Is there anything to that?

Also answers the question: What has Alex (Dark City) Proyas
been up to?

• I, Robot release date info

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Excellent, I'm looking forward to that one.

Here's the other one I mentioned.

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

I'm thinking that it'll take the radio serial format
and give the visuals that you always wanted to see but had
to imagine from old time radio drama/comuic books. It's
another comic vook/graphic novel-based premise.

But I still don't know what happened to high quality
space opera... s-f adventure with a point from major
writers. The technology is all there but the ideas are
pretty shallow. I've always wanted to see an adaptation
of Miven and Pournelle's Ringworld. It's a big idea and
deals with some interesting concepts.

Also more William Gibson, please. I thought that Matrix
would open the door for Neuromancer. And Johnny Mnemonic
was a lot better a second time than at first glance.

Other interesting idea that's floating about is Steam Punk.
Steam Punk is cyberpunk set in the Victorian era... the
time of airships and Babbage's Difference Engine. It's
a form of alternate history and timeline diversion.

The tools are there to do all these things.

Funny thing was that a friend of mine recommended it to me 10 years ago when it was first released. PC's had moved into most offices by the late 80's, and by 1995 when this movie was released, they were moving rapidly into many (non-computer-savvy) people's homes.

That's a whole other subject that's funny to me. Twenty years ago, no one outside the computer industry knew what a megabyte was and you would have been weird to describe your annual salary in terms like $100K per year. Now the industry vernacular has become part of the popular language in almost every industrialized nation of the world. But I digress.

Airships, the Victorian Era and the Babbage Engine - That's another cool theme. I think we've had this discussion, but it's still a welcome theme in my mind to discuss again. Time after Time and all the movies like it are wonderful. Did you see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen? That's a fun one too.

Yes, sorry I was repeating. I think I tried to sit through
Time After Time once. And have seen Terry Gilliam's
Baron Munchausen, but oddly cannot remember anything of it.

Isn't there supposed to be a new Around The World In 80 Days
coming to theaters as well?

What really needs a new treatment is Verne's "Master Of The
World." The old one with Vincent Price is an embarrassment.

Two things should havee been editied out of Johnny
Mnemonic: Henry Rollins and Ice T. Only good role Ice T.
ever did was playing a Jackass in Tank Girl. Henry Rollins
has had a real spotty career since the Black Flagg days.