Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has stated before that he’s a huge Star Trek fan, even hinting in a recent interview that he wants to somehow be a part of the franchise.

Seth tends to be a pretty outspoken guy — and has become even more so as of late. He seems pretty serious about this, but would it work? I don’t suppose there’s any way to get the Roddenberry estate to team up with Seth for more of the above.  Like on a regular basis. Once a week maybe?

“I don’t know who would give me the keys to that car,” MacFarlane laughs, referring to Paramount’s possible lack of interest in bringing back Trek to the TV screen. “But I’d love to see that franchise revived for television in the way that it was in the 1990s: very thoughtful, smartly written stories that transcend the science fiction audience.”

In other sh*tty movie news, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has officially exited the remake of the 1994 Brandon Lee film The Crow, making it perhaps the most abandoned big screen comic book adaptation since Brad Pitt, Keanu and pretty much everyone else bolted from Akira. This might have something to do with the fact that the studio canned writer Nick Cave (yes, that Nick Cave) even though he wrote the amazing genre-defying Western pic The Proposition, and would probably be perfect for bringing The Skull Cowboy and Eric Draven back to the big screen? I’m just speculating, but when Stephen Norrington leaves a film because of the script, it’s probably because it’s not retarded enough for him.

Finally, rumors have been surfacing whether Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow appearance in The Dark Knight was really a fitting end for one of Batman’s greatest enemies (which was basically an effeminately bat-gloved wrist slap.) The answer is probably no, as various eyewitness accounts refer to Murphy showing up on set. Fortunately the BBC’s Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo bullied him into giving all but a confirmation. Say what you will about Murphy’s acting ability, he doesn’t have much of a poker face in the studio.

And for a refresher, the ‘torture Carmine Falcone’ scene from Batman Begins:

(via Niki Stephens at joblo and comic book movie)

Words by Jeff Nau