Ten years ago, I walked out of Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar & Lucinda convinced of two things: 1) a massive glass cathedral floating down a river is as oppressive a visual metaphor as a crucified Jesuit tumbling over a waterfall, and 2) the lead actress cast opposite Ralph Fiennes would be one of her generation’s best. … Continue reading
I got an email from Will Reynolds at Obsessed With Film that almost made me shit my pants. Here’s what Will said: Thought I’d send this along to you – Matthew Vaughn has written in The Guardian (the newspaper that got Paddy Considine killed!) that his script for the Thor movie initially came in with … Continue reading
John Carter of Mars director Andrew Stanton and screenwriter Mark Andrews came to Tarzana California to visit the Edgar Rice Burroughs archives at the ERB, Inc offices (and yes, Tarzana is in fact named after Tarzan). While there they talked with Burroughs estate reps about how excited they are for the project – which they’re … Continue reading
Fletcher Munson: [sunnily, on homecoming] Generic greeting! Mrs. Munson: [warmly] Generic greeting returned! Fletcher Munson: Imminent sustenance. Mrs. Munson: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal. Fletcher Munson: Oooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement! That’s Steven Soderbergh’s brilliant dialogue from Schizopolis, but it could very easily be the stuff of EverQuest, Sony’s hopeful franchise-in-waiting, based … Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk about who will play Thor in Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of the Asgardian superhero. This summer I brought you news that he and Marvel were clashing on casting – they wanted wrestler Triple H and he didn’t. After that came word that star of Rome, Kevin McKidd, was in talks … Continue reading
The specter of a strike in Hollywood has been hanging over the world like an impending Category 5 hurricane these last few months. Terror has taken up residence in the hearts of the people as they wonder whether Transformers 2 could possibly be made pre-strike, and if not, does that mean we won’t get to … Continue reading
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor love video games. Crank was essentially an adaptation of a video game that does not (yet) exist, and they’ll be doing a sequel to that. Their next project is even more specifically game-related: it’s actually called Game and it’s set in a near-future where a MMORPG called Slayers is hugely … Continue reading
Who the hell knows if Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit is going to be any good (actually, I might have an inkling if I ever get around to reading the script that’s been sitting on my living room table for the past week)? All that matters is this: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, … Continue reading
It’s beginning to sound like The Goods: The Don Ready Story, a Used Cars-ish romp being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay for Paramount Vantage, is essentially a reworking of August Blowout, a long-dead script that was partially cannibalized for Anchorman. Fine by me. Though the current version of the script is credited to … Continue reading
Happy "Trying Too Hard" Day! For a year or two, it looked like Simon West was going to give Michael Bay a run for Jerry Bruckheimer’s money as the modern day king of mindless action. But then he followed up the gleefully ludicrous Con Air with the plain old ludicrous The General’s Daughter and Lara … Continue reading