Cuz This Is Gay Thriller

Now we are talking! I'm so over gay coming-of-age movies and gay-romances -- gimme a goddamned gay thriller! And that's what we're getting as British actors George Mackay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett are set to star in a movie called Femme, which Variety is billing somewhat hysterically as a "drag queen revenge thriller" but also, well, truthfully, as that's exactly what it is...

"Femme tells the story of Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Not long after, however, Jules encounters Preston – one of his attackers – in a gay sauna. He quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge on the “deeply-closeted” Preston and seizes the opportunity."

"Drag Queen Revenge Thriller" just sounds a step too descriptive somehow -- it's like using "homosexual" instead of "gay" know what I mean? Anyway I want me some Angry Gays, I want them all over media. Angry Gays fucking up the straights and burning down the world, baby! That's what I relate to, and more with every goddamned day on this fuck-all planet. 

Anyway loving these photos of Mackay, who'll play the closet case Preston -- as for Nathan Stewart-Jarrett you should definitely know who he is -- I saw him in the Candyman remake most recently, and he was on that Generation show (which I didn't watch). And I saw him on stage in the recent re-do of Angels in America (opposite Russell Tovey in the UK and then with Lee Pace here in the US). But I also know him from way way back and best of all with the series Utopia, which is one of my forever faves. Please tell me y'all have found a way to see Utopia by now? I speak of the original British version of course, and no it didn't get any proper release here in the US because they were trying to remake it for a decade and then when they finally did it flopped real hard. But the original rules; I just re-watched it at the start of the pandemic and it still rules. Find it and watch it and you'll get it. ETA it's been brought to my attention that Utopia is on Amazon Prime now -- watch it here! No seriously, watch it. Don't make me come over there and make you, I will.

Good Morning, World

Has anybody watch AMC's new sci-fi tinged series called Soulmates? It's an anthology show about a world fifteen years in the future where a company has figured out how to find, you guessed it, everybody's perfect soulmate, but yadda yadda complications have complications. Anyway all I give a shit about at the moment is the fourth episode which, as you see above, stars Bill Skarsgård and Utopia actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (and when I say "Utopia" I speak of the original Utopia, the one that matters) (although that's not totally fair since I haven't finished the remake yet and I don't entirely hate it) (but still, original Utopia will not be surpassed) as the titular mates o' the soul, ones who -- via all the images I've seen -- spend the majority of the episode half-naked. So really all I'm asking is if any of you have seen this specific episode, and if I should go find it and watch it immediately. Well? (Also good morning.)

When There's No More Room in Utopia...

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I guess I'm just gonna be reporting every batch of names added to the Utopia cast as they come in -- on Monday we told you about Cory Michael Smith, but seen here is Desmin Borges, known for playing "Edgar" on the series You're the Worst by people who watch the series You're the Worst (I'm not one of those people), who has also just joined the cast. Borges was also just in Tamara Jenkins' Netflix film Private Life with Kathryn Hahn, and he will also co-star in Paul Rudd's upcoming Netflix series Living With Yourself -- he's switching streamers by working on the Utopia remake with Amazon! I hope Netflix doesn't take it personally! Three more people also joined the cast today, you can see them all at Deadline.

Heaven Can't Wait

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Two new names have been added to the cast of the remake of the phenomenal British series Utopia -- Corey Michael Smith seen above (and seen more extensively at this link) who was very good this past year in the under-seen and under-valued film 1985 (read our review right here), and Dan Byrd, who you might know from the movie Easy A or the TV show Cougar Town (he was also very recently seen playing Kimmy's co-worker with the hella-fun parents on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). These two join the previously cast Sasha Lane of American Honey fame, which we discussed here; the show's being crafted by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn (fresh off of Sharp Objects and Widows). I am hoping for good things, although the original is SO GOOD this has a lot to live up to. (Thanks to Bill for the heads-up!)

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Utopia Is Finally Coming For Us All

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Oh we're getting all kinds of exciting news today -- America Honey actress Sasha Lane has been cast as the lead in Amazon's remake of the UK series Utopia, which news-to-me is apparently rolling forward. The last I'd heard on this (I was a huge massive fan of the original series) was four years ago when David Fincher was going to make it with his beloved Rooney Mara -- that clearly never materialized. There was a rumor that Fincher buried the UK version on this side of the pond, keeping it from streaming services so US audiences wouldn't be able to be spoiled.

It's really very much worth seeking out though. The Variety article gives some plot details, if you need them. And the original is actually on Amazon UK, I see. It's find-able. Find it! Anyway now Gillian Flynn, writer of Fincher's Gone Girl (not to mention Widows and Sharp Objects), is on the case -- apparently I missed the announcement back in April when Amazon ordered nine episodes. No other actors have been announced yet but that'll surely be coming so stay tuned.
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Good Morning, World

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Alright so who's watching Mr. Robot? I finally started this week -- I am only four episodes in so shut your mouths about any more recent developments, but I'd like to hear your non-spoilery thoughts (or spoilery up to episode four). I like the show but I can't say I love the show -- I do find my attention drifting off more often than it should be. And visually it's fantastic but I keep thinking it's ripping off the far superior Utopia in that regard and then I get angry that Utopia's never gonna get seen in the US and then I'm distracted again.

I'm surprised I'm using (the admittedly tight) Rami Malek for this post though and not the villainous Martin Wallström, which is where my real crush lie... of course I am crushing on the villain. Always the villain. The wildly explicit [censored for spoiler] certainly helped! I am hooked for the devilish Mr. Wallström, if nothing else. (But there is more else, though.)

I Am Shocked, Just Shocked...

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... that David Fincher wants Rooney Mara to star in his American remake of the brilliant brilliant BLOODY FUCKING BRILLIANT British series Utopia for HBO. I can't imagine what character he wants her to play either. It's a mystery!

Oh wait you mean to say that the lead female role of Jessica Hyde is kind of tailor-built for a Rooney Mara type creature? Right down to the bangs? Is that what you are saying? Why you may be correct.

Anyway the most important role in the entire series for me is that of R.B. (pronounced Arby, like the roast beef) - in the original series Neil Maskell played him as a terrifying boy-man and he was just so good, so so good, you couldn't look away. I will have to give some thought to an American actor who could pull it off. My first thought is somebody who's a comedian so we don't take him seriously at first, only to prove this is somebone we should take seriously quick-like... maybe Zack Galifianakis? Or somebody Zack Galifianakis like, but sapped of everything but dead-eyed weirdness.

I could keep going on about the cast for the original, and how great and perfect they all are individually and as a unit (ROSE LESLIE) - I still don't see the need for this series to be remade at all; it's in English and it is PERFECT. Fincher ought to just slap a "David Fincher Presents" onto the original and get it released here in the US. I honestly believe the show didn't get a third season because of his intention to remake it; I don't care if the reality of that statement is all conspiracy-theory bollocks. He did it!!! I actually haven't ever watched the finale of Utopia's second season because I am mentally unprepared to be done with the show yet. Some day. I'll probably wait until right before Fincher's version shows up. Me, held at gun-point.

I Am Link

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--- Double Oh Doubles - The terrific Léa Seydoux, recently violently smacking girl-buns in Blue is the Warmest Color and stroking Vincent Cassel's fur in that new version of Beauty and the Beast, is apparently the "femme fatale" in the new Bond movie with Daniel Craig. She a bad Bond Girl, in other words. And Guardians of the Galaxy's Dave Bautista is apparently one of the evil henchmen. Naturally I'm more inspired by the latter, and hope it's he and Craig who do the majority of the wrestling around in the movie.

--- Jenny's Hate -  I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this news across the internet but maybe I was too steeped in Comic-Con when it dropped - Jennifer Jason Leigh has landed the lead female role in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. Although "Leading Female Role" is kind of a misnomer - I believe it should read "Only Female Role," from what I've heard about the script. Anyway I hope JJL's gotten her business together since a couple of years ago when she seemed Xanax'd out to a flat-line on Revenge.

--- Prison Bound - I feel like I've been writing about movies about the Stanford Prison Experiment for all my life - it's all Moritz Bleibtreu's fault for getting naked all over Das Experiment back in the day; now I look to these movies as good excuses for gratuity instead of, you know, allegories about humanity's innate violence, blah blah blah. There's a new one being made right now that I've told you about, it already has Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, James Wolk and Billy Crudup... and now they just added Tye Sheridan and James Frecheville to the "exploit me!" list.

--- Scary Mary - Because all the dude-bros making the V/H/S movies can't be bothered to deal with women unless they're filming rape fantasies (alright, I'm being somewhat harsh, but still) a bunch of female horror directors (including Mary Harron!) have decided to make their own anthology series - it'll be called XX; we already told you about it before but Magnet just financed it. Good for Magnet. (thanks Mac)
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--- Van Dame - Dame Maggie (do I really need to add the "Smith" at this point?) is starring in a movie version of The Lady in the Van, which I guess is a play she did to much acclaim in the UK. (Dame Maggie's dusty farts are met with much acclaim.) It's about an old lady who parks her van in some dude's driveway for 15 years. History Boys and good buds James Corden and Dominic Cooper are co-starring.

--- Speaking Of British farts, the C4 has decided not to renew my new favorite show Utopia for a third season. BOO! My boyfriend says that David Fincher (who's making the American remake for HBO his next pet project) is to blame and I think he's right. Fincher wants to own the property; I've no doubt that's why it hasn't gotten any proper release here in the US. And now it's done! BOO. I haven't watched the second season finale yet, I have been saving it because I feared this might happen. I am afraid to watch it now that that's it. (thanks Bill)

--- Air America - Robert Downey Jr. is spreading his stank outwards from the Iron Man movies and the Avengers movies to the third Captain America movie - just when I figured out how to avoid him as best as possible, he decides to come between me and my Chris Evans' beefcake. I hate you, Robert Downey Jr.
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--- Scully Busting - I haven't read through all of this Reddit AMA with Gillian Anderson (I really find the format impossible, with my old-man eyes, to sort) but supposedly she says the party-line on a third X-Files movie (wait and see!) and she gets very very excited about a female-led Ghostbusters movie, basically begging for a role. I looooooooooove that idea.

--- No Game - I like Benedict Cumberbatch and I very much want to see the Alan Turing bio-pic The Imitation Game but Benny needs to shut his yap on the absence of gay sex in the movie, he is really cramming his foot in it - we don't need heterosexuals to tell us who and what we can claim as our "martyrs" any time or anywhere, good sir, so kindly stuff it. I am generally worried over what I hear about the movie, but we'll see.

I Am Link

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--- Gone Dude - Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly wrote up pretty much the epic tongue-bath you'd expect Richard Kelly to give a David Fincher movie at his Tumblr this week on the subject of Gone Girl. Not to stereotype (a phrase that is always followed by stereotypes) but as a straight white male of middle-class privilege and geeky inclinations, I am not surprised he adored it. How about you just make a movie of your own again, Richard?

--- And Speaking of Gone Girl, author Gillian Flynn is making that US remake of Utopia with Fincher next; we just learned last week that Fincher was directing the entire thing, and we now know that she's writing the entire thing, start to finish. At that link she speaks of speaking to the creator of the fabulous original about it.
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--- Set Love - If there were more to this video that's been making the rounds of Patrick Wilson and Brooklyn Decker proving how awkward it is to film sex scenes on a movie-set for that movie Stretch - you know what I mean... ass is more; Chris Pine in a jockstrap is more - then I'd have posted it days ago, but as is it's just some sweaty shoulder and I have other things to do, yo.

---  Nazi Hour - Martin Freeman is going to star (along with Anthony LaPaglia) in a BBC movie called The Eichmann Show, which is about the two producers who "were responsible for putting together one of the first global television events, televising [the trail of Nazi Adolf Eichmann] to thirty-seven countries over four months in 1961." Now that sounds like an interesting subject I've never heard anything about. Kind of Quiz Show meets Judgment at Nuremberg. I will watch that, but I kind of hope they rename the film to You Can't Jew That on Television.

--- Devil Dan - I was really close to watching Alexandre Aja's Horns with Danny Radcliffe last night but Halloween III: Season of the Witch mood struck me and there's no telling that movie no when it wants in; anyway I'll maybe watch it tonight. Horns, that is. You can watch a brand new clip of it here, which involves Daniel Radcliffe naked as a jay-bird.

--- Vice Squad - Embarrassing admission: I had to run out of the middle of the Inherent Vice press conference at the New York Film Festival because, well, because I'd just sat through a three-hour movie having drank two large coffees beforehand and, well, I had to pee like nobody's business. Sorry, PTA & Co! I tried to hold it as long as I could but y'all were just rambling. Thankfully IndieWire made a nice list of 11 things they learned about PTA from that and the event he did the following day. (thanks Mac)
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I Am Link

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--- Nice Bad Guys - Matthew Bomer, once he finishes shakin da booty for Magic Mike 2, will head over to Ryan Gosling's new movie to play a bad guy! It's called The Nice Guys, it also stars Russell Crowe, and it's from Shane Black, who wrote and is directing. Black is of course the dude who burned a bunch of bridges back in the 80s and got a comeback thanks to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3, aka Robert Downey Jr. brought him back.
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--- Up For Chuck - Guinevere Turner, the author of the perfect perfect perfect American Psycho screenplay (she also played the wine-sloshing threesome-having society gal in the movie), is adapting the 1971 book The Family, about the events that led up to the Manson murders, for a movie to be directed by music-video director Jonas Akerlund. (Amongst other great pieces of work Akerlund made Madonna's "Ray of Light" video.) 

--- New Utopia - It is official: David Fincher's next project is going to be his HBO remake of the amazing amazing amazing British television thriller Utopia, and kind of surprisingly he says he's going to direct every single episode. He's making it next year. I am so torn on this - the original is SO GOOD, I wish they'd just air it here in the US as is because it really doesn't need changing a bit; all the actors are killer, it's gorgeously shot already, and the story is so scary and exciting and fun. I just hope he changes it a ton, is what I hope. Spin it off into your own thing, David. Then I can maybe see the point.

--- Super Week - I don't know if there are even still tickets for most of this stuff but IFC Center here in NY is doing a ton of super amazing events next week for New York Comic Con - it's called "Super Week" and on the list is stuff like Baz Luhrmann presenting a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show; the NY premiere of the unrated Director's Cut of Nymphomaniac; Nicholas Hoult will be there with his new movie, and on and on. I probably can't do any of it myself because of continuing NYFF and actually being at Comic-Con duties, dammit.

--- Pig Person - Here's a sentence I never really expected to write: Y Tu Mama Tambien actor Diego Luna is directing a movie called Mr. Pig, which will star Danny Glover as a man traveling to Mexico, with a pig. It will co-star Maya Rudolph. First person to make a "Is Maya Playing the pig?" joke gets kicked in the nuts.

--- Her Triumph - I know that the Jesse Owens bio-pic is going to be all about, you know, Jesse Owens and sports and stuff, but hearing that they just cast Carice van Houten to play director Leni Riefenstahl in the film... well now I want this to be a Leni Riefenstahl bio-pic, sorry Jesse Owens. The film will detail the African-American athlete's travels to the Olympics in Berlin in 1936, which Riefenstahl turned into her film Olympia.

--- Vice Maker - I'm just gonna slip this link to the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice in right here, side-stepping the fan-fare because it's great and everything but I know some people don't wanna watch it and far be it from me to ruin their day. I will say I watched the trailer even though I'm seeing the film later this week for NYFF and the trailer made me very very excited. And who is that shirtless blonde dude?

--- And Speaking of trailers the trailer for the second Avengers movie will apparently be shown in front of Chris Nolan's Interstellar. I have always planned on seeing Interstellar, I have to see Interstellar, it's too big a something to miss, even if I'm kinda over Nolan and I'm way way way over McConaughey. So this news at least gives me a little more impetus to give a shit.
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I Am Link

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--- Penny Lady - While I'm excited to hear that work's already starting on the second season of Penny Dreadful, a show I pretty much adored save a couple of issues (coughReeveCarneycough), I don't know that Patti Lupone was the first thing I wanted to hear about it. The Broadway star is joining the show for a guest spot (phew) as "a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa’s (Eva Green) past." As long as everything revolves around Eva Green, I suppose. (And Josh Hartnett's naked gay stuff, of course.) And maybe she'll just show up to pour bleach down her throat like on American Horror Story last year.
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--- The Dark World - It's been awhile since we've heard anything about David Fincher's American remake of the terrific and I do mean terrific British TV thriller Utopia; every time I see the subway ads for the new reality show with that title I do a double-take, thinking I missed something, but no, still no word on where it stands right now. But Fincher's already announcing more TV work for HBO - he wants to make a 50s noir with the writer James Ellroy. Maybe he'll make that instead and just release the original Utopia over here so it can get the proper attention it deserves. It should be ten times as popular as Downton Abbey.

--- Iran So Far Away - I hadn't been paying an iota - not an iota! - of attention to Jon Stewart's upcoming directorial debut because honestly, while I love Jon for his unrepentant liberalism and all that The Daily Show has done for politics, I kinda find him exhausting to watch. Granted he's not acting in his movie, which is called Rosewater and stars Gael Garcia Bernal, but just seeing his name seems to make my eyes slide away. So I hadn't been paying attention, not until my pal Joe Reid just wrote the movie up from Toronto, and now I am, is my point. It does sound interesting, and I do love Gael.

--- Murder Mommy - I know I have some Europeans reading this site - have any of you seen the Austrian horror movie Goodnight Mommy yet? I ask because I have heard good things and it's now getting picked up for play here in the US next year and I adore its story - The film... tells of nine-year old twins awaiting the return of their mother after cosmetic surgery. When she comes home, however, the children soon begin to doubt that the woman is their mother." That's great stuff!

--- Bag It - It has been a very long time since I've bothered watching American Beauty; I liked the film when it came out but my most vivid memory at this point is Wes Bentley's bared butt, and I think I might wanna keep it that way because of all the opinion pieces I've read over the years tearing the Oscar winner down this one right here pretty much sticks the knife in the furthest and gets the kill, methinks. And given how I can barely stand to look at Kevin Spacey's face now, I think the well's especially poisoned.

--- Boat Trip - The "Movie of the Week" at The Dissolve is Preston Sturges' glorious 1941 comedy The Lady Eve with Henry Fonda and my gal Babs Stanwyck, and I'm saving this piece on the movie for my lunchtime reading today. Anything to remind me of the sparkle and shine of that doozy's alright with me.
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Utopia Arrives In 12 Days

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Finally a specific date! Every time I'd checked before it just kept telling me my new favorite show Utopia was "Coming in July!" but it never said what day in July - now their Facebook page says it's the 14th! I can hold out for that long, I suppose. Here's the trailer for the second season, in case you missed it. But don't watch that if you haven't watched the first season yet! Watch the first season, then watch that trailer, then watch the second season on the 14th. That's the order you should do all of these things in. Got it? Good.

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Jessica Hyde Is Back & Blonder Than Ever

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Did you guys listen to me and find some way to watch Utopia yet? The UK show might never get a proper release here in the US because David Fincher snapped up the rights to remake it here (along with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn) but dammit all to heck the original is so good you've got to get your hands on it, I say. There are ways, you know. Anyway the second season (or "series" if we're using the Brit vernacular) starts in July and the first trailer's popped up (thanks to Bill for the heads-up) and oh my Christ I am wetting myself with want right now.

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I'm so glad this will be back in July - having just finished Orange is the New Black and Fargo and In the Flesh I'm gonna need some quality in-of-doors entertainment this Summer and this should fit the bill fully. Yeah yeah I know True Blood starts this weekend - I still haven't finished last season of that though. In summation - color!

Utopia's Flesh

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I've mentioned both of these shows briefly a couple of times but I'm feeling the need for a proper post all their own - if you're not already you guys need to be watching Utopia, which airs in the UK on the channel called Channel 4 (is Channel 4 actually on channel four on the dial? Sorry I've never actually been to Great Britain, I'm a wanker, et cetera), and you need to be watching In the Flesh, which airs on BBC Three. (Is that channel 3? Okay I'll stop asking. It's probably just like the numbered HBOs I am guessing.) The latter show actually I believe airs here in the US on BBC America - it's on demand at least; I saw it listed there. 

The former show doesn't seem to be available to us here in the States through, you know, the more legal channels of attaining things... but you can find it. I did. That's probably because David Fincher is in talks to remake it for us here. But really, see the original. It's a spectacular thing and all you have to deal with is some heavy accents - it's not like it's (gasp of horror) subtitled or anything!

I just finished the first series of In the Flesh on the train this morning (it's only three episodes, it's easy to catch up!) and you should've seen me blubbering away. In the Flesh tells the story of zombies being returned to their former states of humanity through medication, and how they're reintegrated into society - it does what all the best zombie fiction does, uses the undead as metaphor, and it does it does it in a way I've never seen before. It's really something special. The second series is currently airing right now in the UK.

Utopia is a big government conspiracy thriller thing that I've found myself having a really hard describing to people, but everybody I've turned onto it has been blown away, as I was. It's so much fun and so involving from the first fifteen minutes, and it doesn't let up once. The first series of it ran six episodes, and the second series hits in July. I know some of you guys watch these shows - hell you're the amazing people who turned me onto them, so thank you! I'm kind of in entertainment heaven right now.

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I Am Link

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--- Actress Land - The Playlist has some new pictures from Olivier Assayas' Sils Maria, which stars Juliette Binoche as an actress and Kristen Stewart as an actress playing the role Binoche's character played when she was younger. There's a lot of smoking and people looking gorgeous - shocker.

--- French Kiss - There were too many titles I haven't seen and not enough time for me to play catch-up for me to participate in this month's Team Experience poll counting down our ten favorite Cannes winners, but my inadequacies shouldn't keep you from head over to The Film Experience and seeing what everybody else came up with. I already checked one off of the list that I hadn't seen yet over the weekend - the 1958 Russian flick The Cranes Are Flying is totally deserving of the love.

--- Dystopian Event - A couple of you were adamant that I catch up on the British series called Utopia, which is a twisty thriller about comics books and global conspiracies, and so I also watched that this weekend (it's only six hour-longs) and holy shite were y'all right, it is terrific, so thank to you guys for sharing. To those of you who haven't seen it, do! David Fincher is teaming up with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn to adapt the series for the US, but the original's already great, I def. recommend. Here's an article about the second season, if you are caught up. That supposedly airs starting July-ish.

--- Siggy Stardust - I didn't think she'd be showing up for the sequels considering the place we left her character at the end of the first movie, but Sigourney Weaver says that James Cameron's found a way to have her involved in all the three sequels to Avatar, so that's cool. Any Siggy is good Siggy, that's what I always say.

--- Redheaded Woman - Tori Amos' new album Unrepentant Geraldines is out this week and Matt got to chat with her over at PopMatters; Tori always makes for a good read. Fairy on crack indeed.

--- Four More - Nathaniel plays some catch-up with four news stories from the past couple of weeks that merit mention if not unbridled enthusiasm - Brad and Angie and Baz oh my.

--- And Finally did you guys watch the first night of the Rosemary's Baby remake on NBC? No? Theyn you're hardly alone because its ratings were abysmal. I myself DVR'd it and I have every intention of watching it (glutton for so much punishment); I couldn't watch it live though, I had tickets to a play. Anyway I might just wait for the second night to air and watch the whole thing in one fell swoop - that way I can just have a hangover one morning instead of two.

I Am Link

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--- Dirty Wars - Missed this last week but here's what I think is the first commercial for Bong Joon-ho's upcoming movie Snowpiercer, which I am very much looking forward to. It stars Chris Evans and Jamie Bell and Tilda Swinton, huzzah. There are also some pictures over here. I do hope that he makes all the brown griminess work for it - it's seeming a little bit visually exhausting at this point. Tilda looks as if she stirs that up some. (Of course she would.)

--- My Sodom - Well this is probably going to court some controversy - Abel Ferrera, the director of Bad Lieutenant, is going to make a bio-pic about Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the man (and homosexual, it should be noted) who made Salo amongst other beautiful and horrifying and oft anti-fascist screeds, and Willem Dafoe is going to play him. Because we needed a reminder that Willem Dafoe is way more hardcore and cool than we are.

--- It's Alive -  The Playlist attempts to keep some track of Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming projects here while giving us the news that he wants Benedict Cumberbatch to star in a new version of Frankenstein for him to direct, but I feel like there are at least fifteen projects they aren't mentioning. Cumberbatch has already played the role on stage for Danny Boyle.

--- Five To Dream - At that same link is word that Del Toro has no less than Charlie Kaufman working on a script for Slaughterhouse Five... as if that sentence isn't enough to dig its hands in your ears, scoop out your brain, plop it on the floor, and stomp it to death. Coolness overload.

--- Neil's Song - Kick-ass news right here - director Neil Marshall will be directing the fourth season finale of A Game of Thrones. He directed the second season episode "Blackwater" - the one with the giant battle (boats go kabluey). I have no idea where they'll be ending the next season even though I have read the books - the way they're shuffling events around at this point could go anywhere.

--- Park Ranger - It's not much but Slash has a few quotes from Colin Trevorrow, the director of the fourth Jurassic Park film to be, that at least show he's got a hard-on for the material. We all do, dude! And we are watching you. The little bit that I've heard about where they're taking things sounds promising to me, though.

--- Happy Endings - David Fincher might be remaking another British TV series - this one's called Utopia and it's about "a group of people who have their hands on a cult graphic novel called The Utopia Experiments which seems to have predicted various disasters; a group known as The Network tries to hunt them down as the group tries to prevent the next predicted disaster from taking place." Anyone seen the original series? For the remake, Rian Johnson might also be writing it. So wow, that's some pedigree. Here's where I admit I still haven't watched House of Cards.

--- And finally, only when I'm away would somebody get the jump on me with this sort of thing! Thanks to The Film Experience for the heads-up then - Chris Pratt instagrammed this picture of himself over the weekend back in his Zero Dark Thirty sorta shape - he even managed to be charming and modest about the douchiness of doing such a thing, somehow. We can assume this is for his starring role in the upcoming Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy. Anna Faris is a lucky lucky woman.