I Am Link

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--- What Goes Up - Producer David Heyman gave a fairly lengthy interview with Collider that's totally worth reading. In it he talks about the final Harry Potter movie, but most importantly there's new info on Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, that stuck-in-space movie that bounced around from actor to actor until finally settling on Sandy Bullock and George Clooney. It'll start filming in the Spring and he sounds in awe of the plans that Cuarón's got for its visuals. Cannot wait, it's been far too long since Children of Men.

--- China Man - I'd spaced on the fact that Cristian Bale was making a movie with Zhang Yimou, but here are the first pair of pictures from it, so spaced no more.

--- Fang Banged - There's something very odd about this new picture from Fright Night. The way it's lit, I mean - it looks like a perfume ad to me, not like a movie still. Anyway it's a sexy perfume ad, what with Colin Farrell and the fang-bite swooning and all. But is that Toni Collette in the picture? I hope not, since the woman is bitten and kinda dead-looking. 

--- Speaking of Fright Night, that movie's director Craig Gillespie has signed on to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which once had Mike White attached and would have been so awesome. Now, who knows. Natalie Portman is still producing, so will she star? 

--- Are You A God - I guess people have started to see preview screenings of Thor - for the sort of geek-out you'd expect from such a geek, click over to read Harry's take at AICN. From that perspective, it looks golden. I have to say that Kenneth Branagh being behind the camera does instill me with some hope that the film could be slightly more than we're expecting from the goofy commercials. Beyond enormous pecs, Chris Hemsworth does have real talents on-screen - I'd forgotten how good he was in the opening scenes of Star Trek.

--- The King's Hand - When I wrote yesterday that I wouldn't be writing up my thoughts on each week's episode of A Game of Thrones until at least a day later, I forgot to mention that you could and definitely should go check out Sean T. Collins site for more timely recaps and reviews. He knows of Westeros like a seasoned pro.

--- Turtle Circle Jerk - I found this list at Hobo Trashcan of "Ten Movie Heroes Who Were (Probably) Virgins" amusing, but the avoidance of the possibility of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doing any same-sex explorations seemed short-sighted to me. Okay, so there are no female turtles anywhere to be seen? Well history's proven time and again that teenage boys, with all those hormones, will find a way, if you catch my drift. Man this was a geeky fucking paragraph. It's like Donnie Darko talking about the Smurfs sex-lives up in here.

--- He's Cursed - And here's another fun list - Complex listed the 10 Worst Wes Craven movies. I love the man but it doesn't surprise me you can fill a list of ten rather easily, the man's redefined the notion of a spotty career. Every ten years he does something awesome, and then it's back to the doldrums again. Hey, it's more than most directors get to do. And for the record I would list My Soul To Take as worse than Cursed.

--- Leigh's The One - In a post-Insidious world, we're finding ourselves actually clicking on shit having to do with director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell, where their previous Saw-based reputations never would've gotten us there. Plus now that I saw them in person I know that Whannell is pretty adorable, and I'm easy like that. Anyway here's a bit with Leigh on an awesome sounding horror-comedy script he's written about kiddie zombies called Cooties. Love it. (picture of Leigh there by the photographer David Noles, check out his site here)

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