HypaSpace Podcast - 2007



Your weekly HypaSpace audio podcast compliments HypaSpace with an informative look at news and gossip from the Entertainment Industry as it relates to Science Fiction Horror, Comics, Fantasy and more.

2007 Podcasts:

December 22, 2007 - Stephenie Meyer of the Twilight series; Star Trek's Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Denise Crosby and LeVar Burton; the best of Jon Llyr. As well, news from around the internet.

December 15, 2007 - Will Smith, plus a dozen Star Trek luminaries are on the podcast this week. Actors Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Armin Shimerman and Anthony Montgomery show their support for the WGA writers who are currently striking, and Star Trek writers , David 'The Trouble with Tribbles' Gerrold, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens discuss the reasons for the strike. As well, writer Harlan Ellison vents about an on-line rumour, and author and satirist Terry Pratchett weighs in on why we love stories.

December 8, 2007 - Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Philip Pullman discuss "The Golden Compass", opening this week. "Star Trek" producer Robert Justman comments on the new re-mastered version of "Star Trek" Season One, and Denise and Michael Okuda, two of the producers of the new "Star Trek" ReMastered DVD set discuss the lasting impact of the classic series. As well, Host Jonathan Llyr and co-host Mark Askwith discuss genre news.

December 1, 2007 - Alan on the Black Dossier Controversy, Hayden Christensen chats about leaving Star Wars behind, and Denis McGrath discusses the WGA strike. As well, genre news and some holiday gift suggestions from your hosts Mark Askwith and Natasha Eloi.

November 24, 2007 - We chat with Tricia Helfer on BSG: Razor and BSG writer David Weddle. A few words from stopmotion legend Ray Harryhausen. Emma Watson talks to us about the Harry Potter craze. Director Frank Darabont, special effects makeup artist Greg Nicotero from The Mist as well as a vault clip with Stephen King. Hosted by Mark Askwith and Natasha Eloi.

November 17, 2007 - We talk to BattleStar Galactica scribers Mark Verheiden, Jane Espenson, and David Weddlein on the L.A. picket lines about the writers strike and its impact. We also chat with actor Jaimie Bamber regarding "BattleStar Galactica: RAZOR", actors Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins on the "Beowulf" flick, George Zotti and Scott McCloud about the impact of the web on comic books and, from the vault, effects wizard Douglas Trumbull talks "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as the film celebrates its 30th anniversary.

November 10, 2007 - We visit "Mister Magorium's Wonder Emporium" with stars Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jason Bateman and writer/director Zach Helm. We also chat with Crispin Glover from the "Beowulf" flick, author Stephenie Meyer of the Young Adult Vampire series, and Epic Games' Lead Designer Cliff "Cliffy B" Bleszinski.

November 3, 2007 - Movie-wise: "Beowulf" actor Crispin Glover; film co-writers Roger Avery and Neil Gaiman; "Martian Child" stars John Cusack and Amanda Peet; and author David Gerrold (who wrote the novel upon which the film is based). TV-wise: 4 of "The 4400" actors: Conchita Campbell, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Jeffrey Combs and executive producer Ira Steven Behr. Miscellaneous-wise: Director Terry Gilliam and author Harlan Ellison.

October 27, 2007 - Halloween's horror-filled podcast has Stephen King on the power of story, as well as director Frank Darabont and Marcia Gay Harden on the upcoming Stephen King adaptation: "The Mist". We also have Steve Niles on his new projects, George Romero on EC Comics, SPACE watching Alice Cooper, Christopher Golden on the Hellboy novel "Baltimore",  H.G. Lewis and more...

October 20, 2007 - SPACE celebrates 10 years of being on-air... We look back over the last decade with 10 clips from 10 Canadian scifi notables, and a few other surprises.

October 13, 2007 - "30 Days of Night" actor Ben Foster and producer Sam Raimi talk about the vampire / horror / thriller... "Transformers" screenwriter John Rogers chats about the appeal of the transformers... As well as Jeffrey Combs, Stuart Gordon, Mike Mignola and William stout on H. P. Lovecraft.

October 6, 2007 - "Iron Man" stars Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and director Jon Favreau talk to us about the highly anticipated flick. We also hear from "Jericho" star Skeet Ulrich, authors William Gibson and Adrienne Kress, video game designer Jon Mak, and, from the Vault: two of the "Fantastic Four" - Chris Evans (Johnny Storm) and Jessica Alba (Sue Storm).

September 29, 2007 - Star Trek: The Next Generation's 20th anniversary is celebrated with comments from Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Dwight Schultz, DC Fontana, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

September 22, 2007 - Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter chat about "Resident Evil: Extinction", their new zombie/horror flick. Matt Dallas (Kyle), April Matson (Lori Trager) & Jean-Luc Bilodeau (Josh Trager) fill us in about their scifi tv series "Kyle XY". Diana Gabaldon, author of the best selling Outlander series, talks about her latest novel "Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade". We also ask author Dana Berry about his companion book to Discover Channel Canada's "Race To Mars" mini-series. As well, we bring you segment from an interview we did a few years back with Robert Jordan who, sadly, just recently passed away.

September 15, 2007 - A chat with director Stuart Gordon and star Mena Suvari from "Stuck". Then we talk to Asia Argento who stars in Dario Argento's "Mother of Tears". We also check out "Race To Mars", a science "faction" mini-series from Discovery Channel Canada. We also hear from the makers of the newly released animated "Superman": Doomsday" DVD and from our vault, William Gibson talks robots.

September 8, 2007 - A few "Heroes" Jack Coleman, Zachary Quinto & Ali Larter on Season 2. Also some "Superbad" guys Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on writing the new Green Hornet film. We also communicate with "Star Trek: Voyager" Robert Beltran, kill some time chatting about Ubisoft's new video game "Assassin's Creed" and blow open the vault to release an interview with Brian Herbert re: his father's ecological themes in Dune.

September 1, 2007 - Toronto Fan Expo 2007 highlights: comments from Jonathan Frakes, Tricia Helfer, Adrienne Barbeau, Colin Fergusen and Malcolm McDowell who's currently starring in the remake of "Halloween". Speaking of "Halloween" we also chat with director Rob Zombie and stars Tyler Mane and Scout Taylor-Compton. And we blast open the vault to gab with China's favourite sci-fi author, Canadian Robert J. Sawyer. As well we have the lastest "news" this week.

August 25, 2007 - "Toronto Comics Arts Festival" highlights including Dave Roman, Paul Gravett, and Jason Thompson. We chat with Neil Gaiman about his two new books "M is for Magic" and "Interworld". And speaking of worlds, The "Underworld" franchise may be getting another entry: we have series star Kate Beckinsale talking about the films. And we crack the vault to bring you an interview with "Star Trek" and "X-Men"'s Patrick Stewart.

August 18, 2007 - The folks behind the "Smallville", "Eureka", and "Supernatural" TV shows have a chat with us.

August 11, 2007 - It's a Blade Runner Spectacular featuring director Ridley Scott and cast members Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy and Joe Turkel along with the news of the week.

August 3, 2007 - We've got tons of highlights from the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con including stuff from Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess, Jeff Smith, Stan Lee, Frank Miller and Zack Snyder. Plus we dip just into the vault for some "MLG" - a video game tournament coming to Canada.

July 28, 2007 - Claire Danes talks about her new fantasy adventure film "Stardust", inspired by the Neil Gaiman novel. As the 2007 San Diego convention comes and goes we take a look at some past San Diego Comic-Con conventions and some chats we had with Edward James Olmos, Joss Whedon, Ron Moore, Zack Snyder and Gerard Butler.

July 21, 2007 - We hear from "Sunshine" director Danny Boyle, Canadian Astronaut Dave Williams who is headed back into space, Novelist S.E. Hinton about the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and William Gibson sounds off on watching and reading science fiction.

July 14, 2007 - This week's podcast is all about the "Harry Potter" books and movies.

July 7, 2007 - This week we chat with artist Pat Lee about the appeal of the Transformers; author Christopher Golden about his "Veil" trilogy; Elisha Cuthbert about her new film "Captivity"; and we jimmy open the vault for a few words from "Ratatouille" director Brad Bird.

June 30, 2007 - This week we chat with Ben Browder and Richard Dean Anderson as "Stargate SG-1" concludes; we speak with one of the creators of TV's "Jericho", Stephen Chbosky, as that show gets revived; author Daniel " How To Survive a Robot Invasion" Wilson discusses the soon-to-be released robot-infested "Transformers" flick; Horror meister Stephen King talks writing; and we pry open the vault to release an interview with "Star Trek: The Next Generation's" Marina Sirtis.

June 23, 2007 - In this weeks podcast. we look at some of the science in sci-fi:  Astrophysicist Dr. Jaymie Mathews discusses the chances of finding an earth-like planet; Physicist D. Lisa Randall, author of "Warped Passage", discusses the possibility of other dimensions; Dr. Laurence Krauss, author of "The Physics of Star Trek" discusses teleportation and warp drive; Dr. David Schurig discusses his work in invisibility research; and astronaut Anousheh Ansari discusses her trip into space. As well we break open the vault to release a 1998 clip from Dr. Stephen Hawking and what he had to say about the possibility of time travel.

June 16, 2007 - On this week's podcast we chat with horror masters Stephen King and Clive Barker, and Part Two of our look at our recent Spacey Awards show.

June 10, 2007 - This week we talk about the results of the 2007 SPACEY Awards that aired on Canada's SPACE channel.

June 2, 2007 - We hear from Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, Albert Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson, Making Comics author Scott McCloud, "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Fantastic Four 2" rubber actor Doug Jones, and "Heroes" executive producer Tim Kring. We also beam into the vault to celebrate the release of "Starhunter" to DVD

May 26, 2007 - Bill Nighy talks about the third "Pirates of the Caribbean film", Frank Miller gives us some info on "Sin City 2", Natasha Eloi fills us in on her new Vinyl Toys special airing on SPACE, we try something a little bit different in the video game department and we travel through the space time continuum and into the vault for an interview with "The Fountain" director, Darren Aronofsky.

May 19, 2007 - We visted the Saturn Awards where we chatted with Battlestar Galactica's Edward James Olmos, original "Superman - The Movie" director Richard Donner and Heroes' Noah Gray-Cabey. We also talk with "The Punisher", Thomas Jane and with Doug Jones who plays The Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel and we open the vault for a vintage interview with Mike Myers circa 2001.

May 12, 2007 - We hear from artist Adi Granov re: designing the latest Iron Man suit; 28 Weeks Later Exec. Prod. /co-creator Danny Boyle and actors Rose Byrne and Indris Elba; we have an exclusive interview with Spinal Tap/Simpsons star Harry Shearer; and we break into the vault and steal an interview with legendary Stan Winston.

May 5, 2007 - We chat with Spider-Man 3's Toby Maguire, James Franco and director Sam Raimi; we meet up with actor Peter Krause and talk about his new thriller flick "Civic Duty" and from the vault we dust off an interview with graphic novelist extraordinaire, Frank Miller.

April 28, 2007 - This week we feature some news stories and interviews with Spider-Man 3 stars Topher Grace and Kirsten Dunst, and Spider-Man writer Roy Thomas.

April 21, 2007 - This week actress Bryce Dallas Howard talks about "Spider-Man 3", writer/actor Simon Pegg talks about "Hot Fuzz", Mr. Fantastic Ioan Gruffodd tells us why he's so fantastic, writer and former Space producer Denis McGrath stops by to chat about his latest work including the TV show "Blood Ties", and we go into the vault to steal an interview with author Phillip Pullman.

April 14, 2007 - We visit with actor Clancy Brown and chat about his new film "Pathfinder", the director of the Winnipeg based Ufology Research Institute Chris Rutkowski talks about UFO's, "Hot Fuzz" director Edgar Wright discusses his next project, we hear from Mira Furlan of "Lost" and "Babylon 5" fame and we blow open the vault to grab a clip from author David Gerrold.

April 7, 2007 - We find out why William Shatner was in Toronto this past week; Hilary Swank's co-star Idris Elba talks about "The Reaping"; Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Zoe Bell get into the "Grindhouse"; and we rip open the vault to steal a clip from Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.

March 31, 2007 - We speak to Oscar winner Hilary Swank about her new film "The Reaping", hear from "Battlestar Galactica" writer/producer Mark Verheiden about the shows shocking season finale that aired last weekend, writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby talk about their next project "the Iron Man film", Rosario Dawson talks about "Sin City" and we open the vault to hear from "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling.

March 24, 2007 - We hear from "Battlestar Galactica" writer and producer Mark Verheiden about what we can expect from this weekends stunning season finale, "Children of Men" writers Mark Fergus and Mark Ostby talk about the film, Kirsten Dunst fills us in on the plot of "Spider-Man 3" and we break into the vault for an interview with Peter Laird, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

March 17, 2007 - This week Sandra Bullock talks about her latest movie "Premonition", Director Zack Snyder about "300", artist Steve McNiven on Marvel's "Civil War" and the reaction to the death of Captain America, and Gregg Taylor of "Decoder Ring Theatre" about his audio podcast dramas.

March 10, 2007 - We chat with directors Jon Favreau and Tim Story, as well as the cast of the Fantastic four movie, and we've gone into the vault for an interview with one of the architects of the Marvel Universe.

March 3, 2007 - This week's podcast includes a bunch of stuff from the movie ' 300 ' - Frank Miller, Zack Snyder and Gerard Butler; Terry Gilliam talks about ' Tideland ' now on DVD and from the vault, scifi/fantasy author Nancy Kress.

February 24, 2007 - We hear from Stargate's Amanda Tapping, Director Nacho Cerda and writer Karim Hussain  about their new horror flic The Abandoned, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez about their new throwback flick Grindhouse, and SPACE Vault steals a clip from sci-fi/fantasy author Michael Moorcock.

February 17, 2007 - We have a few sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so plus we hear from the editor of MAD Magazine, John Ficarra; artist John Cassaday talks about his "X-men" collaborator Joss Whedon; Paul Pope talks about a story he wrote and drew for the 45th Anniversary of the "Fantastic Four" and Stan Lee talks about what originally inspired him to create these Marvel superheroes.

February 10, 2007 - We have a few sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so plus we hear from Joss Whedon and David Goyer about their now defunct "Wonder Woman" and "Flash" projects, catch up with Nic Cage and Eva Mendes going down the road with "Ghost Rider" and Mark Askwith sneaks past the guards and breaks into the SPACE vault to bring us "Bone" creator Jeff Smith.

February 3, 2007 - We have a few sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so plus we have Cory Doctorow about his new book Overclocked; producer Dean Devlin talks about his movie "Flyboys" now available on DVD, Billy Bob Thornton speaks with Mark Askwith about his new movie "The Astronaut Farmer" and Mark sets off the alarms as he breaks into the SPACE vault for an interview with the second man on the Moon - Buzz Aldrin.

January 25 2007 - This week some sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so; "Battlestar Galactica" scoundrel Baltar, aka James Callis, talks about a scene that didn't make it into the final cut of one of the episodes; "The Dresden Files" star Paul Blackthorne talks about the physical demands of playing Harry Dresden, "300" creator Frank Miller talks about his fondness for Montreal and we crack open the vault to hear from one of the stars of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", Brad Douriff.

January 18, 2007 - We've got a few sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so plus we sit down with Battlestar Galactica's Lt. Gaeta Alessandro Juliani, chat with former Apollo, and present Tom Zarek, Richard Hatch, talk to writers Guy Gavriel Kay and George R R Martin and reach back into the vault to interview Gods and Monsters and Dreamgirls director Bill Condon about...Frankenstein.

January 11, 2007 - A few sci-fi and fantasy entertainment related stories that have hit the net in the past week or so plus we sit down with Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff, nab exclusive interviews with "The 300" creator Frank Miller and with Robert Hewitt Wolfe, executive producer of "The Dresden Files". And our Mark Askwith breaks into the vault and steals an interview with the king of comics, Mr. Stan Lee.

January 8, 2007 - We chat with Stephen Chbosky, the co-creator and executive producer of the new hit show "Jericho", we celebrate the DVD release of "Snakes on a Plane" with Samuel L. Jackson, and since it's now 2007, you know what that means! That's right!!! This year marks the 30th anniversary of "Star Wars" so we dig deep into the vaults and talk to original Darth Vader, David Prowse..

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