The Link Down
Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 3:00PM It's impossible to keep up these days. So herewith a bunch of news we haven't covered and other enjoyable places to go on the web today...
News
Baz Lurhmann has written a letter to fans about the cancellation of The Get Down, his Netflix series. My favorite bit because I like having him on the big screen in 2 hour doses:
All sorts of things have been thrown around for the future... even a stage show (can you imagine that? I can, concert version anyone? Next summer? Just saying.) But the simple truth is, I make movies. And the thing with movies is, that when you direct them, there can be nothing else in your life. Since The Get Down stopped, I have actually been spending the last few months preparing my new cinematic work...
Variety IFC is on a buying spree at Cannes, including Lars Von Trier's latest, a serial killer drama named The House That Jack Built starring Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman
BBC Star Wars' John Boyega hits the London stage in Woyzeck. Reviews are a bit mixed but everyone seems to love that he challenged himself to such an extent post stardom
Cartoon Brew Pixar has a new experimental shorts division without executive oversight. This sounds like a great idea for the company, fostering new creative visions without much investment or interference
Kenneth in the (212) Jeffrey Schwarz, who specializes in documentaries about gay or gay-interest historical figures (I Am Divine, Vito, etcetera) has a new documentary on Producer Allan Car (Grease 2, Can't Stop the Music)
Broadway World Glenn Close stops a performance of Sunset Blvd to address a rude audience member:
We can have a show or we can have a photo shoot
Variety Kirsten Dunst gets emotional at The Beguiled premiere
Variety Gina Prince-Blythewood (Beyond the Lights) tapped to direct Spider-Man spinoff Silver and Black about the characters Silver Sable and Black Cat.
Angry Asian Man there's a Joy Luck Club tv series in the work and they're looking for Chinese American women
Good Reads
Vanity Fair on that new unforgivably hideous Spider-Man Homecoming poster
Jezebel on the terrible Dirty Dancing TV remake. (I have to ask though, why do people keep watching TV remakes of movies. They're all just t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e... remember that trainwreck that was Beaches recently?)
For Fun
Gay Comic Geek [nsfw site] Wonder Woman cosplay... by men
The New Yorker Joe Dator draws a comic about his fortieth anniversary with Star Wars. Cute.
Exit Video
Dynasty is getting a reboot.
I object that Krystle isn't a blonde and doesn't look that much different than Fallon (why does the CW have such trouble varying haircolors/styles and overall looks in their casts in all their shows?) but otherwise some of the changes are fun. The most potentially interesting touch being that trashy golddigger Sammy Joe (the Heather Locklear role) is a gay man this time but still after the same mark, Steven Carrington (the family's gay son). But, is this really the right era to idolize the super wealthy? Not sure it will sit as well in 2017 as it did in the 80s when people were more naive about the 1%'s havoc-wreaking on the economy of everyone else.
Reader Comments (8)
Yas! Glenn! I hope the rest of the audience applauded. So sick of cell phones in movies and theater performances. Just stay home if you can't turn off your phone for 2 hours. Also sick of people documenting every effing second of their lives. Enough already.
Yas! Gina P-B!
But who is going to play Alexis?!?!
No more texting or selfies during performances in the theaters or in the movies. Otherwise, you're banned for life.
I'm so glad I didn't watch the Dirty Dancing remake but reading all of the tweets last night was fucking entertaining.
The "Dirty Dancing" remake was terrible everything that made the original special was missing. The remake expanded the mother's role for no obvious reason and added an interracial romance for the older sister. I'm surprise they did not manage to cook up some gay subplot too.
THE JOY LUCK CLUB maybe is not Wayne Wang's best film but the most successful. I remember Siskel & Ebert were disappointed it was completely shut out from Oscar nominations back in 1994 (I mean 1993). The tv series project has potential, maybe it will be luckier with the Emmy noms
A Dynasty reboot? UGH. In this noxious era of Trump, that is the last thing I would ever, ever watch. I will say that one actor does look like Jared Kushner, which feels apropos. And of course adds to the UGH factor.
Alexis didn't show up until the second season and this does not look to go beyond the first
Oh, I don't know, Dynasty could work if there is a real skewering of the 1%. I think Dallas started out as a poor woman marries into a rich family and shows the world what they're like. Unfortunately, people weren't that interested in Victoria Principal. I could see Dynasty doing the same thing, probably with the Krystle character. Of course, I didn't watch it then and wouldn't now.
The Joy Luck Club is my go to answer when someone asks me which movie was better than the book.