A remake of 1956’s Forbidden Planet is in the works at Warner Bros. Forbidden Planet was directed by Fred M. Wilcox and stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. The movie is a loose ...

The acclaimed author, comic book writer, and screenwriter is tacking a new version of the 1956 tale starring Robby the Robot. Long before robots like R2-D2 or the Terminator hit the silver screen, a ...

ANCHOR INTRO: Return to Forbidden Planet approaches Shakespeare by way of rock and roll music and sci-fi B movies. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando checks out the Bard in outer space at the New ...

Astronomers have spotted an exoplanet in a region of space where no planet is supposed to survive. There is an area close to stars that is continuously battered by strong irradiation, which blasts ...

Astronomers have used a desert-based observatory to identify an exoplanet that falls in the middle of what scientists had dubbed the Neptunian Desert. That term refers to a phenomenon that astronomers ...

The classic 1956 sci-fi film Forbidden Planet is next to be remade. Warner Brothers and Joel Silver have picked up writer J. Michael Straczynski, one of the starters of "Babylon 5" and writer of Clint ...

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J. Michael Straczynski, the writer of the Clint Eastwood-directed "Changeling," is penning a long-in-the-works update of sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet." By Borys Kit, Jay A. Fernandez J. Michael ...

Despite the sudden and unexpected explosion in the popularity of science fiction films in the early 1950s, a number of major studios were resistant to the trend, considering the genre to be B-film ...