08 | March | 2010 | Through the Shattered Lens

News which may just strike some genre and geekdom fans blind with excitement it look like Dr. Horrible and The Guild star Felicia Day has been tapped to portray the descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the SyFy Channel’s re-imagining of the Red Riding Hood tale.

SyFy has already done their re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz with Tin Man a couple years ago and have made it known that they will do similar re-imagining’s of classic fairy tale stories with Red their version of Little Red Riding Hood. Ms. Day will play one of Riding Hood’s werewolf-hunting descendants whose family shares the same proclivity to hunting the shapeshifting beasts. Her character of Red brings home her fiance to meet the family but who remains skeptical of their lineage and their werewolf-hunting sidejobs. That is until he himself gets bitten by one of the beasts and now must try to stay away from Red’s family who know what must be done. Red must try and save her man against his curse and her family.

While Ms. Day has had success starring in two of the web’s most popular and successful online series with Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible and her own The Guild, SyFy’s Red marks her first lead role in a production in film and tv. Here’s to hoping this is the sign of better things to come for the internet’s redhead darling.

Source: TV by The Numbers

May 7, 2010 is still two months away but it sure is a long wait after seeing the second official trailer for this summer’s most anticipated blockbuster. I am talking about Marvel’s Iron Man 2. The trailer premiered on the post-Oscar Jimmy Kimmel Show episode and I will say that it was the highlight of the night.

There’s been some concern about Iron Man 2 after the release of the first official trailer. Some said that trailer gave them feelings that the sequel was going to be way over-the-top and almost crossing the line into ridiculous. Others thought there may have been too many bad guys involved. Then there are those who are still bitching about the look of the main villain, Mickey Rourke as Whiplash.

I’d like to say that the second trailer went a long way in dispelling some of the concerns. There were more scenes about Tony Stark and the Iron Man suit (in its many variations). There seemed to be more explained about Whiplash and his role as the main villain. Even Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer character comes to the forefront. The clincher was the sequence when the Hammer Iron Men showed up to battle not just Iron Man but the War Machine. This sequel may not be all about the Iron Man story-arc called “Armor Wars” but it sure seems to borrow a lot from that arc and, for that, this self-confessed comic book geek is giddy. GIDDY I SAY!

Oh yeah, one last thing: On-The-Go Mk. V Iron Man suit!