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Company Melds Fantasy, History

Fantasy author K.J. Parker told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, The Company, is military fantasy but draws on real military history.
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Helmers Drop Out Of Hex

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as the directors of Jonah Hex, the DC Comics property that is expected to star Josh Brolin as a partly disfigured gunslinger and bounty hunter, Variety reported.
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New Spirit Trailer Now Live!

Lionsgate has released a new short trailer for The Spirit, director Frank Miller's upcoming film adaptation of Will Eisner's classic comic. The movie opens Christmas Day.
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Pratchett's Magic Adaptation

Writer/director Vadim Jean, who directed the upcoming TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic, said that the four-hour miniseries is more ambitious than his previous Pratchett adaptation, last year's Hogfather.
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Peet Peels Back 2012

Amanda Peet, who plays a character in Roland Emmerich's upcoming apocalyptic film 2012, revealed to SCI FI Wire a bit of the top-secret film's plot structure.
"So there are two stories, so basically I don't know what I'm supposed to give away, but obviously the world is sort of in peril," Peet said
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We Pass Judgment On Abrams' Trek

J.J. Abrams and the cast of Star Trek unspooled about 20 minutes of footage from the upcoming reboot movie, and SCI FI Wire watched with a critical eye on Nov. 19 at the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. The verdict: mixed, but generally good. More on this in a bit.
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