Well, Comingsoon reports some news on the Escape to Witch Mountain remake front: Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is in talks to play "a Las Vegas cab driver who picks up a pair of siblings with magical powers." Hrm. I'm okay with the cab driver bit, but I'm hoping the "magical powers" reference is just a bad choice of words and not signaling a departure from the original storyline (the kids were aliens with telekenetic powers, not "magical").Also on the sci-fi remake front, the Illustrated Man remake has picked up a director and Keanu Reeves has signed on to play The Day the Earth Stood Still's Klaatu ("the humanoid alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar"). Buzz by FilmChat to see how Peter Chattaway titled this news. Heh.
Why follow sci-fi films on a God-talk blog? As I've said before, the sci-fi genre often touches on relevant themes and issues regarding what it means to be human, which inevitably gets to themes of religion or faith--and that brings God-talk into open spaces.