Links: Frankenstein, Hughes, Zombies, Swampthings
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:09PM 
FriiiiiiiiieeeeeeeendAntagony & Ecstasy by way of Green Lantern, Timothy looks back at another ill advised green-hued DC adaptation, Swamp Thing
the Wrap John Landis's son hired to write the reboot of Frankenstein. I was wondering when that stitched man monster would try to lumber through the current supernatural crowds again. Hey, Craig was just talking about the original Frankenstein in the Take Three series.
i09 considers True Blood characters who still haven't had sex with each other yet. Who should?
IndieWire looks at five female directors on the verge
Movie|Line says the offer is out for Emma Stone to headline Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Natalie Portman was previously rumored but I think Emma is a much better idea for this kind of tonally specific project. Portman is too uneven with the fanciful stuff. Superb in Black Swan but less so other times that f/x surrealness have been involved. But will Emma really say yes given that she's already done Zombieland?
Howard HughesMeanwhile I was asking on Twitter why anyone would want a Chris Nolan Howard Hughes bio (he previously expressed intent) now that the news is out that that's the Warren Beatty project that is in the works. So many blogs were all "but what about Nolan's movie???" Excuse me but has no one seen Reds (1981)? If all biopics were as resonant, well acted and potent as that one it'd be a different film world altogether and Oscars love of the same would be fully and thoroughly justified and not just THIS again?(Nolan is excellent at certain things but I wonder why people think he'd be the man for a biopic when depth of characterization isn't exactly his forte.) Warren will play Hughes (who Leonardo DiCaprio already played as a younger man of course in The Aviator) in his later years and it'll focus on a romance with a younger woman. Rumored to be involved or interested in being involved are: Andrew Garfield, Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Shia La Beouf, Rooney Mara and Evan Rachel Wood. Oh and Jack Nicholson who gave one of his all time best and least characteristic performances in Reds. No word yet on who will be playing who but the important news is already out in the cosmos: Warren Beatty is getting back to work. Fi-nal-ly.
Emma Stone, Frankenstein, Howard Hughes, True Blood, Warren Beatty, zombies
Reader Comments (9)
How could ANYONE not be over the moon about the prospect of a new Warren Beatty film? Few artists in Hollywood are more excellent at wearing many hats on the same production. I'm dying to hear which ladies he casts (he may be a big fat slut, but no one can say he doesn't have amazing taste in women).
Chris Nolan doing a Hughes biopic? I'd say: TV miniseries covering all of Hughes life in 450 glorious minutes with three or four people as Hughes, directed by Christopher Nolan. Beatty would NEVER dare doing that. (Who for Hughes: For the LOL factor, I'd say, in order: An unknown in his 20s for the first five years, then Leo DiCaprio for the 40 years old area, then Terry O'Quinn for the 50-60 year old area. Death scenes are Tommy Lee Jones.) If anyone else has serious suggestions for this immense dream "Hughes movie" fire away.
I have seen Reds. It typifies lumbering prestige drama bore (hell, I think I prefer Gandhi). Most Warren Beatty directorial efforts aren't all that interesting (Bulworth remaining the exception) and despite that epic cast, I'm not at all interested in this one.
Though, frankly, the idea of Nolan taking on this story scares me even more, for reasons you stated (and lets be honest, can you imagine a Nolan attempt to depict women like Katherine Hepburn or Ava Gardner?)
I think my mumbly question is what made him want to get back in action. YOU ARE ALL WELCOME!!!
Gah, I did not hear the news about Warren doing Hughes. This could be epic, and I mean that in the literal sense no in the ways it's become diluted now. And the prospect of Annette under Warren's direction? YAY. I'm probably in the minor, but I loved her work in BUGSY. So, YAY. So weird that more people aren't loving the idea of him doing, of course he's better than Hughes (for the project, and just generally, the man is royalty).
(PS on the TRUE BLOOD link. People hate Tara on the show?)
I wish people would stop calling them "reboots." They're remakes, whether they come ten or eighty years after the original. /petpeeve
Emma Stone in "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies"? I love that idea.
Mike -- yes. you're right of course. Hollywood brainwashed me!!!
Andrew K - are we in the minority? It was big enough in it's day - and I loved her in it to, for all it's over-the-topness.