Yet another one from Moviehole.net, and I have yet to see this one anywhere else. Its about how Summer Glau (from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Firefly, Serenity) could in fact be brought in as a character in the Joss Whedon created (who also created Firefly along with Buffy and Angel) Dollhouse. She would be a perfect fit and I hope that they get on this real fast.

Moviehole.net has the report:

‘’Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles’’ may be gone (if unfairly so; the show’s better than ‘’Terminator Salvation’’ for Christ’s sake!) but it’s not all bad news for star Summer Glau.

The former small-screen cyborg has – not surprisingly – been asked to star on her old pal (he directed her in the TV series “Firefly” and it’s terrific spin-off film “Serenity”) Joss Whedon’s series “Dollhouse”.

“If anybody thinks [bringing Summer onto Dollhouse] hasn’t occurred to me already then they have not met me,” Whedon tells Michael Ausiello. “I mentioned it to her before [SCC] was canceled. I was like, ‘You know, we should get you in the ‘house.’ But first we have to come up with something that works.” And casting her as a doll would not work, insists Whedon. “Summer would be perfect to play an active, but she’s done that [type of role] a lot,” he says.

“I’d rather see her play someone who talks too much. The most fun I have is when I get somebody who’s good and comfortable at doing something, and then I make them do something else. Summer said to me, ‘I would like to play a normal girl before I die of extreme old age.’”

Whedon and Glau are also said to be developing a ballet film (she’s a former dancer) together.

I was just looking at some websites, nothing is ever updated on the weekends and I realized it has been a while since I had looked on Moviehole.net and decided to check to see what they have. Every now and then they have something that the other rumor sites don’t have. They mentioned that a new Naked Gun movie was going to go direct to home video, not using Leslie Nelson, but a new person, and I don’t remember if I posted that, but I it intrigued me that they would have something that the other sites didn’t grab ahold of. They have a lot of the things the other ones do have, but then there is this, a Die Hard prequel.

The link scared me at first, I was like “OH NO!” what are they doing? And then I kept reading and found that it was a comic book. Now, I have no problem with this idea, it actually sounds really good, and if I remember to look it up around the time that it comes out, I’ll probably pick it up to give it a read.

If you continue through the article, it also has a mention of a possible TV series that would take place 12 months before what happens in the first movie. I honestly always felt that 24 was a Die Hard ripoff seeing that John McClaine had been taking terrorists out for a far longer period of time then the main character in 24. But to be fair to 24, I’ve never really watched the series. But summer is coming up and we do tend to get whole seasons worth of shows during the TV series-less summer season.

Here is the article from Moviehole.net:

Author: Clint Morris    Date: Friday, May 29th, 2009 Time: 1:02 am

John McClane is returning…. he’ll just be a little more animated than usual (if that’s possible).

Twentieth Century Fox is rewinding the clock on the “Die Hard” series inking a deal with BOOM to release a prequel comic. The first issue hits stands in August.

Here’s the synopsis for “Die Hard : Year One”, courtesy Comics Continuum :

“Every great action hero got started somewhere: Batman Began. Bond had his Casino Royale. And for John McClane, more than a decade before the first DIE HARD movie, he’s just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976’s Bicentennial celebration. Too bad for John McClane, nothing’s ever that easy.”

Sounds good. And I really like the idea. I’m not a big comics-fan (I know, I know… what am I doing running a geek portal?!), but this is one I’d probably pick up… or plead the distributor to send me a review copy of (probably more the case; cheapskate I am).

Funnily enough, I recently spoke to a writer whose been pitching Fox a “Die Hard” TV series – one which, like the comic, fixes on McClane pre-Nakatomi Plaza. But instead of traveling back as far as 1976, it’s actually set the twelve months before the events of the first film.

I’ve read some outlines for what would be the first season, and browsed the character breakdowns, and it’s actually quite cool. I’d watch the show. All they’d need is a great young McClane (if Benjamin McKenzie weren’t busy with “Southland” he’d be terrific; and we know he looks good in a wife-beater).

Still, I don’t know where the TV series (which I believe was titled ‘McClane’ at one stage) is at, or whether or not it’s even been picked up, just saying it’s a nifty idea. Maybe the comic will help push it along? Wouldn’t surprise me if it pops up on Fox’s radar in the near future… if it hasn’t already.