Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

Over at 221b_bakerst, people are discussing who they see as their Sherlock Holmes. For me, I would say Jeremy Brett is the best one. But other than him, I picture Christopher Eccleston or Peter Wingfield as Holmes.

David Tennant may have been cast in a movie called Burke and Hare. Going by the description, I would definitely watch it.

Ivan Reitman is on board for Ghostbusters 3. That’s everyone coming back except for Sigourney Weaver, then. I'm hoping Louis Tully won't be around for it, too.

For yuletide, I’m going to update the list of fandoms to try to nominate:



The Librarian trilogy
Dark Shadows
Being Human
Merlin (probably too big, but I’ll find out)
Back to the Future trilogy
Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters
The Addams Family (movies only)
Xena: Warrior Princess
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Space Cases
Fright Night
Dracula: The Series
Sherlock Holmes
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
The Mummy trilogy
Psych
Monk
Forever Knight
Pushing Daisies
Fables (the Willingham comic)
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Princess Bride (movie)
Castle
The Middleman
Eastwick
Wonderfalls
Life on Mars (UK version)
She-Wolf of London
The Secret World of Alex Mack
Galaxy Quest
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Jack of All Trades (with Bruce Campbell; short-lived series)
Queen of Swords (with Valentine Pelka, and Peter Wingfield)
National Treasure (both movies)
Mystery Science Theater 3000
3rd Rock From The Sun (just discovered this on TV Land, and I think I like it)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995)
Robin Hood (BBC series)
Jekyll (the series with James Nesbitt)
Sanctuary
ReBoot
Sliders
Shadow Raiders



If anyone can think of any others for me to add, go ahead and suggest them. A few of them I’ve never seen/haven’t watched much of (Sanctuary, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and Forever Knight) but I can still try to nominate them if nobody else does. Doctor Who/Torchwood, Buffyverse, Star Trek, X-Men, and Batman aren’t eligible. And since Highlander and Good Omens each have a Secret Santa going on, they aren’t either.

In other news, I’m currently checking around to see if there are any other haunted houses in the area--ones that aren’t as horrible as Toxic Halloween turned out to be. I’ll be checking around to see if Oller’s Oddities is going to be at the Adult Easter Seals Center again. They change their name (they’ve also been Mill Massacre, and Circus of Horrors) and location every year, so it’s tough to track them.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping Louis Tully won't be around for it, too.

I doubt it. Rick Moranis retired from Hollywood to raise his kids after his wife passed and he's been living off Honey, I Shrunk The Kids royalties ever since. (I'm not even being sarcastic about that second bit. Apparently the film series made a ridiculous amount of money for him.) He didn't even come back for the videogame and that was just voiceover work.

[calliopes_pen]

I never even knew he was married, or that she died--it's understandable about him retiring, though. Other than the Ghostbusters movies, the only thing I ever saw him in was Spaceballs, I believe.

I only saw Honey, I Shrunk The Kids for the first time recently, when Encore played it to death.

(I'm not even being sarcastic about that second bit. Apparently the film series made a ridiculous amount of money for him.)

I'm not surprised. I remember it being everywhere for a long time. And while I might not have seen Honey, I Shrunk The Kids until recently, I remember getting some of the stuff related to it in the Happy Meals from McDonalds at the time.

I think I heard it even spawned a tv series at one point, and that Jewel Staite popped up somewhere in there.

[morgeil.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think to add would be Sliders, as well as two of the Mainframe/Rainmaker CGI shows: ReBoot and Shadow Raiders. Three fandoms of mine that never get the fic they deserve nowadays.

[calliopes_pen]

I'll add them to the list. I've never heard of Shadow Raiders before now.

[morgeil.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

I've never heard of Shadow Raiders before now.

Neither has anyone else nowadays, really. It's a CGI space opera made by most of the same creative team behind ReBoot, but it has pretty much passed into obscurity since then. I'm not really expecting it to get past the nomination phase - it's that forgotten - but no harm in trying.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Last thing I 'heard' Rick Moranis in was two Christmases ago (I think), and he and Dave Thomas did a Bob and Doug McKenzie '12 Days of Christmas' animated short. My fave thing lately though was the moose versions of them they did in Brother Bear. The movie wasn't that great, but they did a moose commentary for the movie extras DVD that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Disney should have released that as the movie!

As for Yuletide, I don't know a lot about it, other than lots of people on my f'list get very excited about it [g], but that's quite a list you've compiled! You're very organized.