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THIS WEEK IN SCI-FI: 20-26 FEBRUARY Stars
team up for Seth Green's new show Scarlett Johansson, Burt Reynolds, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Michelle Gellar are among a host of stars who are lending their voices to a new animation series dreamed up by actor Seth Green. Green is using stop-motion animation to pooke fun at Hollywood and pop culture stars in a show called Robot Chicken. The actor says of the show's unusual title, "My partners and I, when we were writing the show, we sat around in my living room and ate this dish from a Chinese takeout place. We were like, "What the hell is Robot Chicken? There's no robots in it and it's not bionic chickens!" Joss
Whedon talks comics Joss Whedon told fans at last week's WonderCon in San Francisco that he will oversee a three-issue Dark Horse comic prequel to his Serenity movie. "Dark Horse is putting out a three-issue prequel to the movie Serenity that will sort of bridge the show and movie for some people. That's going to be coming out starting in the summer. ... It's going to be written by Brett Matthews [who authored Dark Horse's Angel comic series] from a story we're working on." Whedon added that each issue will have three variant covers drawn by different prominent comic artists, featuring all nine principal Serenity characters. "The first of which, of course, is John Cassaday, who will be drawing Mal [Nathan Fillion]," he said. "I have seen just a few of the covers. I called basically my dream team of artists. Nobody turned me down, and I've seen a few of them, and they're extraordinary." Whedon also screened a clip from Serenity, featuring cast members Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Gina Torres, and showing a robbery that is interrupted by the arrival of the show's feared villains, the Reavers. Meanwhile, Whedon announced that he has signed on to write a second year of 12 issues of Marvel Comics' Astonishing X-Men. After finishing the current run of 12 X-Men issues, he said, "We're going to take a brief respite after that and come back with another 12 and then finish up with our own giant-size ... Astonishing X-Men annual number one," Whedon said with his X-Men artist, Cassaday |
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