I’ve been fucking BUSY lately. This means several things. First, I’m eating three sandwiches at 4 a.m. while weeping into my Fleshlight. Second, I’m not reading or playing nearly as much as I want to. And third, I have a fucking STACK of articles I haven’t been able to share with you fucks. So color this a Space-Ship Colonic. ‘Cause I’m flushing them links out in one post. We got everything from Brian Wood, to Guardians of the Galaxy, to Netflix slap-fighting with the FCC.

Something ain’t here? Share your own noteworthy nuggets from this week.

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The World of Warcraft movie is really going to exist, huh? I can’t believe it. Every time I think it’s drifted into the Ether, some new development is rocketed around the inter-pipes. Forcing me to go, “oh yeah fuck, huh?” The latest example of this is the announcement of a filming start date.

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Eddie and myself were chatting about Duncan Jones a couple of days ago, neither of us certain what he was up to. Whelp, now we know. Instead of doing that awesome-sounding cyberpunk flick Mute, he is wasting his time with a Warcraft movie. Alas. If he can use this flick as leverage for pulling off his own project, I will be stoked. And maybe when it bombs, it won’t really hurt his career.

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Duncan Jones. Talented dude behind Moon and Source Code. Filling out his resume (er, pockets) with this new ad for Virgin Money. Whatever. It’s sort of swanky, and at least it isn’t that awful Aronofsky Revlon ad.

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Duncan Jones is one of my favorite up and coming directors. Moon is one of my favorite movies of the past five years, and Source Code was enjoyable. What I’m now sweating is what Jones has been calling his ‘homage to Blade Runner’, talking about it even before making Source Code.

Recently Jones met with WETA to discuss this third flick of his.

I’m damp.

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Moon was fucking phenomenal. Source Code was good, fun, solid sci-fi. Duncan Jones is a current favorite of mine. Now he could be doing ‘The Wolverine’?

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There’s an early episode of Quantum Leap, it might even be the pilot, where Sam Beckett leaps into the past and, despite being warned not to by Al, calls his dad. In Source Code, director Duncan Jones delivers an obvious nod to this heavy Leap moment – even having Scott Bakula voice the dad of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Colter character. That great little moment in the film is just one of the reasons to give up an hour and half of your life and go see Source Code – despite it’s flawed final minutes.

Jones’ sophomore scifi effort (his first being 2009’s bitchin’ Moon) also features a male protagonist who should stop trusting “the man.” Colter is an army helicopter pilot who awakens to find himself on the Chicago commuter rail, sitting across from a woman he’s never met who keeps calling him Steve. Manic and confused, Colter tries to make of sense of his Twilight Zone plight…and that’s when the train blows up.

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I want Duncan Jones’ fucking Mute. Described as a Blade Runner homage, it promises to milk my cyberpunk prostrate. There will be spurt. Artwork for it leaked over a year ago, and since then there hasn’t been much about it. We now know that while it won’t be his next movie, it is getting the graphic novel treatment.

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The topic on the end of every nerd’s forked tongue last week was the announcement that Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment is in final negotiations to acquire the holy grail of film properties: Blade Runner. The announcement was followed by a collective gasp in the blogosphere – with our own Caffeine Powered delivering his own expletive-ridden tirade. Reactions have been pretty much split down the middle of anger and joy. As a devout Blade Runner fan and collector, my first reaction was, naturally, skepticism and disbelief. But it’s been a few days and I’ve had some time to meditate and brood (mostly brood) on this. So let’s chill for a moment and talk about this like adults.

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The second trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming flick Source Code dropped today. He’s only directed one movie, but I’m already a frothing Jones fanboy. If you use your powers of intellect, you’ll figure out that means I’m pretty excited for anything regarding this movie. The premise is gimmicky sci-fi, and that’s cool by me. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a character who is inserted into the last eight minutes of a man’s life on a train that was victim of a bombing. He has to try over and over again to figure out who the culprit is, while he falls in love with an obviously doomed passenger.

Cue meditations on fate, destiny, the ability to change the future, et cetera.

It also reminds me a lot of Assassin’s Creed and the animus, but that’s another story.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

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