I Am Link

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--- Since I appear to be following every blip on the radar for the progress of I Am Legend (see here and here), I might as well point out this "fascinating" tidbit from DH - it's going to shoot for seven whole months here in NYC, this Fall through Spring. It has a release date of November 21st, 2007. Fascinating!

--- Johnny Depp has to screen-test for composer Stephen Sondheim before he'll be allowed to play the role of the murderous barber in Sweeney Todd.

Says DH,"The composer fears his vocals may be too rock 'n' roll."Which reminded me that Depp had a rock band, didn't he? Or am I confusing him with Keanu Reeves? Well, Depp should've had a rock band if he diidn't; he's the type. I think they ought to do the next season of Rock Star on VH1 with Depp, Reeves and Jared Leto looking for someone to carry their enormous misplaced egos.

--- My girlfriend Rachel Dratch has switched up roles in the Tina Fey-led primetime NBC vehicle 30 Rock.

Says EW, "... rather than play a singular [character], she will play multiple roles in the universe of 30 Rock." So... I guess we can expect a tidal wave of granny wigs, then? I don't care, I'm just knee-bucklingly pleased that Dratch ain't vanishing quite yet. Why Will Ferrell doesn't put her in his movies I don't get; they're a dynamic comic duo!

--- No one on the entire face of the planet has seen Snakes on a Plane yet, and that worries CHUD tremendously. OMG - it could suck!!! Can you imagine???

Hasn't this thing already been shown on SciFi by now? I can't even think about it anymore.

--- Could it be? Could Darren Aronofsky actually be making another movie? Will this one take a billion decades to finish, too? (related sidenote: I hate you, Brad Pitt)

Says JoBlo: "Darren Aronofsky is attached to direct an adaptation of Shannon Burke's novel, "Black Flies," which follows a young man who, as a temporary job before entering med school, becomes an emergency medical technician in Harlem. While there, he experiences a number of crises and stressful misadventures while under the eye of a mentor who has been numbed to the point that he makes a wrong decision in a life-or-death situation."
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