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Metroid Movie Probably Not Happening
Metroid Movie Probably Not Happening

…but I would be a bad nerd if I didn’t pass along the new rumor that director John Woo will be announcing a Metroid movie at this weekend’s New York Comic Con. The rumor comes from the Swedish gaming mag/site Games Reactor, which I have no idea of the respectability of. Suffice to say that if Woo hadn’t bought the rights to a Metroid movie back in 2004, I’d have dismissed this totally. Anyways, it’ll give you something to be excited about for the week until your hopes are crushed this weekend. (Via Albotas)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.