Friday, June 06, 2014

I Am Link

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--- Dead Walker - We still don't know much about it besides it will be a horror movie and it will star Carey Mulligan (and we've known both those facts for awhile) but Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn announced on Twitter that I Walk With the Dead will be the next movie he makes. Super excited for him to make a movie with a female lead (he needs to step away from the Gosling for a minute). And proper horror, at that.

--- Midnight Eaters - We already celebrated Gremlins' 30th Anniversary yesterday with this week's Ways Not To Die, but if you want more Gremlins (and who wouldn't) then this piece over at The Playlist is pretty swell, talking about how the film was responsible (along with Temple of Doom) for getting the PG-13 rating invented and how that changed movie-making in general. It's a legacy!

--- Smash Plus - Slash rounds up some quotes from Mark Ruffalo, who says that his role as Bruce Banner and The Hulk in The Avengers sequel is bigger and more complex than in the first one - this makes sense since everybody considered him a highlight of the first one, and was predicting a standalone movie for him. More Ruffalo's never a bad thing anyway!

--- Big Stand - I skipped over all the The Fault in Our Stars talk in this interview with its director (so yes I skipped 90% of it) just so I could get to the good stuff where he talks about his next movie, which will supposedly be a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. I say supposedly because people have been trying to make The Stand for many years and come and gone with regular frequency. Anyway he says he wants to make a 3-hour R-rated version with a bunch of giant stars.

--- Gay Games - EW has the first couple of pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game, where he's playing Alan Turing, the gay spy and mathematician who basically ended World Wat II by decoding German transmissions and in return got persecuted for his sexuality until he killed himself. Happy story, this one!

--- Small Screen Hardy - Tom Hardy says that he thinks that television is where its at these days - apparently his production company's looking to work with NBC (and he's already making a show for the BBC). Long story short, let's get Tom Hardy on Hannibal, that's what I'm looking for here.

--- King of the Jungle - Djimon Hounsou has just joined the Alexander Skarsgard Tarzan movie; he'll be playing a Chief in the jungle - now all we need is for them to write the character of Jane right out of the story altogether and make it a romance between Alex and Djimon, because come on who doesn't want to see that???

--- Post Patsy - Brad Pitt is going to produce and Lupita Nyong'o (yay!) is going to star in a movie called Americaneh, an adaptation of a book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about two Nigerians dealing with immigration difficulties and love. It's an incredibly well-reviewed book - anybody read it? Hooray Lupita! Let's hope they get a great director on this.

--- Geeks Vs Supes - There's a rumor going around that the reason Jesse Eisenberg was hired to play Lex Luthor is they're re-envisioning LexCorp as a Facebook-type company - think youthful, hipster, glass offices and bean bag chairs, et cetera. Basically once again proving that these dudes with their hands on Superman have the smallest dick imaginations on Earth, they thought The Social Network was cool, and hey let's drop that in the middle of our Superman movie. SIGH.
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