I Am Five Of This Week's Pre-Empted Links

So due to my call-to-duty the past couple of days, I've missed more of the usual bits and pieces of movie-news than usual... but here's five stories I snatched up a quick interest in last evening as I scanned through the past couple days worth of internet fodder. If there's news you think I may've missed (I'm not including Jake's official casting in that Prince movie here, but yes, I know about it) and want to alert me to, first off you're chock-full o' awesome, and secondly you can do so in the comments.

--- Gettin' Thirsty - Via BD comes the first image (of low quality, but still) from Park Chan-wook's next film, Thirst, as well as a plot description (all via here):

"Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things turns for worse, he struggles to maintain what’s left of his humanity."

The priest is played by Korea's biggest star, Song Kang-ho; he's been in three of Park's previous films as well as the lead buffoon in critically-lauded (but not by me!) monster-movie The Host. I previously posted on this film here.

If you've read MNPP for any length of time you know Park is up near the tippy-top of my favorite living directors, so expect to hear much over this one as it trickles on out. It's filming now, for release some time next year in Korea (so who knows when we'll see it here; his last film, I'm A Cyborg But That's OK - my review - has as far as I know never gotten any release here, even in DVD form).

--- Train On Track - The adaptation of Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train is now set for a July 11th release - opposite Hellboy II, whose audience consists of exactly the same demographic; great marketing plan, guys! - and probably only with a limited theater count, says STYD. Blurgh. After the Rogue debacle, I'm not counting on "limited theater count" to even include NYC any more, so who the fuck knows. Blurgh I says!

--- I haven't even read this myself yet, and I haven't even decided if I'm going to, but io9 has the first batch of details on the new show by Ron Moore (he of Battlestar Galactica responsibility), Virtuality, that comes out this Fall.

--- Loose Lips On The Dino Express - Apparently John Williams, Spielberg-accompanying maestro to the epic entertainments of our lives, has listed Jurassic Park IV as one of his upcoming projects, via here via DH. Along with Laura Dern that makes two people pretty sure this franchise is gonna keep rolling along! Yay dinos!

--- And finally, via STYD, comes the first image of Viggo Mortensen in The Road, the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic scarred-JA-for-months book:

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