* It’s quasi-official: The Road has most likely been moved to 2009, which will take it out of the Oscar running and deny it the attendant exposure and revenue.
* The new He-Man/Masters of the Universe movie has been scrapped by Warner Bros. due to personnel shuffling and an inability to find an A-list director willing to take on the project. (Via Beaks at AICN, who seems a lot more skeptical about the supposedly awesome screenplay than others have been, which makes me feel not so bad about this turn of events.)
* The latest Clive Barker Books of Blood adaptation Dread has been casting people and is now shooting.
* Speaking of Barker, the Hellraiser remake might have a new director–Pascal Laugier.
* The Zach Snyder-supervised blockbuster-scale zombie movie Army of the Dead is, um, well, I’m not sure. I guess the point is that it’s still a going concern.
* Despite a post-pilot-episode level of involvement with the show that does not appear to exceed watching the program on his TiVo, Lost co-creator/absentee parent J.J. Abrams is now talking about the possibility of a Lost theatrical movie enabled by the series’ firmly set endpoint, though he does dismiss it as a remote one.
* Nerd-movie hack Paul W.S. Anderson is doing a remake of The Long Good Friday set in Miami, for God’s sake. (Via Dread Central.)
* Grant Morrison talks about his screenplay for the video game adaptation Area 51.
* Here’s a list of theaters and release dates for the limited release of Let the Right One In.
* Missed this when it was first posted because NeilAlien’s syndication feed takes weeks before updating, but I rather like how the ur-comics blogger characterizes M. Night Shyamalan’s recently expressed desire to finally do an Unbreakable sequel.
Neilalien’s a big fan of the film- but for the director who once thought that Unbreakable was taking “so many incredible risks”, this sounds like a bad-idea grasp for safety and former glory after a string of bombs.
* My brother in themed-sketchbook arms, Fantagraphics’ Mike Baehr, talks to StarWars.com about his enormously impressive Yoda sketchbook.
* Hubba hubba part one: Dave Kiersh!
* Hubba hubba part two: Jaime Hernandez! For a good cause!
Hey Sean, I’m sorry I totally blanked on giving you & the Bowie sketchbook a shout-out in the interview. I realized it the next day and I’m still slapping my forehead over it! If it’s any consolation I told the interviewer about it after the fact and she flipped out with excitement, and I just left a comment on the blog post over there mentioning it.
Yay, socialism! Well, you’re broke anyway what do you care.
One nice thing about a Lost movie: Evangeline Lilly without so much of the clothing.
Paul WS Anderson directing a remake of The Long Good Friday set in Miami is such a rotten idea that it’s hilarious. I am in awe. This is like Hal Needham doing a remake of North by Northwest or Kevin Reynolds remaking The French Connection. I hope it stars The Rock and Jessica Alba.
I can’t wait for the interviews where he points out that what seemed shocking and brutal back then is kind of tame now, so he had to raise the stakes.
Jim: I love how I can’t post about Obama in any way without you commenting. I picture some sort of “SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET” alarm going off in your computer room in the Jimcave.
newsflash for jim: there are some people in the world whose points of view are different from yours. that doesn’t necessarily make them wrong.
why do you equate supporting obama with socialism? let me guess: you think that only the rich are entitled to life-saving medical care? awesome.
we don’t happen to be broke (she says as she looks around the gorgeous house we bought 2 months ago), but what if we were? we’d be broke with a degree from yale (sean) and two masters degrees (me)–and you’d still be a jerk.
While I’m indifferent about the idea of He-Man movie, the comments in LatinoReview are priceless. Is it possible to have written Tourettes?
“I love how I can’t post about Obama in any way without you commenting.”
Uh-oh. Are you going to try to shut down my plumbing business? I go by my middle name, you know.
Is it okay that I comment on some of your other posts too? Please let me know what is and isn’t permissible.
“newsflash for jim: there are some people in the world whose points of view are different from yours.”
Good to know. When did I say any different?
“why do you equate supporting obama with socialism?”
Because of Obama’s answer to Joe the Plumber’s question. I apologize if the preceding sentence somehow suppresses your opinion.
“we don’t happen to be broke (she says as she looks around the gorgeous house we bought 2 months ago), but what if we were? we’d be broke with a degree from yale (sean) and two masters degrees (me)–and you’d still be a jerk.”
Wow. All this because of one dumb joke? I guess Obama really is a shoe-in.
I also apologize to any Evangeline Lilly fans who think she should keep her clothes on. I realize there are some people in the world whose points of view are different from mine, and that doesn’t necessarily make them wrong.
Sigh, I’m still in love with Maggie . . .