Some Stuff: June 22, 2009

On this date in 1847, donuts were invented

My source at moviehole is reporting that a remake/reboot of the 1985 classic Teen Wolf is in early development. Warner Bros. is currently shopping for a writer, but the studio isn't yet sure "which way [they want] to go."

Way back when, before anyone had even seen Terminator Salvation yet I reported that an Austrian bodybuilder named Roland Kickinger had been cast to play the T-800 instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger. As we later found out, he was cast for his body, not his face. But now numerous sites are reporting that Kickinger has been cast in Lionsgate's Conan reboot as Conan. Most of these sites are kinda sketchy the one that isn’t Latin Review is the only one to claim that this is all BS.


Midway developer Ed Boon posted some tasty details on his Twitter page regarding Mortal Kombat 9 that MK fans will be very pleased to hear.

Boon confirmed that MK 9 will in fact be M-rated. (Given what we've seen from God of War III on the violence front, Midway is going to have to dig deep to appease jaded gore-hounds.)

So what is the team doing to really earn that M rating this time around? Boon commented yesterday that the team has started motion capturing special moves and fatalities, and the results have been "kind of sick." MK9 will be stores on Time for Christmas.

The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults that sidelined the $10 billion machine shortly after startup last year, the operator said Saturday. The Large Hadron Collider was meant to restart in late September, but that will probably be pushed back two to three weeks.