson here… See it.
• Is COME AND DIVE actually the name of the next James bond movie…? Wups. Someone let THAT slip.
• CAPPY POSTER…
March 20, 2014
INCARNATION… A new Western Sci-Fi HyperShort by Anthony Lawrence #pitch #western #scifi @tordotcom @bleedingcool
By no means is it easy to mix two completely different genres… unless you’re a master. Behold, …and welcome to an unusual 1908.
INCARNATION by Anthony Lawrence
“So you’re claiming that you’re an innocent man?” Jack tried to keep skepticism from his voice. Ed struggled to get his words out. He could barely breathe because the canvas jacket compressing his body was so tightly laced.
“They’ve tried to break me. My spirit. Fact is I never belonged to that gang and I never robbed the railroad let alone killed anybody.”
It was 1908. San Quentin was California’s oldest prison. Inmate labor had built the prison on 20 acres of land in Marin County near San Rafael. It consisted of little more than fort-like structures built on rugged bare land surrounded by barbed wire fencing. In the dim light of a solitary confinement cell in one of the structures, Ed lay on a simple cot, his face pale, his body constricted by the cruel straitjacket. Jack sat on a wooden stool close by, a notebook cradled in one hand, the other scratching notes with a heavy rude pencil. “So how about the other stuff? You say all that’s true?” Ed’s grey eyes flashed and he managed to nod his head recalling the pain and the images. “You won’t believe it if I swear on the God of my fathers.” Jack just shrugged slightly. “Try me.”
There was a long pause as Ed perused Jack’s face for some sign of trust. When he found it, he continued. “I come from the future. Far in the future. Nobody believed me when I said I was part of a team of scientists in 2055. When I talked about drug-induced reincarnation they thought I was crazy. They don’t understand anything about electrodynamics or quantum physics.” “Neither do I” offered Jack still trying to suppress his natural cynicism. But he couldn’t hide his curiosity. “You say you were able to separate your consciousness, travel through time and space and experience past lives?”
“It’s true,” Ed replied as he gasped for air and twisted slightly to gain a little more traction inside the horrid jacket. “Don’t care if anybody believes it. I went back to the beginning of time. I was a prehistoric tribesman, a 4th century hermit; I was a 16th century Englishman who was the first white man to set foot in Korea. I was Ragnar Lodbrog, a Norse-born Roman centurion in the service of Pontius Pilate.” Ed sucked in another gasp of air and hurtled on backward as he recounted the tales of spinning through time and space in other personalities. “I was Count Guillaume de Saint-Maure, a swordsman of medieval France; Jesse Fancher, a nine-year-old member of a wagon train crossing Utah in 1857.”
Jack London listened intently to the man as he took notes, admiring the convict if not for his pure inventive imagination but fascinated by the exceedingly remote possibility that he could be telling the truth. By the end of the afternoon, as he was leaving the prison, the novel was taking shape in his mind. It would be something radically different from anything he had written before. He would call it “The Jacket” or even a more romantic title, “The Star Rover.” Wondrous ideas were swirling through his mind.
“I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe.”
©2014AnthonyLawrence
Anthony Lawrence biography
Beginning his career as an actor in the early fifties, he performed in many plays and films, then began writing in television, nine episodes of Bonanza, then on to many other series such as Gunsmoke, Columbo, the Fugitive, Outer Limits, and the Twilight Zone, creating and producing Sci-fi/fantasy series such as The Sixth Sense and the Phoenix with his wife and partner, Nancy Lawrence. He was considered one of the most prolific writers in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, writing films for Blake Edwards, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and three Elvis Presley films for Hal Wallis at Paramount. He wrote and produced a three-hour Presley biopic starring Kurt Russell, has received four WGA nominations as well as being named on the Writer’s Guild list of 101 best-written TV series.
March 19, 2014
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… Cars 3, Incredibles 2, Avengers Concept Art #cars3 #incredibles2
• Pixar and Brad Bird are at it again with CARS 3 and INCREDIBLES 2… Proving that good and bad can co-exist.
• AVENGERS Concept Art reveals Scarlet Witch, HulkBusters, Ant-Man and more…
• Michael Bay is doing a new adventure film for Paramount… But no one’s talkin.’ My guess, it’s a Star Wars Transforming Dwayne Johnson vehicle.
March 18, 2014
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… Peanuts, San Andreas, The Maze Runner (Trailer) #peanuts #sanandreas #themazerunner @newmovies
• An all new movie version of PEANUTS opens on November 6, 2015… Yum, CG Peanuts.
• Dwayne Johnson heads up SAN ANDREAS, opening June 5, 2015… Big guy, BIG QUAKE.
• Watch THE MAZE RUNNER Trailer… Teenagers, running for their lives. Sounds like my house.
March 17, 2014
All new 5MINUTE DRIVE with Rodney Allen Rippy the 2014 Chevy SS!! @theawesomer @carscoops @HuffingtonPost #malibu
Brand new episode today (Episode 23) features by good friend, Actor and all around gentle soul, Rodney Allen Rippy. You remember Rodney from one of the most well known commercials in history, right? Well, if you don’t (you must be living in a cave), then you’re about to see a commercial that traveled the world a hundred times over and back again. Also featured is the red-hot smokin’ 2014 CHEVY SS.
Leave a comment for Rodney in the show notes or below!
March 16, 2014
SUNDOME… Today’s Hot HyperShort by Ethan Lawrence #ethanlawrence #hypershort @dailysciencefiction @sfsignal
Another awesome HyperShort for today comes from the sunny side… the DARK sunny side, thanks to an “end of the world” master.
SUNDOME by
Of all the trillions of people who have lived and who will live, I was not especially important, nor heroic, nor handsome, but for a few moments I was cradled by the laws of nature. In a universe that allows humans to survive in a minuscule sliver of all possible times and places, this was a rare accomplishment. I was under the Sundome.
I wanted to see the killing sun for myself so I took the Long Elevator to the surface. The Sundome was a hemispheric pocket of air trapped under massive polymer plates on the crust of my dying planet called Earth. The Sundome persisted only through the efforts of robotic fixers, and the robots themselves needed constant repair from the ravages of the sun. Through the transparent ceiling of the dome, I watched the sun rise over the world it had destroyed. The sun was a boiling disc, white and fringed with solar arcs. Ancient archived images showed a turquoise sky, but the sun had long since blown the atmosphere to wisps across the ruins of the old city. Rising from the centre was a tower many kilometers tall. It had been even taller once, reaching all the way to orbit.
As the sun rose in the sky, the number of visitors to the Sundome thinned out. It was a terrifying experience for many people to stand beneath the blinding and blazing star. But not for me. I wanted to face the sun, to challenge its authority to kill me. While the bulk of the people around me withdrew to the safety of the rock beneath their feet, I chose to go further outwards. The Sundome hosted a number of small transports that allowed visitors to tour the old city. They were rarely used in daylight hours. I went to the transport bay, now completely emptied of people, and found a bus. The doors closed shut with a pneumatic sigh, and then it trundled out the airlock gates. As the transport moved over the blighted landscape, it gave an automated commentary.
“Different astronomers on Old Earth,” said the bus, “reported different colors for the sun over different centuries. It was thought that the colors had been misreported due to the primitive telescopes of the time. Now we know that the old astronomers were seeing signs of instability.”
I tuned out the words, but the sound of the voice was soothing. The transport made its way over to the great, ruined tower. It was impressive, but once it had been majestic, almost god-like in its engineering. Now it was a candle stub of eroded carbon. The soil at the foot of the tower had been baked to glass.
The bus took me around the Old City. The voice pointed out downtown, Santa Monica, and a charred area known as The Valley. Every one of them had long since crumbled to an abstract mass. I sat quietly on the bus as the sun showered the world with light of many frequencies and particles of many energies, with some that knocked lesser particles off the land around them and made the world glow.
On the time scales that affect human consciousness. I did not have long before I would be processed by the forces of nature. Human sacrifice had dogged living creatures as far back as pre-Columbian Aztec civilization. With the evolution of abstract intelligence, the tragedy of death became a folly. But without that folly, humans would never have made it across the Red Sea and there never would have lived a man like me taking his last ride across the crust of a dying world. Each of us ultimately took this tour before they died, for recycling. Up ahead, at the end of this Grand Central Line, the bodies of the living were committed to the huge bacterial vats that broke down flesh and bone and returned organics to the community.
It was my last day on Earth. And I couldn’t wait.
©2014EthanLawrence
Fireball’s ACTION MOVIEBITS… The Falcon, Divergent, Project Skyborn #thefalcon #divergent #projectskyborn
• CAPTAIN AMERICA has a new bromance… and it’s THE FALCON.
• New DIVERGENT Trailer is epic action…
• Today’s Sci-Fi Short Film… PROJECT SKYBORN. What do you think?
Project Skyborn – short film from Marko Slavnic on Vimeo.
March 15, 2014
5MINUTE DRIVE featured in Palisadian Post… @PalisadianPost @TheDeniseCrosby @SierraShafer #denisecrosby #raydonovan #comiccon
BIG THANKS to Sierra Shafer at the Palisadian Post for this…
