Pippi Long Linkings
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:36PM Some links and/or movie news for your perusal
- Playbill Greenday's "American Idiot," once an album then a Broadway stage musical could eventually be coming to the screen.
- Deadline Hollywood Daniel Craig will be back as James Bond (whew) in November 2012. No title yet though we're betting it'll easy trump "Quantum of Solace". Sam Mendes is directing.
- Cinema Blend Katey shares the news that Debra Granik (Winter's Bone) wants to bring Pippi Longstocking back to the screen. How peculiar/fun!
- The House Next Door takes an interesting Baltimore-specific look at both Hairspray (1988) and Hairspray (2007).
- Gold Derby rounds up the Golden Globe predictions from the experts, including moi. Can you believe it's this weekend?
- My New Plaid Pants obsesses over new HBO Game of Thrones pics. I keep hearing that George R R Martin loses the thread of his story a little bit on the 3rd book (and that there's no book 4) but I tell you. I'm already on book 3 but I think he lost the thread on book 2. It took forever and when it was all over it's kind of like "so, what happened?" everyone is still at war with each other and no closer to resolution on any of their stories. The end. You know, long arcs are fine. But you have to stagger them a bit so that SOMETHING happens. I mean a lot of things happened but few that advanced the big arc. It was a bit like how I felt at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One only less angry because Martin's writing is so beautifully assured. My how he can paragraph.
- i09 on the American cast of new Being Human series (based on the British series of the same name). Normally I oppose remakes but there's no reason why this couldn't be better since (spoiler alert: NOTHING HAPPENS in Being Human either). It's turning into a theme today. Seriously, where were the stakes in Being Human? It was just a whole lot of supernatural moping.
Finally, as you may have heard, Michelle Pfeiffer is getting back to work in 2011. The goddess is currently filming the Valentine's Day sequel New Year's Eve which opens this December and now she's confirmed for Alex Kurtzman's Welcome to People (2012) where she'll play the mother of Chris Pine, a man who must deliver his deceased dad's fortune to a long lost sister (or some such. I'm no good with plots.) Now, I know we're all getting older every day and I know that my favorite movie star is 52 BUT her own children Claudia Rose and John Henry are 17 and Michelle is not old enough to play a 30 year old's mother. Well, yes, she technically is but I don't have to like it. Please to remember that her last onscreen lover Rupert Friend is only a year older than Chris Pine.
Given the cinematic year the world's 50-to-60something actresses just had (I'm talking about Tilda Swinton, Isabelle Huppert, Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Kim Hye-Ja, Barbara Hershey, Helen Mirren, Jacki Weaver, Melissa Leo and Lesley Manville who all starred or co-starred in complex roles in successful films) I think Pfeiffer is totally slacking. Pick it up lady. Challenge yo'self.
Reader Comments (11)
Is it just me or have the last couple years of Best Actor- Comedy/Musical come off as more of a toss-up. I honestly can say I have no idea who will win and I'm not sure anyone really saw Robert Downey Jr. winning last year.
James -- yeah, i've been wondering if Jake Gyllenhaal might win but i see that no one is predicting him,
I just really hope that Johnny Depp doesn't get it for his lazy and embarrassing performance in Alice in Wonderland.
I also have a fear that the Best Picture- Musical/Comedy will go like last year and go for money and reward Alice in Wonderland. I hope this fear is wrong and I'm just being hypersensitive to 500 Days of Summer losing to The Hangover last year
FYI, "Welcome to People" is the movie that Hilary Swank and Amy Adams talked about going out for and not getting in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable. I think Amy talked about passing on it but it sounds like Hilary straight didn't get it, which means Hilary lost a role to Elizabeth Banks! Who I love, but you'd think she's lower on the Hollywood food chain than La Swank, right?
Nat there is a fourth book that's out the series, A Feast For Crows. It's the fifth book - not to mention the sixth and seventh, apparently - that's been taking forever.
I'm in the middle of AFFC right now and it's actually been the toughest one to get enthusiastic about. There's still some gorgeous writing (this has been the first one that I've bolted out of bed to write down a passage from) but he's introducing a ton of new characters and half the ones we've spent the earlier books with have been sidelined...
All that said he hasn't lost me. Suddenly Cersei's being nasty and I'm giddy all over again. Thanks for the link! ;)
Hard to believe Michelle Pfeiffer is in her 50's. Still looks great.
And as to the litany of great performances by women in their 50's, let's tip our hats to the people who are writing these roles for these women.
That's always been a frequent lament: Not enough juicy roles for older women. Not this past year.
I STILL have difficulty remembering that Julianne Moore is 50. She's looked the same for years.
and oooh, i hope those Rachel Weisz rumors were true. I think she'd be fantastic as a Bond villainess...honestly, when's the last time there was a delightfully evil Bond Girl? I'll give it to my all-time fave Xenia Onatopp. That reminds me. I love Famke Janssen. What's she been up to?
Rick Tran -- great point. the roles have to be written first.
Nat,to have pfeiffer in anything is worth the slog through a garry marshall film,no?
Completely agreed on the British Being Human, I was intrigued through the first season/series, but that 2nd season was painfully scripted, and boring, and yes...very mopey. At least this new version has Crashdown in it. That's a plus for any show as far as I'm concerned.
@Joe - Wonder if the Swank rejection came down to the fact that she, unlike Adams or Banks, just doesn't resemble the already-cast Chris Pine in any discernible way? (Not that Hollywood ever takes issue with that...hello, Rabbit Hole!)