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New Splice Clip from Producer Guillermo Del Toro

7 October 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »

Check out a brand new clip from the upcoming film “Splice” from producer Guillermo Del Toro (The Hobbit, Hellboy) by director Vincenzo Natali (High Rise, Cypher) and starring Adrien Brody (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Sarah Polley (Mr. Nobody). Synopsis: Clive and Elsa are young, brilliant and ambitious. The new animal species they engineered have made them rebel superstars of the scientific world. In secret, they introduce human DNA into the experiment. The result is something that is greater than the sum of its parts: a female animal-human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. They think they may have created the perfect organisim, until she makes a [...] »

- Brian Corder

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J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild and High Rise Coming to the Big Screen

25 May 2009 9:04 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

J.G. Ballard, who passed away back in April, is thought by many to be one of the most groundbreaking science-fiction authors to ever live... and yet, the vast majority of people have still never even heard of the guy. A lot of his books are now out of print and hard to find, although I think he has a bigger following in the U.K. than in North America. Up until this point, only a few of his stories have ever been adapted for the big screen, most notably Crash, which was directed by David Cronenberg, and Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, based on Ballard's non-science-fiction novel about growing up in Japan during WWII. Well, it looks like a couple more of his books are finally on their way to becoming movies, and at least one of them should be in good hands. High Rise is a dark story about »

- Sean

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J.G. Ballard’s High Rise Depicts Utopian Sci-Fi Arcology

22 May 2009 3:49 AM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

Arcologies are a favorite Sci-Fi genre interest of mine. An Arcology is a kind of a Utopian idea of a completely self contained city housed entirely within a single building. There are many great Sci-Fi novels about arcologies. My first read and probably favorite is Oath of Fealty by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Oath is about a society that trades privacy for security in a gigantic self contained building city. Definitely a novel who’s ideas have stayed very relevant. The late J.G. Ballard’s wrote another very interesting novel about an arcology called “High Rise” and it is on the way to theatres directed by Vincenzo Natali, the guy that brought you Cube and very soon will bring you the very interesting looking Splice. Here’s the official synopsis. In the midst of a vast ocean stands the Elysium Tower – a glistening vertical city – a sanctuary for challenging times. »

- endymi0n

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First poster and detailed synopsis for Vincenzo Natali's High Rise

21 May 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

As we've stated many times in past posts, we're incredibly excited to see what Vincenzo Natali's (Cube, Splice) got cooked up for us in his upcoming adaptation of J.G. Ballard's "High Rise." Well, we snagged a look at the first promotional poster for the project for you and even gathered the first plot synopsis which shows that the film will stray somewhat from the book. Specifically, the high rise in question is now situated on an island in the middle of the ocean. While the inhabitants of Ballard's book don't seem to need the outside world, it's not made explicitly clear if they are actually dislocated. Of course, for logic's sake, I can understand why Natali would make this isolation more clear.

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In the midst of a vast ocean stands the Elysium Tower – a glistening vertical city – a sanctuary for challenging times.

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J.G. Ballard Dies Aged 78

20 April 2009 12:11 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Award-winning novelist J.G. Ballard has died after a long battle with prostrate cancer. He was 78. Ballard, who died at his Shepperton home, was one of the most influential British writers of the post-war era and also earned significant cachet within Hollywood, where two of his novels, Crash and Empire Of The Sun, were adapted into movies.Seen by many as a sci-fi writer, Ballard disliked the label, preferring to describe his books as 'picturing the psychology of the future'. Crash, High Rise, Super-Cannes and The Drowned World, in particular, created stark visions of modern life and proved a key influence on the cyberpunk movement.Ballard's dystopian tale of car-accident fetishism Crash caught the eye of David Cronenberg, who brought it to the screen in 1996 in an adaptation that proved extremely faithful to the writer's vision. Ballard dismissed Crash's attendant controversy and applauded Cronenberg's movie, describing it as "the first »

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Adapt This!  Six Works of Speculative Fiction For Your Consideration

29 January 2009 9:23 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

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Personally, I have a bit of a speculative fiction bent (with a penchant for post-apocalyptic flavours) and an aversion to long winded film franchises, here are the ground rules for this weeks Twitch-o-Meter.  A couple cases below may benefit from splitting up the adaptation into more than one film (as is the trend these days, at least evidenced mightily with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien) might help ease the burden of adapting the dense plotting, but then we are talking story telling, not the typical breeding ground for repetition and diminishing returns that plagues both American and International sequels (The Alien franchise anyone?  Infernal Affairs? Ringu?  Whispering Corridors? Ginger Snaps? Highlander?)

But first, a few notes on what is not included on the list, but might have been some years ago. Certainly Cormac McCarthy’s The Road would have been on this list if it was not already in post-production »

- Kurt Halfyard

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2009 | 2008

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