I Am Link

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--- Gimme Metro - Y'all remember that lost Metropolis footage that was found last year, right? Well Cinematical gives us a brief update on where the restoration stands. Apparently the footage has just made its way to the F. W. Murnau Foundation in Germany from Argentina where it was found (it took a year?) and they're beginning to work on cleaning it up and what-not now. So supposedly we'll see it come 2010, at the earliest. Awesomeness.

--- Atlas (Maybe) Approaches - Rumor has it that Charlize Theron might be the one to get Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged off the ground, maybe as a miniseries for a new premium movie channel. I loves Charlize, I do, but the only way I could see a filmed version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged working is if they got someone like American Psycho director Mary Harron to direct it - that is, someone who's capable of both understanding the text they're adapting and undercutting it at the same time. Which would probably make Rand's Relativist friends unhappy. But they should be anyway.

--- Hey Look! The poster for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island sucks! Really sucks. Which depresses me because I'm one of the people that love pulpy Scorsese and thought the trailer looked awesome and am really really looking forward to this movie still. But "Someone Is Missing" is your tag-line? REALLY? Was "Someone Is Standing Upright" or "Somebody Needs Oxygen" taken? What about "This Is A Poster"?

--- Rabbit Redux - Is there really still gonna be a second Roger Rabbit movie? Only if they keep him 2D, I say! But Robert Zemeckis talks up the chance of it happening someday down the line.

--- And finally, nothing has amused me more in the past day than this tale of woe set upon a friend of a friend of mine who once had to deal with Margot Kidder's nuttiness in an interview-type situation. Classic.
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