I Am Link

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--- Boy In the Bubble - That guy there is named Alex Koch and he's just joined the cast of the Stephen King tv series Under the Dome as "Junior Rennie." As I said the other day when somebody else was cast my memories of that book are pretty vague but the name Junior Rennie is ringing a bell - THR says his character's "the son of the local politician and car dealer who is a smart and deeply disturbed college freshman." Anyway, Alex Koch will totally be a new crush, I can feel it in my bone.

--- Go Go Rosario - When I wrote up some thoughts on Danny Boyle's Trance trailer over at TFE the other day I expressed my happiness at the Rosario-Dawson-ness of it all - we do like her so very much and would like to see her be as successful as all get out. So here's some terrific news of that sort - she's signed on to co-star with Ryan Reynolds in Atom Egoyan's new movie! I mean Atom Egoyan's not exactly making blockbusters, even if it has got Ryan Reynolds, but he made The Sweet Hereafter so that's all that matters. It also stars Scott Speedman.
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--- Sweet November - That Ridley Scott movie starring Michael Fassbender as a lawyer turned drug dealer called The Counselor has just been scheduled for November 15th of this year. It's also got Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz and Rosie Perez, amongst others. Obiously, I need this movie.

--- Hark A Park - I haven't watched the first clip from Park Chan-wook's Stoker because I've pretty much stopped watching cips before seeing movies, especially from movies I have every intent already of seeing. I don't need any convincing here! But you can see it over at The Film Experience, along with some similarly themed thoughts from Nathaniel. As a side-note, you know how I was just bragging about getting to see Stoker a couple of days early? yeah they changed the date and now I can't go. That's what I get. Oh well, it's only screening a day before it comes out for real now. (Although PCW will still be there and I'll miss that dammit. I have seen him in person before though.)

--- Rubber Lizard - I'm super excited to hear Frank Darabont talk about his plans for the script for Godzilla; he seems to get what the point is. We'll see it that translates, though.

---  Mega Man - You can see a couple new pictures of the new Robocop suit over here, which is much more hardcore than those initial sleek black version that we saw and the internet hated. (I didn't hate it, honestly.) This suit does nothing for Joel Kinnaman's figure, I'll say that much.
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--- Sundown On Me - We knew that The Town That Dreaded Sundown was getting remade - now we know who is remaking it. Ryan Murphy of all people is producing (along with the guy who made the Paranormal Activity movies, which makes more sense); it will be directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who's been a second-unit director for things like Babel and Argo (not to mention this week's finale of American Horror Story's second season (I haven't watched it yet, don't say anything!), and it will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacas, a playwright who also wrote the upcoming Carrie remake.
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--- Chainsaw Songstress - I'd totally forgotten this was a thing, but Gothamist caught up with Duncan Sheik on where his music for the American Psycho musical stands. It's apparently totally gonna open in London later this year. Plus he gives some song titles up, like "I Am Clean" and "You Are What You Wear." Indeed.
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