I Am Link

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--- Magic Men - Last week we heard the troubling news that Jared Leto was being considered for the lead in Marvel's upcoming Doctor Strange movie and fretted, oh how we fretted - so the more recent rumor that the studio actually wants either Tom Hardy or Benedict Cumberbatch for the role has us the exact opposite of fretting. I think either would be smashing, but I can't believe I'm actually leaning more towards Benedict...? I think of Strange as less muscle-bound, more cerebral, is all. but by all means hire Tom Hardy! Hire him for everything. I am fine with Tom Hardy playing all of the parts. (Including my own! Wocka wocka.)

--- Her Lady Heslop - Toni Collette talks to Out magazine and she says she doesn't want to theorize about why gay men love Muriel's Wedding (I think it's actually a pretty straight line between Muriel's experience and my experience, personally) but she thinks it's "bloody brilliant" anyway. My favorite bit of the interview is where she admits she's so used to hearing her fake American accent that when she used her natural Aussie one in Enough Said she thought she sounded ridiculous. (thanks Mac)

--- Rampage Forever - Guillermo Del Toro says he's actually working hard on a script for another Pacific Rim movie, middling box office receipts be damned, and that he's got some crazy very different ideas for the second one. (Although they still involve Charlie Hunnam, thank goodness.) I want him to just say fuck it and somehow figure out a way to make it as HP Lovecraft as possible, since he'll probably never get to make that At the Mountains of Madness movie we've all been dreaming of.

--- Big Red Vs Ant Man - When I caught some of Bring It On on cable this weekend never, not once, did it occur to me that the dude giving us Rancho Carne Toros realness was going to be picking up the Ant-Man movie, but here we are. Bring It On director Peyton Reed will be making the Marvel movie with Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, after Edgar Wright peeled off the other week. Okay!

--- Brando & The Cucumber - There's a new Classical Hollywood homosexual tell-all on the market! Michael Musto takes a look at the book called Hollywood Gomorrah, which follows celebrity interviewer Skip E. Lowe's perhaps exaggerated youthful adventures with the likes of Marlon Brando and Monty Clift. Truthiness abounds, but whatever - it makes for fun thoughts.

--- Crow Dance - The Descent director Neil Marshall directed last night's episode of Game of Thrones and if you've watched it already head over to THR for an interview with him on it. This is the second episode he's directed, both of them gigantic spectacles. I'm glad he did this but make another movie dammit, Neil! 

--- Guarding Something - Lee Pace says he had a blast playing super full tilt evil in Guardians of the Galaxy, which I imagine he got the inspiration for from the evil his glass closet perpetuates. (Snap.) He also says he got in great shape for the movie, but we'll never know because he's buried under costume and make-up. Kind of like how he buries his gayness under constant lame evasions. (Snap two.)

--- And finally here's the trailer for the second season of Eli Roth's werewolf show for Netflix, Hemlock Grove, which drops on July 11th. Lots of Landon Liboiron ripping his clothes off. I never even finished the first season though, it was unwatchably terrible. Could this second round even be as lousy though? I don't know if anything could be as lousy as that first season.

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