Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Yesterday I began the ol' blog with a picture of Todd McFarlane's rather "twisted" vision of Dorothy Gale and the munchkins. Today, seeing that the news world was quite slow, I got this deviantART picture off of Cinematical, of a darker version of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The picture brings up the inevitable question with the dark fairy tale trend (see: The Girl in the Red Riding Hood and yesterday's main topic of a supposed sequel to The Wizard of Oz), when will we get a fitting darker version of Snow White, that is not the 1997 TV movie Snow White: A Tale of Terror, starring Sigourney Weaver. Don't get me wrong, I love Ripley, but that movie just wasn't my cup of tea if you get me. Also, does anybody ever think we will see a cinematic version of Alan Moore's very adult comic Lost Girls, a story telling the sexual exploits of three fairy tale icons, Wendy of Peter Pan, Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the only other version of Dorothy that could be more sexualized than McFarlane's unsettling toys?

SciFiMoviePage has an audio interview with District 9 director Neill Blomkamp up, in which the director notes that the studio is interested in pursuing the sequel, although he doesn't confirm his own thoughts, or any possibilities that we could see this. Also, would a sequel, in which we no longer have the good open ending, ruin the mystery of the first film? I suppose it is inevitable, and no amount of complaining or logic could stop it. I just hope the screenplay matches its predecessor in the intelligence department and doesn't fall into the Transformers-esque cash cow sci-fi flick.

Speaking of sequels, The Hollywood Reporter announced that a sequel to Hancock is being penned. Personally, I could live without it.

MTV has a pretty good article giving us five facts from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds that we probably don't know.

/Film has a decent interview with Terry Gilliam posted on his upcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Gilliam is always an interesting enough read; however, Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel has an interesting article up pointing out the fact that Gilliam stated he would love to work with Pixar, even going as far to compare it to Walt Disney and Salvador Dali's pairing in the short Destino that I featured a few weeks back. A good, thought-provoking read. Personally, I think if classic Disney animation can pair up with a Philip K. Dick story for King of the Elves in a few years, Pixar Animation could definitely pick the obscurely entertaining brain of Gilliam.