I Am Link

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--- Drumroll Please - Who's gonna maybe direct the Predator reboot (titled Predators) that Robert Rodriguez is producing? Word on the street is calling out Neil "The Descent" Marshall. That "word on the street," it's such a tease! This would be AWESOME if true, so let's all cross our hearts and pray it is. Because? AWESOME. Neil's currently filming his Roman kick-assery epic Centurion with current It-Boy Michael Fassbender.

---Dolls & Slayers - EW.com chatted with Joss Whedon about the second season of Dollhouse - there are spoilers so beware, but he sounds crazy excited about where they're taking the story, so that's promising - as well as getting this Buffy-nugget (eww) out of him:

"Don't hold your breath that Whedon might become involved in the big-screen Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. "I believe [the producers] did ultimately reach out to my agent after the news broke," Whedon says. "I think that's something better left untouched by me. So, I wish them luck.""

After my initial freak-out I'm trying to be slightly less insta-judgemental, slightly more open-minded... tis tough, but I'm trying. Who knows... god I feel queasy just saying that. But yeah. Whatever. Life's too short.

--- A Dream Is A Wish - It's weird, suddenly I feel like this week I've had some sort of spidey-sense tingling curious things into being. I'd been wondering what was up with Y: The Last Man, suddenly Shia's talking about it. And just the day before yesterday - inspired by my post on the film adaptation of his book The Hours - I was wondering what was up with writer Michael Cunningham these days. It's been four years since his last novel Specimen Days came out; he wrote the script for Evening (giving us our beloved "Hugh Dancy on Patrick Wilson" lip-lock), but since then, seemingly silence. Well today comes word on another screenplay of his being picked up (via DH):

"Screen Gems has picked up the thriller "Beautiful Girl" from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") says Variety.

The story concerns a shy but brainy high school girl who returns for senior year after having slimmed down six dress sizes.

She finds herself flirting with the handsome English lit teacher, but the mutual crush turns deadly when the teacher's obsession with the student compels him to exact maniacal revenge on everyone who was cruel to her."

Sounds very The Crush! And here I was crushing anew on young Cary Elwes just yesterday! See what I'm saying here? I am riddled with visions to come! I am the Cassandra of meaningless things!

--- But When? When? --- The Kristen Bell & Josh Duhamel (swoon) rom-com When in Rome has been moved from this August to January 29th, 2010. Hrm. I hope they just saw the opportunity for an open-calendar slot and this isn't some commentary on the picture's worth. I mean... it stars Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel! Looking at the two of them is eye-porn, period, all that's needed, the end, put it in front of me now please and thank you.

--- When There's No More Room In Heck - AICN has got the first batch of pictures from the zombie-comedy (yes, zom-com) Zombieland, which stars Jesse Eisenberg (no), Woody harrelson (sometimes), Emma Stone (hells yeah!) and Abagail Breslin (sure). Even though I always dislike Jesse Eisenberg I still kinda think this looks possibly interesting. There are a lot of zom-coms that I end up liking, I think it might be a very specific sub-genre that I'm particular to, and Woody looks possibly very funny here. Plus Emma. Love you, Emma!

--- Eat Her To Health - I think the theory being posited at Slash/Film that Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell is actually about a girl who has an eating disorder and has begun to hallucinate because of it is really really interesting and I can't wait to watch the film a second time looking for it. It makes a load of sense off the top of my head. All the mouth-trauma for one - things being vomited onto her constantly... the eyeball in her slice of cake... Pork Queen! I can totally see it.

--- In A Post-Slumdog World - I don't really care about the actual news contained in this story about Danny Boyle - that he's signed a three-year deal with Fox Searchlight - no what I found curious was the visceral gut-reaction I had just seeing his name. I love Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle made 28 Days Later and Millions and Trainspotting. Yet I'm fairly certain I hadn't given him a thought since he grasped his Oscar for that turd Slumdog Millionaire and seeing his name for the first time since then in this article, I groaned. And that makes me sad. Make something good again so I can let the Slumdog thing go, Danny, please!

--- The Re-Hungering - Tony Scott is talking up a sequel of sorts to 1983's The Hunger, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon as a sexy trio of blood-slurpers. Apparently it would spin-off in some new direction but be somehow connected to the original. STYD thinks he mentioned the writer being Erin Wilson, who wrote the "Maggie Gyllenhaal's silken-draped ass obsession" flick Secretary. Curious.

--- And finally, Alexandre Aja really is not kidding around with Piranha 3D, y'all.

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