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John Carpenter and Tatiana Maslany are among the top creators setting up podcasts for audio firm Realm.

The Halloween co-creator and his wife Sandy King Carpenter are scaring up three series starting with Roanoke Falls, an atmospheric thriller about the fear of the unknown, the dangers of superstition, and the depths of desperation.

The series, which will come out in October 2021, follows a woman who investigates a string of murders in the second Roanoke settlement, leading her to a serial killer from the original voyage who waits in the woods.

The pair will follow Roanoke Falls in winter 2022 with Angel to Some and Furnace. Angel to Some follows a chronically ill Catholic student who calls on a guardian angel to protect her — but the angel who shows up instead wants her dead. Furnace is centered around a former tech darling who sets out to start a utopia called The Furnace,...

Someone is about to be in the dog house!

French President Emmanuel Macron’s rescue pooch, Nemo, is often a fixture in presidential events and meetings, but on Sunday the two-year-old dog really stole the show.

The Labrador-Griffon cross decided to take a pee break during an important meeting between government members and his master. The hilarious moment was caught on camera by French TV TF1 and quickly went viral on Twitter.

Obviously a dog of fine taste, the President’s pup chose an ornate gilded fireplace in the 18th Century Élysée Palace as the perfect place to cock his leg.

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As a new Star Trek TV show is planned for 2017, we select the show's top 25 episodes from its classic Original and Animated series...

The impact of Star Trek, a television series that altered the world's expectations and put an indelible mark on many cultures around the world, is often underestimated until you realise who it had an impact on and what they went on to achieve.

If you only ever watch 25 episodes or, rather, stories from the original(ish) run of Star Trek, these are they, at least in my opinion. The only rules in place being that this selection is drawn only from the series that just called themselves Star Trek (so that's what we now call Star Trek: The Original Series, or Tos and Star Trek: The Animated Series, or Tas), and two-part episodes count as one story... The more Trek-astute of you may realise...

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have certainly not been resting on their laurels since their phenomenally successful show Smallville came to an end in 2011. Having written the film I Am Number Four, and penned several episodes of the 2011 series Charlie’s Angels, they have now sold a script to Columbia Pictures that features one of the most enduring characters in literature – Captain Nemo.

As the creation of French author Jules Verne, Captain Nemo made his first appearance in the classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea in 1870. A mysterious and enigmatic character, he is revealed to be the scientific genius son of an Indian Raja and, as such, is also known as Prince Dakkar. Obsessed with marine exploration and discovery, he invents a deep-sea submarine named the Nautilus, and embarks on incredible adventures. A main feature of the character is his extensive loathing of Imperialism – particularly as perpetrated by the British Empire.

Jules Verne’s driven, mercurial hero Captain Nemo has been a fascination for filmmakers for ages. His adventures in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea have been adapted several times for screens big and small, but that isn’t stopping new writers and studios throwing their hats into the ring, with Sony buying up a script from Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.The co-writers, who more recently worked on films such as I Am Number Four and The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, won producer Joe Roth’s eye with their spec script, which boasts a new take on the antihero explorer and scientific genius who builds a sub called the Nautilus. Roth, in turn, sent the script to Sony.Though Roth has a close relationship with Disney – he’s helped make Alice In Wonderland and this year’s Maleficent happen – the Mouse House already has a Nemo update drifting through development.

On “Pawn Stars,” a customer brought in one of the rarest books out there: a first American edition copy of Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.”

Most of the first editions were lost in The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Only about 50 copies are thought to currently exist. Gary, the owner, wanted $10,000 for the book, which he had professionally restored. Of course, Corey Harrison wanted to have it authenticated.

“This book is very, very rare,” book expert Rebecca Romney told him. “It’s not the end of the world to see Verne with condition issues, because Verne is one of those people who was always heavily read. With all of that in mind, I would place this at about $12,000.

Gary was psyched. When it came to final negotiations, Gary sold the book to Corey for just $9,500.

Tweeters couldn’t believe Corey dropped that much money on just a book.

Jules Verne.s 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is one of the more exciting classic novels, and has a pretty solid film version in Richard Fleischer.s 1954 adaptation for Disney. The last time we.ve seen an iteration of the story was the retched 1997 TV movie with Sir Michael Caine and Patrick Dempsey. One free drink from the Nautilus. bar for anyone who correctly assumed it would be a while longer before we get another one. After an initial attempt in 2009 by McG to make it, 20,000 Leagues has been firmly in the directorial grasp of David Fincher. Of course, that was three years ago, and after a handful of other delays, it looked like the project was finally set to begin filming in Australia. But the Sydney Morning Herald reported the film is once again being temporarily delayed by Disney. With all of these problems, how is this...

English class is about to get a whole lot more…titillating. While classic literature has been getting amped up recently by adding in a mix of zombies, vampires and sea creatures, there's nothing supernatural about the most recent twist on some old tales—nope, it's totally carnal this time. A selection of classic titles are due to be reworked into bodice-ripping, sexed-up romances. So which stories are getting the Fifty Shades of Grey treatment?! Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre and…Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?! Those are just three of the handful of classic novels getting updated by Clandestine Classics (a subset of Total-e-Bound publishing) to add additional sex...

Jane Austen and zombies? Over. Now, thanks to 50 Shades of Grey, it’s Jane Austen and steamy sex scenes. Total-e-Bound Publishing has introduced Clandestine Classics, a collection of novels that have been raised — or lowered? — to guilty pleasure status. Allow us to quote from some of the descriptions:

Pride & Prejudice: “Electrifying sexual tension soon leads to an unexpected kiss and Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down.” You can do better. That doesn’t do the excerpt justice.

Jane Eyre: “He demands her abject surrender. In his strong and athletic arms, Jane submits to his darkest desires and discovers hers are every bit as searing,...

Inspired by the recent release of The Raven, James comes up with a few alternate history movie ideas of his own. A reanimated Queen Victoria, anyone…?

As a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, I enjoyed James McTeigue’s The Raven. A film in the vein of Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes with Baltimore horror substituting bromantic Cockney capering, the overall style, aesthetic and allusions to Poe’s tales appealed to me.

Others disagree, however, and so far the film has been received negative reviews and a fair amount of flak. My only issue really is the decision to name it The Raven and not give it a fanciful-yet-specific title like The Curious Detective Investigation Conducted by Edgar Allan Poe and Confounded Colleagues Concerning a Series of Sinister Copycat Murders in the Baltimore Fog on the Eve of the Aforementioned Esteemed Author’s Strange and Tragic Demise.

It would be a...

This Saturday, February 11, the Syfy network is premiering Jules Verne’S Mysterious Island, and we’ve got a slew of images and a new trailer for you to check out. The film was directed by Mark Sheppard, and stars Lochlyn Munro, Gina Holden, W. Morgan Sheppard, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Caleb Michaelson, Susie Abromeit, J.D. Evermore, and Edrick Browne.

Synopsis (courtesy K2 Pictures):

“Filmed on location in Louisiana, K2 Pictures and Leverage Entertainment present a cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (L’Ile Mysterieuse). The book was a sequel to his famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways.

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Beginning in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in...

Genre: Fantasy | Adventure

Air Date/Time: February 11, 9/8c

Network: Syfy

Writer: Cameron Larson

Director: Mark Sheppard

Cast: Gina Holden, Lochlyn Munro, J.D. Evermore, Caleb Michaelson, Edrick Browne, W. Morgan Sheppard, Susie Abromeit, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mark Sheppard

Synopsis:

Filmed on location in Louisiana, K2 Pictures and Leverage Entertainment present a cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel “The Mysterious Island”. The story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon! Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they aren’t alone… Faced with defending themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures, and an active volcano that’s ready to blow, they must find a way to survive and escape the island. Hope only comes when they encounter the island’s oldest resident,...

Who knew Vernians existed? That there is a devoted literary circle of Jules Verne.s enthusiasts? There sure is and this delightful family film celebrates the man himself. Verne was a progressive thinker who created some of the best known and prescient works of science fiction of the 19th century. He.s credited with inventing the genre through his landmark books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Off on a Comet (1877) and From the Earth to the Moon (1865). Verne set his stories in space, in the depths of the ocean and up in the air. They are places were...

Amazon has kindly been cataloging classic books and offering them for their Kindle device and app at no charge. You can now download a number of genre staples for free, including Shelley’s Frankenstein, Stoker’s Dracula and Leroux’s Phantom Of The Opera, just for starters. For those with a smart phone (iPhone, droid) but no Kindle pad, you can download the Kindle app for free.

Below is a list of just a few titles of interest you can put in your pocket for absolutely no charge, to enjoy whenever is convenient. Interesting that stories 100+ years old are serving as gateways from tangible print to digital “print.”

It is easy: 1. Download the Kindle app to your smart phone from iTunes or your droid store; 2. Go to Amazon.com on your computer and “buy” any of the titles below just like you would normally shop on the site (again, they...

It features Dwayne Johnson flexing his pecs and riding around on a giant bee. Could Journey 2 prove to be next year’s most enjoyable family film?

By now, you may well have seen the trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

Ostensibly a sequel to Journey To The Center Of The Earth, which proved a surprise hit back in 2008, it appears to have few ties to that film. Brendan Fraser’s bailed from the franchise, and Journey 2’s subtitle implies that it’s loosely based on another Jules Verne novel, The Mysterious Island, which was actually written as a follow-up to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and In Search Of The Castaways, and therefore has nothing to do with Journey To The Center Of The Earth at all.

Not that any of this matters – when a trailer opens with Luis Guzmán opening a helicopter full of chickens while Vanessa Hudgens...

The word from Cannes is that Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is set to star in Shoreline Entertainment’s reworking of the Captain Nemo character, under the direction of Pearry Teo (Witchville in China).

Last seen jumping the shark in Stephen Norrington’s infamous (but unconnected) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Captain Nemo will team up with President Ulysses Grant to challenge the evil genius responsible for numerous naval disasters in a unofficial steampunked sequel to Jules Verne’s classic novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Teo will reteam with producer Amy Krell for the project, the two having previously worked together for the SyFy Channel. Shoreline Entertainment’s founder and CEO Morris Ruskin will executive produce alongside Asia Bridge’s Steve Chicorel.

Titled Captain Nemo, and set for a 3D release, this is not the only vehicle for the character on the horizon, with David Fincher flirting with...

What do you guys think about Jules Verne’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Would you like to see this kind of story on the big screen? Well, guess what!

Looks like Disney is very much interested in this adventure project, so the studio is set to name David Fincher in charge for the whole thing! Interesting? Yeah, we thought so, especially since we all remember they had been planning to breathe new life into Captain Nemo last year, with McG on board to direct the mooted $150 million project…

So, we all know Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1869, which tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.

We also know that since 1907, there were various film, television and theatrical adaptations of this novel, but with...

Director David Fincher ("Fight Club") will take on Disney's prequel remake of the feature "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", based on the novel by French author Jules Verne.

Producer Wal Disney's original 1954 production, directed by Richard Fleischer, noted as the first science fiction film from Walt Disney Pictures, starred Kirk Douglas as 'Ned Land', James Mason as 'Captain Nemo', Paul Lukas as 'Professor Pierre Aronnax' and Peter Lorre as 'Conseil'.

The new film, titled "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo" will serve as an origin story for central character 'Captain Nemo', as he builds his warship, the 'Nautilus'.

Author Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" ("Vingt mille lieues sous les mers"), published in 1869, follows the story of 'Captain Nemo' and his submarine 'Nautilus' as seen from the perspective of 'Professor Pierre Aronnax'.

The story opens in the year 1866, with everyone talking about a mysterious creature that has been sinking ships.

Disney sunk the McG (Terminator: Salvation) adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea back in November, though not out of lack of interest in the property: Heat Vision reports that David Fincher is now in talks with the Mouse House to direct the at-sea adventure. Fincher, known for darker R-rated fare like Fight Club and Se7en, approached Disney with the intent to make a “four-quadrant tentpole”; 20,000 Leagues certainly fits the bill, and could be a major box office player in the right hands (apparently not McG’s). Among the hands Disney is recruiting are those of Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum), who is currently drafting an adaptation of the Jules Verne story.

Fincher followed up his Oscar nomination for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with the Facebook tale The Social Network—now in post-production—which will likely be succeeded by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Burns finishes the 20,000 Leagues script.

Captain Nemo and the Nautilus will remain in dry dock indefinitely, according to a recent report from Variety. Disney's original turn at adapting Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea resulted in the now-classic 1954 movie starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason, easily the most memorable of the many movie adaptations of Verne's book.

Director McG (Terminator: Salvation) announced in August that he was scouting locations for Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with Sam Worthington in mind for the lead role. Disney was planning on beginning production in February, but now those plans have been halted and McG is apparently no longer at the helm. According to the report, Captain Nemo is still a priority for Disney, along with John Carter of Mars, Tron: Legacy, and Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Just who knows how long it will be before the project begins to take shape?

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"It took two years to make," retorted the Time Traveler. "Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. The saddle represents the seat of the time traveler. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future time, and disappear. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table, too, and satisfy yourself that there is no trickery. I don’t want to waste this model and then be told I am a quack!" -The Time Machine That’s the description of the first time machine to be called a time machine -- little more than a Victorian mechanical bull, although a pretty one, built of brass, quartz and ivory. H.G. Wells’ landmark 1895 novella was a major leap forward...