by Nathaniel R
Look at this lucky so and so getting a selfie with La Pfeiff!
Running so late! Three topics worth blogging about that slipped us by this past week. Michelle & pfans, Wonder Woman 1984 images, and Greta Gerwig's next project. That's a lot. Ready. Let's go...
Ant Man and the Wasp Premiere
The global premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp in LA brought out the stars and by stars we mean Michelle Pfeiffer plus other lesser beings who happen to be famous.
It was also a delight to see photos of Pfeiffer & Rudd together because it's a reminder of that time they played lovers in Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). Do you think they spoke of it on set? That movie had some problems but their chemistry was good. (When does Pfeiffer not have good romantic chemistry with her co-stars? Never!)
The most beautiful woman in the world wore a shiny black retro jumpsuit that had us whispering 'warm...warmer...disco!' mostly because we'd just rewatched Pulp Fiction. But it's not hard to draw a throughline between this look and Pfeiffer's early 80s fashion slayage in Scarface. This woman barely ages so I imagine her flashbacks in Ant-Man and the Wasp cost much less than other de-aging Marvel has done in scenework. She is... 60. Incredible.
Michelle Pfeiffer meets the fans! #AntManAndTheWasp pic.twitter.com/qiTinXbBTp
— Ant-Man and The Wasp (@AntMan) June 26, 2018
But also what is making her open her mouth with such faux-shock glee in the video above? Do tell if you have a theory!
Here's a sneak preview of my review which I hope to expound on soon ...
Review of ANT MAN AND THE WASP in four bullet points
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) June 27, 2018
• Visual effects are nom-worthy
• Feather-light fun. 😄
• @Dastmalchian gets a great bit this time and Peña the reprise he deserves
• Needs *way* more Pfeiffer 😡
Little Women Remake
Y'all jumped the gun by discussing this in the best of June post. I see you protesting the lack of an article! I see you. So the deal is that this is NOT the recent television remake but another brand new one that will be written and directed by Greta Gerwig (*squeal*). The cast are all heavy hitters: Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh (!!! Lady Macbeth in the house) and Timothée Chalamet. It's tough for me to imagine most of those women springing from Streep's gene pool but the movies have never been all that concerned with family resemblances when casting families. They also seem too old for a traditional remake so thankfully this is billing itself as a "retelling" and will presumably be in the present day. Do we need another Little Women after the lovely 1994 version? Well, as "hepwa" pointed out in the comments, if they can reboot Batman every five years why not new Marmees, Megs, Amys and Jos for each generation?
For what it's worth this project originated with the awesome Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell, Away From Her) until Greta took over. So what's next for Polley? Little Women is off her plate so she's adapting the John Green book Looking for Alaska for the screen.
First images from women staring at things in Wonder Woman 1984
We already mentioned the first Steve Trevor image because we were annoyed that nobody ever stays dead in superhero movies. Not even regular mortals who die heroic deaths! Apparently Steve Trevor didn't die a hero. He didn't sacrifice his life for the greater good after all because he's in the sequel set in the 1980s, too! smh, whatever. But happier thoughts: here are our first two images of the principle women.
Wonder Woman, staring at tv screens. And...
Kristen Wiig staring at something in what looks like an animal exhibit. We presume she's looking at a cheetah given that she's playing Cheetah, Wonder Woman's archenemy. It's great that they went with Cheetah because female supervillains represent! Plus Wonder Woman doesn't have all that famous a rogue's gallery like, say, Batman and Spider-Man (who inarguably have the best ones) so why not go straight to Cheetah. If Wonder Woman 84 works, I expect they'll go directly to Circe (WW's other most famous female foe) in the next round.