A Cockpit Built For Two

This news was tailor built to my attention and yet it's taken me five full days to get around to it -- if Jonathan Majors wants to come slap me around for my ineptitude I welcome it, really I do. (Really, I do.) I suppose if he'd have gotten naked on this week's episode of Lovecraft Country (like he has on every other one) I might have gotten to it sooner? Ball's in your court, Jonathan! Anyway Variety reported five full days ago (thx Mac) that Majors has signed on to make a new movie called Devotion, a Cold-War-era Navy fighter pilots movie, in which his co-star will be...

... Glen Powell! Yes that Glen Powell! I know there's only one Glen Powell, whatever, he's that one. (Sidenote: we actually already knew that Powell was making this movie -- the Majors news is the new news.) Anyway the two actors will be playing best buds and co-pilots whose friendship is tested when one's shot down behind enemy lines. Seeing as how Powell's got the Top Gun sequel coming out at some point I guess he really digs being in the cockpit and fraternizing with his wingmen, all of which sounds good to us. 

Another point of interest -- the movie's being directed by J.D. Dillard, who made the terrific (or so I personally thought) horror flick Sweetheart last year. And it's based on a non-fiction book by Adam Makos from 2015 about a true story -- I would ask if any of y'all have read it but I feel like there's a real small overlap between people who come to MNPP and people who read non-fiction military books. But I could be wrong! We all got our kinks...