I Am Link

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--- Super Lady - Firefly actress makes good! Morena Baccarin, also known for Homeland and the V remake and also that time I saw her on the subway platform, has landed the leading lady role in Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool. Okay how "good" a role this is remains to be seen, since she's playing the chick in a superhero movie and we all know how them roles go. See also: Blake Lively in Green Lantern. But hey Blake Lively got Ryan's penis in the bargain so maybe the job will come with some perks.

--- Dante's Infernos - Today's edition of "I will get around to actually reading this during lunch" is coming at us from Film Comment, where they've posted a lengthy - and I do mean lengthy; it's in two whole parts! - where they've interviewed the director Joe Dante on the occasion of this weekend's NYC screening of a preview cut of his movie Gremlins. And yes I am totally going to be there. I wouldn't miss it for the world. (I'm glad it's over before the Oscars though.)

--- Be My Inmate - Now here's a name we don't hear nearly often enough - Jay Hernandez is apparently joining the cast of Suicide Squad, but they're being sketchy on who he's playing. His character will be in prison with The Joker (played by, sigh, Jared Leto) though, so he's probably, you'd think, a bad dude. Anyway Adorable Jay tips the ever precarious cast, full of people I adore and people I can't stand, towards the good side. 

--- Dig It - New Line is planning on rebooting Shaft. Again. Will they just hire Samuel Jackson to play it again? I think he could totally do it. I imagine they'll go younger though. Who would you cast? God I hope they don't go with Kevin Hart. I'm gonna throw Nate Parker's name in the ring but really just because I want to stare at Nate Parker, dammit.

--- The Actor - THR did a little piece on Laura Dern and her acting coach (thanks Mac) and yes the word "craft" is invoked, which is usually my trigger-word and sends me into a rage-spiral, but it's Laura Dern and she can say whatever she wants to. She can tweet out pictures of her beautiful mug as a 1-800-Flowers ad, she can slash the tires on my Mom's car, whatever. She Dern.

--- Bell Rings - Every time Kristen Bell gets cast in something an angel gets its wings. Or a sloth gets its claws or something, whatever. Kristen Bell has been cast opposite Melissa McCarthy in her next movie (no not that one) Michelle Darnell, which he husband (Melissa McCarthy's husband, not Kristen Bell's with the abs) Ben Falcone is directing. He directed the meh Tammy, you may recall.

--- Side Kick - A trio of actors have just been added to Netflix's next Marvel series AKA Jessica Jones, the one that stars Krysten Ritter as a super-powered journalist, and this Wil Traval dude (I guess there was a shortage of "L"'s at the Alphabet Shop) caught my eye for entirely superficial reasons. He's Australian and done a bunch of TV, oh and a horror movie called Primal that I'm sure I saw and remember nothing of.

--- Ripley's Believe It - What with the big Alien news on our mind today we've read a couple of random good stories about the franchise here and there - I'd never heard this story about the long development process of the third Alien before Fincher got involved; the whole "wooden planet" thing sounds insane, in a possibly very cool way. And speaking of the third film, here's a hilariously defensive nerd piece on the deaths of Newt & Hicks and why it had to happen dammit shut your mouths you babies etc etc. Reading pieces like this make me feel like donating to charity immediately for all the wasted energy on display.

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