WATCHMEN WITCH Silk MOUNTAIN Spectre & INKHEART«ELEVENTH Dwayne (The 16 pages WONDER W Rock) Johnson of action! STARLOG Movie Magic presents battles THE SCIENCE Fl HI. , n if Hi put on y 9\*sses tor lift] •KX3 MP* • Hi Clap for Coraline alongside the Other Father, director Henry Selick (page 28) and star Dakota Fanning (page 24). STARLOG 64 BUNNY TOSSING & OTHER EVENTS Open Season 2 promises more toonish antics 16 SINS OF THE SON Joshua Jackson knows not what he has done 69 IN BRENDAN FRASER'S VIEW It almost always involves greenscreen 20 THE PUSH TO DIRECT Paul McGuigan deals with psychic youth 75 LIFE IN THE ELEVENTH HOUR Rufus Sewell looks to science for answers 24 DAKOTA FANNING SPEAKS... And she has two genre films to talk about! 78 STRANGE ADVENTURES IN TIME & COMICS -6 Murphy Anderson drew them & Buck Rogers | 28 CRAFTING CORALINE s Henry Selick fashions a film the novel » from WATCHMEN TALES #2 |N * | 32 NEW MAN ON WITCH MOUNTAIN 36 A SILKEN LEGACY = Johnson returns for fantasy action Carla Cugino explains her heroic past & present Dwayne y 51 MONSTERS VS. ALIENS! 39 KISS OF THE SILK SPECTRE I Can Earth's unwanted save us from 3-D doom? Malin Akerman just loves the family business §o 56 THE ANIMATED AMAZON 42 LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY... I Wonder Woman battles on in a new DVD war Designer Alex McDowell envisions the world I o O 60 HULK'S ALL-STAR, DOUBLE BRAWL 46 THE ABYSS GAZES ALSO % He fights Wolverine & the Mighty Thor, too Director Zack Snyder makes it all a reality £ ON THE WEEKENDS, THOR WASHES HIS THUNDERWEAR- 4 SMm/April 2009 — President BOOK OF NOTE THOMAS DeFEO We have to recommend The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion by STARLOG Executive Art Director pal Mark Cotta Vaz (Titan, he, $30). It's W.R. MOHALLEY cunes an insider's look at the making of the recent film, based on Will Eisner's Editor character, complete with an DAVID MCDONNELL fabled QUOTE OF THE MONTH introduction by writer-director Frank whenev- Art Director B.O.B.: "What do people scream Miller and lotsa production art and HEINER FEIL er they see you coming?" storyboards. But here's the real Susan: "Susan!" lowdown—it's better (we're sorry to Managing Editor —Monsters vs. Aliens say) than the movie. ALLAN DART Contributing Editors STUPID DECISION ANTHONY TIMPONE OF THE MONTH MICHAEL CINCOLD saying farewell to The Chroni- TOM WEAVER Disney. For IAN SPELLING cles of Narnia. With what fantasy film JOE NAZZARO saga is the Mouse House going to replace Nar- WILL MURRAY nia? Executive Assistants DEE ERWINE WHERE TO BE... SAMUEL ZIMMERMAN ...February 6. In a theater to see Coraline. We saw the whole film already—it's haunting, Correspondents: (LA) Pat Jankiewicz, Bob charming and simply terrific. Miller, Marc Shapiro, Bill Warren, Dan Yakir; multiplex, (/it's released as (NYC) Dan Dickholtz, Keith Olexa; (Chicago) ...March 6. In a Kim Howard Johnson; (Phoenix) Bill Flo- scheduled, to watch the year's most eagerly rence; (D.C.) Rhonda Krafchin; (Canada) awaited genre movie, Watchmen. We've Mark Phillips; (Booklog) Penny Kenny, Jean- already seen 25 minutes of it, and they were Marc & Randy Lofflcier, Michael Wolff; 1 939." Murray replies: "I think there's some (Toons) Alain "borto." Chaperon, Mike mesmerizing. Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob Muleady, Leah ...And March 27. Wearing your 3-D glass- confusion here. The Bat was the character who Rosenthal; (Photos) Donn Nottage, Lisa es in another theater to experience Monsters influenced Batman. I'm pretty sure I was clear Orris. vs. Aliens. We've seen 25 minutes of it, too in the piece. However, a technical point: after Radio: Mike Kostel, Debbie Rochon. it's the Bat sporting fins on his web: Fred Ehrhart, Danny Gonzalez. and we loved those sequences. That's why Black began Special Thanks to: Malin Akerman, Murphy on this issue's cover. gauntlets, Batman suddenly sprouted identical Anderson, Tara Aucoin, Louie Bosari, Jamie equipment. So there was an influence." Falkowitz, Dakota Fanning, Brendan Fraser, CORRECTIONS! Thomas says: "(2) DC purchased the Ail- Jess Carcia, Omar Gonzales, Howard Green, discovered for ourselves (because American line in full from M.C. Gaines in carla Gugino, David Hail, David Hale, Leif Hel- We land, Jeff Hill, Joshua Jackson, Elissa Johans- nobody wanted to tell us?) that we inad- 1945, not 1946. The books that had been the meler, Dwayne Johnson, Carman Knight, vertently misidentified a Torchwood guest star. AA line all started sporting DC logos again in Henry Knudsen, Rob Letterman, Vivian Twicel That isn 't Doctor Who's, Freema Agye- issues that came out in fall 1945, after roughly Mayer, Alex McDowell, Alana McElroy, Paul McCuigan, Gary Miereanu, Nahal Mogharabi, man pictured in two different stories (#366, eight months behind an AA symbol." Murray Lauren Montgomery, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, page 70; #369, page 79), but Nikki Amuka- agrees: "I don't know where I looked that up, Matt O'Callaghan, Frank Paur, Alex Proyas, Bird. Both actresses can be seen in the new but apparently my source was in error." Henry selick, Rufus sewell, J. p. Shields, Stacy Survivors (previewed in #373). STARLOG Thomas reports: "(3) The team-up of Super- shin, Deborah & zack Snyder, Gina Soliz, in World's Finest did in Newell Todd, Conrad Vernon, Jeff walker, regrets the errors. man and Batman occur cover images: watchmen: Trademark & Legendary comic book writer-editor Roy '54, of course, but WF was being cut not from ©2008 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. Smi- Thomas, a noted comics historian who edits '52 to 48' pages but from a larger size (I for- ley Logo (Also seen on Page 3): Trademark Alter Ego (the wonderful magazine chroni- get—either 64 or 72) to 32. Other DC comics at The Smiley Company/Courtesy Warner field's time to except Bros.; Dwayne Johnson/Race to Witch cling the past) and has contributed to that were cut from 52 32, for a Mountain: ©2008 Disney Enterprises. All STARLOG, wrote in to clarify three points in few interim issues of Superman and Batman Rights Reserved; Monsters vs. Aliens: Trade- Will Murray's interview with the late DC that came in at 40." Murray states: "I stand cor- mark & ©2008 DreamWorks l.l.c. All Rights Comics editor Jack Schiff in #369. rected. But the few Batmans I own from that era Reserved. For Advertising info, Contact: Thomas notes: "(1) Black Bat could hardly were 40 pages. I got them back in the 1960s, so Bekah McKendry, 646-666-7336 have been an influence on Batman (unless the page count really impressed me." [email protected] there was 'industrial spying' going on), since both debuted at virtually the same time in ARE YOU LISTENING? We know that people are watching the Fox TV series Terminator: The Sarah Con- STARLOG (ISSN 0191-4626, Canadian GST number: R-124704826) is published monthly except for February & September by STARLOG GROUP, INC/THE BROOKLYN COMPANY, INC., 250 W. 49th street, Suite 304, 3rd Fir, nor Chronicles, but if you're also a fan of the New York, NY 10019. 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The these fantastic talents who have died. It has 6 SMm/April 2009 www.starlog.com been tough times indeed for people we loved. book leading lady (Jenny, Jennifer Connelly in SF Convention, beginning that fandom tradi- Arthur A. Ross (November 2008) The the movie version). tion. In the '40s and '50s, "4E" worked pri- "last man standing" from the behind-the- Eartha Kitt (December) The sultry- marily as an agent (for Ray Bradbury, A.E. van scenes credits of Creature from the Black voiced singer ("Santa Baby") and actress. Best Vogt and others) before Warren Publications Lagoon (1954), which he co-wrote (and which known to us for playing a purr-fect Catwoman introduced Famous Monsters in 1958.