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INCLUDING YOUR OPPONENT. You call the shots and assemble the toughest, take-no-prisoners squad possible, with the new 60-figure, Star Wars Miniatures Bounty Hunters set. Factor in that this set contains the highest number of HUGES to date and you've got a winner on your hands. So head to your nearest Star Wars Miniatures retailer and hunt < down this bountiful set! 2 wizards, com/starwars INSIDE THIS ISSUE 16 THE SHADOW'S SHADOW Walter B. Gibson created this bloody pulp hero 22 WILLIAM SHATNER CHATS The actor sells books, CDs, DVDs & TV shows 24 BUTTERFLY EFFECTATIONS Smallville's Erica Durance reflects on changing times 28 SPEAKING OF HEROES Jeph Loeb discusses the new show & old | friends 32 ANOTHER LOST SOUL Ex-Hobbit Dominic Monaghan has a different habit 36 ON THE WHO SET The Doctor & Rose make a second season odyssey 43 BATTLESTAR REQUIEM Paul Campbell notes why Billy had to die 46 IN NUCLEAR AUTUMN They confront life after the world ends in Jericho 50 IT'S OPEN SEASON The animals strike back in this animated hunt 71 THE MAGIC MAN For his next trick, Christopher Nolan adapts The Prestige 76 MUTANT ILLUSIONS The X-Men wizards reveal their special FX secrets 80 HUGH JACKMAN SPEAKS From Down Under, he talks of his five fantasy films 85 FLUSHED AWAY Animated rats find adventure in London's sewers HALLOWEEN SCENE 58 AT THE WITCH'S DUNGEON Greet the famous monsters of Cortlandt Hull's haunt 62 WEIRD TOON TALES Cartoonist Gahan Wilson will make you laugh & scream 68 VOODOO QUEEN Naomie Harris predicts a Pirates sequel will sail next year tain (1 1/22), Deja Vu (1 1/22). December: Eragon (12/15), Children of Men President/Publisher NORMAN JACOBS (12/25), Miss Potter (12/29), Pan's Labyrinth (12/29), Charlotte's Web. Executive Vice President RITA EISENSTEIN January 2007: Pathfinder (1/12), Arthur & the Invisibles (1/12). Executive Art Director February: The Astronaut Farmer (2/2), Superhero W.R. MOHALLEY Ghost Rider (2/16). QUOTE OF THE MONTH (2/9), Editor "Playing possum is what we do." March: 300 (3/9), Stardust (3/9), Sunshine (3/17), DAVID MCDONNELL —Ozzie (William Shatner), Over the Hedge Meet the Robinsons (3/30), Teenage Mutant Ninja Art Director Turtles (3/30). HEINER FEIL STUPID DECISION April: The Hitcher (4/13). Managing Editor OF THE May: Spider-Man 3 (5/4), 28 Weeks Later MONTH (5/11), ALLAN DART SCI FI. One week it's grandly saluting Stargate Shrek the Third (5/18), Pirates of the Caribbean: SG-l's 200th episode. And the next week, it's offi- At World's End (5/25). Contributing Editors ANTHONY TIMPONE cially terminating the show (at this sea- MICHAEL CINGOLD son's end). Celebration, cancellation. TOM WEAVER IF ONLY WE MADE 'EM DEPT. Speaking of stupid decisions, the IAN SPELLING JOE NAZZARO Powers That Be in Astronomy have also WILL MURRAY de-planetized poor Pluto, despite our Special Corespondent assertion this issue in Videolog (page 12, re ZACHERLEY already at the printer) that it's a planet. warn mram St™**, Well, not anymore. What will these WHY MOVIE AUDIENCES DID SEE HIM... STARLOG CROUP, NOT A CREATIVE GROUP Company learned astronomers turn their attention THOMAS DeFEO to next? Saturn? Neptune? Uranus? JOSEPH V. AVALLONE (Make up your own joke here). Poor Executive Assistants: Dee Erwine, Pluto. Poor Stargate SG-1. Audrey Quaranta. Correspondents: (LA) Pat WHERE TO BE... Jankiewicz, Bob Miller, Marc Shapiro, Bill Warren, Dan Yaklr; Halloweeen. Anywhere while wearing (NYC) Dan Dickholtz, Mike McAven- nie, Maureen McTigue, Keith a mask, a costume or even a sheepish Olexa; (Chicago) Kim Howard Johnson; expression. Trick or treat! (Phoenix) Bill Florence: (D.C.) Rhon- da Krafchln; (Orlando) Bill Wilson; (Canada) Mark Phillips; (Booklog) WHATEVER Penny Kenny, Jean-Marc & Randy HAPPENED TO... Lofficier, Michael Wolff; (Toons) Alain "Big Bad Bubba" Chaperon, The rest of Loglines? Well, we ran out Mike Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob of time and space. And we're just so Muleady; (Photos) Donn Nottage, depressed about Pluto. Lisa Orris, Albert Ortega. Thanks to: David Bowers, Michael Broidy, John Bruno, Paul Campbell, FILM FANTASY KristyChan, Phil Collinson, Jill Culton, Adrienne D'Amato, Gloria CALENDAR Davies, Beth DuMont, Erica Release dates are extremely subject to Durance, Sam Fell, Mike Femia, change. Jeffrey Fordis, Walter Gibson, Howard Green, Karlyn Hale, Naomie October: The Prestige (10/20). 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I tatures H;t Ruled at Closes' CaplroMJ. — UPDATES CHARACTER CASTINGS Here's the official title: Fantastic Four: invasion's Eddie Cibrian has joined the cast Rise of the Silver Surfer. Homicide: Life I of Vanished as one of the FBI agents inves- on the Street's Andre Braugher will co-star. tigating the disappearance. His Invasion Warner Bros, is co-financing (with brother-in-law, Tyler Labine, has hired on to DreamWorks) the Tim Burton movie version Boston Legal as a lawyer (of course). of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Firefly's Summer Glau is joining the cast Todd. By DAVID MCDONNELL of the CBS hit The Unit. She'll play David Monster House gets a two-week theatri- Wisler's girl friend. cal re-release October 6 on 100 screens in Genre veterans Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins 3-D (prior to its October 24 DVD bow). And SF CINEMA and Meatloaf cameo in Tenacious D in: The the classic Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Bt\lack Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Pick of Destiny (out November 17). Christmas—also in 3-D—hits wider for a JNolanI is adapting Whitley Strieber's lat- Halloween re-release October 20. est aliens opus, The Grays. FANTASY FILMS Doug Liman is directing Jumper, based The Golden Compass movie has set some SEQUELS on a Steven Gold novel that's the first of a intriguing cast members: Nicole Kidman Hellboy has found a home at Universal trilogy about a young teleporter. Hayden (as villainess Mrs. Coulter), new James Pictures. Revolution Studios financed Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson star in Bond Daniel Craig (Lord Asriel) and Craig's the first film, which was distributed through the film now shooting in Toronto, Tokyo and Casino Royale co-star Eva Green (Serafma Sony, but when it came time for a sequel, Rome.