I Am Link

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--- Hate Bound - The cast (or at least the big parts of the cast) for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight has been announced and while everybody's buzzing that Channing Tatum will be in it (in what's described as a smallish role) what's got me hooked is Demian Bichir, who's super-underrated in both the talent and the looks department. See this post for the latter, lots and lots of the latter.

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--- A New King - I guess it was a few months ago we heard that Eric Bana was going to play Elvis Presley in a movie about the infamous meeting the King had with President Nixon; now comes word that Bana's out, and Michael Shannon is in? Michael Shannon is way too skinny to play Elvis in 1970, but okay. Then another shoe drops - Kevin Annoying Spacey is playing Nixon. Downgrade.
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--- Touchdown Sally - So apparently Laura Dern brought an idea about female football fans to Judd Apatow and he liked it and now the two of them are going to make the movie. Voila! THR only specifies that the two are producing the film, it's not clear if Apatow's directing or if Dern's starring in it, but let's fucking hope so. A female South Park writer named Pam Brady is set to write it.
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--- Danger Orphan - The guy who wrote the "better than it had any right being" remake of The Last House on the Left is writing and directing a movie called Standoff next, which will star Thomas Jane as a wounded veteran who is protecting an orphan on the run from a sadistic assassin played by Laurence Fishburne.

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--- Tilting Again - I just kind of wish Terry Gilliam would give up on his Don Quixote movie thing, but windmills, man, windmills - he's just signed the bound-to-be-a-big-movie-star Jack O'Connell in the lead, doubtlessly dragging the boy off while he's got heat into an endless mire of movie-making from which no one will escape sane.
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--- Scarface 2: Extra Scars - When I saw Brian DePalma at a Q&A ages ago for a screening of Passion he mentioned he was trying to work with Al Pacino again (they of course made Carlito's Way and Scarface previously) and here's that finally happening - the movie's to be called Retribution and it's about "a hit-man and a cop who will go to any length to stop a Philadelphia child prostitution ring."
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--- Tool Belt - I really do not get this list at Jezebel on "The Best Crotch Shots In Mainstream Film" - they say it's not really in order but it's really not in order because it's all over the place (Michael Fassbender how are you dropped nonchalantly in the middle there like that?) but if you just ignore the numbers and enjoy the pictures, who cares, cuz dicks! I'd never seen that shot of Peter Gallagher before; wowza.
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--- Little People - I keep keeping hope alive that Alexander Payne might win me back; I did love his first few movies so much, and then everything went horribly awry with The Descendants. Nebraska didn't do it. But maybe his new movie, which sounds crazy, can - Matt Damon will star in Downsizing, which is all Honey I Shrunk The Kids and shit, but about over-consumption. I hope he keeps it light and stays away from preachiness, is all; having seen Payne in person a couple of times he really, really loves the sound of his own voice.
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