Stuff.
Oscar nominated Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, The Brothers Bloom) has been cast as the female lead of Guillermo del Toro's monster sci-fi movie Pacific Rim. She will play Mako Mori, a young Japanese pilot of Jaegers, the enormous robotic creatures built to battle strange extraterrestrial creatures attacking earth. Her co-lead is Charlie Hunnam, playing Raleigh Antrobus, another Jaeger pilot. The Jaegers need to be jointly operated by two people in a "shared neural piloting system", and Mori and Antrobus are brought together by their commanding officer, Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba!!), despite neither speaking the other's language, after both have lost their co-pilots. Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) also stars as a scientist who is trying to find the source of the monsters. I think del Toro is hugely overrated as a filmmaker, particularly as a screenwriter, but with a cast of this calibre (even though Hunnam, Elba and Day are most known for their TV work), Pacific Rim should be absolutely unmissable. For further plot information, check out Screenrant. (The Playlist)
ETA: If anyone could give me a hand in finding a copy of the Pacific Rim spec script by Travis Beacham, that would be awesome? I know that it's been floating around for at least a couple of months. I'm interested to see how the script treats the Mako Mori character, seeing as how I wasn't at all impressed by the female characters in Beacham's (unproduced) Killing on Carnival Row. (Sheesh. Talk about mainpain.)
Michael Fassbender has dropped out of Danny Boyle's Trance due to "scheduling conflicts", with Colin Firth stepping in to play the leader of a gang of thieves who teams up with an assistant at an auction house (James McAvoy, still attached) to carry out a heist. Reportedly in contention for the female lead are Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana and Mélanie Thierry. (The Playlist)
An interview with Neil Gaiman. He talks American Gods, writing an episode of Doctor Who, and Journey to the West:
GAIMAN: One of the things I’m concerned about [with HBO's adaptation of American Gods] is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don’t like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that. That was something I found deeply problematic with the attempt by some people who had a lot of money and a lot of clout, and who wanted the rights to Anansi Boys, at one point. Somewhere in there, they made the fatal mistake of saying to me, “And, of course, the characters won’t be black in the movie because black people don’t like fantasy.” They were suddenly very surprised that we were no longer interested in selling them the book. So, I want to keep the racial mix in American Gods the same. And, I want to make it faithful, but also would like it to have a few surprises for people who read the book. I hate that thing where people have read the books and they go, “Oh, I know everything that’s going to happen.” I want to be like, “Okay, no you don’t.” I want there to still be some surprises.
Promo teaser for the new BBC series set in a 1950s newsroom, The Hour, starring Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Anna Chancellor. The script by Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic) will focus on the changing social and sexual politics of 1956. [Official Site]
Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse) will have a regular role in the second season of Syfy's Being Human (the US remake). She plays Izumi, “a reclusive, centuries-old vampire who causes upheaval” when she returns to her old Boston stomping grounds. (TV Line)
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ETA: If anyone could give me a hand in finding a copy of the Pacific Rim spec script by Travis Beacham, that would be awesome? I know that it's been floating around for at least a couple of months. I'm interested to see how the script treats the Mako Mori character, seeing as how I wasn't at all impressed by the female characters in Beacham's (unproduced) Killing on Carnival Row. (Sheesh. Talk about mainpain.)
Michael Fassbender has dropped out of Danny Boyle's Trance due to "scheduling conflicts", with Colin Firth stepping in to play the leader of a gang of thieves who teams up with an assistant at an auction house (James McAvoy, still attached) to carry out a heist. Reportedly in contention for the female lead are Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana and Mélanie Thierry. (The Playlist)
An interview with Neil Gaiman. He talks American Gods, writing an episode of Doctor Who, and Journey to the West:
GAIMAN: One of the things I’m concerned about [with HBO's adaptation of American Gods] is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don’t like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that. That was something I found deeply problematic with the attempt by some people who had a lot of money and a lot of clout, and who wanted the rights to Anansi Boys, at one point. Somewhere in there, they made the fatal mistake of saying to me, “And, of course, the characters won’t be black in the movie because black people don’t like fantasy.” They were suddenly very surprised that we were no longer interested in selling them the book. So, I want to keep the racial mix in American Gods the same. And, I want to make it faithful, but also would like it to have a few surprises for people who read the book. I hate that thing where people have read the books and they go, “Oh, I know everything that’s going to happen.” I want to be like, “Okay, no you don’t.” I want there to still be some surprises.
Promo teaser for the new BBC series set in a 1950s newsroom, The Hour, starring Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Anna Chancellor. The script by Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic) will focus on the changing social and sexual politics of 1956. [Official Site]
Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse) will have a regular role in the second season of Syfy's Being Human (the US remake). She plays Izumi, “a reclusive, centuries-old vampire who causes upheaval” when she returns to her old Boston stomping grounds. (TV Line)
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