"Uhhh...Beavis likes to tickle his robot. Uhhuhhuhhuhhuhhuhhuh!"

@laylowmoe: I hadn't quite thrown up in my mouth enough today. Thanks for fixing that.

@shaunmcilroy: Ahh, razzle frazzle mumble grumble.

Ok, this will probably get my geek card revoked, but...why is the lead graphic here from They Live? OTOH, I'm happy to see that there's no announcement here of a remake, which is what I'd feared...

A) RHPS is a fantastic musical, a fantastic parody of/tribute to mid-20th c. Sci-Fi, and a fantastic love letter to rock n' roll. The book is jaw-droppingly brilliant. Everyone in it sings and acts their asses off. Tim Curry and Richard O'Brien rule, of course, but in some ways the straights are every bit as good. …

Bloody brilliant.

"That could mean they're changing the ending to give Bilbo an active role in the big battle, which makes sense from a filmmaking perspective, in that it wouldn't really do to have the protagonist absent from the movie's big finale. "

Heh. I had the same reaction.

@Jaymii: You should check out Jim C. Hines' Princess series of novels, which have a similar vibe (though more fantasy than superhero):

"Soldiers consider these life-saving machines essential to their units"

The combo of Lovecraft and GDT is exciting. But man, I'd love for io9 to go 48 whole hours without doing Cameron the favor of uncritically reprinting his verbal jackoffery.

@sabriel: Ah. That's interesting. The problem is, 'The Hobbit' has a great unified narrative structure. It's not the story of Middle Earth and all that's going on in it — it's the story of one Hobbit's adventure ("There and Back Again," basically). Trying to cram in stuff from the Silmarillion or wherever else…

A) Does Cameron really think anyone's going to watch more than three Avatar movies?

"When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity...they did a 3-D version...And that's not what's happening now with 3-D. "

::reluctantly deletes anti-2600 ET screed after reading last line of article::

"I wanted to plod along on foot, to exchange Arabic salutations with the white-toothed village girls, to feel the African sun on my back...Gangs of prisoners were grading and watering the road which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Belgium would use on the morrow....hundreds of men and boys were working for the…

Annalee , I'm a huge Melville fan - props for the writeup on Pierre, BTW. But I'm curious — is your Glover = Queequeg + Ahab formulation based solely on the racial factor? On a certain level, I find it more interesting that we appear to have a female Starbuck here...

Wow. This kid would kick HALKa's ass — or um, at least yell at him a lot.

@Laffinboy: "Next you'll tell me that Lucas actually released Star Wars episodes 1-3. And that they were more computer animated than human actor-ed. "

This is the first cool thing I've heard about a Hollywood supers movie in a while. I think a silver age period piece is a great idea. Really, all the Marvel heroes are better in their original versions than in the 'relevant' 'updated' 90s/00s versions. Iron Man would have been better as a series of post-Vietnam…