Just dropping by
I’m supposed to be on a bit of a blog vacation this week–parents visiting, a bit of deadline-y nonsense coming up for something else–but there are just so many filmy things going on that I couldn’t help but stop in. It’s like how Jon Stewart goes away for a week and we, like, invade Canada or start holding So You Think You Can Dance tryouts on the White House lawn, or some such nonsense. Call me a workaholic (…right); I couldn’t stay away.
Here are a few fun links to news and notes, just to tide everybody over:
Super-fantastic images from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I am undecided about the idea of Alice 2!, or whatever this sequelly thing is, but then, it doesn’t really matter, does it? Who, having seen these promo shots, is going to sit this one out?
So, you may have heard that Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about Facebook, ostensibly as a continuation of his long-term love-hate relationship with the internet and the people who use it to talk about him. And now David Fincher’s in talks to direct. So are we talking Facebook: Suspense!, or will the entire internet be aging backwards?
Via comingsoon.net, a write-up of James Cameron’s new 3-D movie Avatar, which is supposedly the first made-for-3D movie to make proper use of new technology. Sounds amazing, and this from somebody who was sufficiently traumatized by Captain EO to hate 3D movies well into adulthood. (Note that this Avatar is NOT the same as the much-anticipated, much-debated adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Two, two, two Avatars at once!)
It appears that Scout Taylor-Compton has signed on to play Lita Ford in the upcoming Joan Jett/Lita Ford movie, The Runaways, along with Kristen Stewart as Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie; this is notable (to me) only in that Taylor-Compton will, in my mind, forever be Dean Forrester’s little sister Clara on Gilmore Girls. Remember? When Rory goes to Dean’s house to stalk him, pretends to be a Girl Scout, and makes Clara cry? Just me? Okay.
See you on the flip side, everybody. Have a good week.
Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network, Facebook, David Fincher, Avatar, James Cameron, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, The Runaways, Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Gilmore Girls
June 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Man, that photo scares the crap out of me. I really don’t want to see Alice in Wonderland.