Today, I met up with former Stargate creator/producer/director/writer Robert Cooper and former Stargate special features producer Ivon Bartok for an afternoon of dim sum and donuts. Over the course of our culinary conference, we discussed past productions, pending projects, and even pitched out plans for a few potential programming possibilities. We also ate. A lot.…
June 7, 2012: Day of Stargate Past – Atlantis, Rising I and II
Whew! Done! For now anyway. Today, Paul and I delivered the first draft of our SF miniseries. The robust 204 page script is now with the studio - and, more importantly, in the hands of director Steve Barron who will be working his magic sometime in July. Despite its four hour event status, it moves…
June 6, 2012: Days of Stargate Past…Atlantis
Last year, I took us all on a trip down memory lane as I reflected back (and attempted to recall what details I could of) my seven seasons on Stargate: SG-1. Our journey began here (April 24, 2011: Days of Stargate Past – SG-1 Season Four!) and ended here (November 9, 2011: Ending my SG-1 trip down…
June 4, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews The Shadow!
Who knows what evil lurk in de hearts of men? De Shadow knows! How he know? Search monster. Me having hard enough time trying to make sense of dis movie. De Shadow remind monster of De Rocketeer. Both great-looking period movies with terrifik costumes and set dezign. But while Rocketeer skript flat and simple ,…
May 28, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club Reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews the 1995 Fantastic Four movie!
Dis movie nowhere near fantastic but, all in all, not de worst fan film monster have ever seen. De skript be cliche and contrived, de akting hokey and over-de-top, and de special effekts soooo cheezy, but you have to remember dat dis movie not made by profeshiunals. It a produkt of love by group of…
May 22, 2012: Running the miniseries marathon! And the Dark Matter TPB is on its way!
If this miniseries were a marathon, these last two legs would have been all uphill. I'm exhausted but have passed the halfway mark and, while I forge ahead, keeping to my grueling act a day pace, Paul is following a few steps back - reading, revising and making sure everything actually makes sense. Once I…
May 21, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Blankman!
Calling dis movie "a comedy" be like calling orange soda "juice". Blankman aktually offer less den 5% of de daily rekommended serving of laffs. It start promising enuf, den go downhill faster den a carob birtday cake delivery truck wit no brakes. Or a movie written by a ten year old - which me suspekt…
May 18, 2012: Dark Matter artist Garry Brown answers your questions!
When my editor at Dark Horse, Patrick Thorpe, asked me which artist I wanted to work with on Dark Matter, I had a difficult time offering a name. Yes, there are plenty of comic book artists whose work I greatly admire but, being a relative newcomer to the field, I didn't feel right pitching someone…
May 16, 2012: A Major Mailbag! Includes: The scoop on the Dark Matter trade paperback! T.V. thoughts! And where I would like to see the Stargate: Universe movie go!
Well, last night I received a call from my writing partner, Paul. It was the call I suspected and expected and altogether dreaded. He was a couple of days into his pass on the first four acts I'd written and, while things were going well, they were also progressing slowly. "I don' t know what…
May 15, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club Reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Meteor Man!
Meteor Man written and directed by Robert Townsend. To be honest, me prefer his Chinatown. Still, monster surprized me not hate dis movie. Sure, it all sortz of stoopid and itz hero as interesting as a deli sandwitch named after David Caruso, but it not all bad. Only mostly bad. After opening theme muzik dat…
May 13, 2012: Happy Mother’s Day!
I celebrated by being doubly prolific and completing not one but two acts, 25 pages, and hitting the 57 page mark. I was conservatively gunning for 30 by tomorrow so I'm more than pleased - and, thus, won't feel at all guilty about going out to dinner and then taking the night off to watch…
May 12, 2012: 2 Acts down, 14 to go! And why not join our Supermovie of the Week Club?
The miniseries I'm presently writing has required a fair amount of research. Over the past few weeks, my online investigations have covered cyber-terrorism, computer worms and viruses, online anonymity, the NSA (National Security Agency), the FBI, Missile Defense Systems, nuclear power schematics, and the White House administration. In short, every google search sure to set…
May 11, 2012: 15 down, 165 to go!
The plan was to get the first act of the mini-series written today and that's what I'm going to do - even if it means I'm staying up all night to do it. I've been working all day and have roughly fifteen pages under my belt. Roughly two more to go and then I'm done.…
May 10, 2012: Thoughts on t.v.
For a guy who makes his living writing for film and television, I don't watch a lot of either - certainly nowhere near as much as you guys. To be perfectly honest, I'd rather just read a good book. Having said that, there are about a dozen or so shows I do follow. Some I…
May 4, 2012: Dark Matter artist, Garry Brown, wants to hear from YOU! And once you come up with that final act break, it’ll be smooooooooth sailing!
With the opening four-issue arc of our comic book series, Dark Matter, completed, I thought this would be a great opportunity to have artist Garry Brown swing by this blog for a Q&A. A native of Scotland and graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Garry has worked for Marvel, DC, BOOM!…