1) Leonardo Dicaprio has just signed on to star in Christopher Nolan's next film. No, that doesn't mean that Dicaprio is playing The Riddler, or replacing Aaron Eckhart as "Harvey Dent" in some resurrected character arch. Nolan's next isn't a third Batman flick, sadly, but what it is is a mysterious sci-fi project called Inception, that's said to take place in the "architecture of the mind," or something to that effect. Whatever, it's already sounding pretty top-shelf. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer Nolan's non-Batman stuff over his Gotham City exploits, which are amazing in themselves (**ducking from The Joker action figures being hurled at my head**). Memento and The Prestige are undeniably brilliant and flawless (go 'head, try to deny that). Inception will hopefully be no different, and it's good to see Nolan giving Christian Bale a break and moving over to another great modern-day star.
2) Guess what I was lucky enough to see last night? Fuck it, I'll just tell you since I'm still reeling from excitement: Watchmen. I'm going to write something up on it for the KING site, so I'll link that here once its posted, but I'll just say, for now, that, while flawed, its still an astonishing piece of otherworldly work that does the book justice (for all). In the midst of Watchmen fever overdrive, director Zack Snyder (also of 300) has announced the cast of his next project, the all-female "Alice In Wonderland with machine guns" action flick Sucker Punch, which sounds pretty wild: "Set in the 1950s, Babydoll [is] a girl confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, plans to have her lobotomised in five days. Fellow inmates would include Blondie, Sweet Pea, Rocket, and Amber. To escape the pain, Babydoll retreats into a fantasy world (along with her companions) and there begins planning her escape before a "vile man" can rape her. [Sucker Punch] will apparently include dragons, B-52 bombers and brothels, an interesting mix."
How's that for a plot description. As Watchmen proves, Snyder is a beast with his visuals, so this one will at least look great. A fact only aided by the young ladies he's tapped to star in it, all lookers (four talented actresses and one High School Musical alum): Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Alpha Dog) will play "Babydoll," and her fellow inmates will come in the forms of Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Stone (Superbad), and Evan Rachel Wood (amazing and underrated in The Wrestler).
clockwise from top left: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Stone, director Zack Snyder, Evan Rachel Wood, Abbie Cornish
a bonus shot of Amanda Seyfried from Vanity Fair that I've always been fond of:
and, um, yeah.....Vanessa Hudgens, in a bikini:
Well, Hudgens is sexy as hell. That's a start. Btw, she recently turned 21, so don't give me any of that "you pedophile" bullshit.
3) Rather than drop more unoriginal, everybody-with-a-penis-is-doing-it praise for one Megan Fox, I'll just keep this next one brief: she's signed on to play the female lead in this western fantasy comic book adaptation Jonah Hex, starring "the man" Josh Brolin, and co-starring John Malkovich as the villain. I've yet to read the comic series (though I plan on doing so soon), but hearing that Fox will play "Leila, a gun-wielding beauty" gives me visions of sex and violence, and I like it. In further Fox news, she's also officially attached to play the title character in Fathom, another reason for comic book nerds to beat the meat to her pictures, since Fathom is a comic book adaptation about "a sexy marine biologist who discovers she has incredible water-based abilities" (Joblo.com).
Comic cons are about to fill up with never-gonna-get-it hormones. Like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visiting that Star Wars movie line all over again.
All news first learned over at: Empire Online
Sucker Punch cast compilation pic first seen over at: /Film
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