I Am Link

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--- Uncle Tom - Because he wants to make a fifth Mission Impossible movie, Tom Cruise has dropped out of that other 60s TV Spy Show remake The Man From UNCLE. This is great news, maybe - Armie Hammer was going to be his co-star, and now Armie can find a much more appealing co-star, and I can feel good about wanting to see this movie. Hmm who should replace Cruise? I've never seen the show so I have no idea about who's playing what, really.

--- Wham BAM - The full line-up and schedule for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's annual movie-fest called BAMcinemaFest is up, you can see what's what over here. Hotly anticipated indies like Ain't Them Bodies Saints and The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies are all out in force. Yeehaw.

--- Dizzy Izzy - Isabelle Fuhrmann, who ought to be a huge star post-Orphan (and really ought to be making that Suspiria remake with David Gordon Green right now, sigh), is starring in a coming of age story about two girls on a road trip in search of Eleanor Roosevelt. I don't think this movie will be up my alley. But I love Isabelle, so I'm glad she's got work.

--- Silver Tongued - Because if Bryan Singer has anything to do with it he'll leave no twink standing, he's hired Evan Peters (he who looks excellent in tighty whities on American Horror Story) to play the character of Quicksilver in the next X-Men movie. It's really starting to seem super crowded over there. The interesting part of this story is that Joss Whedon is on the record saying he's using Quicksilver for the second Avengers movie; complicated legal junk has kept the X-Men totally seperate from the rest of the Marvel movie universe so far. Will Joss hire a different actor to play the character? Stay tuned!

--- Galaxy Guy - I once liked John C. Reilly quite a bit, thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson, but he kind of makes me cringe now, so I'm not really so enthusiastic about this news that he's been offered a role in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, this next big superhero team-up movie. He'll basically be playing the dude who gets the team all gathered up a la Clark Gregg in The Avengers.

--- Attack The Borg - Apparently there are rumors out there that Attack the Block director Joe Cornish is the guy that might pick up directing duties on the Star Trek franchise now that JJ Abrams is moving along to the Star Wars franchise. If we get to see one of the hairy bad beasties from AtB pop a Tribble into its mouth like a snack-cake, we all win.

--- Knick of Time - Steven Soderbergh may have retired from feature-film making but he's just announced his first foray into television (if you don't count the supposed-to-be-a-feature Behind the Candelabra of course) - he's going to make a ten-hour series called The Knick for Cinemax, starring Clive Owen in the story of a hospital at the start of the 20th Century.

--- Blonde Swap - Amanda Seyfried of all people is indeed taking on "the Greta Gerwig part" in Noah Baumbach's next movie (well next next; he's apparently already got a Gerwig-starring Frances Ha follow-up in the can), which is called While We're Young and is about two couples, one older (Ben Still and Naomi Watts) and one younger (Seyfried and Adam Driver), and how they interact.

--- Salt Lick - I figured once director Todd Haynes announced he was making Carol, that adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's book The Price of Salt that I've been clamoring for for several years now, that'd get the ball rolling, and sure enough the Weinsteins have snapped up the rights so this thing is totally getting made. 

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