Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

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A first look at Andrew Garfield in the Spider-Man costume has been released. It’s not that bad.

Then, there’s the proper first look at Chris Evans as Captain America.

Syfy is now looking to remake another British show: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg are writing the pilot. whedonesque discusses the news here.

Lauren Ambrose has joined the cast of Torchwood, as a character named Jilly Kitzinger.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Re #3: oh *no*. I mean, I enjoyed the absurdity of the recent British version of R&H(D), but I can't imagine how Syfy will bodge it about to make it one of their "originals". I'm already facepalming about "Being Human".

[calliopes_pen]

I've only seen a few episodes of the more recent one, but I agree so much. And I'm partly waiting for the moment when their supposed original shows get shoved aside for some more wrestling. Or some sort of prequel of the remake.

[scarfman]

Yeah I was gonna say, wasn't Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased just remade in Britain? I never saw the remake but I saw some of the original. It played in the US as My Partner the Ghost. All I really remember though is one sequence when Hopkirk (Marty?) kept popping back and forth from the office to the highway where he was tracking a bad guy's progress on the road.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Well, "just" in the sense that it's about ten years old (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_%26_Hopkirk_(Deceased)), if we're thinking of the same show.