* Well, this is interesting. Normally I suppose I’d be up in arms over the news that Battlestar Galactica mastermind Ronald D. Moore’s script for the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing is getting a rewrite. But look who’s doing the rewriting: Eric Heisserer, whom longtime readers of ADDTF’s horrorblog incarnation may recognize as the author of the brilliantly frightening webfiction project Dionaea House. Obviously Heisserer hasn’t led the shuttering of a proposed Dionaea House film adaptation hold him down–he’s apparently also done some work on the remake/reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
* Kiel Phegley speaks to incoming Daredevil writer Andy Diggle. The interview is short on details about the project, as you’d expect from PR for a book that hasn’t even begun yet, but I’m still interested insofar as Daredevil has somewhat improbably become Marvel’s benchmark of quality over the past few decades, and I’m hoping that Brian Bendis and Ed Brubaker’s excellent runs are followed up by something equally entertaining.
* Todd VanDerWerff’s weekly Lost review is worth a read as always; this time around he discusses something I surely noticed but hadn’t quite articulated for myself regarding the structure of last night’s episode. something that may have made it feel a bit less fresh than its immediate predecessors.
* Your quote of the day:
If I could ask any of the 3 most recent presidents just one question, the question would be:
“It’s well known that you tried illegal drugs at some point in your life. Would the world be a better place if you had gone to prison and gotten a permanent black mark on your record for that youthful experimentation? If not, then why are you so determined to send young men and women to prison for the same mistakes that you yourself made and then moved past?”
Eric has a story in Zombie Tales #12 from BOOM! Studios. It came out a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it…and I’m not just saying that because I also happen to have a story in that issue 🙂