Two archetypes of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy world were born today, September 25: Mark Hamill, best known to the masses as Luke Skywalker, who goes from a humble, naïve, wide-eyed teenager to an anointed full blown Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy, and the late Christopher Reeve, who will always be immortalized as the spit-curled, donned in tights and red boots Man of Steel in the most popular incarnation of the Superman film franchise. Hamill is 61 today; Reeve, who died in 2004, from cardiac arrest due to complications after a riding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, would have been 60.

Both men are etched in cinema history in their respective roles. In the case of Mark Hamill, mainly a character actor before he hit paydirt as the protagonist of George Lucas’ storied space opera of a film in Star Wars, his Luke Skywalker remains one of the 20th century’s most well known and liked characters in any form of entertainment. The underdog Skywalker, receiving his tutelage of the Force by way of seasoned veteran Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first film, and later fine tuned by Jedi Master Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, sets him up perfectly for Return of the Jedi, in which the climactic showdown between himself and his father Anakin Skywalker, who has manifested himself into the dark, cold blooded, sadistically evil man in black, Darth Vader, has become a direct source of Sci-Fi symbolism to millions of fans to this very day, and as a hero to the common man globally.

There’s a few deals today related to the Castle television series starring Nathan Fillion.

TFAW has Castle: Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm premium hardcover comic book adaptation on sale for today for $13.99 (that’s 30% off the list price of $19.99). It’s also available at Amazon in hardcover for $12.09 and pre-order for paperback for $10.19 (coming in February 2013).

Also on sale today are 2 Richard Castle Mystery Novels for the Amazon Kindle for only $2.99 each: Heat Rises (Nikki Heat) and Naked Heat (Nikki Heat).

The TFAW and Kindle deals are valid only for today, Tuesday, September 25, 2012 until 11:59pm PST (at TFAW while supplies last, that is; the price at Amazon is the usual price).

As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deals for September 2012, Oingo Boingo‘s Dead Man’s Party is on sale for only $5.

If you would like a physical copy of Dead Man’s Party, the CD is available for only $7.24.

Even if you didn’t come of age in the ’80s, you’re probably familiar with Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party,” the title track on this album. The song was used in the film Back to School and in the short-lived TV series Chuck. The song “Weird Science” even got its own movie. Other well-known tracks on Dead Man’s Party are “No One Lives Forever” and “Fool’s Paradise.” Even if you don’t know that Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman is also an award winning composer, you sure know his work. He created the theme song for TV’s The Simpson’s and Desperate Housewives, and also scored the 1989 Batman movie as well as most of Tim Burton’s movies, including The Nightmare Before Christmas (he sang all of Jack Skellington’s songs).

Browse the main sale page to see all 100 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of September 2012.

Glossing over the fact that the last Mummy film was released in 2008, Universal is already putting plans for a reboot into motion. The studio has already hired Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to produce the film and Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts to pen a draft. Now sources are saying that Total Recall director Len Wiseman will be the one to direct the reboot for The Mummy.

According to Deadline, Kurtzman and Orci will produce the film under their Universal-based K/O Paper Products, alongside former partners Sean Daniel and Jim Jacks. Daniel and Jacks worked on the previous Mummy trilogy, which grossed over $1.25 billion. The site reports that Spaihts’ script will be set into a “modern-day context.”

Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor will be expanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: The Dark World. Christopher Eccleston has already been cast as film’s newest baddie, Malekith the Accursed, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje will be there to support Eccleston. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Idris Elba, and Anthony Hopkins will all return to reprise their respective roles.

Now the sequel is getting some new additions to the cast, and while you may not immediately recognize their names, you will recognize the roles they previously played.