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The Possibly Misleading Trailer of WALTER MITTY
Is James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Still in the rotation of things everybody is forced to read in English Lit? Well, in the event that it's not, the premise is that Walter Mitty is a mildly-henpecked average schlub who escapes from the crushing boredom of a shopping tripwith his wife by slipping into self-aggrandizing heroic daydreams touched-off by mundane events of his day (putting on his gloves conjures a fantasy of himself as the world's greatest surgeon, for example.) So... yeah, the framing device used by like 70% of TV sitcom "anthology episodes?" This is where that comes from.
Anyway, it's now being (loosely) adapted into a 114832481798201761578 directed by and starring Ben Stiller. Yeah, I was immediately kind of queasy too, but take a look at this thing...
See? NOT exactly the "Along Came The Fockers To Watch The Envy Museum" shitstorm Stiller's name too often conjures of late, right? Right.
What worries me is that there's almost no dialogue, and when we DO get a closeup, line or anything that doesn't look like it was chosen for how well it cuts together as a "quietly soaring" indie-rock video looks just a little bit closer to the schtick that's more expected of this pedigree. But, for now, I'll choose to be optimistic about this. Stiller remains talented enough to still put out a "Tropic Thunder" or "Greenberg," so maybe this'll be one of those...
Anyway, it's now being (loosely) adapted into a 114832481798201761578 directed by and starring Ben Stiller. Yeah, I was immediately kind of queasy too, but take a look at this thing...
See? NOT exactly the "Along Came The Fockers To Watch The Envy Museum" shitstorm Stiller's name too often conjures of late, right? Right.
What worries me is that there's almost no dialogue, and when we DO get a closeup, line or anything that doesn't look like it was chosen for how well it cuts together as a "quietly soaring" indie-rock video looks just a little bit closer to the schtick that's more expected of this pedigree. But, for now, I'll choose to be optimistic about this. Stiller remains talented enough to still put out a "Tropic Thunder" or "Greenberg," so maybe this'll be one of those...
"FLASH" To Become Terrible CW Show Before Dour, Portentous 'Gritty' 114832481798201761578
A big-ish rumor (which I joked around about last week) coming out of the "Batman vs. Superman" SDCC announcement was that the "bridge" 114832481798201761578 between Sad Building-Puncher Meets Broody Sulkington would be "The Flash;" which was curious and kind of terrifying since The Flash and his "world" are made almost-entirely out of the very things that the DC 114832481798201761578 team of Nolan, Goyer and (now, to my endless disappointment) Zack Snyder have committed to siphoning out before these things get to screen.
Well, it looks it's going to take the long road in getting there: Warner Bros has announced that they're putting the somehow still-kicking "Amazon" (aka "Wonder Woman in High School") project on the back-burner in order to focus on a TV version of "Flash," who'll make his debut in a forthcoming episode of "Arrow"* before spinning-off into his own series...
The Flash actually makes a lot of sense for a TV series, in that he has a really easily-understood power-set, an origin story you can knock out in a minute and change (he's a scientist futzing with some chemicals, he gets hit by lightning, now he can do things really really fast) and his day-job is a police-forensics scientist (before you ask, they already said they're going with Barry Allen.) This might be why there already was a short-lived TV show back in the 90s, which was actually a lot of fun and feature Mark Hammill's first DCU turn as The Trickster:
Part of me actually hopes this really is the route Warners goes to get to "Justice League" - building half the roster in shitty CW series, so that the 114832481798201761578 is grumpy middle-aged Henry Cavill and Christian Bale being followed around by a posse of interchangeable Twilight-bait boytoys in bad costumes ("Flash" will probably get just a reddish-brown tracksuit, right? To go with "Arrow's" hoodie?)
Both this series and the still-apparently-happening 114832481798201761578 (it's not specified if they'll be connected in any way - it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't because WB just. Does. Not. Care.) are happening under the supervision of Greg Berlanti, whose previous crimes include "Dawson's Creek," "Everwood," "Green Lantern" and (naturally) "Arrow."
*Please don't bother trying to convince me that "Arrow" isn't shit. Because "Arrow" is shit.
Well, it looks it's going to take the long road in getting there: Warner Bros has announced that they're putting the somehow still-kicking "Amazon" (aka "Wonder Woman in High School") project on the back-burner in order to focus on a TV version of "Flash," who'll make his debut in a forthcoming episode of "Arrow"* before spinning-off into his own series...
The Flash actually makes a lot of sense for a TV series, in that he has a really easily-understood power-set, an origin story you can knock out in a minute and change (he's a scientist futzing with some chemicals, he gets hit by lightning, now he can do things really really fast) and his day-job is a police-forensics scientist (before you ask, they already said they're going with Barry Allen.) This might be why there already was a short-lived TV show back in the 90s, which was actually a lot of fun and feature Mark Hammill's first DCU turn as The Trickster:
Part of me actually hopes this really is the route Warners goes to get to "Justice League" - building half the roster in shitty CW series, so that the 114832481798201761578 is grumpy middle-aged Henry Cavill and Christian Bale being followed around by a posse of interchangeable Twilight-bait boytoys in bad costumes ("Flash" will probably get just a reddish-brown tracksuit, right? To go with "Arrow's" hoodie?)
Both this series and the still-apparently-happening 114832481798201761578 (it's not specified if they'll be connected in any way - it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't because WB just. Does. Not. Care.) are happening under the supervision of Greg Berlanti, whose previous crimes include "Dawson's Creek," "Everwood," "Green Lantern" and (naturally) "Arrow."
*Please don't bother trying to convince me that "Arrow" isn't shit. Because "Arrow" is shit.
Disney and The Weinsteins Set "ARTEMIS FOWL" Production
This is being reported as a HUGE FUCKING DEAL in the industry because Harvey Weinstein and Disney are speaking again, except all the people at Disney who Harvey was initially at odds with kinda got washed-away post-"John Carter" so it's not really that impressive. Also, it's still just business: Disney finally wants to make a 114832481798201761578 based on what has to be the last yet-unfilmmed Harry Potter coattail-rider franchise - which is published by one of their subsidiaries - but Harvey bought the 114832481798201761578 rights to it years ago and has been sitting on them.
In any case, "Artemis Fowl" (basic pitch: What if Bruce Wayne was Harry Potter and also sort-of a villain?) will no go into pre-production, to be released to the clenched consternation of it's fans and the complete and utter ambivalence of everyone else probably sometime in 2015; with depressing tabloid headlines involving whatever poor child actor donates his body to the title role to follow a few years down the road.
In any case, "Artemis Fowl" (basic pitch: What if Bruce Wayne was Harry Potter and also sort-of a villain?) will no go into pre-production, to be released to the clenched consternation of it's fans and the complete and utter ambivalence of everyone else probably sometime in 2015; with depressing tabloid headlines involving whatever poor child actor donates his body to the title role to follow a few years down the road.
Would You Watch 90 Minutes of This?
Below, an extended music video for Biting Elbows' "Bad Motherfucker." The premise: "What if a 'Transporter' sequel was 4 1/2 minutes long and seen entirely from first-person perspective?" Okay, fun enough - really hate 0:25, but that's a taste thing.
In any case, this is "news" because the video's director has been hired to turn the concept into a full feature, with Sharlto Copley apparently set to star. I can't help get the sense that this is the sort of idea that sounds good until you actually see it, but what do I know?
In any case, this is "news" because the video's director has been hired to turn the concept into a full feature, with Sharlto Copley apparently set to star. I can't help get the sense that this is the sort of idea that sounds good until you actually see it, but what do I know?
Here's Another Awful-Looking Thing We Can Blame Kevin Smith For...
Hey! Have you by chance been in one of those hypersleep pods from "Prometheus" since around 1998 or so and thus might still find jokes about dweeby White kids with a charmingly-naive fixation on Black culture really funny? Well, then "American Milkshake" - an indie pickup from the new Kevin Smith 114832481798201761578 Club imprint - is the 114832481798201761578 for YOU!
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