On the final episode of Geek Weekly before the show transitions to Prime Time Geek ... thoughts on the passing of Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the First Lady of Star Trek, tons of movie news, including an update on Thor, new adaptations of The Crow and The Phantom, a fifth Terminator movie, and Frank Miller looking to adapt Buck Rogers, and a review of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe for the PS3. All this plus your Comic of the Week and New Krypton Spotlight, right HERE in Geek Weekly for the week of December 19, 2008!

JJ Abrams' USS Enterprise ... can you say "mishmash?"

Maybe it's just me, but it looks EXACTLY the way Abrams describes it, a combination of the TOS and movie Enterprises, except it's haphazard, like the two were thrown together crudely, not smoothly blended together. I find it disconcerting ... be interesting to see it in motion during the trailer attached to "Quantum of Solace" ...

New "Geek Weekly" for the week of October 17, 2008 is available for download!

Terrance Howard out, Don Cheadle in for Iron Man 2, JJ Abrams talks Trek and the Shatner, the CW talks Smallville sweeps plans, Sci Fi Channel announces the return of BSG, Darth Vader and Yoda arrive as DLC to Soul Calibur players, Lil Big Planet runs into a lil big problem, and the Red Rings of Death drag Microsoft into a California court room. Find it all HERE on Geek Weekly for the week of October 17, 2008!

Movie Geekiness: The new Indiana Jones trailer and Star Trek news

Just a short post today...

It aired on "Good Morning America" this morning, and shortly afterward it was posted on the official Indiana Jones website, so here it is: the first trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", due in theaters this May:

Indy trailer (sorry it's just a link--like the "Star Trek" trailer before it, no hi-def version available on youtube just yet.)

This one's going to be a whole lot of fun - it's taken 19 years to bring it to the screen, so I can't imagine Spielberg and Ford screwing it up at this point.

In other movie news, the new Star Trek film, originally due in theaters Christmas of this year, has been pushed back to May 8th, 2009, in a post-writer's strike move by Paramount. Curiously, the move is NOT related to script issues, but apparently due to what Paramount considers huge box office potential. Here's the quote from the Hollywood Reporter article that broke the story:

“‘Star Trek’ is moving to summer because its has so much box office potential,” Par spokesman Michael Vollman said. “It does not need any script tweaks. They’re two-thirds of the way through shooting, and we would have delivered a great movie at Christmas.”

Opening on May 8th, Star Trek would then have the third major movie opening of the 2009 summer movie season, behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman, on May 1st and Watchmen, based on the classic Hugo-award winning comic book series by Alan Moore (The League of Extraordinary Gentleman), on May 6th.

Sure looks like 2009 will be a geek's paradise at the movies, doesn't it?