I Am Link

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--- You Mean Really Real - We've got confirmation - Ridley Scott will really direct an Alien prequel. Variety confirms this and gives us the name of the new young Hollywood hot-shot who's writing the script. Like I've admitted several times as this news has slowly slinked forward, I've got mixed feelings about this: the original Alien is an amazing, amazing film, but Ridley hasn't made a movie I've liked in 20 years, so I just don't know if he's got it in him again. And the whole prequel thing eliminates Ripley, which = sadness. At the very least we can hope that this will resurrect the still scary Alien creature from the "Versus Predator" purgatory it's been in.

--- Get In The Game - Nacho Vigalondo, the Spanish director of the great flick Timecrimes - a movie I've had on my mind ever since watching it a couple of months ago; I liked it when I watched it but it's really just carved out space in my brain ever since, in a good way - has lined up his next project and it's gonna be an American production. It's called Gangland and it's a "blurring the lines between video-game and reality" movies. Which has failed more often than not so normally I'd shrug at the news, but Vigalondo made something so new and fresh out of the well-worn time-travel trope that this is definitely something to pay attention to. I also see they're developing a remake of Timecrimes for here in the States which... duh.

--- AKA The Lord's Day - Slash/Film has word on when the world will get its first glimpse at the trailer for James Cameron's Avatar - and in his usual humble way, JC's only taken an entire day of the calendar and renamed it after his film. August 21st is now Avatar Day - that's the day those 15 minutes will screen in theaters across the country and that's the day the trailer will make its way online. And that's the day a new savior will be born, and he will be good and righteous, amen.

--- Maybe The Final Final - There's a great chat - especially if you're as big a fan as I am of the series - with Craig Perry, the producer of the Final Destination films, over at BD. He talks about keeping the series fresh while remembering that all it's really about it the death set-pieces (and bless them for remembering this), about the title change - he amusingly admits:

"... FD3 we were exploring shooting in 3-D, but there weren’t enough 3-D screens to make it economically viable to do. Now we get to FD4 and were like, ‘ehhhhh FD4 3-D, WTF does that even mean? It doesn’t make any sense.’"

Indeed. And he talks about how the third film was New Line's most profitable film for the year but that the films get more expensive each go-around so this could be the last one... but maybe not, he's got an idea for where it could go next. I want new ones of these movies until I'm catatonic in a nursing home so I hope they keep going! And finally he talks about the fact that Rob Zombie's second "Halloween" movie will be out the same day and how they ain't worried. Good stuff.

--- Best Brains - Y'all oughta go check out Final Girl's hugely entertaining list of her favorite and most memorable zombies, and add your faves to the comments there. There are so many to love... I think that gal there to the left is maybe my favorite ever, if only because it's the one that I think I found the most emotionally affecting from any zombie movie ever. Sadness.

--- Re Programmed - Over at io9 they're telling us the ways we can and should re-experience Joss Whedon's first season of Dollhouse now that it's on DVD. I'm gonna be all up in those commentaries soon.

--- And finally, you need to head over to Only Good Movies where they've got a tremendously comprehensive list of the Top 100 Movie Killers. Yay killers! They're wonderfully divided up into categories, like Sophisticated, Foreign, Mask-Wearing... so many names to see and love anew. It's like going to a high school reunion or something, only this reunion falls on the anniversary of some horrific event and the lights have gone out and the doors have all mysteriously gotten themselves locked...
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