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 ( Read more... )

Okay, two articles about the casting for HBO's upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods before I leave for the airport (going to Thailand for 6 days):

Racialicious on the opportunity presented and also the potential for race-fail:
The main character of American Gods is Shadow, a wandering ex-convict who finds himself in a battle of ( Read more... )

I guess after the success of Game of Thrones, HBO was looking to adapt another cult sci-fi/fantasy novel for television. Playtone, the production company behind The Pacific and John Adams, plans to make a 6-season series based on Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and they have Gaiman on board as executive producer and writer. If all goes as planned, the ( Read more... )

HBO WANTS TO DEVELOP AMERICAN GODS AS TV SERIES. NEIL GAIMAN TO CO-WRITE PILOT EPISODE.

American Gods, the 2002 book that won both the Stoker and Hugo Award among other prizes, lays out a battle between two sets of gods. One consists of the traditional gods and mythological creatures who got their power because people throughout history believed ( Read more... )