Hey folks,
I’ve hit a whole new plateau. I’m actively working at being completely lazy. It’s been great. Couple that fact with the also clear fact that the summer movie machine is slowing. Everyone’s getting back to their respective drawing boards while we wait on the fall movie season. However, the news comes trickling in sometimes we get the mind numbingly pointless, and sometimes we get rumors spiced with real news.
Soooo with that in mind I’ll be running some news that may not be timely, but then again it’s really not all that important. Rest assured when there is newsworthy news, you’ll get it here at least as quick as the slowest corporate website. Promise and cross my heart. Okay? Awesome.
And that brings me to my first bit of mind numbingly pointless movie news:
Gyllenhaal swears he’s straight, puts on wig
Just Jared has captured the first pics of the Jake Gyllenhaal movie to video game vehicle, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
I don't know why you should care either.
Expect the ambiguously gay Gyllenhaal joke quotient to shoot through the roof as this one gets closer to release. In all fairness, if this movie is half as good as Brokeback Mountain, he wont have too much to worry about. I guess. Until then, the ball’s in your court, Gyllenhaal. I’ll let you decide if I’m speaking figuratively.
The film hits theaters Summer 2010 and is directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) with Jerry Bruckheimer as an Executive Producer.
You can find the Just Jared article HERE
God, what else?
Inglorious gets more ingloriouser
Gloriously Inglorious
There was some cool news out of the Quentin Tarantino camp on his upcoming Inglorious Basterds. Brad Pitt has officially signed on to be Aldo Raines, the Tennessee hillbilly who leads a group of Jewish soldiers to disrupt the premiere of Goebbels’ latest propaganda film and collect a hundred Nazi scalps (each) on the way. Pitt will be paired with Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, and the upcoming Star Trek reboot), director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) and B.J. Novak of The Office. Now Pegg has signed on to play a ‘British lieutenant’. The guy has been in everything lately and it will be cool to how Tarantino utilizes him in this film. Roth and Novak are rumored along with a slew of other names including Nastassja Kinski for the ‘German actress’ role. There are still Basterds to cast, and the big roles of Col. Hans Landa and the female lead Shoshanna are still up for grabs.
The Inglorious Basterds go into World War II France as part of Operation Kino, an effort to blow up a movie theater premiering a particular propaganda picture. Inglorious Basterds starts shooting – filming that is – in October in Germany.
More news for you guys tomorrow. I also have a couple reviews for Step Brothers and Pineapple Express I hope to have up by the week’s end.
Until then,
Keep it reel.
