According to the EyeCon website, Supernatural's Samantha Ferris, who portrayed Ellen Harvelle, owner of a roadhouse for hunters, has been added to the appearance line-up. Jared Padalecki, who plays Sam Winchester, Chad Lindberg, who played computer hacker Ash, and Alona Tal, who played Jo Harvelle, Ellen's daughter, were previously comfirmed. Sandra McCoy, who recently had a guest spot as a crossroads demon, has also been added. EyeCon is a "fan friendly" convention for science fiction, fantasy, anime, and comic book fans. The convention takes place April 4-6, 2008, in Orlando, Florida.

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In other news, a monster expected to appear later in season three may not after all. Last month, the magazine Cult Times ran an interview with Eric Kripke in which he dropped an interesting monster spoiler for episode ten: Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th movie franchise fame. What Eric Kripke said originally was "We have cleared the rights to actually use Jason. We have a twist on it so it's not really Jason out there but we found an interesting way to bring him in." But the horror news website Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that the character may not show up after all. They said their source talked to someone on a WGA picket line who said there'd been a problem with the rights.

ShockTillYouDrop.com caught up with series writer and executive producer John Shiban for confirmation. Shiban verified there'd been a rights issue, but was coy about whether or not the character would still appear. "That would be cool," Shiban said. "I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say it's an episode about dreams and the dreamscape, so you face your nightmares. You'll have to see how we work it in."

While the use of a classic horror movie villain sounds like fun, it's not the reason people are watching the show each week, and from the sound of things, it's not the most intriguing thing about the ep in question. We'll know one way or another when episode 3x10 finally airs. With the WGA strike, we don't know when that will be. Episode 3x08 is scheduled for December 13, 2007, and word is the show will have twelve episodes in the can when production shuts down on Dec. 5.

The WGA and the AMPTP are scheduled to resume talks on Monday, November 26.

Sources:
Bloody-Disgusting
ShockTillYouDrop.com