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--- Say Uncle - So I appear to have completely forgotten to
post on The Man From UNCLE's trailer,
imagine that? It wouldn't it couldn't possibly have anything to do with
the fact that Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer both keep all of their
clothes on and never really make much in the way sex-eyes at each other in it. It
couldn't possibly! Work harder,
Man From UNCLE. More of
this stuff, please. (I do like their wonky accents, though.)
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--- And Speaking of Guy Ritchie whiffing my gay fantasies
he just cast Eric Bana (seen to the left there making yet another pair of jeans his bitch) as Charlie Hunnam's daddy in his
King Arthur movie, which inspired
an incesty tweet on my part. Bana and Hunnam co-starred previously in that movie
Deadfall
which never capitalized on their bodily proximity, and I doubt Guy
Ritchie will make King Arthur about father-son sex either so whatever,
man. Whatever!
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--- Gotta Date - Stephen King's
time-travel thriller 11/22/63,
about a dude who finds a portal to the past and uses it to try and prevent
the assassination of JFK, is going to be turned into a nine-hour
miniseries for Hulu,
and it will star James Franco.
I think I knew about everything before today save the James Franco part,
but who the hell can really keep track of these things. I think Franco might be a good choice for the
part though? I read the book and I can mentally insert him into it without
total agony (that's what she said) anyway.
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--- Squad Leader - Tom Hardy's
Child 44 co-star (and
rival haircut enthusiast) Joel Kinnaman
has just replaced him in David Ayer's
Suicide Squad, that super-villain team-up movie that co-stars Jai Courtney and then a lot of other people that I don't like. Hardy had to drop out (and ruin
my Hardy-on-Jai fantasies) due to bad timing. I keep wanting to like Kinnaman,
he sho' is pretty, but he refuses to pose for beefcake pictorials so I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Get it together, Joel. It also just hit me that Margot Robbie, who's the playing Harley Quinn to Jared Leto's Joker, is gonna have to deal with Jared Leto a bunch over this shoot and I immediately felt so bad for her.
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--- Super Sad TV Star - I'm not exactly sure if they're saying Ben Stiller's going to star in it or not but
THR has word that he's attached, as a star or a producer I don't know, to a TV adaptation of
Gary Shteyngart's 2011 book Super Sad True Love Story - I haven't ever read
SSTLS but my boyfriend has and he loves it, so I deliver this with a heavy heart to him, knowing he generally doesn't like Ben Stiller. Let's see what he has to say!
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Lad In Leather - Yeah I don't really know why I'm still nursing a crush on Danny Dyer
either, I never see anything he makes anymore (he's on some TV series in
the UK now right?) but don't pester me about it, I don't feel like
explaining myself. Instead
let us gaze upon the trailer for some new kinda-crappy-looking movie called
Assassin
that he's in, as well as a collection of pictures of him in a leather
jacket, cuz why not. His co-stars are the twin dudes who played The
Krays in that movie! The one
before Tom Hardy got around to it.
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--- Melanie Melanie Melanie - This
interview at Out Magazine with SNL alum Melanie Hutsell (love her) is both tons of fun (yay Jan Hooks and
The Brady Bunch) and kinda sad (the part where she addresses not being invited to the "Women of SNL" special) but it allw orks out in the end because she's all set to be there this weekend for the great big 40th anniversary special blow-out.
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--- Slashin' Celebrate - We celebrated Friday the 13th in
our own beefcake-y way earlier, but now let us turn our eyes towards Final Girl,
where Stacie is mentally cycling through
all the characters in all the movies and picking which ones she'd
probably like to hang out with and like, veg or whatever. She makes many
valid points! (Mark is clearly my choice - I would build a ramp
straight into my bed.)
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--- Action Figure - Michael Fassbender's adaptation of the
Assassin's Creed video-game is happening, totally, it's just
gotten the green-light from the studio and a release date - December 21st, 2016, to be exact. That's a weird release date for a video-game movie - right in the thick of Oscar season. Hmm. Justin Kurzel, who made the terrifying film
Snowtown and also the
MacBeth movie with Fassy and Marion Cotillard which comes out later this year, is set to direct it. (ETA Just read that
Marion Cotillard is doing the movie too! Wowza!)
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--- Beast Master - Can you believe that I've never seen
Highlander?
I've really gotta right that wrong before the remake appears - speaking
of (yes I bring it up for a point, imagine that) I guess Dave Batista,
the dude who makes gigantic brute musculature somehow also seem kinda sleek and sexy, is
set to play some character named Kurgan,
described as a barbarian and the final villain the as-yet-uncast
titular hero faces. Dave will look excellent in sleeveless furs, no
doubt.
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--- And finally, there's nothing in the way of footage but I suppose this gives us an idea of tone - a teaser for Ryan Murphy's upcoming slasher anthology thing with Jamie Lee Curtis called
Scream Queens just got released - it's only twelve seconds long but it's already making me realize this thing's going to be aiming at a more jokey tone than I was anticipating. Which already, in retrospect, all of one minute after watching it, seems to have been a dumb assumption of me - of course this was what we should've been expecting, to set it apart from the dark tone of
AHS.
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