* Get a load of this: The Los Angeles Opera is making an opera out of David Cronenberg’s The Fly. And get a load of the creative team: Music by Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, and countless Cronenberg movies), book by David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), design by Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York, Sweeney Todd), conducted by Placido Domingo (of Three Tenors fame) and directed by Cronenberg himself. Damn! (Via Ian Brill.)
* Neither Stacie Ponder of Final Girl nor Jason Adams of My New Plaid Pants liked George A. Romero’s new docu-zombie movie Diary of the Dead. This doesn’t bode well.
* Dread Central reports that Romero’s next project may be Diamond Dead, an off-beat non-Dead-verse story he’d tried to get off the ground once before about a rock singer who makes a deal with death to bring her band back to life.
* Dread Central also says that Alexandre Aja’s remake of Piranha (!) might now be 3-D. It’s funny: I still remember the brief moment after Haute Tension when this guy was supposed to be the future of horror. But hey, I actually prefer the idea of a 3-D movie about man-eating fish to anything else Aja’s been associated with thus far.
* Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo has the goods on author William Gibbons’s upcoming book about the mokele-mbembe, the living dinosaur that supposedly roams the Congo basin (and maybe my favorite cryptid). He also posts some cool out-of-context photos of the boxed-up Gigantopithecus replica from the breakdown of the American Museum of Natural History’s Mythic Creatures exhibit.
* Another “Get a load of this” moment: Behold, a six-gilled shark with a meter-wide head and an 18-foot body, swimming around at 3280 feet below the surface. You’ve gotta love the beside-themselves commentary from the researchers.
(Via Deep Sea News via Kennyb.)
* Finally, this week’s Horror Roundtable is one of my favorites in a long time: Name your favorite horror-movie cliche! Best of all, every single participant has a different answer. Feast your eyes, glut your soul!