I Am Link

--- What's the deal with Mark Romanek? Why can't he get another movie made? At this point I'm beginning to think it's him, that he's some sort of capital-A Artist who's incapable of making the necessary adjustments one needs to make as a director when your name isn't Steven Spielberg. What am I on about? Citing that ol' chesnut "creative differences" Romanek has dropped out of directing The Wolf Man only a few weeks before it was set to start filming. AICN gives us a couple of names for possible replacements, including Cloverfield's Matt Reeves, although he's probably too busy and frankly in demand at the moment to jump on board. I'm sure they'll find somebody. Why am I annoyed? because Mark Romanek's music videos are some of my all-time favorites, and the one movie he's managed to make, One Hour Photo, while far from perfect gave me hope we'd see a lot more coming from Romanek in the future. OHP was six years ago. Pull your shit together, man.

--- Continuing with the pissy ranting, they're remaking A Nightmare on Elm Street, are they? And of course Michael Bay's got his paws on producing. I... oh god whatever. I'm a broken man. I was going to say that I can't imagine someone other than Robert Englund playing Freddy Kreuger, and then AICN went and threw Ben Foster's name out there, and... yeah, maybe. Not that I have any hopes that this'll be well managed. But Foster's on such an amusing over-the-top streak as of late I can picture him donning the knife-glove.

--- I hadn't mentioned anything about those rumors of Johnny Depp replacing Heath Ledger, at least in part, in what remains to be filmed of Ledger's role in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus because it seemed a little early to be thinking about it. But DH has word from Christopher Plummer, who was Heath co-star in the film, that Depp's too busy with Michael Mann's next film and that Gilliam is seriously considering using CG to graft Heath's face onto other actor's bodies, like what was done when Brandon lee died while filming The Crow. I get Gilliam's desire to finish the film as a tribute to Heath, and I find it commendable - I really want to see the work Heath did in his final days myself - but I liked the using other actors approach better. The whole CG-face-grafting thing... what can I say, I'm semi-old-fashioned, it creeps me out. Like when Audrey Hepburn dances for The Gap or Gene Kelly dances with a vacuum. Shudder.
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