I Am Link

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--- Preacher Teacher - I don't believe the rumor that Dominic Cooper is going to star in Preacher has been confirmed yet, but we have gotten two bits of supporting casting - Ruth Negga, who you might recognize from Agents of SHIELD (or maybe from all those times she was spied hanging out with a half-naked Dominic Cooper; are they still dating? Anybody know?), will play the female lead named Tulip O'Hara. Yes, Tulip O'Hare. The fact that Negga's so closely connected to Dominic Cooper though, this makes me think Dom might indeed be taking the lead. Anyway also cast on the show is the adorable Ian Coletti, seen there to the left, who will be put under a pile of horrific make-up to play the disfigured character called "Arse-face" in the comics. WTF with these names?

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--- Conduct Yourself - Steve McQueen's series for HBO has gotten an official six-episode order - it's called Codes of Conduct and it sounds a little Six Degrees of Seperation-ish (about a poor black kid infiltrating rich NY white society) and besides the unknown actor in the lead some recognizable names have been dropped: Paul Dano, Helena Bonham Carter, and Rebecca Hall will all co-star.
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--- The New Batch - Have you guys seen A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night yet? I think it's out on iTunes now, or it's about to be - anyway see it, here's my review, it's marvelous. The film's director Ana Lily Amirpour is lining up her next project and because of Girl's big-time success she's going stratospheric - it's called The Bad Batch and it's a cannibal love-story and it's going to star Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Jason Momoa, and Diego Luna (Oh Diego). Oh right and also the "newly" "single" Suki Waterhouse presumably as The Lead Girl. And LIly compares it tonally to Jodorowsky. Wowza.

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--- Go Outside - It Follows update! Earlier this week they were saying it was still rolling out onto VOD next week even though it was doing terrific business in theaters - well today they have announced the VOD release has gotten pushed back, and they're gonna see how it does as it expands across the country. This is great news - the more I thought about people watching this movie, which relies on a slow enveloping sense of dread, at home with their phones on stopping it every ten minutes, the less positive I felt it'd get the sort of reception it deserves.
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--- Fresh Women - Mentioning Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell earlier today when I did my list of favorite 2013 movies reminded me that I hadn't mentioned the news she's signed on to write (and maybe possibly maybe direct?) the latest Little Women movie. Yes please! Last we'd heard she was working on an adaption of a book by the guy who wrote The Fault in Our Stars; no word on that yet.
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--- Pushing Perfect - I'm pretty sure I could write a post titled "Quote of the Day" and just copy and paste this entire interview with Bryan Fuller in Esquire from start to finish - it's filled with excellent stuff on all of his shows, from Dead Like Me (he hasn't watched a single frame of the show from after he left the series mid-first-season) to Wonderfalls to Pushing Daisies and up through Hannibal. It's the little bit right at the end about his Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane that breaks my heart though.

"[P]art of me thinks that there was so much story going on that I would have traded making that one episode for waiting a little bit and figuring out the best way to tell the story... It just wasn't ready yet to come out of the oven the way it did."

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--- Bobby Boy - I haven't read this yet so we can do it together - let's click on over and read this interview with Bobby Cannavale apparently talking about being friends with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro cuz that's how he rolls and also that little movie he made coming out this year about a bug person. I just wanna know more about the time he and Alan Tudyk hung out in jockstraps together, honestly. I hope he talks about that.
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--- The Upside of Age - Just one more thing added to the "Good grief, how old am I?" pile -- it's the 10th anniversary of Joan Allen's film The Upside of Anger, which probably should've netted her an Oscar dammit, but she wasn't even nominated. What a world. Anyway The Film Experience is celebrating the film with a tribute, head on over and read that and feel old and angry and then go get drunk, Joan would appreciate it.
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