I Am Link

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--- So You Think You Can Dance - A couple of European production companies are teaming up to turn both Django (the Franco Nero starring Western that inspired Tarantino's last movie) and Suspiria (Dario Argento's wet hot giallo fever dream) into English-language television series. Since Nero's not the young pretty thing he once was it's the second property we're eyeballing - they've hired Argento himself to be the "artistic supervisor" (honestly he's become such a lousy filmmaker I hope that's just an empty title and he has nothing to do with the show) and it'll be based on the original 1845 book Suspiria De Profundis by Thomas de Quincey:

"It will be an English-language period horror series in which the author De Quincey is the lead character. Styled as a new Sherlock Holmes, the story will explore psychological fantasies of evil and attempt to solve fearful mysteries. It will be set in London and Rome at the turn of the 20th century."

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 --- Pooh & Co - I'm surprised to realize I've forgotten to mention last week's news about Listen Up Philip's director Alex Ross Perry (I loved LUP) signing up to direct Disney's live-action Winnie the Pooh movie; I'm not really a Pooh-head (is that what they call themselves? It certainly should be, if not) -- I was only reminded of it upon reading yesterday's news that ARP's got another movie lined up; an adaptation of Don Delillo's 1982 book The Names. Have any of you read it? I haven't but it sounds interesting.

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--- Idris Stirred - Idris Elba is blaming us all (including Daniel Craig) for the fact that he's never gonna get to play James Bond, because we talked about it too much and ruined it. 

"Daniel Craig actually set the rumor off. About four years ago, he said, 'Idris Elba would be a great Bond,' and then it started to creep. I blame Daniel."

I think he & Craig should wrestle it out. It doesn't have to do anything with Bond - they can just wrestle. 

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--- Leatherface Ladies - I'm still pretty torn on the upcoming Texas Chainsaw prequel - on the one hand nobody seems to be able to add anything too interesting to the Leatherface legacy, try and try though they might, while on the other the directors on this one are good interesting directors and they're assembling an interesting cast. So... torn. BD interviewed the film's producers and what I found interesting is it's a pair of women who're producing it; in fact they're working on a bunch of upcoming horror projects.
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--- Cyber Attack - I kind of liked the second Tron movie? Yeah it was big and dumb but Garrett Hedlund's such a gorgeous thing and Michael Sheen was a hoot and man it looked fantastic on an IMAX screen. I'd totally be willing to see more set in that world, and it sounds as if I'm getting the chance because Disney's just re-hired Hedlund and Olivia Wilde for another go at it.
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--- Hot Brie - Over at The Film Experience Manuel's taking a look at the upcoming slate of projects for a bunch of Hollywood's most promising young actresses; I can't recall if I knew that Brie Larson has joined the cast of Ben Wheatley's next movie, but she has and that's cool beans. It co-stars Luke Evans and Armie Hammer and I knew that much.
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--- Lady's Run - There's a rumor floating around that the latest iteration of the Logan's Run remake script has turned the lead (you know, Logan) into a female - no doubt cue the fan-boys whining and bitching and moaning any second about whatever nonsense it is that they believe this does to their precious childhoods. I think it's a great idea, but it's a great idea whenever any action franchise can get a female lead, so. Anyway they're gonna try to get Jennifer Lawrence, aren't they?
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--- French Flavor - Juliette Binoche is re-teaming with director Bruno Dumont (they made Camille Claudel 1915  together which I unbelievably still haven't seen) on a black comedy called Slack Bay, which is about a family of cannibals in 1910 France who eat their way through their middle-class village. Well just the men in the family are the cannibals, I guess, so sadly we will not be seeing Juliette Binoche gnawing on a femur. Hey maybe they'll surprise us. Anyway this sounds so awesome I can hardly contain myself.
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--- And Finally you have my love forever for this, Mädchen Amick - she rounded up a bunch of her fellow Twin Peaks alums to make a little protest video about David Lynch's departure from Showtime's new Peaks series, you can watch it below. I haven't said anything about this topic because I am literally - LITERALLY - holding my breath that the conflict will be resolved and I won't have to, but this is nice.
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