* First-time director Mark Poirier will be remaking The Host. Fans are worried he’ll deviate too much from the original by making the remake a good movie. (Via Dread Central.)
* Looks like Damon Lindelof and Leinil Francis Yu’s Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk will finally finish! Good–it was a good comic so far. (Via Kevin Melrose.)
* Strange Ink’s Sean B. makes the case for Rorschach’s seemingly Snyder-elided monotone, comparing the vigilante to such memorable flat-affect villains as Anton Chigurh and HAL 9000. I think Chigurh is an apt comparison given that I think Moore and Gibbons meant Rorschach to come across like a Leatherface/Michael/Jason-style masked slasher to his victims. That said, I think it’s a mug’s game to argue whether or not movie-Rorschach will maintain the original’s embodiment/critique of Ditko-Rand A-is-A black-and-white morality based on his accent in a trailer or two.
* Your quote of the day comes from Ta-Nehisi Coates:
It’s a funny thing to be a black kid into fantasy. Most of this stuff is ripped from Tolkien, and as much as I love LOTR, there is, indeed, something disquieting about the total whiteness of the movies. I don’t blame that on Jackson or Tolkien. If someone was doing a fantasy epic based on Xhosa creation myths, I wouldn’t expect to see any white people.
Meanwhile, this comment regarding how “race” and attractiveness have affected the evolution of World of Warcraft was pretty fascinating to me. Actually, the whole comment thread is pretty terrif and if you’re a politically sensitive follower of fantastic fiction it’s well worth your time.
* Rest in peace, Guy Peellaert.
(Via Dirk Deppey.)
I realize it’s probably just me, but whenever I read Watchmen, Rorschach’s dialogue is always in the voice of Curly Joe DeRita.
Oh, so I’m a mug now, eh? Just because I’m all jumpy with the conclusions and what not?
Just wanted to try and articulate what rubbed me wrong about the trailer – which reminds me, I forgot to add Cronenberg’s Decker in Nightbreed to the list.