Tuesday, February 04, 2014

I Am Link

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--- Meat Eater - Consummate creep Michael Pitt has joined the cast of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal - he'll be playing Mason Verger, which is a pretty big character in Thomas Harris' series if you know what's what. I'll refrain from jumping into the details in case you do not now what's what. But this is a juicy role. Gary Oldman played the role in the movie called Hannibal. He's showing up late in the second season.

--- Hard Eight - Why am I not surprised that Tarantino's probably going to make The Hateful Eight his next movie anyway, after the script leaking and his hissy fit? It all seemed like such a sploosh in a teacup the whole time. I'm not all that enthusiastic about this movie based on plot alone but I will obviously see it, I don't not see Tarantino movies. At least not yet.

--- Super Sad Love Story - Yorgos Lanthimos is finally gearing up to make his third movie after the pair of wackadoo-masterpieces called Dogtooth and Alps; the new one's called The Lobster and it's a dystopian future love story kinda thing. It was going to star Jason Clarke but Colin Farrell's taken over the role - I do love Clarke but I am always happy to see Farrell working with a good director so I am totally cool with this switch. The lady role is being played by Rachel Weisz which is of course also super welcome.

--- College Dick - Rumor is that Dane DeHaan and Danny Radcliffe are teaming back up with their Kill Your Darlings director John Krokidas to make College Republicans, which will have Dane playing a young Karl Rove and Lee Atwater manipulating the electorate back in the halcyon days of youth slash diabolical powers.

--- Myth Makers42 star slash up-n-comer Chadwick Boseman is going to play Thoth, the God of Wisdom in Alex Proyas' period epic Gods of Egypt, opposite Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. No word yet on if this will all end up as gay as 300, but I've got my fingers crossed.

--- Bald Oblivion - I don't even know what to say about Jesse Eisenberg playing Lex Luthor in the Superman Vs. Batman movie. It just seems so spectacularly ill-advised to me that I'm at a loss. It's not even that I have anything against Eisenberg, but I find him stupendously non-threatening. He can be a prick, sure. But you never lose the sense that you couldn't just hold your hand on his forehead as he swings away at you. Not really Lex Luthor-ish, that.

--- Family Matters - I am one thousand percent on board with everything Nathaniel says in this piece at The Film Experience looking at the firestorm currently spreading about in the media about the Woody Allen Mia Farrow thing. To a tee, ace, on point.
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3 comments:

will h said...

Am I going to spend a whole movie waiting for Karl Rove to kiss a dude?!

Really thought we had dodged a bullet with Hateful Eight's script leaking. Another all-boy Western is the last thing I want out of Tarantino right now.

amola-tesouras said...

Thank you for sharing that The Film Experience article.

I honestly find it frightening that people today can rush to pass judgement so quickly and violently on matters they know nothing about.

Sterling said...

So we'll get to see Verger BEFORE his...ahem "treatment". Hope ol' Hanni doesn't fuck that pretty mouth up to bad. :/