I Am Link

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--- Super Fur - Because thinking about Henry Cavill's body hair is one of life's greatest pleasures, here's an article in the Times about how a razor company is teaming up with Man of Steel to ask the question on all of our lips (I wish henry Cavill's body hair was on my lips) - how does Superman shave? (thx Mac)

--- Forever Ling - The Film Experience is taking a look at some of the fashions out of Cannes and color me thrilled it includes Bai Ling. The world needs more Bai Ling - I know she works constantly but it's always stuff nobody ever sees; I wish real auteurs would snatch (heh) her up again, she's so entertaining on-screen (and off, for sure).

--- Nicotine Nightmares - He hasn't signed yet but I'll be very happy if he does - Chris Evans might star in the Stephen King adaptation The Ten O'Clock people, from the director of Fright Night. (The original FN, not the remake.) Justin Long had to drop out. It's about a guy who stops smoking with some new drug, which in turn causes him to "discover a frightening aspect of reality." I have no idea, I never read this story.
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--- Death March - The director Peter Greenaway is going to adapt Thomas Mann's Death In Venice in the UK next year! It'll be his first time filming in England since he made The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover back in 1989, if you can believe that. (thx Gus)

--- Creed Like Me - Michael Fassbender's big video-game adaptation action movie Assassin's Creed doesn't have a director or any other actors attached yet but it's plunked down a flag on the date of May 22nd, 2015. If you ask me it doesn't need a director or other actors - Michael can turn the camera on himself, walk in front of it, and stand there for two hours, and then walk and turn the camera off, and that will be the greatest cinematic achievement of all time.

---  Brand New Dance - I haven't watched this yet but here's a trailer for The Dance of Reality, aka Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film since 1990's The Rainbow Thief. I guess it screened over the weekend at Cannes, but I haven't read any reactions to it either.

--- Triple Transport - Jason Statham isn't signed on to star in them (yet) but a second trilogy of Transporter movies has just been announced - I hope Statham does sign on, these movies are always good for getting him half-naked.

--- Tim Bone - We just mentioned Bone Tomahawk this morning while wishing Timothy Olyphant a happy birthday, but there's new news on it - a studio, Magnolia specifically, has picked it up, so if we were worried about it actually getting made we don't need to be now.

--- The Badger - I forgot to mention super sexy James Badge Dale in my Iron Man 3 review - specifically, how hot (heh) his first scene was with all that crotch-level gazing. Anyway here's an interview with him about that movie (and a couple others he's got coming out this Summer) to make up for my most egregious oversight.

--- Penn For Paul - Sean Penn might be joining the ever expanding cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie, his adaptation of Phynchon's Inherent Vice. PTA is not exactly filling this movie with folks I adore, so he's fortunate he's PTA and can get away with it on his own merit.