• Genre favorite Julian Sands is coming to Smallville as Superman's dad, Jor-El.
• Producer Steven Lisberger says Tron Legacy is a cautionary tale about man's relationship with technology. How ludditical!
• Disney has confirmed that Robert Zemeckis is doing a motion-captured CGI remake of the Beatles' surreal psychotronic masterpiece, Yellow Submarine. You know, because The Polar Express wasn't creepy at all.
• io9 has some industry insiders' perspectives on DC's move to DC Entertainment, and they don't sound optimistic: It sounds like they fired a real comic book advocate in favor of a film producer.
• Eric Chu, the man who designed the recent remake of Battlestar Galactica, does some sketches to imagine Bryan Singer's prospective BSG cinematic remake.
• See the beginnings of Judge Dredd and other famous British comics characters over at 2000 AD Origins.
• Listverse explicably counts off 12 facts about Star Wars you probably don't know. Who knew the cast flew coach?
