After the tragic loss of Heath Ledger, due – surely – in part to his apparently mind-blowing role in the upcoming movie, The Dark Knight, the film’s composer Hans Zimmer almost scrapped the theme he had written for Ledger’s character, the Joker.

The composer told Parade that he had considered redoing the The Joker theme completely, but ultimately felt the original theme better honored Ledger’s performance.

By Broadcasting Brain

Space: 1999, the first major science fiction television series to follow Star Trek, deserves a second chance at life. Space: 1999, which ran from 1975-77, chronicles the adventures of an international crew of scientists and specialists on Earth’s Moon. Although it was cancelled after two seasons, fans still fondly remember the series. In light of other pop culture recycling that permeates today’s creative content, why not see what can be reused from this series?

As Space: 1999 begins, Commander John Koenig arrives at Moonbase Alpha, charged with ensuring the successful launch of a manned deep space probe after a series of mysterious crew deaths. His old colleague Professor Victor Bergman is there as chief scientist and advisor, while Chief Medical Officer Dr. Helena Russell tries to determine the cause of the deaths. The cause is determined to be radiation poisoning from unstable nuclear waste disposal sites, which explode, blasting the Moon out of Earth’s orbit, on an unknown trajectory at unknown speed, towards open space.

The series is a story of survival, adventure, and hope as the crew of Moonbase Alpha, the only manned settlement not on the Earth, searches for a new home in space. They encounter aliens, other humanoid civilizations, space phenomena, fearsome machines, and have several failed encounters with planets which could have provided homes for the lost Earthlings. You might see some parallels with later series like Battlestar Galactica (both versions) and Star Trek: Voyager.

Columbia Pictures has announced the cast and crew for their upcoming comedic take on the time-less Sherlock Holmes character.

In the role of Sherlock Holmes is none other than Borat‘s Sacha Baron Cohen and following him around as dear, dear Watson will be Will Ferrell. The duo starred together in the 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

The screenplay is being written by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Idiocracy) and producing the movie is Jimmy Miller and this guy named Judd Apatow.

It was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the character and while it’s obvious that this is the basis of the movie, it seems they will use his works as a starting point for this particular film, meaning… well, who knows what we’ll get!