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1.<\/a> Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Chris Nolan\u2019s Inception<\/a><\/i>, about which little is known except that it is \u201ca contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> co-executive producer Mark Verheiden<\/a> will write Quatermain<\/i>, about which little is known except that it is a \u201csci-fi adventure\u201d that is \u201cbig, live action and would not be outside the wheel-well for fans of, say, Battlestar Galactica<\/i>.\u201d \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, Mark Verheiden<\/a><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> More details are beginning to leak out about Tron 2.0<\/a><\/i>, which is currently being prepped in Vancouver. Among other things, the story will reportedly begin in 1989, and Flynn (the Jeff Bridges character) will have a seven-year-old son. Hmmm, the original movie<\/a> came out in 1982, seven years prior to that. Who is the boy\u2019s mother, I wonder? \u2014 Ain\u2019t It Cool News<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have signed on to write the script for The Thirteenth Hour<\/i>, based on a Richard Doetsch novel about \u201ca man accused of murdering his wife who gets to go back in time \u2014 in one-hour increments over 12 hours \u2014 with the chance to stop his wife\u2019s killer.\u201d Sounds kind of similar to The Days Before<\/a><\/i>, which concerns a guy who goes back in time in daily<\/i> increments. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Apparently there is a big spoiler in this article<\/a> in Variety<\/i>. So let\u2019s just say that, if you read a novel in the last four years and found yourself thinking, \u201cHey, isn\u2019t the premise behind this story, in which people discover that they are clones created for the purpose of organ donation, kind of similar to that Michael Bay movie The Island<\/a><\/i>?\u201d then you might know which recent novel is about to become a film in its own right. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

6.<\/a> Danielle Panabaker will star in Chuck Russell\u2019s Prodigy<\/i>: \u201cIt\u2019s about this high school forty years in the future . . . where [the students] are bred to be the best of the best. They are supposed to be the most beautiful, the most talented, the strongest. They\u2019re medicated, fed, and monitored. . . . Someone tries to take over the world, and the whole system comes crashing down.\u201d \u2014 MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

7.<\/a> John Cusack and Rob Corddry will star in Hot Tub Time Machine<\/i>, a comedy about \u201ca group of friends who are frustrated when they return to a ski lodge where they partied as teens. They then get in a hot tub \u2014 which happens to be a time machine \u2014 and get transported to 1987.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

8.<\/a> A trailer has been released for The Mutant Chronicles<\/i>, which opened in Europe a few months ago and comes to North America in limited release in April. The film concerns \u201ca fight against an army of underworld NecroMutants\u201d in the 28th century, and it has a fair bit of God-talk, too. \u2014 Carmen Andres<\/a>, MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

9.<\/a> Party of Five<\/i> alumnus Scott Wolf will star in V<\/a><\/i>, a remake of the 1980s TV show that is \u201cset in the future, when the human race is ruled by aliens known as the Visitors. Wolf will play a career-obsessed TV newscaster who becomes the aliens\u2019 propaganda outlet.\u201d \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

10.<\/a> The trailer for the amnesiacs-in-space thriller Pandorum<\/a><\/i>, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, is now online. \u2014 ComingSoon.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"