Tuesday, November 03, 2015

I Am Link

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--- Lady's Boys - The hot similar looking dudes of American Horror Story: Hotel are fully aware that they all look similar, thank you very much. (Thanks Mac) It's seemed like a silly non-story to me because clearly it was intentional; look at those twin children Lady Gaga breeds! Clearly she's into types. She's like Bert from Sesame Street with his closet full of the same outfit. (Bad analogy actually since Lady Gaga changes outfits per scene, but whatever.) Anyway I did appreciate Cheyenne Jackson's comment on the twin thing:

"There are worse things than to be compared to Matt Bomer."

--- From Gods To Men - Bryan Fuller has poked his head up out of the writing room for his upcoming adaptation of American Gods to talk to Crave about both that project and where it stands and the just announced reboot of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories that he is doing for NBC. Sounds like Spielberg is much more involved than it seemed when the project was announced - he recruited Bryan personally to make the thing because he loved Hannibal! In other Bryan Fuller News, Bryan was asked recently what his dream reboot would be and he said he's love to bring the British spy series The Avengers back from the dead. (thanks Mac)
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--- Daemon Lover - This is hopefully good news, fingers crossed: the BBC is planning on making a television series out of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books! You might recall the movie The Golden Compass with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and Eva Green (who really all were ace casting) flopping violently back in 2007 - they made some good choices but they neutered the story for audience approval and ended up erasing why the story matters in the first place. So let's hope the BBC learned from that, and stick to Pullman's hardcore anti-religious guns because there's a hell of a story to be told here.
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--- And Speaking of Nic, apparently Nicole Kidman is in talks to play "a high-ranking Amazonian Warrior" in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie starring Gal Gadot, spinning off from the Batman v Superman of next summer. People are theorizing that this means she'll be playing Diana's mother Hyppolyta, who is the Queen of the Amazons. Listen I love Nicole but she usually makes reeeeally bad choices when it comes to mainstream movies so I'm not sure whether I'm excited about this or not.
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--- Scrubbed Clean - The Playlist got their greedy mitts on the first picture from Park Chan-wook's upcoming film called The Handmaid, which returns him to Korea after making Stoker here in the States. The movie is an adaptation of an English-language book called Fingersmith (it was turned into a BBC miniseries in 2005) but he's switched locations; now it "is set during the Japanese rule of Korea and follows a handmaid who employs the services of an heiress, con man and pickpocket." See our previous post here. No word on a release yet though.
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--- Just Shoot Me - The first pictures of James Franco and friends in the upcoming Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 have been released, see them over here - I can't recall whether I knew Josh Duhamel was in this show or not but hells yeah. And also Sarah Gadon! And Cherry Jones! And Chris Cooper! Did I just forget this thing had assembled such a stellar cast or what? Maybe somebody went back in time and erased my memory. Anyway I really liked this book, which is about a dude going back in time to stop JFK from being assassinated; did anybody else read it? The series will premiere on President's Day (so clever you guys!), February 15th 2016.
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--- Forever Filthy - I think John Waters has been given like five interviews a week lately and I've posted links to all of them, but we should be happy he won't shut up dammit! Happy as snapping clams. He chatted with Michael Musto in the new issue of The Advocate and while he refuses to take Musto's bait on the trans issue he did offer up this bit of hilarity about Divine:

"He didn’t want to be a woman. He wanted to pass as a monster."
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--- Herky Jerky - This will take forever because stop-motion always take forever but it's still pretty cool news for like ten years from now -- Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and everything good stop-motion-animated ever, is teaming up with comedians Key and Peele (!!!) to make an animated movie called Wendell and Wild, which is about "two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two goth teen acolytes." I will watch that!
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1 comment:

Aquinas1220 said...

I love, Love, LOVE me some Nicole Kidman. Rivals only my love for Wonder Woman. But a big N-O to her as an Amazonian. Kidman is best when she is playing icy, aloof and distant, not fierce and bold. Even Gal Gadot is wrong physically for the part of WW, although if Zack Snyder stays far away from the stand-alone WW project, I'm willing to give it a chance.