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Comic-Con!! Herc Says Spielberg’s Extraterrestrial Apocalypse Drama FALLING SKIES Might Get Him Watching TNT!!
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I am – Hercules!!
Some things I think I learned from Friday afternoon’s “Falling Skies” panel at Comic-Con.
• The panel featured the first-ever public glimpse of the series’ trailer, which depicted motorcycles and spaceships blowing things up.
• Besides pilot scripter Robert Rodat (“Saving Private Ryan”), writers on the Steven Spielberg project include Graham Yost (“The Pacific,” “Justified”), Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”), Melinda Hsu (“Lost”) and (if I heard right) a fellow named Joel Thompson.
• The show has apparently not yet formally named a showrunner, though Verheiden was the only writer on the panel.
• Yost will apparently be departing the show midway through its first season to return to his showrunning duties on FX’s “Justified.”
• The series picks up about six months after alien death machines wipe out 80 percent of the world’s population.
• Noah Wyle’s character, widower Tom Mason, was a tenured history professor at Boston University whose adolescent son was captured by the extraterrestrials.
• For mysterious reasons, the extraterrestrials have been capturing a number of human adolescents.
• Moon Bloodgood’s character is a pediatrician who “lost” her husband and daughter during the invasion, and finds herself drawn to Mason.
• The aliens, called “skidders,” are “very scary and very creepy” and have difficulty tracking humans when those humans congregate in numbers of less than 200.
• Another title considered for the long-untitled project was “Concord.”
• Will Patton plays Mason’s military-man superior. Mason is second-in-
command because of his expertise in historical military tactics.
• Though we’re not likely to see him, Bruce Springsteen may or may not be among the survivors.
• “Falling Skies” is due to hit TNT next June.
If anyone stumbles across the “Falling Skies” trailer, let us know and we’ll add it to this or another post.
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haha
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walking dead vs. E.T. this fall..cant wait!!
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um...wait...what?
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Given an alien apocalypse may create a need for some blues music. Or is he playing some random schmuck?
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Is that correct?
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I love him still but c'mon this doesn't sound exciting at all....and this Springsteen shit is just hype!!!!!
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But is there hope for the Widow's Son???
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An immensely talented character actor who always brings something interesting to the party. The man can do no wrong. Bonus points if he pops a cap into Springsteen before El Jefe has a chance to bust out of his 80's proletariat rock singalong ditties.
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Whenever people describe creatures within their own show as “very scary and very creepy” they usually aren't.
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that show about the dinosaurs. Then I read the article and it was all aliens attacking humans in the future, and I was just thinking "aliens AND dinosaurs? awesome!". But then I re-read the headline and realized it was a different show. Now I am back to not really being excited about either. Sigh.
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..Spielberg is reviving his "Night Skies" project after all..hope its good..
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..will probably be a song (played as images of apocalyptic alien destruction unfolds)..
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He's the man..."War of the Worlds" proved again that he does creepy and scary alien attacks like no one else. This should be quite good.
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He Boss Cocked Em!
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the same way Van Halen was in Zombieland.
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What was that song in "Mars Attacks!" that got played on loudspeakers, and caused the Martians's heads to explode, and then Earth was miraculously SAVED!? Same cause & effect here. One listen to the 80's shitbox populist anthem "Born In The USA", and they'll vanish quicker than Herc at an Anti-Whedon Pep Rally.
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... just some cunt skiing down a ski slope and a large avalanche..... fuck "falling sky..."
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I have it on very good authority that Spielberg didn't attend the Con as he was putting the finishing touches to Peter Jacksons ass.........
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..."War of the Worlds" proved again that he does creepy and scary alien attacks like no one else." At least until he decided to show them.........it was all downhill after that.
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........WHAT HAPPENED TO RANDY NEWMAN????!!!!!!!
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Seriously, half my twitfeed was about him having a beard than about the show.
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Yost has his priorities straight. Bring on more Boyd and Raylan.
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Doubt he has been around more than 200 people at one time, other than when hes on stage, for a decade or two.
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Most of Spielberg's TV shows have been weak. Even if they start strong they tend to become tiresome.
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...for what it's worth.
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seriously? GEE, I WONDER WHO THEY MIGHT GET TO PROVIDE SONGS TO THE SOUNDTRACK ON THE CHEAP BY OFFERING HIM AN ACTING ROLE.
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