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Today's project...
...has been contacting Taschen, the publisher of a successful book on Kubrick's Napoleon project, to suggest they make a book of the project Bible (script/concept art) for Alejandro Jodorowsky's unrealized 1970s adaptation of Dune, to wit ( Read more... ) -
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This somehow reminds me that I once had a dream that Wes Anderson decided to do a tie-in movie based on Gamma World; it wound up with the kid from Moonrise Kingdom putting up a flag on the summit of Space Mountain, and then having a summit meeting with the Rippers from Tank Girl. -
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TWITTER MEME: "Improve a film by replacing one character with another character that was played by the same actor.
"e.g.
"Die Hard, replacing Hans Gruber with Severus Snape."
ME: Jaws, but with Joseph (All That Jazz) Gideon as the sheriff:
"Come on down and chum some of this shit... 5-6-7-8!" -
My new hobby...
...is wondering how many people will condemn this casting (probably never having seen her in anything) and then, in the next breath, condemn Donald Trump. -
Rocketman
Rocketman is the movie Bohemian Rhapsody lacked the courage to be, including some welcome explicit references to his sexuality (there's a rather hot sex scene between him and a man; when asked why his brief marriage to a woman was unhappy, John answers bluntly, "I'm gay.") There are songs at least the equal of Rhapsody's; Dexter Fletcher's ( Read more... ) -
Game of Thrones script idea
Fans are now calling for the network to remake the entire 8th season of Game of Thrones, albeit with different writersAccordingly, my script ideas herein ( Read more... ) -
Alan Moore (plotting pattern of)
Random thought: Alan Moore's using Alec Holland/Swamp Thing's relationship with Abagail Cable as an excuse for this nigh-omniscient being's continuing to remain involved with human affairs was a dry run for Dr Manhattan/Laurie Juspeczyk. -
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Hey: if the Tin Woodman (Nick Chopper)'s original, flesh head remains alive after he cuts it off with his cursed ax (the Woodman has a conversation with his own severed head in The Tin Woodman of Oz), how come the Gump's severed head needed Powder of Life? -
For shits n' giggles, Oscar picks
Best Picture ( Read more... )