I Am Link

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--- Steel Horse -  There will be a second trailer for the Robocop remake released on Thursday - it can only be better than the first one right? The first trailer squashed any desire I might've had to see this, making it look as bland as the Total Recall remake. But then I see Joel Kinnaman and his pretty pretty pretty and I think I might have to see it anyway... there are a few new pictures from the movie at that link.

--- Snow Man - Twitch got to talk to Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho about the editing controversy surrounding that movie - Harvey "Scissorhands" Weinstein stomping his delicate little feet on the floor and all; he tries to be optimistic and fair-minded, but it's our job, as loudmouths on the internet, to say fuck that noise! Let's go burn effigies of Harvey in front of his offices! Pitchforks! Rah!!!

--- I Detect - The first image from the third season of Sherlock has been released - it's very Hopper - and it reminds me man I need to refresh my memory about that show, it's been ages and ages since I last watched any of it and it's all very blurry.

--- Phone It In - The director of the excruciating Paranormal Activity 2 is going to turn Stephen King's book Cell into a movie starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. Those two actors previously starred together in the King adaptation 1408, which was awful. Once upon a time (a long long time ago) Eli Roth was going to direct this. Anyway I liked a lot of Cell, although it's concept was dated at the time - it's positively vintage at this point. Oh and the character that Sam is supposed to play is a homosexual - they'd best be keeping that.

--- Endless Claws - I don't know why I was surprised to read this morning that Hugh Jackman's in talks for another Wolverine movie - I guess I thought maybe he was finally going to move on? I thought maybe we as a culture could move on? I love Hugh but I'm straight up sick of Wolverine at this point, and I haven't even seen the last two stand-alone movies. I was irritated at how central he was to the new X-Men trailer.

--- Big Green Thing - I've been clamoring for giant monster movies for years and years now - seriously, zombies are dead, and vampires are emo, let's give them a rest and do big green squishy things with lots of teeth and tentacles already! So this news excites me even if Michael Bay is involved. It sounds like a killer simple concept, and it's got a wonderfully evocative title that hooked me from that alone - Lockdown at Franklin High is about a brother and sister who get trapped in their high school with a monster on the loose. I don't know how heavy they intend to go with the school violence allegories, but it's there in essence already. Horror needs to tap into the zeitgeist. Bay's only producing; it's coming from a dude who's done story-boarding for Marvel.

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