Wondering where Thora Birch has been lately (when was the last time she was in a movie cared about besides “Ghostworld” in 2001)? She’s joining Taryn Manning joining the almost forgotten, “The Story Of Bonnie And Clyde,” the retelling of the “Bonnie & Clyde” story, but in the iconic roles of Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty you’ve got Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers who are still tapped to star despite Dunaway’s several disses at the teen starlet. Rance Howard, Richard Tyson and Natalie Canerday have also joined the cast, yes this thing is actually moving forward and sounds like it’s shooting soon.
The poster for Angelina Jolie’s “spy thriller Salt” is out. Meh…
Cormac McCarthy (“The Road”) thinks his novel, “Blood Meridian” can be made into a film. Congratulations? Any author can say he thinks one of his books can be filmmable, it all actually matters if someone is interested and wants to option it. We’re not sure his comments will mean anything other than to aspiring producers looking to break into Hollywood and trying to find a receptive author. He also slightly disses Billy Bob Thorton’s adaptation of “All the Pretty Horses,” which he says, “could have been better.
Like we said, when Romola Garai wrote about auditioning for “Spider-Man 4” we knew there would be no way in hell, she’d be getting the part. But fanboys see a kernel and they jump all over it (sort of like this baby casting news that’s lead to all kinds of wild, wild plot speculation). The “Glorious 39” star tells DigitalSpy, “I had no idea that…people would pick up on it. I was a bit taken aback. The point I was making is: ‘I’m not going to get this [role]!'” Yeah, that we figured, thanks.
Talking smack about Wes Anderson directing “Fantastic Fox” via email or trashtalking like cinematographer Tristan Oliver was? Don’t do that around Bill Murray who says all that control freak stuff was “crazy talk.” “There’s no way you can make that movie unless you isolate yourself. Tristan should be happy he got this job,” he said in a late defense of his director friend. Meanwhile, Anderson said the Bobby Fuller Four song (“Let Her Dance”) used at the end of “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (a great choice really) is a song he and soundtrack music supervisor Randall Poster have been wanting to use for years (they’re probably sitting on a treasure trove of songs). Lastly, here’s some very coo, “Fantastic Fox” concept-art.
Someone has made some “Inglourious Basterds” comic book covers in the style of Jack Kirby, a legendary Marvel Comics artist from the ’40s who’s basically achieved iconic status now. They’re pretty cool looking.
MGM the studio, for sale again? Nope, they’ve received lender reprieve again which will stave off insolvency until at least January 2010, woo two months to party guys!
There was a French version of “The Lovely Bones” trailer that came out last week with no new footage whatsoever. Why post it? Cause it’s French, duh, why else?
Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodovar are the first confirmed Oscar presenters. They will both present Best Foreign Film and the fiver person presenter system has been scrapped, woo. Maybe they’ll end under three and half hours for once. But QT and Pedro is a good team-up. Meanwhile, Producer-director B-Movies king Roger Corman, venerable cinematographer and grouch Gordon Willis and actress Lauren Bacall received their honorary Oscar statuettes this weekend in an event that was not televised. Good on all of them, but kinda sucks that they didn’t get their due in front of millions. Oh well, it’s just the Oscars.
I think McCarthy is referring to Ridley Scott's claim a few months ago that he left the project because Blood Meridian was unfilmable. Is Todd Field still attached to it?
I'd recommend reading Blood Meridian–which it does not sound like you have done–if you want to know why that statement means something versus another author saying the same thing. Not to mention that it's widely considered to be one of the finest pieces of literature of the past half-century.
Todd Field was attached, but the film was at New Line, and so I'm going to guess it got the axe when Warners incorporated New Line.