I Am Link

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--- Girls' Man - We won't see David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie until Christmas, but we're getting some promotional junk already all the same - Slash has some character portraits (including that look at the ever-handsome crags of Daniel Craig) as well as our first listen of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for the movie. Make that Oscar winner Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I love saying that.

--- Deadly Departed - Everybody's talking today about the piece in the Hollywood Reporter about how Frank Darabont actually got canned from AMC's The Walking Dead instead of anything amicable, like had been the original story. The behind-the-scenes on that series has been so sordid I guessed as much when this news first came out; Darabont seems like a tough old bird.

--- Long Song - Nathaniel rightly rants against the "franchise culture" where no story has an ending any more in this piece at The Film Experience, although I do take some issue with his inclusion of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series therein in the comments. I haven't spoken on it much since finishing it but the latest book, A Dance With Dragons, ranks amongst my favorites of the series so far, even as it widened the scope of the story even further which had started to seem a problem to me in the last book. The "diversions" have become to solidify for me into a purposeful form of story-telling.

--- Abs-duction - How bad does Abduction look? Answer: so bad. So very bad. Still, I can't knock them trying to sell the thing off of Taylor "Monchichi" Lautner's impressive torso. It's the right move. They'd be better off cutting the picture off at the shoulders, but at least we don't have to hear his voice.

--- Deadbeat Dad - Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of Park Chan-wook's ever-awesomer Stoker. He will play the pivotal but one assumes only briefly-seen character of Mia Wasikowska's character's father, the death of whom sets the entire tale into motion.

--- Slaughter High - A couple of nifty murder-flavored artistic endeavors spread across the web this week and BD gathered 'em both in one spot - an infographic detailing all of Jason Voorhee's kills in the Friday the 13th films, and a super-cut video with all of the deaths in the first four Final Destination movies.

--- Boy Blond - I was saddened to hear that Greta Gerwig had to bow out of Derek Cianfrance's The Place Behind the Pines, but since I like Rose Byrne quite a bit if Greta had to go this is a fine choice. Speaking of that movie, set pics of Ryan Gosling behind bleached-out and hot have been plentiful.

--- Revvin' Refn - Speaking of Ryan Gosling, when we saw the trailer for Drive I think I mentioned how instantly excited it made me for the movie - multiply that by a thousand after reading Glenn's ecstatic thoughts on the movie after seeing it at MIFF. It's the best thing he saw at the entire festival he says, and he saw Scorsese's The King of Comedy there, so wowza.

--- Latest Stand - David Yates, who proved his mettle with the past several Harry Potter movies, is rejoining with his screenwriter for those to make a feature-film version of Stephen King's The Stand. I love this. Yates seemed drawn to the dark-side with Voldemort time and again and he'll finally get to go off the R-rated deep end with this. King's book scared me to death but I haven't read it in a dozen years. Perhaps it's time to pick it back up?

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