I Am Link

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--- Blood Dying - It took me three times looking at this picture to realize that 's Jim Parrack from True Blood (Hoyt!) sitting beside James Franco in the first picture from Franco's adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, which got accepted by Cannes last week. Hey Hoyt! I don't think I knew he was in this.

--- Garden Grows - Speaking of James Franco, he's just signed on to direct an adaptation of Andres Dubas III's book The Garden of Last Days. Hey I have read that book! It's not often I've read something before it's announced as a movie - usually I read things right after I find out they'll be a movie. Anyway this book could make for an interesting movie, for sure. Read about it at the link. It's kind of weird they're filming it in New York though - it's a very Florida story.

--- Hand Him His Leather - And since we're talking about James Franco, here's Paolo's take on his "lost footage from Cruising, sorta" movie Interior Leather Bar over at The Film Experience.

--- Lion Bros - It's been awhile since Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy came out so we've been wondering what director Tomas Alfredson's been up to - turns out he's been setting the stage for his biggest movie to date. He's going to adapt the children's fantasy novel The Brothers Lionheart, and they're saying it will be the most expensive Scandinavian movie ever made. Not that expense guarantees quality, but having the director of Let the Right One In might. The writer of LTROI, both the book and the screenplay, is working on this screenplay, too. Anybody read this book? I am not familiar with it.

--- Pierce This - The Playlist has a behind-the-scenes clip from Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer - that "post-apocalypse on a train" movie with Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton - which according to them also offers a "tantalizing" first glimpse at actual footage. I feel like we should have a trailer for this thing by now, don't you?

--- Fairy Tales - Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are apparently going to make a movie of of Sondheim's musical Into the Woods with Chicago director Rob Marshall. I really wanted to see ITW last Summer in Central Park but it never worked out. I guess this will be my chance. Nathaniel's not too excited about this prospect, though.

--- Yes Haven - I'm super happy to see a consensus building around director Gareth Evans' creepy-cult section of V/H/S/2 (my review) because it is the most fun I've had during a horror movie since Cabin in the Woods. And as much as I love Cabin, Safe Haven is fun and scary, a feat Cabin doesn't entirely pull off. See also Rich's take on all the Tribeca horror movies here.

--- Scream Weekly - I missed this at the tail-end of last week but Glenn was on the case as he is whenever Scream comes up - MTV is really making that Scream TV series, it seems. They might even get Wes Craven to direct some of it.

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