I Am Link

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--- Red Doom - Four actors are being plopped into the gladiator ring of public opinion before they slit three's throats and pick a winner  of who'll play Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four reboot - Sam Riley, Eddie Redmayne, Toby Ribbell (dunno him) and my favorite of course Domhnall Gleeson; love the idea of a ginger Dr. Doom! Bring that shit on. (I also think Redmayne could nail this though - his pretty face is totally unsettling, I'm surprised he hasn't played more villains.)

--- Famous Fans - I hate the way this gallery's set up (click-through's like this are the devil's abortion) but it's fun to see what the favorite movies of a bunch of random celebrities are so we can judge them accordingly. Since she loves him so much I'm surprised Carey Mulligan hasn't gotten herself cast in a Steven Spielberg movie yet.

--- Cappy Et Al - In Avengers-World news, apparently the people who've seen the third Captain America already have gone nuts for it, so the guys who directed it are already breaking down ideas for the third film; also we have confirmation that the so-called "stinger" to the movie (the mid-credits sequence) was directed by Joss Whedon, which fits in with what Thomas Kretschmann was saying (we can expect to see him in that then). Oh and Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are so totally in love with Joss' script for the second Avengers movie that they're going to marry it.

--- The Doctor's In - Oh wait more Marvel stuff (since they rule the world and all) - the list of directors for the Doctor Strange movie is at three. Three names we've heard before. Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), Mark Andrews (Brave) and Scott Derrickson (Sinister) are who's up to bat. Of those three Levine's my favorite, but I'm curious what a straight-up horror director like Derrickson might do. And speaking of Derrickson, here's a chat with Sinister and Insidious producer Jason Blum on the state of the sequels for those films - the third Insidious is apparently set to film this Summer.

--- Prime Beef - And because one or two or twenty is never enough if you've got a property with heat, we also might be getting more 300 movies says its producer, as well as maybe another Immortals? Wasn't the first one sort of a flop? I don't remember it doing all that well but I might be mixing it up with something else. Anyway no complaints here - every movie can be half-naked gladiator movies from now on, I'm okay with that,

--- Winter's Tale - The cast of Game of Thrones is on the cover of Vanity Fair this month (what an odd pairing) and here's some info from inside the issue, like the word that George R. R. Martin has indeed told the show-runners how the books end (Get to work, George! I do not want the damned show ruining the books for me!!!) and also yes, President Obama gets screeners before the show airs. I am suddenly interested in politics.

--- Lady Detectives - Loved this piece by Nathaniel over at The Film Experience on the current state of women in film and television, especially the bit with regards to the massive culture-bomb that was True Detective versus the extremely similar save being female-centric Top of the Lake which was met with comparative quiet; I have to admit I'm part of the problem - I hate-watched every episode of True Detective (save a few good beats - mainly Woody Harrelson - that show was just terrible, you guys) but I still haven't finished watching Top of the Lake and I loved what I saw (I think I made it through two or three episodes).

--- Woof Creek - Since he's not getting to make more Transformers movies it seems to be time for Josh Duhamel to go back to TV, but this is better than any TV he's been attached to before (save Lara Flynn Boyle getting blown off a Vegas roof-top, natch) so things are maybe looking up - he's going to co-star opposite Oz's Dean Winters in that new show produced (and written by some, I think?) Breaking Bad's Vince Gilligan called Battle Creek; Bryan Singer's directing the pilot.

--- Dream Weaver - Neil Gaiman says he has met with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer-director David Goyer about the Sandman movie and appears to be happy with what they're doing - he says they might hire the screenwriter Jack Thorne to write the script; news to me here is Thorne's previously apparently already adapted Gaiman's lovely little book The Ocean at the End of the Lane into a script? That's what I want to see.
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