News, Notes & Other Musings (3/29)
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:29 pm
Just got caught up on a few news items:
-Kal Penn & Parker Posey are playing Lex Luthor's hench-people in SUPERMAN? Sounds good to me. Penn was really funny in "Harald & Kumar" and Posey is goofy enough to pull that off. I was thinking more along the lines of Valerie Perrine but I'm sure Posey will make it work.
-Selma Blair is playing the Adrienne Barbeau role in THE FOG remake, eh? OK...not sure how I feel about that. The other casting (Tom Welling, Maggie Grace) sounds good.
-THE BAD NEWS BEARS remake is coming out this summer, too...I must have missed the announcement. I guess Billy Bob is a good choice, but I assume he's just going to be repeating his "Bad Santa" role. Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden round out a strong supporting cast. Richard Linklater directs...could be interesting. Hopefully it'll be funny!
-Marvel's MAN-THING movie goes straight to TV with a Sci-Fi Channel airing later in April. Check your local listings as they say.
-I vote Jessica Biel (or Lost's Evangeline Lilly) for WONDER WOMAN.
-So, is it Clive Owen for Bond in CASINO ROYALE?? Do we know?? Does Eon even know??
-Rufus Sewell is a very inspired choice to play the heavy in MASK OF ZORRO 2. Sounds good to me.
-M. Night Shayalman leaves Disney so he can make a mermaid thriller at Warner Bros. (because Disney turned it down no less). Sounds to me like Night may be jumping off the deep end. (I recall a horrible made-for-cable movie with a similar subject called SHE-CREATURE surfacing a few years back). If it's misguided, I'd just assume buy Newton Howard's score than see the movie, just like THE VILLAGE. The plot says "The film, billed as a fantasy thriller, tells the story of an apartment building superintendent who finds a water nymph in the building's swimming pool." Bryce Dallas Howard and Paul Giamatti star. Weird!
-Is SIN CITY actually going to be entertaining, or is this the next SKY CAPTAIN??
-Kal Penn & Parker Posey are playing Lex Luthor's hench-people in SUPERMAN? Sounds good to me. Penn was really funny in "Harald & Kumar" and Posey is goofy enough to pull that off. I was thinking more along the lines of Valerie Perrine but I'm sure Posey will make it work.
-Selma Blair is playing the Adrienne Barbeau role in THE FOG remake, eh? OK...not sure how I feel about that. The other casting (Tom Welling, Maggie Grace) sounds good.
-THE BAD NEWS BEARS remake is coming out this summer, too...I must have missed the announcement. I guess Billy Bob is a good choice, but I assume he's just going to be repeating his "Bad Santa" role. Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden round out a strong supporting cast. Richard Linklater directs...could be interesting. Hopefully it'll be funny!
-Marvel's MAN-THING movie goes straight to TV with a Sci-Fi Channel airing later in April. Check your local listings as they say.
-I vote Jessica Biel (or Lost's Evangeline Lilly) for WONDER WOMAN.
-So, is it Clive Owen for Bond in CASINO ROYALE?? Do we know?? Does Eon even know??
-Rufus Sewell is a very inspired choice to play the heavy in MASK OF ZORRO 2. Sounds good to me.
-M. Night Shayalman leaves Disney so he can make a mermaid thriller at Warner Bros. (because Disney turned it down no less). Sounds to me like Night may be jumping off the deep end. (I recall a horrible made-for-cable movie with a similar subject called SHE-CREATURE surfacing a few years back). If it's misguided, I'd just assume buy Newton Howard's score than see the movie, just like THE VILLAGE. The plot says "The film, billed as a fantasy thriller, tells the story of an apartment building superintendent who finds a water nymph in the building's swimming pool." Bryce Dallas Howard and Paul Giamatti star. Weird!
-Is SIN CITY actually going to be entertaining, or is this the next SKY CAPTAIN??