SF MONDAY: 'REPLICAS' SF TRAILER WITH KEANU REEVES, ALICE EVE! RIDLEY SCOTT TO DIRECT 'RAISED BY WOLVES' SF SERIES FOR TNT! JIM BUTCHER'S 'DRESDEN FILES' SF NOVELS TO BECOME TV SERIES

  NEW SF TV SERIES

BUTCHER'S 'THE DRESDEN FILES'

Fox Television studios will develop Jim Butcher's fantasy novels THE DRESDEN FILES into TV series about private investigator and wizard

There already was a Dresden series in 2007

Harry Dresden, who investigates supernatural disturbances in modern day Chicago where magic is real, along with vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves, outsiders, and other monsters.

RIDLEY SCOTT'S 'RAISED BY WOLVES'
Over at TNT, Ridley Scott is set to make sf series RAISED BY WOLVES with him directing on TV for the first time. It follows two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.

  'REPLICAS' TRAILER & POSTER

KEANU REEVES CLONING HIS WIFE

You can also check out a trailer and brand new, or rather first, poster for Keanu Reeves' new science fiction thriller REPLICAS in which he plays  a

The film does not have a USA release date yet

daring synthetic biologist, who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it means pitting himself against a government controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science. In short - Keanu tries to clone his dead wife played by Alice Eve! The movie should slowly start hitting cinemas in certain countries around the world this Autumn and Winter. Jeffrey Nachmanoff, who wrote The Day After Tomorrow, is directing this international production. 

1ST TRAILER FOR KEANU REEVES SF MOVIE 'REPLICAS' AND AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'CROOKED HOUSE' WITH GLENN CLOSE, MAX IRONS, CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

'CROOKED HOUSE' TRAILER 

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY

Two new trailers to end the week, starting with the first one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to

It was Agatha Christie's favourite book of hers

be released sometime next year it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most, it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person who poisoned her grandfather is found.

'REPLICAS' SF TRAILER

 IN WHICH KEANU REEVES CLONES HIS DEAD WIFE & KIDS

There is also a very exciting first trailer for Keanu Reeves sf movie REPLICAS in which he plays a  daring synthetic biologist who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it

Alice Eve plays Keanu cloned wife in the movie

means pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.In other words he clones his dead wife and kids!

SF SATURDAY: JAMES MCAVOY TO BATTLE ALIENS IN 'EXTINCTION' SF THRILLER! ALICE EVE IS KEANU REEVES' CLONED WIFE IN 'REPLICAS'. DIEGO KLATTENHOFF, CHARLOTE SULLIVAN IN 'RADIUS' SF FILM

  JAMES MCAVOY TO STAR IN

'EXTINCTION' SF THRILLER

After starting his career in one of the Dune adaptations and leading the cast in X Men, James McAvoy is returning to the science fiction genre again. As 'Deadline' reported this week he is negotiating to take the lead role in sf thriller EXTINCTION in which the story revolves around a man haunted by nightmares in which his wife is assaulted and who becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by an army bent on destruction. James McAvoy would play a father and chief mechanic at a factory who realizes those invading might not be what he expected.

KEANU REEVES IN 'REPLICAS'

In other sf news, Alice Eve is set to star next to Keanu Reeves in REPLICAS in which she would play his wife who dies in a car crash but is then cloned, allowing her memories and mind to live on.

  'RADIUS' SF MOVIE

 DIEGO KLATTENHOFF AND CHARLOTE SULLIVAN TO STAR

Meanwhile, sf action will also be seen on the big screen in sf thriller RADIUS in which Diego Klattenhoff and Charlote Sullivan are set to take the lead roles. The Memento style thriller centres on a young man who wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. At first believing a deadly virus is in the air, he soon discovers the horrific truth which sets in motion an unbelievable chain of events.