* Remember how the rumor that maybe Paul Andrew Williams was gonna maybe direct a maybe sequel to 28 Days/Weeks Later that was gonna maybe be called 28 Months Later was maybe debunked? The official word from 28…Later producer Andrew Macdonald is that Williams was working on a prequel, but it didn’t work out, and that Days director and Weeks honcho Danny Boyle is developing an idea for a third film. Bring it on says I. Days and Weeks stand up there with Night and Dawn. (Via STYD.)
* No rumor this: Terrence Howard, whose drunken explanation of the Air Force’s bond of brotherhood was just stupidly great in the original Iron Man, has been replaced by Don Cheadle for the role of James “War Machine” Rhodes in Iron Man 2, due to what sounds like a money dispute with attendant “creative differences” issues to me. On the one hand, that sucks. On the other hand, Don Cheadle!
* I’ve heard some good things about Quarantine, the English-language [REC] remake apparently responsible for that film’s suppression on the Stateside DVD market, but Rick Trembles of Motion Picture Purgatory fame (have those things been collected anywhere?) sure wasn’t crazy about it, and the way he describes it makes me wonder if it’ll irk me too.
* Discovered today: the new-ish (to me, at least) blog of composer Eric Whitacre. Here he is discussing what it’s like for him to watch performances of “When David Heard,” the astonishing song I posted earlier today.
* Renee French posts haunting drawings on her blog every day, you know. Here’s the latest:
* Since Eve Tushnet’s fangirl blogging should be incentivized, here’s links to her review of Cyril Pedrosa’s Three Shadows and an assortment of other comics, including Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men.
* You know what I wanna hear, right?
* Finally, new Beyoncé! <3 <3 <3 Words fail.
Does Beyonce have a robot hand in that video, or am I seeing things?
FAB Press did a Motion Picture Purgatory collection in 2004…
i didn’t know Destiny’s Child was reforming…
1. What would you call a prequel? 28 Days before?
2. I’ve been dying to discuss Quarantine with you since Sam and I saw it this weekend. Without having seen [REC] yet, I feel confident in saying this: It is not as good as [REC].
3. HOW does Renee make art? Literally, how does she draw that softly?
4. That Beyonce video got me pregnant. And gave me an idea for a Halloween costume. (don’t steal it!)
hey thanks! would you mind linking me to your review of “Three Shadows”? I tried to find it by searching your site but that didn’t work for some reason….
all best
ELT
Terrence Howard’s talent rattles like a dried pea inside the gourd of his ego.
One of these days Beyonce should do a song about a no-good man who done her wrong.
Here you go Eve:
http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2008/08/comics_time_three_shadows.html
Wha-uh oh, uh-uh oh oh
Thanks a lot to my new enemy Sean Collins for getting this song stuck in my head: It’s good to…
I for one would like to see that “single-sleeved sweater bathing suit with a Shredder glove” look hit it big on the streets of New York.
Right around the 0:53 mark, I think I blacked out for a moment or two.