I remember an interview with Arthur C Clark, maybe around the time Independence Day came out, where he said he had written a new intro to Childhood's End if anybody wanted to make a movie out of it. I wonder what that was, and if they'll use it.

I would watch an AMC show called "Murdering tramps and random arson" if Morgan Freeman was in it. Or narrated the opening, whatever.

I'm sure the guy who tacked a sweet happy ending onto I Am Legend will fix that for you.

Akiva Goldsman? The guy who wrote Batman and Robin, Lost in Space, I, Robot, and I Am Legend? This adaptation will be TERRIFIC!
*bursts into tears*

ME TOO.

They should have just called it TOM CRUISE MUST DIE. That would've filled seats.

Meanwhile, at home, an ABC executive watching the show shakes his head, picks up his ipad, and starts writing an email under the subject line UPDATE CANCELLATION LIST.

Hey, it's been what, ten years since the last Austin Powers movie? In Spiderman years that's enough time to reboot it twice.

Rick Moranis made a shit-ton of money in those Honey I Shrunk The Whatever movies. He's not hurting.

You can mock us all you want, dude, but look how successful we've been in preventing a Ghostbusters 3. For TWENTY FIVE years you've longed for a Ghostbusters 3, and we have stymied you at every turn, you sad little weakling. KNEEL BEFORE OUR LIBERAL ARTS POWERS!

Were you bothered by Ronan's British accent?

"Philip Lesterson" is a guy who works for the railroad in Atlas Shrugs. He has a secret collection of Dagny Taggart's cigarette butts. He longs to be with her but he knows he's not manly enough. Letting Francisco D'Anconia hate-fuck him a few times is as close as he can ever get to his beloved Dagny. In the end he is…

If you were a conservative whacko posting angry things on the internet, "Palin Scott Card" would be a pretty good nym.

No, he wasn't an attendant. That would indeed be sad. He was just a guy using the restroom in the basement by the room where celebrities signed autographs. And it wasn't a remote Sheraton, it was the high-end one in downtown Atlanta. It was perhaps the classiest of hotel basement bathrooms.

He was going to town on that sandwich. I doubt there were crusts to discard. I did not watch his entire sandwich, eating, however.

We didn't make direct eye contact for the entire duration. Just during the brief moment when I said "Excuse me" and he said "Oh, sorry" because he was sort of in the way of the paper towels. Ergonomically, it was not the best laid-out restroom.

What?

No, it was Ernie Hudson. I saw him again minutes later in the room where celebrities were signing autographs and he was sitting there, eating a sandwich.

No, I was just in a restroom. You know. To use the restroom. Other people were also in the restroom. One of those other people happened to be Ernie Hudson.

I saw Ernie Hudson wearing a Ghostbusters outfit, taking a leak in the men's room at the Sheraton at DragoonCon last year. I think getting him to sign up for Ghostbusters 3 would be the least of Ghostbusters 3's problems.