Wednesday, January 14, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Be My Baby - I didn't see The Fault in Our Stars so maybe I am missing something spectacular but I have yet to get sold on this Ansel Elgort fella, but if anybody can make it happen, Edgar Wright can make it happen - Ansel is in talks for the leading role in Wright's Baby Driver, his heist movie that he's been working on for awhile now, ever since Ant-Man went bust.
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--- Dead Girls - It just wouldn't be Twin Peaks without Sheryl lee so I'm glad that BD's reporting that she (and also Sherilyn Fenn!) will indeed be returning for David Lynch's new season of the show for Showtime. Of course, how the heck he's bringing her back is a mystery since she's already played two different people on the show and been murdered both times, but this is David Lynch - Lynch finds a way.
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--- Freak Out - Some of the names being rumored for the young X-Men in Bryan Singer's next X-flick are pretty terrific - apparently Saorsie Ronan and Sophie "Sansa Stark" Turner are both testing for the young Jean Grey (played by so well by Famke Janssen in the original movies), and Tye Sheridan, the kid from Mud and The Tree of Life, is up for Cyclops aka Young James Marsden. The two ladies they mention re: Storm, named Alexandra Shipp and Zendaya Coleman, I do not know. Do you?
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--- Future Passed - I doubt I'll ever find the time to watch this personally but I'm sure it'll curl somebody's toes - Steven Soderbergh has re-edited Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, and posted the whole thing right here. Oh Steven, you weirdo, make a damn movie.
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--- Stalker Special - Back in September we'd heard that Joel Edgerton was working on his directorial debut, a thriller-of-sorts called Weirdo about a couple who move to a new town and are followed by someone (presumably the titular weirdo) from their past who mucks up their clean slate. Now comes word that the couple will be played by birthday-boy Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall.
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--- More Wet Hot - As if the original cast for Wet Hot American Summer wasn't big enough - and they all seem to be returning! - a whole bunch of new names just got added for the sequel Netflix is making; people like Josh Charles, John Slattery, and Michaela Watkins - I love her! So great on Enlightened. I can picture her fitting right in.
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--- Dandy Pair - I don't really have the highest of hopes that a conversation between Eddie Redmayne and Jennifer Lawrence will be the most compelling thing in the world, but hey such a thing exists, and Eddie looks cute in the pictures, so we'll give it a whirl. Also at Interview, an interview with slash gallery of pictures of Finn Wittrock!
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--- Return To Dust - Did you know that Phillip Pullman is working on a fourth book in the His Dark Materials series? I did not know this! It's to be called The Book of Dust and he says he's hoping it will be out next year. This comes to us alongside the news that he's released an audio-book only version of a new short story set in the same world, having to do with Mrs. Coulter (the ten people who saw that movie are picturing Nicole Kidman).
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--- Flat Circle - I don't know how many of you I could possibly entice with such a link but hey look the people who made Sufjan Stevens' new record did a whole Reddit thread about the design of said record, that's a thing. I just liked it for the peek at the inside sleeve photo of Baby Suffy with a banana!
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--- Later Weeks - In a chat with IGN 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland says that serious negotiations are happening with regards to making a third film in that series, long rumored to be called 28 Months Later (following the woefully underrated 28 Weeks Later). I'm one of the few who adores the second movie... I like it more than the first.
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6 comments:

dk468 said...

I would love to check out the tree of life again for Tye Sheridan, but that vile and vicious witch of the vile and vicious pro torture flick, zero dark thirty, has ruined the Terrence Malick film for me completely. One fine day, I will drag her and that even guiltier (ex) Cameron cumrag's asses all the way to the international Criminal Court for the day of reckoning!:-p

Rob91316 said...

You're not alone, Jason, in your revery of "28 Weeks Later." I, too, find it superior to the woefully OVER-rated "28 Days Later." In fact, I would rank it as my fave horror film of the 21st century (so far). A third installment in the series is long overdue, but I am going to keep my expectations very, VERY low, because I seriously doubt it will be able to measure up to the incomparable "Weeks."

BRB said...

I love 28 Weeks Later too! Maybe *more* than the first one, but maybe only because I think they are so different. Anyway, yes, that's a great and unjustly forgotten movie.

BRB said...

I meant to say maybe NOT more than the first one. Ahh well. I'm not a robot, I guess.

dk468 said...

Alexandra Shitt (spelling? ;-p) is a racist by association who has just finished her consort with the infamous racist Ice Cube on the racist extravaganza, Straight Outta Compton which no doubt will go straight into the garbage can!( Yey!!! :-))

It was Ice Cube who has basically incited the rooters to burn down Korean stores during the L.A.riot.
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Ice Cube�s rap song 'Black Korea' displays: "Look you little Chinese motherfucker ... pay respect to the black fist or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp!" Blacks used Korean Americans as an outlet to their anger and suppression within society; based on such cultural perceptions, blacks felt justified in the terrorizing of Koreatown.

http://www.bristolblog.com/incorrect/koreans_la.htm

dk468 said...

So, then, Zendaya, who is from my neighboring Oakland (which can always use some Hollywood glamour) is apparently Storm. As Bryan Singer molests only young boys on his filthy casting couch and in its depraved general vicinities, I think that this starlet would be alright.
So Zen you go girl, make 'em forget that there ever even existed an vile* anal queen** who jabbed at that role!

*Heck, no man ever walks out on my Kylie without becoming automatically an male nun. Yet, this menace to society had a nerve to 'steal' Olivier Martinez! I consider this as an atrocity against humanity ! (Well, as for that lanky Spanish model, erm, who would I be to say no to a Miss Minogue' sloppy second if she wouldn't mind? ROTFL)

**http://diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com/halle-berry-banged-booted-by-dicaprio/