When I came in to work today, our production department (aka "the guys") was discussing the news (link is external) that J.J. Abrams may do Portal and Half-Life movies.
This is so ridiculous that we really don't have words for it. Especially in light of the lukewarm (link is external) reviews of JJTrek2, and their possibly (link is external) ominous implications for Abrams' Star Wars movies.
Should we really put all our scifi franchise eggs in the basket of a billionaire named JJ (link is external)?
We were all discouraged, and yet we're all planning to go see Star Trek: Into Darkness this weekend.
To cheer up, we had an office discussion of how excellent the Dredd remake was, and how great (link is external) Karl Urban is. Is his frown CG? Is it possible to frown continuously for an entire movie shoot?
Meanwhile, Lost's Sawyer (aka actor/hotness machine Josh Holloway (link is external)) is in a chip-in-head show starting next Fall (link is external).
It's called Intelligence, and it looks fairly dumb, but I'll watch it, because Sawyer. Also CSI's marvelous, viscerally powerful Marg Helgenberger (link is external) and the sassy Meghan Ory (link is external) are in it. As well as long-time Genre Player with Honors (link is external) John Billingsley.
The chip-in-head HUD visuals look more Lawnmower Man (link is external) than Continuum (link is external), so fingers crossed.
Is a chip-in-head show too Uncanny Valley right now, with Google Glass closing in HUD space so quickly? My boyfriend doesn't follow Glass news as closely as I do. He was horrified to learn that with Google I/O (link is external) this week there actually people walking around SoMA with Glass on. Aka Glassholes (link is external). Including prototypes for eyeglass wearers (link is external), so Glass for me is not too far away!
The resemblance of Holloway's chip-HUD to real-life Glass AR may make the show look dated before it launches.
But we hope not, because we loved Sawyer so, so much, and we'd like to see Holloway as the star of his own show. Come to think of it, we'd have liked to see 121 episodes of Lost starring Holloway...