20th Century Fox tries to counter that burning train wreck smell (the latest word: $20 million in additional effects and a de-Incredibles script rewrite) by offering a behind-the-scenes look at Fantastic Four with Stan Lee. Nope, still not feeling it.
Category: Fanboy
Trailer Park Xmas.
Hello all…I finished up the end-of-term grading yesterday evening, at which point Berkeley and I started settling in to the christmas spirit down here at Murphy Home Base in Norfolk. Here’s hoping everyone out there is having a safe and merry holiday season, and that you get something better from Santa than Dubya’s warmed-over right-wing judges.
Also, if you’re looking for some trailers to tide you over, here’s Leggy & Liam battling freedom-hating infidels in Ridley Scott’s crusader pic Kingdom of Heaven, Russell Crowe trying to out-Seabiscuit Seabiscuit in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, a slew of A-listers vamping and vicing in the Robert Rodriguez version of Frank Miller’s Sin City, MTV Films butchering another needless remake in The Longest Yard, and creepy undead kids claiming yet another victim in Boogeyman. Enjoy, and happy holidays, y’all.(Aragorn pic via Fark.)
Ask Prosser about head.
BBC airs some behind-the-scenes footage from Hitchhiker’s Guide, which includes our first looks at Arthur (Martin Freeman), Ford (Mos Def), Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), and a big-hair Zaphod (Sam Rockwell)…They all look good, although I was thrown by Zaphod’s lack of second head (Apparently, it’s in his nose…yeah, I don’t get it either.)
Life after Moya.
Ben Browder and Claudia Black, a.k.a. John and Aeryn Crichton of Farscape, will both be joining Stargate SG-1 as regulars in the next few months. Nope, I’m still not watching that Sci-Fi channel dren.
Move along.
FYI for those of you with wheels to spare – Apparently, Obi-Wan’s in the market for a ride.
The Berk Knight.
Gratuitious dog-blogging: Somewhere amid the blur of final papers, blue books, christmas schmoozing, prospectus revising, and freelance projects that have filled up the past week or so, my visiting brother finally managed to get Berkeley to sit still in the Batman costume I bought him a few years ago long enough for me to take a picture. Please, nobody call the ASPCA.
Terryland.
Perhaps inspired by PJ’s King Kong webisodes, Terry Gilliam kicks off the official website for Tideland with the first of several behind-the-scenes videos. Let’s just hope they don’t turn into Lost in La Mancha II…
Speed kills.
Coming right off the disappointing Blade: Trinity, David Goyer has been chosen to write, produce, and direct The Flash. The third Blade notwithstanding, Goyer is probably a good choice for this — he’s definitely an avid comic book guy, which could mean anything from the Cosmic Treadmill to Reverse-Flash
New Test Leper.
This land is your land, this land is my land…but the Land belongs to Revelstone Entertainment. Apparently, they’ve optioned The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, to be scribed by Band of Brothers writer John Orloff. I seem to remember my brother fantasy-casting John Malkovich as Covenant a decade ago…that might still work.
Farewell, Iorek.
About a Boy helmer Chris Weitz is off His Dark Materials, apparently on his own cognizance. “It will be an extraordinary film, but at this point in my life I am not the right director to bring it to pass…the technical challenges of making such an epic are more than I can undertake at this point.” If so, bully for him for realizing it…but let’s hope hack directors of the Ratner-W.S. Anderson mold are kept well away from Pullman’s trilogy.