I Am Link

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--- Strike A Pose - A few of the stories I'm shepherding into this post should probably get posts all their own, and this is one of them. Steven Soderbergh making a male stripper movie starring Channing Tatum, based on Channing's own well-documented g-stringed past? Uh... what? And I love the assertion that Soderbergh was totally gonna retire but this story was one he just couldn't not tell! The epic thrust of it! I love this crazy world sometimes. So that means SS is going from covering Michael Douglas in glitter for a Liberace bio-pic to stuffing Channing into a thong. Never leave us, Steven.

--- Slice N Dice - Slash has got the trailer for Takashi Miike's next film, which is apparently another samurai movie, called Hari-Kari: Death of a Samurai. It will be shown at Cannes.

--- Arrrgh? - I have no idea what the hell this Cobra: The Space Pirate movie is, but it's from Alexandre Aja so I'm immediately curious. But that poster is ridiculous. Ridiculous! (via) 

--- War Man - The terrific Anthony Mackie is up for a role in World War Z opposite Brad Pitt. I'm really curious to see how they managed to make a script from that book, which was just a series of stories told from the point of view of survivors of a zombie apocalypse. There wasn't a through-line to follow so much, no central characters. I guess they just pick one and follow him through the people's stories, probably. Not that hard.

--- The Pie King - Another story that'd deserve it's own post on a morning when I'm not too groggy for it is this: Lee Pace has joined the cast of The Hobbit! Kick-ass! Congrats, Lee! He'll be playing the Elven King Thranduil. I can already see the long flowing blond hair on him, can't you? He wore it so well in Soldier's Girl after all.

--- All Josses Eve - Rumors have it that Lionsgate intends to release Cabin in the Woods on October 28th. I am so glad the Saw movies are finished so we can have horror movies come out at Halloween again! Hooray!

--- Rape Me - The first couple of images from the so-unnecessary-it's-painful Straw Dogs remake, starring James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård and some bland skinny blond woman, are over at BD, and just look at Alex there and tell me you wouldn't want to get raped by that. It's not rape if it's Alexander Skarsgård! Okay I'll stop that now. Sorry. I got carried away.

--- Chain Gang - And yet a third story deserving it's own post - Tarantino's next film has a title - Django Unchained - and a bit of plot. You can read about it over at DH. Sounds like it deals heavily with slavery and racism, in a Spaghetti Western sort of context. Instead of a Western he's calling it a Southern. Sounds like there's a kick-ass lead role in store for a lucky black actor.

--- Nerd Porn - There were some pictures taken from the NYC set of the next Spider-Man movie over the weekend and they included that adorable one of Andy there. how could I not share that? Collective awww. He looks so cute in glasses! Awww.

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