Thursday, April 10, 2014

I Am Link

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--- Independence Day - Director Roland Emmerich seems like the type to bristle at being called "openly gay filmmaker Roland Emmerich" but he is openly gay, so here goes - openly gay filmmaker Roland Emmerich is finally making a gay movie, one about Stonewall, and here's Nathaniel talking about it over at The Film Experience. Nat interviewed him once and has some insight. I'm a little bit torn on the subject of casting - casting an openly gay actor would be great, but I really wanna see Jeremy Irvine make out with another guy, so...

--- Super Bad - File this under" news that I missed while I was out of town or recuperating from being out of town" - can't believe I forgot to mention it though... so Cabin in the Woods and Buffy writer-director Drew Goddard is indeed making the Spider-Man spin-off movie Sinister Six, about the villains of Spidey's world teaming up. How weird that his superhero world will be facing off with Joss' huh? I mean they're all Marvel but they can't mix.
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--- Jock Street - I liked the first 21 Jump Street movie well enough, but the excision of Brie Larson from the sequel, whatever the reasoning might be, is not the way to get me pumped about revisiting the world. So the only reason I'm really looking forward to the sequel is that I know Channing Tatum runs around in a football uniform in it a bunch as seen in these wonderful set pictures, and they really need to play this fact up more in the trailers, of which there is a new one. Just one quick shot isn't gonna do it, fellas.

--- Making Room - Not that Brie Larson doesn't have stuff to do! Important sounding stuff - she's just signed on to star in Room, an indie about a woman who's been held captive in a small you-guessed-it room for an extended period of time. It's based on a best-seller (which I haven't heard of) and was adapted into a script by the book's author. Anybody read it?

--- Smarty Pants - I may have heard about this before and just forgotten but Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth are set to make a movie about the author Thomas Wolfe and his agent (Fassy is Wolfe) to be called Genius, and Nicole Kidman - who starred with Firth in The Railway Man which is just now coming out after a long delay - has reportedly joined it. Speculation is she'll play Fassy's muse. How do I get to play Fassy's muse? I will literally do anything. (pic via)

--- Skin Walker - I'm not really surprised that Fox is making noises about giving Mystique an X-Men spin-off movie what with Jennifer Lawrence being, you know, the biggest new movie-star in the world and everything. They probably wanna keep her around and keep her happy if they can. I wasn't bowled over by her in the first movie but then I don't really think anybody was - say what yo will about Rebecca Romijn otherwise, she was ace in this role. Really though we all just want a Storm movie, sans Halle Berry (Lupita! Lupita!), why can't we have that dammit? I guess talk of a female-led superhero (villain whatever) movie is progress - asking for a black-female-led one might be insanity or something.

--- Name Starts With X - I can't believe I missed this - yesterday was the 15th anniversary of one of my very favorite movies, Doug Liman's ravin-in-Vegas flick Go. Joe Reid was on it though (he and I have bonded over our shared love for the movie many a time) and ranked the film's cast then and now. What a cast.

--- Undead Anniversary - And apparently yesterday was also the 10th anniversary of Shaun of the Dead! I am a total flop, missing everything left and right. Sorry Shaun, sorry Ed! You can spank me with your cricket bat for my sins. Well here's a list of things the movie taught us about relationships over at Film School Rejects in honor of its ten years.

--- Sparkling Wit - I don't know if you've been following the delightful series "A Year With Kate" over at The Film Experience that Anne-Marie has been hosting - she's watching every single Katharine Hepburn movie over the span of fifty-two weeks - but yesterday she got around to my absolute favorite Kate flick, George Cukor's 1938 film Holiday with Cary Grant. Loove that movie so so much.

--- Put A Bird In It - Do you guys like Portlandia? I love Portlandia. So the news that Carrie Brownstein has just joined the cast of Todd Haynes' Carol - yes the Patricia Highsmith adaptation with Cate Blanchett - sounds plenty fine to me. She's playing a woman who has "an encounter" with Rooney mara's character. (Like I said yesterday I have to re-read the book, my memory's too fuzzy.) Anyway hopefully we'll get Blanchett on Portlandia as a swap here.

--- And finally yesterday I linked to THR's cover-story on the hunks of Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart adaptation and asked you to Do Dump or Marry the main trio of Matthew Bomer, Taylor Kitsch and Mark Ruffalo - well today I see a video I missed of them chatting... specifically them chatting about Taylor Kitsch's crotch. Ding dong, we have a winner.
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3 comments:

shaun said...

"Room" is a very effective little thriller -- I think it will translate to screen well, especially with such talent on board!

joel65913 said...

I'm a huge fan of Holiday too. It's between this and The Lion in Winter as my favorite Hepburn film with Stage Door and Desk Set just below.

I have been following Anne Marie's fantastic column. It's been a great one so far, I look forward to the rest. She always comes up with a fresh way to look at each. Except maybe Spitfire!! Nothing's ever going to make that stinker fresh.

Barry said...

Room is an amazing book! You should definitely give it a read!! Once I started, I found it very hard to put down.

If it gets properly adapted, Brie will have an amazing, meaty role to chew on. I am interested in who they are to cast as her child as well because that role is an excellent one as well.