With George Clooney signed on to play the lead protagonist in Brad Bird‘s Tomorrowland, the Damon Lindelof-penned sci-fi flick is still shrouded in mystery, but it’s been speculated that the film has to deal with UFOs and other extraterrestrial phenomenas. Disney historian Jim Hill theorizes that the Tomorrowland has a lot to do with Walt Disney’s involvement in informing the public of the existence of UFOs, a project called Project Blue Book. It’s still a theory, but given that popular culture tells us the government likes to impede these alien speculations, it makes a lot of sense. And now it looks like the film may have found its protagonist.

According to THR, House‘s Hugh Laurie is in talks to “serve as the movie’s antagonist,” but did not reveal any other detailed description as to who or what this antagonist does. Some say that Laurie’s role will be that of a government agent who will put a stop to Disney’s plans to release the alien information to the public.

Disney’s super secret Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird collaborative film 1952 has brand new title. No longer will the film be referred to by its titular year. Instead, it’s now titled Tomorrowland, according to Disney. The film will still star George Clooney and will open in the U.S. on December 19, 2014.

The title change seems to give more evidence that the studio is working on films that revolve around aspects of the Disneyland theme parks.

On an interesting note, the press release did not say that Tomorrowland will be released in 3D. A previous press release noted that the film would also be released in 3D. To which Bird tweeted out that the film would not be in 3D.

If you were severely disappointed by how Prometheus turned out, chances are you pointed the blame at Damon Lindelof. The former Lost executive producer had more than just his hand in Jon Spaihts‘s script, he drastically changed everything about it. In the end, Prometheus was not what it had turned out to be and soon it became the most polarizing film of the summer. Perhaps it could have been better handled had director Ridley Scott and the producers realized the quality of product they were given.

Regardless of who is to blame, Lindelof has confirmed that he won’t be returning to write a script for a sequel, also explaining why he made this decision. Check it out below.

The third and final act of Marc Forster‘s adaptation of the Max Brooks novel, World War Z, seems to be littered with problems of all kinds. So many problems are infecting this film, that they had to bring Damon Lindelof to pen the rewrites.

Lindelof, however, was unable to complete the task, and now the job of completing the third and final act of the film is in the hands of Cloverfield and Lost writer and Cabin in the Woods co-writer/director, Drew Goddard.

Prometheus: The Art of the Film
Written by Mark Salisbury
Published by: Titan Books
Hardcover | 192 Pages
Release Date: June 12, 2012

Mark Salisbury is the former editor of Britain’s distinguished movie magazine, Empire, and author of a number of books about film, including Alice in Wonderland A Visual: Companion and Burton on Burton. His latest book is Prometheus: The Art of the Film, a gorgeous 192-page hardcover companion to Ridley Scott‘s return to science-fiction, Prometheus

Published by Titan Books, Prometheus: The Art of the Film includes a foreword from director Ridley Scott and two essays: A Return to Science Fiction, in which Scott summarizes why he wanted to revisit the universe he created in Alien and how the progression of a story that was originally conceived as an Alien prequel mutated into an original science-fiction story.