blade

Welcome to Captain's Log -- your (semi) daily round-up of sci-fi randomness from around the web. Here's what's happening today:

- Director Steven Norrington says he's returning to Marvel's Blade franchise for a possible prequel film starring Stephen Dorff as Frost, the big bad vamp from the original movie.

- Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan is leaving Lost. Vaughan has been with the show since season three, helping to develop it's vast mythology and it's character's taste for geeky pop culture. What's the comic book writer's next project? Roundtable, a film described as a twist on the King Arthur legend.

- Is there a Twilight vampire baby on the way? MTV U.K. says Kristen Stewart might be pregnant with Robert Pattinson's (probably) pasty child.

More sci-fi awesomeness after the jump.

Don't ask me how Guillermo del Toro works on four hundred projects at once, because it always amazes me to see how much he's got going on, and it's also inspiring to see a filmmaker that passionate about creating and conceptualizing and coming up with awesome new things for the world and his fans. Guillermo del Toro is exactly the kind of guy we want handling some of these more fanboy-ish properties because he's a true geek -- and while other filmmakers are using their celebrity status to attend parties at the Playboy mansion, this mofo is designing creatures and drawing in his sketchbook and working hard to please us.

Round of applause before we move on ...

In a new interview on BBC Radio, Del Toro let loose that he's already cast friend (and collaborator) Doug Jones as Frankenstein in his planned adaptation of the classic tale, and will begin testing things like make-up within the next few weeks -- though he admits (to Digital Spy) that he's "not in a hurry" and is perfectly fine shooting the film five or six years from now. "You have one shot in your lifetime at these things and I don't want to do it the wrong way."

As far as The Hobbit goes, Del Toro confirmed to BBC that Ian McKellan is back, as well as Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving, all of whom will be reprising their roles from the original trilogy. The writer-director also confirmed that there will only be two Hobbit movies, not three, which is a fact that was revealed earlier this year.

News on Del Toro's other projects after the jump.