I Am Link

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--- Personal Attention - Our beloved Chad Radwell, aka the actor Glen Powell, is getting the leading man treatment in an upcoming rom-com opposite Khaleesi herself Emilia Clarke - the movie's called The Set Up and it centers on two personal assistants who hate their bosses and decide to hook them up (the bosses, that is) to get them out of their (the assistants, that is) hair. So it's kind of like that scene in Clueless where Mr. Hall & Miss Geist cross their legs at each other, made big. (thx Mac)

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--- Camp Reunion - Netflix is in the Wet Hot business! They're set to make yet another series of eight episodes, thirty minutes apiece (that's four count 'em four more hours with these wonderful folks!) -- this time it will be set "Ten Years Later" (so the Summer of 1991 then) presumably featuring most of the same characters. I was going to say I can already picture the MC Scat Cat joke they'll make but honestly I hope they make ALL the MC Scat Cat jokes; just nothing but MC Scat Cat jokes for four hours. I'd watch that. (thx Mac)
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--- Demon Or Lady - Still no word on a proper release date but The Playlist has got a batch of new and gorgeous images from Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, including a toe-curling glimpse of Jena Malone -- for some reason her butch fashionista look is giving me super thrills! It's precisely the Suspiria meets Laura Mars look I was hoping to see anyway. (That equation describes what I wish the entire world looked like, though.) In case you missed the slick trailer click here to be wowed.
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--- Dead Again Again - This news is actually a couple of weeks old, from way back at CinemaCon, but Tribeca kept me from doing one of these rounds-ups until now - Leigh Whannell, there to promote the second Conjuring film, hinted that they're considering making a fourth Insidious! The third Insidious was only okay but I adore the first two and I love the world those movies exist in, so I'd be down. He says it would probably explore the time between the third film (which was a prequel) and the first.
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--- Hear Some Evil - I did a pretty thorough run-through of the 1971 "Mia Farrow is BLIND and in DANGER!" flick See No Evil way back when (beware spoilers); it's not half bad! I wish I'd had my giffing abilities back when I did the post because what I remember about it is lots of Mia walking into things & falling over, which would make for some hysterical gifs. Anyway now comes word the film is getting remade, which is kind of basic - it's just a "BLIND and in DANGER" template so it seems silly to even call it a remake. But maybe Mia can play the main character's aunt? Lord knows she's not above horror remakes.

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--- Cary On - I can't keep track of what Cary Fukunaga is or isn't doing these days (he announces as many projects as Guillermo Del Toro) but Variety reports that one of the possibilities is The Noble Assassin, about "a French aristocrat who becomes an anti-Nazi saboteur," based on a not-yet-published book, and that the dudes who wrote the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie (with Michael Fassbender) are writing the screenplay.
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--- Gay Marry Me - Director Marielle Heller, who leapt right out of the gate like gangbusters with the wonderful Diary of a Teenage Girl, is looking to turn the HBO doc The Case Against 8 (about the gay marriage case that made it legal sea to shining sea) into a fiction film next. I haven't seen the doc - have any of you? Anyway she's a wonderful director and let's hope this takes her big - it's certainly the sort of timely triumphant true story that if done right could grab the Academy's eye. But is there a role for Alexander Skarsgard to get naked in?
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--- Space Patch - As I mentioned in my recap of Sigourney Weaver's Q&A last night and the massive side-eye she threw at Ridley Scott we're all being forced to wait for him to finish Prometheus 2 (or, to quote Siggy, "whatever Ridley's calling it now" -- actually Alien: Covenant) before we get another Ripley Alien film, but progress is being made! We've just gotten the first official image! Granted it's a boring sleeve of a space-suit, but whatever, it gives me hope for Ripley sooner than later.

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--- Men On Screen - Over at The Film Experience they've been celebrating Actors for a few weeks (a noble cause!) and even though it's a week old I'd be remiss not linking to our pal Murtada's take on two of my favorites, Matthias Schoenaerts and Michael Shannon. This bit made me laugh (of course TFE brings it back to Actressing!) while also nod in agreement:

"It’s again that sensitivity that makes him more than a great actor. It makes him an actress. He’s emotionally volatile but also available. We can read his face. His characters might not be verbose, but they don’t hide their emotions."

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--- And Finally WOWZA this is incredible - and not just because it features long lost footage of Ronne Blakely delivering Nancy's Mom Realness in A Nightmare on Elm Street (although obviously that's a big part) - io9 shares this cut scene that gives us new information about the connections between most of the film's characters and which ought to make we the Nightmare Nerds reevaluate the entire franchise. Big deal for horror geeks! (thx Mac)

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