* I am totally blogging from the jurors’ lounge at the Nassau County courthouse right now. Hooray for living in the future!
* I’d forgotten that Battlestar Galactica creator/revivifier Ron Moore is involved in the remake of The Thing. This is the kind of movie that I’d be tempted to get all outraged about its being remade, until I reflect that the version we all love was itself a remake and the person in charge of remaking it already has a miles-better-than-the-original remake under his belt.
* AICN’s Moriarty loved serial superhero ruiner J. Michael Straczynski’s screenplay adaptation of Max Brooks’s brilliant docu-zombie novel World War Z. Color me extremely skeptical, though I will of course go see the movie to decide in the end.
* Someone made an opera out of David Lynch’s Lost Highway? (Via Matt Zoller Seitz.)
* Finally, our quote of the day comes from Siskoid’s review of Jim Woodring’s Trosper:
The story? It’s about a little elephant who’s playing with a ball, when things go awry and he gets chased by Woodring’s trademark vaginas and penises until he finds another ball…