Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I Am Link

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--- All Hail Muad'Dib - I've been on a Dune kick these past couple of months, having finally gotten around (because lord knows I wasn't geeky enough before) to reading Frank Herbert's book and watching the David Lynch film from 1984 (next up for me to see is the SciFi miniseries), so this news caught my eye: Peter Berg, the director of Very Bad Things and most recently The Kingdom, has gotten the green-light to make a new feature-film of Dune. Peter Berg... the visionary. I don't know, maybe the book needs someone who's not a crazy visionary to get an actual adaptation that works onto screens. I just mourn the loss of the Alejandro Jodorowsky version (Music by Pink Floyd! Creatures by H.R. Giger!) that never came to be.

--- F is for Failure - BD has got the first review of Rob "Wrong Turn" Schmidt's The Alphabet Killer, the serial killer flick starring Eliza Dushku that really only grabbed my interest because it was filmed in and based on a true-story from my hometown of Rochester, NY, and this person's word is decidedly not good on the movie.

--- Darker Knight - Christian Bale answers noncommittally to a query on a third Batman film, although I think The Dark Knight is going to be huge and he won't get away with such waffling for very long (especially since he signed a contract for three films, and all).

--- So Meaty - EW.com has a nice long and amusing chat with The Soup's adorable host Joel McHale, in which we learn unsurprisingly that Tyra Banks has no sense of humor whatsoever.

--- What Could Have Been - The Chicago Tribune talked to Ron Moore, Battlestar Galactica's main man, and while the entire interview won't be online until April, for now they posted some highlights, including the sad news that Joss Whedon probably won't get to direct an episode because he'll be too busy with his own show. What am I saying; sad news? Okay, it would've been lovely for Joss to get his hands on the BSG universe for an hour, but I'll take a Joss Whedon series of his own over that any day.

--- And finally, I missed last week's Horror Roundtable, but that doesn't mean y'all should!
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wasn't Peter Berg in an 80's teen horror movie?

Jason Adams said...

Hmm.. he was in Shocker, Wes Craven's 1989 horror flick about a resurrected murderer killed by electric chair.