We hate mooninite Nazis, but we love reporting news about mooninite Nazi flick Iron Sky, which is set to release on April 4th of this year after over six years of planning. A substantial portion of the film’s $10 million budget was raised through crowdfunding, including a promotion where donors of $1.50 or more could watch the first five minutes of the film. The new trailer below, however, costs nothing, but feel free stuff some singles in our waistbands. Bloggers are basically whores anyway.

Iron Sky, directed by Timo Vuorensola from Finland, has a simple, completely-plausible premise: Nazis fled to the dark side of the moon in 1945 after making a breakthrough in anti-gravity technology. In 2018 they invade Earth, and the President of the United States — Kiwi actress Stephanie Paul doing a Sarah Palin impersonation — can’t wait to declare a war in her first term to guarantee her re-election. Sounds legit.

[Trailer via LaughingSquid. Images courtesy of Blind Spot Pictures.]

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Irene Gallo of Tor Books put together a great selection of science fiction works of art which reference famous paintings and prints like John Mattos’ fantastic C-3PO upgrade of Marcel Duchamp’s groundbreaking cubist/futurist Nude Descending a Staircase. Sidenote: I’ve seen that painting of Duchamp’s up close in Philly, and man was it even stranger and dissettlingly awesome in person, in no small part because the nude figure is about the same height as you when you look at it, and they hanged it at just the right height to seem like this creepy figure was nearing the end of the staircase and coming right at you. Nightmare fuel.

We’ve collected our ten favorites along the famous works they reference (plus a bonus picture) from Irene Gallo’s gallery at Tor Books starting on the next page. Thanks to Neatorama for the assist.

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Last August we reported Ridley Scott would be producing and directing “a new installment” of Blade Runner, returning to another franchise he started 30 years ago (the other being Alien prequel Prometheus). At the time, producer Andrew Kosove told the LA Times “In no way do I speak for Ridley Scott but if you’re asking me will this movie have anything to do with Harrison Ford, the answer is no. This is a total reinvention and in my mind that means doing everything fresh, including casting.”

In November, Ridley Scott told The Wall Street Journal that the film was “liable to be a sequel” and that the film would be moving forward “not with the past cast, of course.” When asked specifically if Harrison Ford’s character of Deckard would be in the film, Scott said, “No, not really.”

Now Twitch is reporting that Harrison Ford has entered into talks to join the cast of the new Blade Runner, which they’re saying will likely be a direct sequel to the original. This doesn’t quite pass the sniff test with us. The movie left the question, “Was Deckard a replicant?” open-ended. If you bring Ford back and he’s 30 years older, rather than an immortal Nexus-7, it undermines some of the original movie’s provocativeness. We’re supposed to think he might be a replicant, so we further question what it means to be human. Also, as BleedingCool says, it “must have taken some big digging to find a hole for these monster hatchets”. Ford and Ridley clashed on the set of Blade Runner (see videos below), and haven’t worked together since.

When Harrison Ford was asked about the new Blade Runner movie last year, he kept it mostly polite:

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m more into Star Trek than Star Wars. Why? Well, for one, the Trek fanbase just seems a little more rational — a little less, I dunno, constantly enraged about nothing.

Case in point, every time Lucas goes back and replaces some musty old puppet or terrible stop-action animation with CGI, Star Wars fans howl and rend their clothing like somebody has just thrown turpentine on the Mona Lisa. Star Trek fans on the other hand don’t really get that fussed about that kinda stuff. Every time an old Star Trek series is released in a new format they re-do the effects, and Trekkies just sort of shrug and go “hey yeah, that does look better. Cool.”

Also Star Wars guys all fly their spaceships all uptight like “traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops!” while Star Trek guys are all leeeaning back in their easy chairs and being all “Warp 5 Number One”.

Anyways, enough “Star Wars and Star Trek people” from my stand-up routine. Hit the jump to check out a video of what The Next Generation will look like on Blu-ray…

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Have you ever watched an old episode of Star Trek and upon seeing the Enterprise majestically soaring through space thought “hey, I wish I could rest my drinks and old copies of US Weekly on that“?

Well, apparently that thought came to Barry Shields, because he went and built himself an Enterprise-shaped coffee table. A glass coffee table at that. Cuh-lassy. Want it? You can buy it right here, provided you have $3,100 worth of gold-pressed latinum kicking around.

You know, if I had the money I’d consider buying the Enterprise table if ol’ Barry could promise to make me matching Romulan and Klingon warbird ones. Some people dream of winning the lottery and buying fancy cars and flashy houses — I dream of spending my days crashing my Star Trek coffee tables together while making phaser noises.

via Technabob

Remember a couple years ago when that story about a guy turning his apartment into a Star Trek set made the rounds? His name was Tony Alleyne…you know, this guy…

Yeah, we all had a good chuckle. Trekkies secretly envied him. A lot of “man, wonder what his WIFE thinks of THIS, ho ho!” jokes were made. Wellll…turns out she, shockingly, doesn’t think much of it.

Tony’s wife is divorcing him, and she owns the apartment and wants to sell it, so sadly Tony is going to have to put his toys back in the box and go play with them someplace else. Tony says it would take nearly 150 thousand dollars remake his Trek apartment, but I have faith he can do it all again. You’d be surprised how much money you can save when you cut things like “women”, “sex”, and “leaving your Star Trek apartment” out of your life.

Honestly, I always knew nothing good would come of Tony’s Trek apartment. I mean, he based his designs on Star Trek Voyager. Voyager. That’s like building yourself a Star Wars house and basing it on Holiday Special. Voyager is good for one thing though — giving me an excuse to post Seven of Nine’s boobs. You’re welcome.

Not even these could make Voyager watchable.

via The Daily What