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--- Space Peen -
As I noted when we saw the first pictures from it, since that's the
first sort of thing I always note, Benedict Cumberbatch's pants seem
really really tight in the Star Trek movie. Well he agrees, and in a highly suggestive manner that I absolutely appreciated.
--- Get Gone - Have any of you read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? I know it was a big deal last year, literature-wise, I just haven't gotten to it yet. Well now it looks like David Fincher might be the person who turns the twisty story of a disappeared woman and her accused husband into a movie for Reese Witherspoon's production company. There was talk at one point about Brad Pitt playing the husband, but I don't think so now.
--- Weiner Scream - My love for Heather Matarazzo is too unyielding to ever call her scene in Scream 3 the worst scene in the entire series like Glenn just did in his "Scene by Scene" deconstruction of it the films, but I'm also not not saying that either. Just ignore me and read what Glenn says.
--- Oogie Boogies - I love Neil Gaiman's book The Graveyard Book and was really looking forward to Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas,
etc) turning it into one of his delightful stop-motion beauties. So
naturally Disney went and ruined everything by ditching Selick, and now Ron "Hack" Howard is going to make a live-action version. Oh dear.
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--- Galaxy Quest - Everybody's a little nervous about Marvel supposedly being interested in using Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler for an unspecified part in Guardians of the Galaxy - everybody hopes it's just for the voice of the Raccoon character. Yes, a talking raccoon will be in the next big superhero franchise. And it might be voiced by Adam Sandler! Let's all schedule our mass suicide for its release date then, huh?
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4 comments:
Fincher would be a great choice for Gone Girl.
Pitt, however, is 10 year too old for the part. Jake Gyllenhaal would be perfect for it, except Fincher probably wouldn't hire him again.
And they should move heaven and earth to get Chastain for the wife.
Gillian Flynn has yet to write a bad book. Dark Places also was superb stuff -- I think you especially would like it.
Man, Jake would be great for that part...maybe even Ryan Gosling.
Gone Girl was tied with Beautiful Ruins as my top book of 2012.
When i read it, i put Leo and Kate in the two main roles in my head, but realistically, both of them are too old for the part.
I'm curious to see who they go with. Especially for the female lead.
Gone Girl is a great thriller, expertly plotted, but it isn't much more than that. I'd love to see Fincher take on something with a bit more depth. I'm sure he could turn it into a study on how the media influences crime and American goodwill, but that would be one hell of a long movie.
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