* My pal Zach Oat at Movies Without Pity presents an extravagantly detailed recap of the half-hour of Watchmen footage recently screened for members of the press who aren’t me.
* Speaking of Watchmen, actor Matthew “Ozymandias” Goode continues his streak of being amusingly forthright about his role, adding “possible closeted homosexual” to “child of Nazis” among his personal additions to the character. I’m trying to think if there’s any other effete-villain clichés he can throw in there…any thoughts?
* David Cronenberg may be doing another thriller–a Robert Ludlum adaptation starring Denzel Washington. I am totally in support of this. (Via AICN.)
* Jon Hastings takes a look at the Luna Brothers’ Ultra and the perils of superhero niche marketing.
* In a “short post” that is longer than virtually every comics review I’ve ever written for this site, Jog casts a slightly skeptical eye on Rafael Grampá’s action-horror fantasia Mesmo Delivery.
* As part of a month-long horror-movie sketchathon, my buddy Rickey Purdin has got to be fucking kidding me:
So they’re giving away that Ozymandias is the “bad guy”? They do know that way more people haven’t read the comic than have, right?
I’m still pissed at Herodotus for spoiling 300.
I get the sense that they’re being a little more open about it now because it’s still early and because only the nerd press, whose audience probably knows the drill, is talking about the movie right now. When things get closer to the release date and normal entertainment-press people start doing pieces, my guess is that they’ll clam up. It’s like The Lord of the Rings, I guess–all the nerds knew what happened, but there are more non-nerds than nerds, so they squared the circle as best they could.
awwww.
Does “kidding you” mean you don’t like it?
No, remember in the movie, when they see that thing, one guy goes “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me!”
Ironically, that guy turns out to be a Thing later on. Guess the Thing has a sense of humor after all…
yay!
I thought the Thing was showing its sense of humor from the start! Running up to and embracing the Americans like Jack did with the security guards in Fight Club as if his boss had been beating him. With that “Please, make them stop” helplessness it faked, you could almost see it stick its tongue out back at the guys in the helicopters with guns before they fumbled their grenade.
Cronenberg, Washington, and vintage Ludlum? Yes please.