I Am Link

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--- Hoggin' Heroes - Did any of you see Keanu Reeves in John Wick? I saw lots of critics talking about how fun it was but I don't think I know one person in "the real world" who even knew it existed. Anyway apparently Keanu's now talking with Tarsem Singh, director of The Cell, Immortals et cetera, about starring in Panopticon, which is about the one (excuse me, The One) man who can solve a puzzle to stop the world from ending. I'd love to hear what Keanu's psychiatrist has to say about his obsession with being The One.

--- Widows Peek - Yesterday I told you about that cool-sounding 80s British series Widows that director Steve McQueen is probably remaking for a feature film - today The Playlist has shared the entire first season of the show via YouTube. I have already downloaded it and got it raring to go, with an eye towards every part Michael Fassbender could possibly play natch.
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--- Life After Wartime - So somebody's giving Mel Gibson the money to direct another movie it looks like, and THR is saying it might star Andrew Garfield. I don't know. Listen, if Mel Gibson were actually a talented man I could probably say let's move on past his gratuitously awful misdeeds; I don't have to like an artist in order to appreciate their art. But I just don't think Gibson's talented enough to make that leap so I'd rather he just went away, rolled around in his old millions somewhere, and not drag Andy down into the mire with him. I'd prefer just remembering Mel as a hot piece in leather pants once upon a time.

--- Stupid-pocalypse - I hated the book Robopocalypse, hated it, it's nothing but a title, so the news that the book's author Daniel H. Wilson is eaming up with Brad Pitt to write a "sci-fi take on the works of Jack London" called Alpha doesn't really fill me with the sort of glee hearing Brad Pitt wants to make a "sci-fi take on the works of Jack London" usually would. I wonder what happened to Robopocalypse being turned into a movie though? Wasn't Steven Spielberg supposed to be making it with Chris Hemsworth or something?

--- The World's End - News broke last night that Josh Boone, the director of The Fault in Our Stars, who's been attached to making the film version of Stephen King's The Stand probably longer than any other sorry fellow who's come and went over the years, is going to make an entire series of movies, four probably, from the book. You know what, I haven't read The Stand in maybe 15 years, I really should give it a whirl again.

--- Slasher: A Love Story - Since I'm me I think this sounds like a super-fun idea: Cheap Thrills director EL Katz is set to make You'll Be the Death of Me, which sounds like it's half rom-com half slasher - it's described thus: "The comedy thriller follows two single New Yorkers as their budding romance is complicated by a masked knife-wielding psychopath." I thought Cheap Thrills was pretty fun too, for, you know an exercise in gleeful sadism.

--- Ballyhooed Blonde - Oh the happy happy joy joy that goosed my every fiber seeing my beloved Laura Dern front and center for The Hollywood Reporter's annual Actress Roundtable issue - I haven't seen Wild yet, but if it's giving that good lady a chance at recognition of the golden statue sort, it's got my ear. Over at TFE Nathaniel's dissecting the cover in minute and hysterical detail; so much shade thrown at Amy Adams! It really is ridiculous that she's on there again though. I'd say I hope she wins just so they'll stop putting her on the cover but she's going against Julianne Moore Best Actress-wise right? Ha good luck. (knock on wood, of course.)

--- Do Look Now - I forgot to mention this but it's worth mentioning even a few days late - Criterion's releasing Nicholas Roeg's glorious midget porn Don't Look Now on blu-ray in February! They're 4K-ing it up so expect eye-bugging gorgeousness from all the parts that aren't Donald Sutherland's ass. The extras, per usual with Criterion, do sound smashing though.

--- Return To Twin Peaks - Agenda Magazine interviewed David Lynch regarding his photography exhibit that's on display in Brussels right now, but they managed to get some non-quotes out of him on the Twin Peaks revival he's set to make for HBO. Even beyond that though Lynch is always worth listening to talk about anything. Oh and did you see that my best girlfriend (I wish) Grace Zabriskie pretty much said she'll definitely be returning? YESSSSSS.