I Am Link

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--- Ever Golden - We're almost up to the new season of A Game of Thrones, and EW talked to the Lannister twins themselves and got them to open up on last season's controversial "rape" scene - neither of them read the scene that way when they made it. I have to say I found myself nodding along with this bit from Nikolaj Coster-Waldau:

"The same people that get upset about that, it’s like they suddenly want things to be black or white. But it’s all human, it’s all confusion—people say one thing and do another. It’s human, it’s complex."

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--- Bad News - I told you awhile back about Special Correspondents, Ricky Gervais' upcoming movie about a con-man journalist (played by Eric Bana) who pretends to be reporting from war-zones when he's really safely tucked away in Manhattan - well Netflix has bought the rights to the movie and they'll be releasing it next year. Anything that gives Eric Bana a gig, I'm happy.

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--- Freak At Home - I had to buy one of the Funko Hannibal figurines for myself (the Wendigo design of course) but I generally want to refrain from becoming a collector of them because I collect enough things already, ya know? You've gotta draw the line somewhere. But I have to admit that the set they've crafted for the Freakshow season of American Horror Story made me literally laugh out loud when I noticed that the Elsa figure has its own itty bitty Ma Petite figure included. That's a delight. (Also if they'd created a Dandy figure in blood-soaked tighty-whities I'd have bought it in a millisecond.)

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--- And Speaking of Killer Clowns, Cary Fukunaga's new movie version of Stephen King's It is, via BD, "finally entering pre-production, with plans on going behind cameras this June in New York, reports Production Weekly" -- I'm a little bit confused about the "filming in New York" piece of news though. It's been a very very long time since I read the book (it's definitely due for a re-read) but now that I think about it one of the adults lives in New York right? And he gets called back to Derry, and the story's set in motion? I suppose that's what they could mean. Or maybe they mean "Upstate New York" and they'll be using that in place for Maine? I don't know. But if they're shooting that soon we should probably be hearing casting soon right?

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--- Star Of Stage - This seems like a possibly pretty great break for the delightful fur-ball that is Fran Kranz - he's going to star on Broadway opposite Al Pacino in David Mamet's new play. The play is called China Doll and it's only got the two actors on a single set, apparently. I'm long over Pacino (I haven't even been able to bring myself to watch Greta Gerwig's movie with him yet) and Mamet's revealed himself to be a right-wing maniac, but I hope this gives Fran a chance to shine, he deserves it. (thanks Mac)

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--- Speaking Of the Great White Way and the crazy people who get their kicks stomping upon it, the long-delayed musical version of American Psycho is now supposed to open on Broadway next year, with previews beginning in February. It sounds like Benjamin Walker is still on hook for the he lead. (thanks Mac)

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--- Actress As God - This piece at Slate is cat-nip to this Binochophile - they take a look at how she's turned her acting presence into the cinematic equivalent of a touch of Jesus' robe in international cinema, and they invent the wonderful new word "Binochification" in the process. I will use it every day for the rest of my life, I swear it.

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--- Eye Out - In that Binoche piece there's a lot about the French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, who's worked with her several times, so in related news here's some little bits from an interview with the director on what happened with his last project, Idol's Eye, which totally fell apart. It was supposed to star Robert DeNiro, Rachel Weisz, and Robert Pattinson. I didn't realize it became such a clusterfuck.

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