* Looks like one of potentially several Battlestar Galactica tv movies will be written by nerd-beloved scribe Jane Espenson, directed by BSG star Edward James Olmos, and apparently focus primarily on the show’s skinjob Cylons. (Via AICN.)
* And Now the Screaming Starts’ CRwM highlights the hyperrealist look of torture-porn films by contrasting a stylized scenario from Saw III with the horrifyingly mundane real-life waterboarding of writer Christopher Hitchens.
* There’s another Books of Blood adaptation on the way: IGN.com editor Christopher Monfette has written a screenplay based on the strange little (like, six pages long) Clive Barker immorality fable “Down, Satan!”
* Douglas Wolk and Joe McCulloch review the latest installment of Grant Morrison’s “Batman: R.I.P.” Doug calls bullshit on what he sees as a Magical Negro figure, but I didn’t see it way because the character in question a) seems to have no idea he’s doing anything magical; b) is a junkie. He also links to this Silver Age Bat-tale that answers a lot of the questions raised by the story so far–talk about a story depending on continuity!
oh yeaaaah… you can see the Zur-En-Arrh Bat-plane on the cover. i thought Morrison was off the drugs.