Like the tides and Lindsay Lohan’s film career, movie projects come and go. One project we’re particularly sad to see go bye-bye is Robert Rodriguez’s planned adaptation of the schlocky, sexy 1968 sci-fi flick, “Barbarella.”

Yes, MTV News learned exclusively during a conversation with the director to promote the Blu-ray version of “Sin City” that his “Barbarella” is officially dead.

The film had been in development for years. Back in 2007, Universal Pictures was set to make the picture with Rose McGowan taking over the lead role from original star Jane Fonda. But the budget was said to have swelled past $80 million dollars and Universal balked. Rodriguez went in search of alternate financing. Read more...

FROM SPLASH PAGE: Robert Rodriguez is getting ready for the biggest production of his career, an epic shoot that would last a year and a half. To make room in his schedule, he's pushed back, shifted, moved, or otherwise abandoned nearly every other film on his slate. He's geeked out like he's never been geeked out before - and for this man, that's actually saying something.

Something, but not really anything. Cause good luck getting him to tell you what it is.

And, oh yeah, it's not "Sin City 2," "Barbarella," or "Conan." Read more...

Last August, it was all but assured that "Grindhouse" babe Rose McGowan was set to star as the title character, an ultra-hot space vixen, in Robert Rodriguez's remake of "Barbarella."

Or so we thought.

Because soon came the budget disputes. And the posturing. And the claims that Universal didn't want McGowan at all, preferring instead a bigger name actress like Jessica Alba or Nicole Kidman.

Turns out, we got it right the first time, McGowan insisted, telling MTV News that she was still very much signed on to play the lead in the upcoming film. Read more...

The less preamble the better: Our links today need no introduction with news on “The Dark Knight,” “Star Trek,” “Hellboy 2,” “Wolverine,” “Rambo,” and more.

- It’s gonna be a “Long Halloween.” Joker website Why So Serious updated with an image of a grinning jack-o-lantern. (Why So Serious)

- Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not a man of Rohan! “LOTR” star Karl Urban to play “Bones” in “Star Trek” remake. (AICN)

- Join the Golden Army. “Hellboy 2” site goes live. (Hellboy Movie)

- Liev Schreiber in talks to play young William Stryker, “Wolverine” sets his claws on a May 1, 2009 release date. (Variety)

- Robert Rodriguez’s insistence on casting girlfriend Rose McGowan jeopardizing “Barbarella” remake. (Hollywood Elsewhere)

- First poster for “Rambo” surfaces online. (IGN)

Okay, here's the deal. There truly might be nothing to this, but you never know, so here we go with the facts as I know them. I chatted for a bit with Jessica Alba yesterday (stop drooling, you look like an idiot) and we were talking about her action chops as an actress. Basically, she said she really wants to do another big action role, so I threw out "Barbarella" as a possibility. She paused and simply said, "Isn't that going to Rose? I think it is."

So what have we learned from this? Probably nothing. Jessica Alba has most likely read, like we all have, that Robert Rodriguez may be considering his "Planet Terror" star for the role.

Or maybe Alba's got some inside info thanks to her relationship with Rodriguez? Bottom line? I don't know. Just something to think about. At the very least, you tell us what you think. Who should be Barbarella: Alba, McGowan, Estelle Getty? The floor is yours.

Any day that the Dailies can feature two bits of "Star Trek" news is fine by me. Check it out below along with casting news and ideas for Barbarella and Jenna Jameson?!?

- Is Rose McGowan the new "Barbarella"? (JoBlo)

- 11 injured on set of Tom Cruise film, "Valkyrie." (CNN)

- James McAvoy reportedly signs on for "Star Trek." Our phasers are set on dubious. (The Daily Mirror)

- The two Spocks speak. Watch Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy here. (USA Today)

- Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson go to the dogs for "Marley & Me." (Variety)

- File this under couples we feel like we've seen on screen before but haven't: Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes. (Variety)

- Who should play Jenna Jameson? Five suggestions here. (IGN)

Zac Efron winks, Lex Luthor thinks, and Halle Berry dons pink in our news of the day. Us? We link...

- The Bald and the Beautiful. Kevin Spacey to return as Lex Luthor in "Man of Steel." (Variety)

- Kick off your Sunday shoes! Zac Efron to star in "Footloose" remake. (Variety)

- Is Halle Berry the new Barbarella? (JoBlo)

- Bungie teases what the live-action "Halo" film would look like, courtesy of its director-to-be. (Cinematical)

- Who watches the "Watchmen?" Billy Crudup apparently, who CHUD reports is in line to play Dr. Manhattan. (CHUD)

- "I, Robot" director Alex Proyas to helm "Dracula Year Zero" for Universal. (Variety)

- A "Traitor" among them. Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce about a CIA operative who becomes a terror suspect. (Hollywood Reporter)

Walk down the right back alley in "Sin City" and you can find almost anything. Walk down the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards and you can find even more.

Two years after "Sin City" thrilled audiences with its revolutionary style, author and co-director Frank Miller was eager to tease fans with talk of the sequel. "Robert [Rodriguez] and I have a script and we're all raring to go. We're aching to get started," he said. "I want to work with that crew again...that wonderful cast."

Rodriguez previously revealed to MTV News that the film will be an adaptation of Miller's "A Dame to Kill For," a prequel to "The Big Fat Kill." But what Miller could really use is a Big Fat Starting Date. With Miller set to direct "The Spirit" and Rodriguez gearing up for a remake of "Barbarella," it was recently announced that filming on the sequel would be pushed back.

"There was just some problems above us that I don't understand...that I don't really want to understand," Miller said matter of factly about studio delays in pre-production. All of which shouldn't bum out fans, he insisted, since he expects not only to eventually film "Sin City 2," but "Sin City 3” as well. That story, Rodriguez divulged, would concentrate on Miller's "Hell and Back," the story of a hallucinating artist named Wallace. Rumors have persisted for months that the role of Wallace was being written for Johnny Depp, a casting coup that Rodriguez himself was coyly confident would eventually happen.

As for Miller? "I ain't talking cast until we're actually shooting," he said, a large smile crossing his face at the possibility of getting Depp, "or close to it!"

Rodriguez does Jane Fonda redux, "Star Wars" flicks a no-go, Lohan gets naughty and more, in this edition of our daily linkification.

- Fans may have a bit longer to wait for "Sin City 2” as director Robert Rodriguez signs up for "Barbarella." (Hollywood Reporter)

- Hughes Brothers tackle "Book of Eli" about hero in post-apocalyptic America. Luke Perry sits by the phone. (Variety)

- Oh, well. Lucasfilm debunks rumors of future "Star Wars" movies. (MovieWeb)

- Jodie Foster and Abigail "Little Miss Sunshine" Breslin join Gerard Butler on "Nim's Island." (Hollywood Reporter)

- John Turturro to spin the tale of ballet's most famous works with "The Nutcracker: The Untold Story." (Variety)

- Hollywood finally tells the story behind World War I. "No Man's Land" coming from "Valkyrie" screenwriter Chris McQuarrie. (Variety)

- First image of Lindsay Lohan as a stripper for "I Know Who Killed Me." Something seems familiar... (People)