I Am Link

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--- Two By Goz - I'm a little bit behind so some of this news might be a little bit stale; still we feel the need to mention it. Let's first catch up with Ryan Gosling! He's got two recent news-items that've caught me eye - firstly, he's been bandied about as the lead for Guillermo Del Toro's Haunted Mansion movie. (Yes based on the Disney ride.) I know this will be different from Crimson Peak in theory, but I feel like GDT might be haunted-housing himself out a little? Anyway onto number two, Gosling-wise - he and Emma Stone are thinking of reuniting (remember when she said his abs looked photo-shopped? Good times) for an "old-fashioned romantic musical" called La La Land from the director of Whiplash. Nobody say Gangster Squad... too late.

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--- Moore To Love - Julianne Moore is going to team up with Enough Said director Nicole Holofcener... full stop. That's enough! Sold! Okay a little more - the movie is called Can You Ever Forgive Me and it will be based on a fascinating-sounding true story of a woman who forged letters by famous people and got chased by the FBI for doing so. It's based on a memoir by the actual criminal lady. It always makes me nervous when people's criminal behavior gets lionized and rewarded like this, a la The Wolf of Wall Street, but this is a pairing I cannot refuse.

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--- Wild Animals - Our second favorite television fur-factory James Wolk (second favorite now that Charlie Cox is a TV star, although they had the gall to shave him on Daredevil) has got a bit of a rep for Bad Luck when it comes to his shows - they all die quick. But he keeps getting new ones, because he's super appealing, and we're all hoping one sticks. His latest is called Zoo (see previous post) and the first batch of pictures from it showed up last week (thanks Mac). Wolky looks typically adorbs.

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--- Webbed Exclusive - I believe I've expressed this opinion on several occasions but I still find it weird that the Universal Monster known as The Creature From the Black Lagoon hasn't had a movie in such a long time - well the ball is rolling now that Universal wants to brand the hell out of their monsters, and Scarlett Johannson is the rumored front-runner for the lead. No, not as The Creature! That's what I kept thinking when I saw the headlines too. She'd be the lady woman who finds the monster. I insist they go full Lovecraft with this story, anyway.

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--- A Lot Chaos - I hadn't heard that Alan Rickman's movie A Little Chaos starring Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts as rival gardeners in 17th Century France (I know, what a log-line) was getting dumped fairly unceremoniously onto VOD (with a few theaters tossed in for good measure) at the end of June, but The Playlist has that news, along with seven clips from the film. It's that scraggly wig they made Matty wear that's at fault, I'm sure of it. Anyway I'm a little worried about Kate's career right now, aren't you guys? Let's hope Steve Jobs does her justice.

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--- Old-Timey Murder - Any fans of Caleb Carr's The Alienist up in here? I loooved in when it came out, but I haven't read it since. I will catch sight of it on my bookshelf every so often though and think to myself, Self, why hasn't that been turned into a movie yet? Well here we go: Cary Fukunaga is planning on turning it into a television miniseries a la his True Detective. Now that I think about it the story is kind of True Detective meets Penny Dreadful, with a dash of The Knick, so this makes sense. And hey if it's a hit maybe they'll make the follow-up about baby murder!

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--- Twee For Gays - I'm having a hard time reading anything about Sufjan Stevens this week because I had to miss his concert here in NYC this past weekend when that family stuff dragged me out of town, but this piece at Pitchfork comparing Sufjan to Tori Amos is pretty baity to my interests, so I gotta link.

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--- Horror Story - Clearly I shouldn't have an opinion on this since I haven't read this dude's book, but some dude is suing Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard and the studio for stealing a bunch from his self-published book for their wonderful Cabin in the Woods movie. There are a lot of similarities listed but I'm always skeptical of that sort of thing - there are only so many stories and Cabin specifically is riffing hard on a very specific story that's been told a thousand times in very similar ways.

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