posted by Don Z on August 2, 2007 at 1:26 pm in In Production, Film 2 comments »
Among the news to come out of ComiCon was some casting confirmations for “Watchmen,” one of the most closely watched castings in the history of BLUE MAG. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the Comedian, which is great, and Billy Crudup as Osterman/Dr. Manhattan (actually I think this was confirmed before but I’m just getting around to complaining).
I’m stoked to see this movie but I don’t like Crudup in that role. Isn’t Dr. Manhattan supposed to be a big giant blue man? Billy Crudup is 4 foot 9 in heels. I wanted Billy Zane more for any casting since I wanted Sean Connery as the Drow in the film version of R.A. Salvatore’s “The Chrystal Shard” when I was 12…
posted by Don Z on August 1, 2007 at 10:55 am in In Production, Film 4 comments »
In looking at the “Cloverfield” posters depicting a headless Statue of Liberty gazing headlessly at NYC being destructified, like the “FURIOUS” one posted today on AICN (at right; click to embiggen), I am noticing what appears to be ripples in the water, that look like something giant has just emerged from it. See right above the release date? Does that say anything to anyone?
posted by Don Z on July 27, 2007 at 12:07 pm in In Production, Film No comments »
The dorkocity of others - at ComiCon - has yielded this…
UPDATE: And of course there’s also the teaser trailer, with no footage. An email buddy questioned what exactly the mob could do that would be “too far”…
posted by Don Z on July 25, 2007 at 3:00 pm in Video, In Production, Film 1 comment »
Wes Anderson fans will be delighted to see the trailer for The Darjeeling Limited, Wes and Co’s next movie due out in September. I think it looks pretty good.
posted by Don Z on June 18, 2007 at 11:37 am in Comics, In Production, Film No comments »
Via AICN comes a casting rumor on from CHUD.com on Zak Snyder’s “The Watchmen,” which starts filming this fall. Looks like it’s very likely that BLUE MAG favorite Jackie Earle Haley will be cast as Rorshach, which if it is true is likely the casting choice of the decade, IMHO. I can’t believe they were talking to Keanue for Dr. Manhattan, and that nobody has mentioned Billy Zane for that role except me, as far as I can tell. I did it on the old incarnation of BLUE MAG so it’s pretty much lost. Still, I think it was a great call on my part. Moriarty from AICN wants Jason Patric in that role, and while I totally agree with his point about Patric’s disconnected aura being a great touch for that part, I still don’t see it. I think Dr. Manhattan has to be larger than life, doesn’t he?
posted by Don Z on March 18, 2007 at 2:01 pm in In Production, Film 2 comments »
Via mp3 blog Yellow Stereo is this screen capture of a super quick shot of Rorshach from The Watchmen, the next scheduled project of 300 director Zak Snyder (read Fred’s review):
Awesomely awesome. This has been all over the net but it appears to be the real deal. IMDb doesn’t have casting listed but maybe somebody else has heard casting rumors? Alls I know is they better have Jude Law as Ozymandias…
UPDATE: Jackie Earle Haley?
posted by Don Z on March 9, 2007 at 1:56 pm in In Production, Film 1 comment »
Looks like Earl forgot to cross out “insulted the wife of Fox Pictures exec” from his list… via The House Next Door’s link of the day:
Jason Lee will play Dave Seville in the upcoming live action/GGI animated “Alvin and the Chipmunks†film.
reported by Times Herald-Record
Did they get the idea from Justin Timberlake’s monologue sketch, which I couldn’t find on YouTube? (Somehow the dick in a box sketch is the video you can’t not see on YouTube, but this cute funny one is gone due to NBC-Uni’s copyright people? Hmm)
