I Am Link

--- The ReGoonie-ing - The sequel to The Goonies is very very dead, says director Richard Donner. Alas. It could never be the same without Anne Ramsey anyway, I have just right now decided.

--- And Speaking Of Anne Ramsey, Evil Eye Theater has posted my favorite thing of the day. Watch that video, it will change your life.

--- Road Tripped - Looks like the Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road is probably getting bumped to next year. Nat got to see an unfinished version last night and thinks that's a good idea.

--- The Muppet Murders - Jim Henson Co. is planning to get all adult and edgy with The Happytime Murders, which sounds like Roger Rabbit with felt-tops instead of cartoons.

--- I'll Bring The Racket, You Bring The Balls - I'd read this story about Andy Roddick offering up a naked tennis lesson for charity yesterday, and for the sake of my sanity I decided that he was just kidding. Course, if I was the lady who coughed up 15K for his trou-dropping and he tried to play it off as a joke, there'd be trou-shredding consequences to be had. Anyway, Andy naked sounds great obviously but running around on a tennis court? That just sounds weird and quite possibly dangerous, doesn't it? And am I still talking about this? Good grief.

--- Finally, there's an interview with artist Charles Burns up over at AMC well worth your time. Burns talks a bunch about Fear(s) of the Dark, the really fantastic French animated horror flick that he's got a segment in that starts traveling the USA come next weekend, and he also talks a bit about where work stands on David Fincher's adaptation of his brilliant graphic novel Black Hole:

"Burns isn't hiding anything. There just isn't much to say yet. "There was a script that was written, or a couple of drafts, but at this point there's a new writer who's in the midst of writing a new script," he offers.

Can't he at least settle once and for all whether the film will be another jaunt into the world of Burns-ian animation, like Fear(s)?

"It can be claymation for all I know," laughs Burns. "There was some talk about the possibility of working with green-screen or whatever; I don't know anything about that world, but there was talk about having some way of capturing or emulating the look of my drawings, but that's speculation at this point.""

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