Gaiman’s Stardust Cast Announced

March 15th, 2006 by Mox

Paramount made an announcement last week about the cast for the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s Stardust:

Paramount has set Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox and Sienna Miller to star in Stardust, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman fantasy novel, to be directed by Matthew Vaughn, Variety reported. The movie begins shooting in the United Kingdom and Iceland next month.

Gaiman has mentioned on his blog that Mark Strong will be playing Septimus. Of DeNiro’s character, Captain Shakespeare, Gaiman described him as “Captain Alberic with a bit more to do.”

Spore at GDC 2005

March 4th, 2006 by Mox

I didn’t hear about Spore (official site) until a coworker described it to me after E3 last year, but what I heard had me intrigued. I read a little bit about it online and maybe saw a screenshot or two, but I largely forgot about it except that I knew I wanted to play it.

Thursday, Joystiq noted that the video of Will Wright‘s presentation at last year’s GDC (which included a demo of Spore) is now available on Google Video.

I’ve watched it three times. It blew me away. I hope he can pull this off.